Its 2011!! My little welcome for this year goes something like this: Here’s to achievements, dreams and s*x this year. May all of them be great. And I really do mean it from the bottom of my heart as irreverent as it sounds. There is a certain truth to it. So, how has your New ...

Ever since I read Fuchsia Dunlop’s book Sharks Fin and Sichuan Pepper, I’d been enamored of her recipe for Red Cooked Pork. I love the sound of it, ‘red braised’, it brings to mind a robustly flavored piece of meat, cooked full of flavor, spice and everything else good. Perfect to pour over lots and ...

I’m not usually a fan of Chinese TV but this video clip I got off American Family was hilarious as hell. There are English subs for we who know no Chinese, but I feel as if there isn’t an ounce of hilarity missing from just reading the subs. I could help howling with laughter and ...

Fruitcake. Its a controversial thing. Most of the fruitcake myself and others have known in our lives are these bricks of something with green, red, vaguely yellow and black bits sprinkled in it. It tastes and smells strange and possibly the only redeeming factor to fruitcake is the fondant icing or royal icing but sometimes, ...

After spending most of the day giving tuition and then working on the Whim! website and planning for the Holiday Specials, I’m kind of bunked. And when I’m bunked, I read advice columns. Somehow, I’ve gone from Tomato Nation’s Vine to Dear Prudence. Honest to god, Dear Prudence is hilarious. It is at once tragic ...

Now, ya’ll know how incredibly strange I am about sports nutrition, especially recovery nutrition. Its because I have quite a few strikes against me when it comes to staying in any shape to race at all. First of all, I’m genetically predisposed to be underweight and after a childhood of being sickly, I don’t have ...

The weather seems to have a grudge against me these few days. I’ve counted no less than three times that I’ve been caught in a severe downpour and now, the day before the first marathon I’ve ever run in my life, its POURING. Well, if the skies are going to behave like they did this ...

This afternoon, after I was done tutoring, Sheryl and I met up for lunch because she was doing a shoot at Siglap. In a very rare moment, she got a whole lot of shots of me on her camera and might I say, some of them came out pretty nicely too. Its rare for me ...

A search term on my stats board just struck me: “Where to buy peppermint flavoring in Singapore”. After a long and mostly futile search, I’ve found peppermint flavoring in one place. Not at Phoon Huat, couldn’t find it at the bakery supermart, but at this little baking supplies shop in Tanjong Katong Complex. Its just ...

So, remember how I went to East Timor in September? Well here’s the final result of our efforts during that week. I present to you: One Night for Timor. The photo exhibition and official launch of the documentary that we went to East Timor to make. Tickets at $20 a head and we will be ...