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“Boobs for Booze” @ Overeasy

Early last week, a widely circulated email hit my Bloomberg Inbox with the resounding thud of a pair of D-cups.

One Fullerton being one of the favourite hangouts for us traders, we instinctively perked up at the hint of a “free booze” offer at OverEasy.

Inspired by DJ DCUP from down under, the “Boobs for Booze” promotion created quite the commotion, taking a few precious minutes worth of  attention away from the stable of stocks we were monitoring. 

The promotion: 1 female and 1 male judge from OverEasy will gauge the approximate size of the fully clothed contestant’s cup size. An A-cup = 1 drink, B-cup = 2 drinks, C-cup = 3 drinks… you get the drift.  (more…)

I like to joke with my girlfriends during sporadic sex-in-the-city-style meetups, that if I were a guy, I would most probably be a “Modeliser”.

Actors just won’t quite cut it for me. Unless of course, if they did a Tilda Swinton - sashaying down the famous Viktor & Rolf runway or acting out her roles in all its Indie glory.

Fashion shows epitomize entertainment – a confluence of art, theatre, costumes, make-up, drama, and by the most unconventional definition possible, beautiful people.

Radical designer, Jean Paul Gaultier held a boxing-inspired Fall-Winter 2010-2011 Menswear Collection fashion show, complete with a real boxing ring, in Paris today, 21 January. (more…)

Wearable contemporary art just got more intimate with Tink-It’s limited edition temporary tattoos.

These temp tattoos which last 1 – 3 days, are intended to evoke an ephemeral experience of becoming “one” with a work of art that is impossible to possess.
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In my world - a veritable jungle of bulls, bears, stags, butterflies and greedy pigs, charts are to traders as oxygen is to… all other living things.

I scan through an average of 20 charts per day: economic data, forex majors, stocks, bonds, gold, crude oil, indices, wata-wata. A simple example of my daily dose of eye candy:

Being an incidental connoisseur of charts, I must say Mark Ghuneim’s ”12 Graphs of Christmas“ on Mashable, are excellent examples of charts that say it all: 

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If there is any common link between the Singaporean and French ancenstry, it would lie in the greedy realm of Gastronomie or simply put, the glorious love of food.

Darwin {survival of the fittest} + Malthus {dismal economics} = Eat to Live

For our forefathers and not a small percentage of the current world population, this psuedo-mathematical axiom represents the moyen de vivre. (more…)

Chicken rice balls, durian chendol, Jonkers Street and … Little Nonya.

These were the Top 4 synonyms that slid to the tips of my friends’ tongues when I mentioned Malacca. And voila! - a portable 4-pointer guiding companion etched onto my memory.

Or so I thought. The superficiality of my knowledge of Malacca could not have lacked more depth.

Without beating around the mangrove tree, let me bring on the 5 Trucs that filled the wide gap of knowledge of this UNESCO World Heritage Site.  (more…)

A highly anticipated event in the world of graphic arts, this year’s Art Factory Winter Show will be held at l’espece beaupaire in Paris from 25 November to 12 December. (more…)

Known for having a knack for blending the macabre, humour, cynicism and wit with child-like impulse, TimBurton is most famously associated with movies as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as well as other writing and web projects including The Meclancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories and Stainboy.

From November 22 this year to April 26 2010, engage in a retrospective tracing of Tim Burton’s career as a master storyteller, graphic artist and film producer, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). (more…)

Britain’s Got Talent turned a sonsie lass into The Susan Boyle.

Amidst the aroma emanating from the melting pots, Top Chef sniffed out a winner in Vietnamese Hung Hyunh. 

Laced with countless catwalks, Project Runway and America’s Next Top Model weaved together competing fashionistas, mannequins and creative beacons to produce one sensational fabric that redefined professional bitchiness.

Now, thanks to this ménage à trois : Sarah Jessica Parker’s Pretty Matches Productions, Magical Elves, Inc and the Bravo network, reality TV has wormed its way into Art World.

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Uppity faux British accented voice bellows: What is Art?

Totally unpretentious & proud peruser of Singlish replies: Art ah? Super rich boliao people, whole day go gallery swirl wine glass, sip Champagne, rub shoulders with sons-of-who’s-daughter-of-which-wife-of-some-CEO. Or British uppity women with BIG hats at art auctions holding that lollipop thingy.

You get the point.

The established public image of Art is that it’s exclusive to a meagre 8.3m ÷  6.77b = 0.13% worth of delusional high net-worth individuals.  It is therefore hardly misplaced to think that there exists, amongst the remaining 99.87% of us ≤ middle-class disillusioned folks, people who have actually come to hate what Art allegedly represents.

So if,  as a member of this disgruntled pack, you relate to The British Art Resistance (BAR), pray lend them your heartfelt support in spreading propaganda against the common enemy during:

NATIONAL ART HATE WEEK (NAHW) (more…)