Yesterday, I received a box of these handmade Christmas brownies from Amore Bakery, an online bakery shop run by Sparklette reader, Gennie Lee. These are hands-down the cutest (and possibly the yummiest) chocolate brownies ever! You’ll see why. These brownies come decorated with the familiar seasonal icons like Santa, Rudolph,...
Lenovo Singapore teamed up with Sparklette to give away 10 USB thumb drive bracelets and 10 USB hubs last week. This is to promote the company’s worldwide What’s Your Idea of Fun campaign. Close to 60 readers left a comment to tell us what your idea of fun is. Here...
Want a super easy way to buy a cake in Singapore? You gotta check out MetroCakes then. This Christmas, you can order a log cake online and have it delivered without ever leaving your house! MetroCakes is an online bakery with a physical shop at Kampong Glam. I recently reviewed...
The Orchard Road shopping belt gets extra crowded during the festive season. The Christmas light-up starts in November, when all the major shopping malls and the streets would be decorated in festive colours and shimmering lights. The theme for this year is “Starlit Christmas” and the busy shopping district has...
A new authority has arrived in town, and they want to take care of all your dessert needs! At Dessert Ministry, you can have your fill from the large variety of over 80 Asian sweet concoctions all in one place. Located at the ground floor of Cathay Orchard Cineleisure, the...
2010 has been an especially awesome year for this little site. In the past month Sparklette saw some great momentum, maintaining a consistent daily traffic of 7,000, and exceeding 9,000 visitors on certain days. Now that’s a new record, all thanks to you sweet readers! It takes plenty of resources...
Around this time every year, I would feature a series of uniquely beautiful Christmas trees in Singapore, dubbed the “Christmas Tree of the Day” series. This is the fifth year running, and the trees are prettier than ever! A sign of the economic recovery perhaps? Sparking off the Christmas Tree...
If you think that burgers are junk food, think again. At gourmet burger joint The Handburger, the burgers are made of all-natural ingredients. Run by the same people behind the soup chain, The Soup Spoon, The Handburger has two outlets in Singapore, including its newly renovated flagship restaurant at Raffles...
This is one of the projects I have been working on over the past couple of months under my web design company Sparklette Studio. The South China Morning Post, one of Hong Kong’s main English-language newspapers, really like the design of this website, and hence hired me to design and...
With nine branches spread across the island, Bakerzin has long been a crowd favourite for its desserts, cakes and artful dishes. Pitted against the surge of café-restaurants marketing the same fancy bites, how will Bakerzin’s newly revamped menu for 2010 fare? A new addition to the menu is the interesting...
