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My Last Supper

By Changmoh • Thursday, 10 October 2013 • Food & Drink, Health & Fitness, Restaurant Reviews, Travel

If I’m stuck sitting next to someone at a dinner party and have used up all my chat, I always have great success with the line: “If you were going to die tomorrow, what would you eat for your last meal?”

Well, I’ve recently turned this question on myself; not because I’m dying but because I’m about to embark on UFIT’s 10 week nutritional programme, Salveo, which is all about eating ‘clean’ (on reflection perhaps it will kill me: no alcohol, no char kway teow, not even the whiff of a medium-rare cheese burger and definitely no pizza) for just over two months. Read More

Would You Like Truffles With That?

By Changmoh • Friday, 4 October 2013 • Food & Drink, Restaurant Reviews

I love truffles. While I may not know a huge amount about them and the differences that there are between all the varieties and regions, what I do know is that there’s not much in life that comes as close to perfection as shavings of black truffle over a runny egg (above).

Meditation for Dummies

By Changmoh • Thursday, 3 October 2013 • Health & Fitness

I spend a good part of most days running around in what I can only describe as a very English sort of way (I closely identify with John Cleese’s character Basil in Fawlty Towers when I’m having one of these episodes).

Each race has its own foibles but the English, generally and me among them, sometimes seem to lack that ability to walk slowly and breathe deeply once the sun has risen.

A course in mediation seemed like a good option for me, especially since I’m living here in the east, its birthplace.

Organic Skincare at a Snip

By Changmoh • Sunday, 29 September 2013 • Beauty, Brit Stuff, More Dash than Cash

My mother always drilled me on the importance of a skincare regime from a young age. Sleeping in my makeup on was one of the biggest crimes I could commit as a teenager; almost worse than smoking round the back of the woodshed (although also not generally known to generate a glowing complexion).

She always bought me interesting products, not always from the big brands, but things she’d tried and liked. She was a huge fan of Eve Lom’s hot cloth cleanser (above) for a while and got me hooked on it too. I could eeek out a tub for years, especially when I was a student. Read More

Beautiful New Italian Made Leather Shoes Selling for a Song

By Changmoh • Thursday, 26 September 2013 • Fash, More Dash than Cash, Parties and Premieres

Gnossem.com is a really interesting online store here in Singapore that I came across via my lovely friend JY, aka the Bon Bon Girl. It’s home to lots of fledgling, independent designers from around the world, but in terms of navigating the site and finding gems on there that I want to buy, I just can’t make it work for me; nothing online looks even a patch on what it does when I see the same clothes worn by J or one of the team. Read More