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Event: Charity Second Hand Designer Sale

By Changmoh • Sunday, 3 November 2013 • Day Trips, Fash, More Dash than Cash

I know you know this already, but I do love a bargain. The two-day UN Women’s charity designer sale, which happens annually in association with Club 21, was on yesterday and is happening again today. Prices start from $10. Designers include Marni, Max Mara and miles more. Most clothes have been worn but some were brand spanking new, price tags still attached.

I caught the tail end of yesterday’s sale just before they closed and all I can say is it really IS worth moving heaven and earth to get there today. It starts at 10am, which is in exactly 10 minutes time. Read More

Happy Halloween

By Changmoh • Friday, 1 November 2013 • Food & Drink, More Dash than Cash, Recipes

There were some seriously impressive efforts last night at the various houses we visited on our meticulously planned trick or treat route, trailing children of all ages in our wake.

Including this:

HMS Daring Docks in Singapore

By Changmoh • Wednesday, 30 October 2013 • Brit Stuff, Fash, Parties and Premieres

When the invitation to a cocktail party on board HMS Daring came through from the British High Commissioner I imagined that it was a sort of boat-slash-yacht (something along the lines of the Yacht Britannia). It was only when I looked at the invitation properly – on Monday, the day of the party – that I realised it was actually a functioning warship. Cue a complete and wholly justified wardrobe panic.

Diner en Blanc…and the Jumpsuit Everyone Can Wear

By Changmoh • Monday, 21 October 2013 • Fash, Food & Drink, More Dash than Cash, Online Shopping, Parties and Premieres

Last year’s Diner en Blanc was Singapore’s first and all I remember hearing about was the almighty backlash that erupted when organisers banned people from bringing local food along (namely tau fu fa/beancurd) to eat at this all-white, touring global ‘picnic’, for want of a better word.

This year’s Diner en Blanc took place last Friday. I was invited by the sponsors, Perrier-Jouet, and was hugely relived to find that the rules over food had been relaxed; you could bring anything you wanted and no, it didn’t have to be white.

Patience’s Granola

By Changmoh • Monday, 21 October 2013 • Brit Stuff, Food & Drink, Health & Fitness, More Dash than Cash, Recipes

My Mum is staying with me at the moment, just for a whirlwind one week. This means two things: a trip to Mustafa is inevitable as is cooking at least one new (to me anyway) recipe.

Yesterday we made very easy, very healthy granola, containing hardly any sugar, from a recipe she’d been given by someone with the wonderfully old fashioned name of Patience, a lodge cook she met years ago up in Scotland. Read More