To Make a Watch
There’s a wonderful watch exhibit going on in Singapore right now, the Patek Philippe Watch Art Grand Exhibition. I’ve written about the display and the timepieces in a separate blog […]
The Beauty of Time
I rarely, if ever, think about watches. Especially in this digital age, they often seem more trouble (and certainly more expense at the high end) than they’re worth. But the […]
Empire of Silk: The Jim Thompson House
Bangkok is better known for its markets and temples than its museums, but a delightful option for viewing art and architecture is the Jim Thompson House Museum. Sited on the […]
Dinner in Bangkok
Bangkok is famous for its street food, and you practically stumble over amazing Thai restaurants everywhere you go. That’s the mango with sticky rice at Jim Thompson: A Thai Restaurant […]
Mid-Autumn Lanterns
It’s mid-autumn again, which means that it is time for another Mid-Autum Lantern Festival at Gardens by the Bay! Despite the haze … … hundreds of people showed up for […]
Haze Days
It’s finally happened: terrible haze has struck the island of Singapore, and it’s so bad that the government says that it has reached an “unhealthy” level for the first time […]
Star Wars Sandsation
It’s that time of year again: the island of Sentosa is hosting Sandsation – Star Wars Edition! That’s a star destroyer crashed on Jakku (Rey’s home planet), by the way […]
China Old and New: The Fashion of Guo Pei
I know nothing about fashion — nothing at all — so when I decided to go see an exhibit of work by Chinese couturiere Guo Pei at Singapore’s Asian Civilisations […]
Night Fest 2019
What is it about Singapore and light festivals? We seem to have a lot of them; I can think of at least three or four annual light-based events. But I […]
Animals of Asia
Wikipedia assures me that the term “fauna of Asia” is “somewhat elusive,” because there is no polite physical boundary between Europe and Asia such that we can distinguish Asian animals […]
