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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...
WED WEB CHAT 11.11.20

Heritage Brands Going Strong — WED WEB CHAT

WITH all this talk about new industries eclipsing old ones, and compounded by the onset of COVID-19, there is a lot of uncertainty about the business landscape. Young and old...
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Tourism Without Travel — WED WEB CHAT

WE may be nowhere near ready to pack our bags and fly off on holiday anytime soon, but we can plan. This WED WEB CHAT — Feeding The Travel Bug...
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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+,...

Feeding The Travel Bug — WED WEB CHAT

IT MUST have been an uncomfortable year for those with the wanderlust DNA. But, it's also been a challenging year for those who brought travel and adventure to millions who,...
Robinsons

Robinsons Deserted And A Heritage Brand Destroyed

As the vultures circle for cheap pickings, Robinsons Department Store goes through its death throes. You can’t blame COVID-19 entirely for the eventual fate of the department store chain after...
Blackpink

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...
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Are You Ready To Work For Yourself?

FOR Helen Ong, it just happened. Debra Teng wanted it. Tama Goh had no doubts about it. Juria Banding stumbled into it. The four panellists in this WED WEB CHAT...
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Stitched Into Time…So Divine

ABSTRACT Expressionist artist, Jackson the Dripper Pollock once proclaimed that he knows when exactly a painting of his is completed. It is when he has the “sex is done”...
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Sir James Dyson Sucking Up The Losses?

ABOUT 15 months ago in July 2019, the real estate industry in Singapore was celebrating and trumpeting the sale of the largest non-landed residential property in Singapore — the...