La Bonne Vie

Au revoir

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.

Green beer…

… 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 …

Costes

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 …

The Notebook

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 SofĂ­a shop in Madrid. I soon regretted not buying more notebooks then, because they were cheaper in Spain than in Singapore – where small …