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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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Rushing around in my usuallly unfocused haze one Wednesday in April, a message dropped into my WhatsApp from a dear friend reminding me that she’d got tickets for us to see the new National Geographic documentary about Malala Yusuf Zai. Malala is the teenage girl who survived an assassination...
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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...
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If ever you’ve felt like you’re stuck in a job that doesn’t make you happy and lack the skill or the means to do something completely out of the realm of what you know, then this story is for you. Malaysian born Mishell grew up in a household where art...
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When I need some yummy incentives for my pup to learn a new trick, or it’s time to get him a cake for his birthday, or when I just simply want to spoil him, I head straight to The Barkery. This adorable little bakery, equipped with its very own...
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...
Rushing around in my usuallly unfocused haze one Wednesday in April, a message dropped into my WhatsApp from a dear friend reminding me that she’d got tickets for us to see the new National Geographic documentary about Malala Yusuf Zai. Malala is the teenage girl who survived an assassination...
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...
If ever you’ve felt like you’re stuck in a job that doesn’t make you happy and lack the skill or the means to do something completely out of the realm of what you know, then this story is for you. Malaysian born Mishell grew up in a household where art...
When I need some yummy incentives for my pup to learn a new trick, or it’s time to get him a cake for his birthday, or when I just simply want to spoil him, I head straight to The Barkery. This adorable little bakery, equipped with its very own...
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...
Note: Unfortunately Alexiares & Ani have closed and are no longer online when I last checked in 2019. If you have any new skincare recommendations, please let me know!...