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Mr Fogg's Gin Parlour, Covent Garden
ON IT LIKEÂ GIN & TONICHANDS UP: WHO NEEDS SOME POST WEEKLY-GRIND LIBATION?MR FOGG'S GIN PARLOUR:Â THE GRAND REVEALÂ The following confession will hardly elicit empathy from my fellow (wo)man, but the...
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Pan Chai, Harrods
We live in the age of speed, where the very fabric of existence seems so transient that our species is in a never ending race to contrive faster and more efficient ways of hurtling through life. For...
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Daydreaming with...Stanley Kubrick
DAYDREAMING WITH...STANLEY KUBRICK AT SOMERSET HOUSE, LONDONOnce upon a lifetime ago, I had a knack of finding myself in unhealthy relationships of codependency in which I played the role of financial...
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Slow Blogging vs Speedy Sharing
CHOOSING QUALITY AND QUANTITY IN THIS POST-INTERNET AGE OF INSTANT GRATIFICATIONSeeking something more meaningful than wham, bam, InstagramI am built for comfort, not speed. One does not defy...
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Birthday brunch at The Standard Grill, New York
THE FIRST BRUNCH OF MY 30'S AT THE STANDARD GRILL, NEW YORKI'm not one to make a big fuss about my birthday (oh, you managed not to die in the last 365 days? Well done, do you want a cake or...
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New York City: Uptown & Midtown
NYC PHOTO DIARIES PART 1: UPTOWN & MIDTOWN MANHATTAN___________________No amount of Sex and the City, 2 Broke Girls, nor Gossip Girl* marathons is enough to prepare this Asian native-turned...
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New York: Downtown
NYC PHOTO DIARIES PART 2:DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN___________________NYC was off to a bit of a patchy start, what with Uptown and Midtown Manhattan living up to the city's fabled reputation for being a tease...
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New York: STK Rooftop, Meatpacking District
HIGH STEAKS ATÂ STK ROOFTOPÂ IN NEW YORK'S MEATPACKING DISTRICTI didn't even have to cross the Hudson river to get my fill of all things hip, edgy, and forward. Everything about Downtown New York...
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Orlando, Florida: Walt Disney World
A MAGIC KINGDOM OF DREAMS & WISHES: WALT DISNEY WORLD ORLANDO___________Â The year is 2003, the setting is a career fair in Kuala Lumpur where hordes of overwhelmed 17 year olds chaperoned by their...
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Orlando, Florida: Universal Studios Florida
LIFE IMITATES ART: CINEMATIC MAGIC AT UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FLORIDAMine and Luxy's America trip was a whirlwind from start to finish: we began with hectic New York City days from Uptown through Midtown...
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Min Jiang, South Kensington
"Welcome, esteemed guests from five lands and four seas, to gather as friends for various delicacies"MIN JIANGRoyal Garden Hotel, Kensington, London________Mandarin is a language so fluid and...
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Kuala Lumpur: Breakfast Thieves, Bangsar
Breakfast Thieves, Kuala Lumpur's hot new brunch spot, makes its way to Malaysia from MelbourneSTEALING GLANCES AND TAKING BITES AT BREAKFAST THIEVES, BANGSARThere's a name for the international design...
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Kuala Lumpur: Botanica + Co, Bangsar South
CONSERVATORY CHIC AT BOTANICAÂ + CO, BANGSAR SOUTHOf all the erroneous assumptions my Western friends make about me, the one that most defies logic is that I should adore heat and humidity or at the...
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Formula 1 Malaysian Grand Prix 2016
DAY AT THE RACES: FORMULA 1 MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX 2016Sunday October 2nd 2016 • Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur"Tengok lesen, dik*..."It's neither the polo nor Royal Ascot but sometimes I...
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 3 Hidden Gems in Petaling Street
SPEAKEASY, BUT CARRY NO SELFIE STICK - THE REVIVAL OF KUALA LUMPUR'S CHINATOWN THANKS TO 3 NEW HIDDEN WATERING HOLESCHOCHA FOOD STORE • MERCHANT'S LANE• PS150I still remember the very first piece I...
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Bangkok, Thailand: Sweet & Spicy
FINDING THAT WORK-PLAY BALANCE IN BANGKOK, THAILANDBangkok is to Malaysians what Paris is to Brits: that neighbouring city whose proximity (both Bangkok and Paris are only an hour’s time difference...
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Summertime Sadness
Summer loving, had me a blastSummer loving, it happened so fastSummer loving, did you think it would last?Summer, you picked up where I left off from my winter of discontent. Summer, you paid me a...
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West London: Chelsea, South Kensington, & Notting Hill
FROM CHELSEA TO NOTTING HILL VIA SOUTH KENSINGTON:A WEST LONDON DAYTRIP, POWERED BY THE FIAT500POSH, BROKE, & BORED x FIAT: Part 1 of 2"I'm moving to South Chelsea.""Where?""Battersea!""Oh,...
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Why the Fiat 500 is the Perfect City Car
POSH, BROKE, & BORED x FIAT:Â Part 2 of 2Part 1: West London: Chelsea, South Kensington, & Notting HillI am, by nature, a creature of habit. You only have to look as far as my collection of...
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Christmas Menu at Chai Wu, Harrods
FEELING FESTIVE WITH THE CHAI WU CHRISTMAS MENUAll I want for Christmas is my two front teeth...and my passport back in time for me to join my annual family trip, this year in Reykjavik. Unfortunately,...
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