Beyond an HDB flat
For most of my student life, I was relatively relaxed about schoolwork and exams compared to my peers. I didn’t understand why my classmates were stressed with getting good grades. The only time I was stressed at school was when I was 17, at the end of my first year in junior college, when I spectacularly failed my…
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One of the coolest things about my job: Working on splendid galas where historic hotels are transformed into an ephemeral fantasy land where some of the city’s most beautiful, stylish and/or prominent personalities turn up in their finest. This was exactly what happened earlier this week when I was at Hotel Imperial in Vienna, Austria for the official…
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Last December, I was in Vienna for the first time and it was for a project related to the historic Hotel Bristol. We had a soirée in the hotel’s Prince of Wales Suite – yup, it’s named after the prince himself and he stayed there with Wallis Simpson, the woman for whom he abdicated the…
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Three years ago, you would have had to drag me to see an exhibition in an art museum. Three months ago, I had just learnt about Dutch Golden Age painters like Hendrick Avercamp, Pieter de Hooch and Aert van der Neer. Three weeks ago, I had not heard of Lucian Freud and was only familiar…
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Up until last week, I didn’t think that I would like Vienna – I’m neither a fan of opera nor classical music; I don’t like overly decorative architecture that reminds me of wedding cakes or Disneyland; my attention span in museums can be rather short. After spending a few days in Vienna, I’ve changed my mind.…
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