One thing I don’t think I talk about very often here is my love for local Singaporean fashion – no, not our ubiquitous tropical weather-ready shorts and flipflops that’s practically a uniform for most locals here, but that of Singaporean fashion designers. Fashion might not be the first thing you associate with Singapore, but it…
You might have seen Cherie Anyhowly’s Rules to Adventure By earlier, here’s her contribution to the ongoing Wallpaper Wanderer series. She’s an avid motorbiking fanatic and has in recent trips ridden all the way from Singapore up to Thailand and even Myanmar! Now that is some go-getting spirit. Besides being a great artist, she also…
My friend Cherie is an awesome, wonderful artist who creates the most distinct illustrations. She’s also a gung-ho motorbiking fanatic and has ridden her trusty bike all the way up from Singapore to Thailand and Myanmar and places I wouldn’t even think about driving to. As an artist and a traveller, she also does the…
When I travel, my preferred luggage of choice is usually a suitcase, something you can wheel around, something with sufficient space for me to toss all my clothes in. I am not the neatest person by nature, backpacks drive me nuts because you have to be pretty organized to keep everything compact and within easy…
Barcelona, 2008 I’d been to Barcelona with R for my post-graduation trip in 2007, so it was a bit like retracing my footsteps when the family decided to do Spain the following year. I did end up in Barcelona and Andalucia again, but on top of that we visited Madrid and Malaga. Here we are…
My very first morning in Munich, I reached there pretty early in the morning. While waiting to check in at the Euro Youth Hotel where I was staying at, I decided to check out the city via the Sandeman’s New Munich walking tour. It’s free and happens twice a day (1045am and 1pm), so if…
I am sad to admit that I read a lot less than I used to these days – with limited free time and competing mediums like the Internet and TV, I just don’t devour books like I used to anymore. I still love walking in Kinokuniya though, and my bookshelf is one of my prized…
And we conclude the Bali chronicles with a day in Kuta! After checking out Seminyak and Jimbaran in the previous days, we spent our last day in the famous Kuta area where all the tourists hang out. The traffic getting to Kuta was pretty insane, it’s a long narrow stretch of road fairly close to…
Here’s a reminder to look up occasionally! I love these particular photo series of Hong Kong buildings from Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze – it’s such a simple concept, looking up instead of ahead, but he took these pix with such artistry you can’t help staring at them, the colours and shapes are amazing! Here are some of…
Oh my, it’s been more than a month since the last Wallpaper Wanderer where we saw the lovely Israeli sunset by Brooke the Fugue Traveler… ack! Let’s just say March was insane and in April I got lazy, and hopefully as May approaches (seriously, where is all that time going) I will pick up the…
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