Credit: @carrerra.louise, @singerpalacehotel Every Singaporean probably has an IKEA item or two in their home. The furniture superstore excels at designing easy-to-assemble, fun furniture that’s affordable. Everyone seems to love IKEA and even people who don’t have IKEA furniture rely on IKEA for something. Whether it’s their large, blue reusable bags, their lint rollers or their tealights, IKEA always has something you need. Though IKEA has always had tealights and some scented candles, this time they’re upping the game by collaborating with luxury lifestyle brand Byredo. Byredo, which is als ..read more

Credit: tinyrabbithole Despite it being located in one of Singapore’s oldest malls in Chinatown, the Golden Dragon store is older. For comparison, the Golden Dragon Store was founded in 1949 and People’s Park Centre was completed in the mid 1970s. As their staying power might suggest, the Golden Dragon Store is much larger than it appears as they also provide wholesale services. Anyway, if you’re into arts and crafts, especially you love needlecrafts, this is the place for you! Hidden behind a row of feng shui and foot massage shops, it’s not particularly obvious. But once you’re there, you w ..read more

Credit: Looterature Nearly everyone is guilty of using their phone on the toilet. After all, what’s the first thing you reach out for when you wake up? Looterature wants you to read books instead of texting while you’re seated on the porcelain throne. The campaign is a collaboration between Swedish audiobook service StoryTel, British creative agency WPP and local ad agency Geometry. Basically, what I’m saying is, brains all over the world were pooled together to ponder this question: how can we make reading books on the loo a thing again? Credit: Etsy What Looterature came up with was decking ..read more

Credit: giftgiants Screen printing has been with us for a long time. There is debate as to whether it first originated with the ancient Polynesians or the ancient Chinese. As Singaporeans, we are probably most familiar with Batik screen printing, where wax is selectively applied with dye to create patterns on fabric. Credit: @banyanbatiks There’s a good chance that screen printing first became widespread as means to print repeated motifs on clothing. If you’ve always wanted to make your own designs, whether as part of a t-shirt or as a painting, the renowned Singapore Tyler Print Institute (S ..read more

Credit: InnerSloth, Jar Did you know that Among Us was originally released in 2018? It’s difficult to guess if it would have been such a hit if a good number of people worldwide did not have to go into quarantine. After all, it is the perfect lockdown game. As a 2D game with simple graphics, it doesn’t require a whole lot of power to run so you can play it on your mobile phone. A degree of randomness keeps each round fresh; will you be a crewmate this round or an impostor? It’s kind of like the card game Saboteur, except instead of a pointy hat and a beard, everyone’s wearing spacesuits. Plus ..read more

Credit: Lim Kwong Ling Ever feel like you’ve been there, done that? Maybe you’re walking across the road and you drop your phone. As you reach down to pick it up, you get the distinct feeling that you’ve done this before. Or picture this: you’re sitting with a friend at a coffee shop, chatting away. And then you notice a stranger, who smiles at you over a bowl of mee pok. You zone out of the conversation because an eerie feeling has taken over, a familiar unfamiliarity. A sense of having experienced the unexperienced. Do you even know each other? From where? According to numerous studies on th ..read more

Credit: Oriental Travels and Tours Chances are that you’ve probably heard about the SingapoRediscovers vouchers, first introduced to all of us in mid-August. Maybe you just don’t know just what to spend it on yet. Or perhaps you’re not thinking of using them at all. But what if I told you that, with SingapoRediscovers, you can get your Halloween spirit on while supporting a local business? Oriental Travel and Tours is offering everyone in Singapore to take a look at what things in the places people don’t go to after dark. From World War II memorials to sprawling Chinese cemeteries dotted with ..read more

Credit: @ffshungry, @stellachuacs Fried chicken, one of the kings of comfort food. Its universal charm is such that poems have been written about it. There’s even an entire day every year, 6 July, set aside for National Fried Chicken Day in the United States. In Japan, millions of Japanese gather at Christmas to eat fried chicken together with their family members. Credit: Giphy So, chances are that you, dear reader, are also a fan of fried chicken. If you’re thinking of chomping down on some fried chicken with your family, why not make sure of KFC’s 2 – 4pm weekday deal? Credit: KFC Singapor ..read more

Credit: @cancerian_jen / Disney-ABC You go for lunch with your colleagues and return to the office. An hour later, your tummy grumbles loudly, so loud that the whole office hears it. You are embarrassed but more than that, you are confused. You just had lunch! How could you still be hungry? What did you have to eat? Was it Roasted Chicken Rice? Was it Minced Pork Noodles? Nasi Biryani with Chicken? The fact is that a typical hawker dish three times a day does not provide the recommended daily fibre intake recommended by the Health Promotion Board. Fibre is an important part of our daily diet ..read more

Credit: @kalynkepner, @megnmatcha Come next Saturday, it will be the last day of the month. You know what that means: Halloween! Wherever you will be this Hallows’ Eve, celebrating safely of course, you can present this one simple dish guaranteed to impress and amuse your friends and family. Spooky yet adorable Ghost Meringues. Credit: @megnmatcha Aren’t they adorable? Let’s get right to it. Ingredients You Need 2 large egg whites ¼ teaspoon almond extract ½ teaspoon vanilla extract 1- ½ teaspoon of chocolate chips ½ cup sugar cream of tartar A.K.A. potassium bitartrate OPTIONAL: ½ cup powder ..read more