By now many of you would have already heard about the latest talk of town about a week-long celebration on the one thing that we have all embraced (too!) quickly, which is the advent of social media, as bloggers, twitterers, youtubers, facebookers and so much more. In fact, it’s so out there that if you missed it, you’re probably blind [...]

Inspired by Yasmin Ahmad’s final film, ‘Talentime’, as well as Abdullah Hussain’s novel, ‘Interlok’, Parah is a timely exploration of how identities are contested in a young, pluralistic nation. Funny, provocative and moving, Parah asks urgent questions about love, home and belonging. One would expect a certain threshold for sensitivity especially as it involves elements from  Talentime and the Interlok issue, however, [...]

Do you remember when I last posted about IKEA’s global annual Soft Toy campaign? Well, obviously someone did when she, from all the way in the UK, e-mailed me to let me know that she’d bank in some money to my account just to buy some of these toys for the kids in Malaysia, those who need love and happiness [...]

So one day I got home, and my sisters excitedly told me that a huge package arrived for me, in a very unusual way. Really, it wasn’t hard NOT to notice it; you’d think it was a package with a bomb in it if not for the red ribbon and pink flower on top! And so there I was wondering [...]

So @meiyingt and I decided that we shall do this one proper – and as they always say, the third’s time a charm! (at least compared to our first, ah, the humble beginnings) That’s why we’re gonna have it at Ritz Carlton! Woohoo! (no more getting lost in some foreign place like the last one, video taken by @euveng ) [...]

And I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. First time meeting @GermaniPro of #likealousai fame and his friend Junn, they tagged along as my invitees as we travelled to a “Secret” location where the Hennessy NyX, the latest bottle fashion of the year, is to be launched. Of course, other blogger friends were all there too, and it was a [...]