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Sri Warisan in Singapore

Looking at arts and cultures around the world is always a fascinating thing. There are always ideas and notions that get reinforced, as well as ones that get changed utterly. Most of the time, what happens in the quest for difference is that we find out more about ourselves, and how our own particular lenses [...]

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Seattle Washington in Early Days of Grunge

So, the other day I was telling my friend Joshua how cool it would have been to be going to school at the University of Washington twenty years ago, you know, back when grunge was just breaking out into the world and the whole cultural scene of Seattle was beginning to explode. He wasn’t really [...]

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Two Theme Parks and Other Cultural Attractions in Orlando

I was in town to audition for an open seat in the cello section of the Orlando Philharmonic and while I was there I discovered what an incredibly fun city it would be to live in. It’s true that I am a classical musician and there is a strong stereotypical association to classical musicians being [...]

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Restaurant Fifty Three in Singapore

Okay, so I went on a date in Singapore and it was one of the most pleasurable and satisfying encounters of my life. Okay, and before you believe that this is going to be a romantic story, I have to declare that the cause of all of my enjoyment and even surprise pleasure was not [...]

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The Children’s Zoo of New York City

Just to the North of the Central Park main Zoo, sits the Tisch Children’s Zoo. Of many wonderful experiences for kids to have in Central Park, this is one of them. And what better way to kick off the Year of the Tiger, than to spend the day in the outdoors at the zoo. Any [...]

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How to Maintain Tire Safety

Tire safety is relatively easy to ensure. To many people, consistently checking the tires of their vehicle may seem at the time, to be a bit of a nuisance, in the long run it will solve many problems. Financial problems, inconvenient blow outs or flat tires, or even worse–collisions which could have been avoided it [...]

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Howard Jones’ London

It’s sometimes easy to imagine what this city was like in the mid-80s. It’s not like it was that long ago, after all, and whatever scene was happening at the time, most of the key players are still around somewhere. London right after punk seemed like an unlikely combination of edginess and vapidity, and sometimes [...]

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Valentine’s Day in Singapore

This holiday is like none other, being a testament to a saint that we really don’t know anything about. Chances are very high that he had nothing to do with romantic love, and it’s only through a series of mistranslations or inventions that it’s even connected. But it’s stuck, and Valentine’s Day is here for [...]

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Becoming Americanised in New York

Most of the films set in New York City, see the main characters return to their favorite restaurant, and boy did we find ours; it’s a small corner store that sells the best BLT’s we’ve ever eaten. We ate two in one sitting! Another time, we ordered them to go, so we could eat the [...]

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Blinds: Practical yet Attractive

For many of us when we move into a new house, window treatments are the last thing that we think of. As soon as the paperwork is signed we rush over to begin cleaning and painting. Once the paint is dry we move on to buying new furniture and arranging it just right. Just a [...]

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