Softness Isn’t Weakness
SELF-LOVE has to be the mother of existence.
I had a holiday at home last weekend which consisted of spacing out and a lot of reminiscing about my past travels.
I...
Be Aware – Caviar Emptor!
LIU Yifei’s Mulan reeks of oysters so raw it’s heartening to watch an actress keep it real. I connected with how she shed her male armour to reveal her...
Beauty Comes Out
TODAY, I muse on universalism.
It was the ’80s and I remember my secondary school friend K and I took the MRT for a day out. Cos he was LGBTQ+,...
Blackpink…Fade To Black
I didn’t know what to make of Blackpink’s Light Up The Sky Netflix flick.
Being classically trained in music, I see eye-to-eye with the late Pavarotti, or Yo-Yo Ma… you...
Going Digital In The Face Of The Pandemic
WHEN a key ingredient of your business model is connecting with your customer in close proximity, something like the COVID-19 pandemic cuts deep beneath the surface and tests your...
Flight To Freedom – A Young Girl’s Escape From War
AFTER decades of keeping it bottled up, Kim Eng has decided to talk about her tumultuous tumble from a life of privilege to that of a war refugee.
Set in...
It’s Not Rocket Science…It’s Harder!
AUTHOR and economic developer Mark Lautman, is looking forward to the decades to come. Mark is the Keynote Speaker at the inaugural the Nth revolutioN event on September 27. His talk,...
Let’s Make Christmas Great Again
SANTA isn’t kissing Mommy this year ‘cos of social distancing.
Yet the early reindeers brought a United Nations pop-up, like one of those old-fshioned greeting cards, to my attention...
Empty Stores And Shopping Bags
IN DOING my regular shopping mall surveys, my hopes were up in November and December 2019 that the shopping crowds may have improved, such that year-on-year performance of retail...
Keeping The Knives Sheathed
HOW do family businesses Keep It Going?
How can they avoid the dreaded 4Ds that lurk, ready to pounce? Keeping It All In The Family...? brought onstage members of family...