Char Kway Teow…and Other Stories

By • Monday, 15 April 2013 • Competitions, Food & Drink, More Dash than Cash

I love hawker food and can regularly be heard extolling the virtues of char kway teow (there aren’t any…except for the fact it tastes delicious). However, my confidence in ordering this dish of fried noodles has been well and truly shattered recently after I failed to pronounced teow with a clear enough ‘t’ sound. What I said sounded (according to my friend Mae) like a mixture of ‘char kway chee-aw/char kway gee-aw’. This meant that what I was actually asking for was roast penis.

Nice. Thank goodness it wasn’t for sale and my plate of noodles arrived with only a raised eyebrow.

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Charmed

By • Thursday, 11 April 2013 • Fash, More Dash than Cash

Over the years I have been given and collected a lot of charms, some strung on various bracelets, some lying loose and lonely in dusty pouches in a drawer in my dressing table.

I’ve been meaning to go through them all with a view to soldering the ones I love most on to on my own charm bracelet but until recently, have never got round to it. Read More

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The Tatler Fashion Hall of Fame 2013

By • Wednesday, 10 April 2013 • Fash, Parties and Premieres

Singapore Tatler’s Fashion Hall of Fame is strictly reserved for expensive and wonderfully outrageous dressers. I am sadly neither.  This year’s party for the annual inauguration into the esoteric school of dressing was on Monday night at the Pan Pacific Hotel and – among other things – provided spectacular people watching.  Read More

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Changmoh Beauty: The Wonders of a Pre-Shampoo

By • Monday, 8 April 2013 • Beauty

My hair looks terrible at the moment. I choose to blame this turn of events entirely on the humidity (nothing to do with the highlights then). Blow dries may fix things temporarily – at Ghim Moh market they cost me just $16 (£8) which is not even guilt-inducing – but to stop looking like a frizz-head for longer, my latest find that actually seems to work is Burt’s Bees Avocado Butter Pre-Shampoo.  Slap it onto wet hair and do something for about 15 minutes before washing it as normal. Read More

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Vintage Fair

By • Thursday, 4 April 2013 • Brit Stuff, Day Trips, Fash, My Holidays, Travel

As one of my more geli (if that word makes no sense to you, read it as squeamish) friends said to me when I was bemoaning the lack of vintage dress shops here in Singapore, “Darling, I just don’t like to buy anything that someone might have sweated in or died in.” I know what she’s saying; I just never think too hard about it. There is also the rather more obvious solution of giving everything you buy that’s been worn before (and not by you) a jolly good wash. Read More

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