Tag: food

  • Good Things Must Share: Lim’s Soup (The Art Of Soup)

    There’s been a surge in soup shops across the CBD in the past two years, catering to workers’ increasing preference for healthier options. I’ve tried some of these places, and I’ve never gone back to any. Soups dished out from boiling vats are simply depressing, and most of them don’t taste good. It is difficult…

  • The Bravery

    When I went to uni with this bunch of fellas, we used to dare each other to do really stupid things. Like playing football at night in winter, topless, or diving into the surf at Bondi at night in winter with clothes on – this went on even after we left uni and returned to…

  • Seminyak Highlights

    Our love-hate relationship with Bali continued this trip, with our ideal idyllic villa getaway shared with our friends celebrating their anniversary turning into a three day battle with mosquitoes (and the holey mosquito net) before we retreated to a multi-storey hotel with fewer bugs. Constant traffic jams on single-laned roads plied by mercenary cabbies whose…

  • U-Town

    There’s this large patch of grass at U-Town, NUS that was today almost completely bare, bar three Ang Moh students playing a sad game of three man touch football. If this had been on a campus in Australia, the lawn would have been chock full of students lying on it, getting some sun. There would…

  • Fungal Infusions

    Once I found out I was suffering from hypertension, I wasted no time and went to Funan to buy a blood pressure monitor dock that works with iOS. Mais well, right? So it turns out that without hypertension medication (I’m only on two types of statins), my BP has come down from 157/90 to 129/90.…