The past 34 weeks
St Anselm in Williamsburg, NYC
Skip Peter Luger steakhouse and head over to St. Anselm in Williamsburg the next time you're craving some excellent meats. This place checks all the right boxes for a memorable night out.
Sapporo Impressions
When in Sapporo, cycle.
Kopitiam Culture
One of the things that make Singapore, Singapore.
First German Words
Dong Zhi
Yesterday was the winter solstice – the shortest day of the year, and also the official start of winter (p.s. non-existent in equatorial Singapore)
20 albums that changed your life
I just got back from McNally Jackson bookstore where they held a reading for a new book titled “Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives”, by Peter Terzian. While idling on the subway platform on my way to the bookstore in Soho, I pondered over the subject, and then started scribbling down a few albums that changed my life . I do not have 20, but here’s a few I jotted down, and why.
A year on
What’s amazing and exhilarating is that this feel just like the beginning, and that I’ve barely scratched the tip of the iceberg - there’s more places to explore, more stories to uncover and projects to embark on.
Ost Trifft West
In her book Ost Trifft West (East Meets West), Yang Liu, a Chinese designer based in Germany illustrated the underlying differences between these two cultures the way she experienced it, in beautiful and simple graphics. While it features a few stereotypes, much of what she observed ring very true and captured a lot of the nuances. Here are a few of my personal favourites
What's your New York story?
“And everyone, in one way or another, fell in love—with men, women, hot dogs, drugs, even the subway (vampires be damned), and, of course, with New York, a city you never just move to. Because you always remember the day you arrive.”
January in NYC
So here we are, Ashley, Sona, and myself, all so similar (25, females, career-minded, loves a bit of fun), and yet so different at the same time (fashion designer, finance-chic, and advertising, Caucasian, Indian, Chinese). And of all places, we met through Craigslist. Life is New York City is off to a good start.