December - 2016

New Semester, New Netflix Subscription

With the holidays drawing to a close, what better way to utilize the new semester than to embark on a marathon of TV shows and take full...

“I am one with the Force, and the Force is with me.” Warning: this isn’t a spoiler-free review. Source: Sith Observer Besides, unless you...

Do you know when it dawns on me that Singapore has her own brand of spoken English? Every time I speak to exchange students. All the...

The War on Christmas began on a cold winter's day in November 1912. That day, the Society for the Prevention of Useless Gifts (or SPUG...

I love fried fish. I also love potato chips. What I don’t love is Fish & Chips, mainly because of the misleading name. For reasons beyond...

Many of us often look to Japan or Bangkok, or perhaps even Hong Kong when considering a holiday in the region. Two weeks ago, I decided...

For every geek out there (including yours truly), the brand Final Fantasy rings a familiar and nostalgic bell: the series of 15 Japanese...

Congratulations to every SMU undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral or professional out there who has managed to come out of 2016 on top...

It’s finally over. 15 weeks of sweating over midterms, the constant hair pulling brought on by that one presentation that was...

Okay, let me make one thing clear first: I do not have a huge bosom. I am not a late bloomer, I am aware that nothing more is going to...