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How would a gorgeous mum of three run a thriving business, stay focussed on fitness and motivate other people to do the same? We asked Lisa Clayton how she does it. Sitting down with her one sunny Singapore afternoon, we were a bit in awe. Dressed in vibrant red, she was...
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A café for me is like a little haven of escape from whatever it is that I need to escape from. I have an intense passion for finding them, falling in love with them and becoming a regular. So much so that sometimes, when I wander in, they know me by name....
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I never grew up doing DIY, had never painted a chair or tried to upcycle anything. Somehow though, visiting the Flower Girl store in Joo Chiat made me want to do all of that. It wasn’t just the pretty colours and the neatly stacked paint tins. Not the gorgeous...
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Amreen’s journey began in the bustling city of Dhaka, Bangladesh where she was born and lived until she was 16. At that young age, she was sent to live in the UK and to study. Further education required her to move to Singapore for a few years, then back to...
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From across the room, I spotted them. Poppy Skinner and Maria Stridh Hanley weren’t hard to miss in the crowd of hipster coffee drinkers at Dapper Coffee (read our interview with Dapper Coffee here and our review here). Still, just to be sure, I waited a moment before going over to...
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He is smart, sweet, calm, and has impeccable manners. He can balance a treat (or five) on his nose. He drops food (or any other object) when asked to. He helps tidy up around the house by putting away his toys in the toy basket. Yes, I am one...
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It never fails to impress me when a person decides to leave the relative “safety” of a well-paying, corporate job and strike out on their own. Stories like these are what I love the most about what I do – meeting the new entrepreneur or the seasoned business person. It doesn’t matter...
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Founded in 2011, Marou is a French-Vietnamese bean-to-bar maker of fine chocolate. Co-founders Vincent Mourou and Samuel Maruta are French expats in Ho Chi Minh City who left former lives in advertising and banking respectively to pursue their curiousity for good chocolate. Like other bean-to-bar outfits around the world,...
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Take a 20-something law school graduate from Australia, send him on a six month trip around the world and you’ll find him in Kenya 10 years later with 12,000 acres of wheat. Add another 6 years and you find him as the founder of Perk Coffee, a brand new startup in Singapore...
How would a gorgeous mum of three run a thriving business, stay focussed on fitness and motivate other people to do the same? We asked Lisa Clayton how she does it. Sitting down with her one sunny Singapore afternoon, we were a bit in awe. Dressed in vibrant red, she was...
A café for me is like a little haven of escape from whatever it is that I need to escape from. I have an intense passion for finding them, falling in love with them and becoming a regular. So much so that sometimes, when I wander in, they know me by name....
I never grew up doing DIY, had never painted a chair or tried to upcycle anything. Somehow though, visiting the Flower Girl store in Joo Chiat made me want to do all of that. It wasn’t just the pretty colours and the neatly stacked paint tins. Not the gorgeous...
Amreen’s journey began in the bustling city of Dhaka, Bangladesh where she was born and lived until she was 16. At that young age, she was sent to live in the UK and to study. Further education required her to move to Singapore for a few years, then back to...
From across the room, I spotted them. Poppy Skinner and Maria Stridh Hanley weren’t hard to miss in the crowd of hipster coffee drinkers at Dapper Coffee (read our interview with Dapper Coffee here and our review here). Still, just to be sure, I waited a moment before going over to...
He is smart, sweet, calm, and has impeccable manners. He can balance a treat (or five) on his nose. He drops food (or any other object) when asked to. He helps tidy up around the house by putting away his toys in the toy basket. Yes, I am one...
It never fails to impress me when a person decides to leave the relative “safety” of a well-paying, corporate job and strike out on their own. Stories like these are what I love the most about what I do – meeting the new entrepreneur or the seasoned business person. It doesn’t matter...
Founded in 2011, Marou is a French-Vietnamese bean-to-bar maker of fine chocolate. Co-founders Vincent Mourou and Samuel Maruta are French expats in Ho Chi Minh City who left former lives in advertising and banking respectively to pursue their curiousity for good chocolate. Like other bean-to-bar outfits around the world,...
Take a 20-something law school graduate from Australia, send him on a six month trip around the world and you’ll find him in Kenya 10 years later with 12,000 acres of wheat. Add another 6 years and you find him as the founder of Perk Coffee, a brand new startup in Singapore...
Salted & Hung is one of the 12 featured restaurants in the 2017 EATSingapore book. Read our interview with the founder of EATSingapore, Karin van Vliet, here. I suppose when...
Finally! The rush of the silly season is over and it’s back to doing what we do best and that is introducing you to some wonderful entrepreneurs and people...
I’ll admit that I was a little bit starstruck when I walked into Pollen to interview Chef Steve Allen. Near the end of last year, Chef Steve took over the kitchens...
When my husband of over 20 years (definitely revealing my age here!) said to me “your skin is looking nice“, I knew I was on to a good thing. This...