Today I met my family at the Charles de Gaulle airport and drove them to Chablis. There was a big accident on the A6 highway because all cars stopped moving for 30 minutes, and people got out of the cars to see what was happening down the road. Soon, a few ambulances and rescue vehicles…
It’s nearly 3am and I’m still thinking about my French class. As [blogged previously](http://vantan.org/archives/2008/03/la_francaise.php), I meant to start at an easier level but due to a scheduling mistake by Alliance Francaise, I was put in a more difficult class than I wanted to be in.
… to go with my eggs and ham. A drink of note at SXSW 2008. Then I discovered they also serve green beer in Singapore. At the [Red Dot Brewhouse](http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/reddot_brewhouse/). Now all we need is a Green Day album to listen to… The only thing is, I don’t agree with the claim that this beer…
I’ve long heard of Michael Chiang’s play but on Saturday I finally got to see it in musical form. I was quite proud to see homegrown productions take off. The music was good, the acting was humorous without being overdone, the costumes were flamboyant and the storyline was plausible. Some of us gave a standing…
I visited St Regis today. It officially opened yesterday. It looks even better on the inside. We wanted to have tea. So we walked up to the receptionist who was standing in front of a nice-looking dining area, alongside a row of fountains. She appeared unsure about what to do, and checked with another colleague…
While at Bugis Junction this afternoon, we discovered that Graniph, a popular arty Japanese T-shirt store, had just opened today! I got myself a Helvetica T-shirt. When I wear it (probably with jeans and sneakers), I will feel just like a designer again. This store’s like the Japanese version of Threadless. Update: Strangeknight blogged about…
I just contributed my first review to Hungrygowhere.com after dining at another up-and-coming Italian restaurant with Italian chef and local wife, Trattoria Lafiandra. Read my review here.
We watched the Phantom of the Opera yesterday evening and the performance was solid. The catch to starring in a big musical that everyone’s heard of many times before, is that it is difficult to produce an exceptional performance, because the standards are already high. It was the same for this sellout performance at the…
Over dinner, my family was recounting their time in Paris a few weeks ago. Yours truly had chosen not to go on this trip due to another recent overseas trip (to SXSW) and a pile of deadlines at work. The hotel receptionist had given my family the wrong directions to the tour agency, so they…
Over the last half a year, I’ve fallen in love with Moleskine notebooks. I bought my first Moleskines on my birthday last year while at the Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofía shop in Madrid. I soon regretted not buying more notebooks then, because they were cheaper in Spain than in Singapore – where small…