Places: Singapore

Tropical nights at Singapore Where to find the best Hainanese Chicken Rice in town, a great place to hang out with your friends and enjoying the most astounishing view. A perfect day in Singapore can be spent in many ways: Shopping, getting lost in the Botanical Gardens, taking a boat trip to Pulau Ubin and…

Living Abroad: Reverse Cultural Shock

A Column Spending some time “abroad” in my home country is always awesome: The fresh air, the first days of spring and meeting friends: What else to ask for? However, I kind of felt like a stranger in my birth town all of a sudden, realizing that what I’ve always considered as “normal” suddenly turned…

Playlist: Chill Baby, Chill! #2

Chill Baby, Chill! #2   It’s Friday – time to chill, reading a good book and listening to some good music:   1. Beach House – Norway 2. Thundercat – Heartbeats and Setbacks 3. Detroit Swindle – Figure of Speech 4. Wolfram (ft. Holy Ghost) – Hold my breath (Agebjörn & Shapiro Rmx) 5. Nina…

What to wear: Fedora & Cape

The fedora hat celebrates its big revival and creates a perfect match together with another evergreen: the cape! Not a hatface? Short legged? Yes, these kind of trendpieces cause quite a lot of controversial discussion amongst fashion lovers – but take a walk on the wild side and simply give it a try (…the next…

Living abroad: I am an alien, I am a legal alien

A Column Above all, packing all your stuff and moving to a new, yet unknown culture and country means leaving your comfort zone, making certain sacrifices (see “living abroad…and long distance friendships“) and amplifying your horizon by getting to know this beautiful and complex place – the so called planet earth – a little bit…

Living abroad…and long-distance friendships

A Column Friendship. Unlike for many other “things” in your life, there isn’t a guarantee for a livelong, “holding-hands-and-jumping-together-happily-through-the-green-green-grass” friendship. From a legal point of view, a guarantee is defined as”a written promise that something will be done or will happen to repair or change a product or service, that develops a fault within a…

What to wear: Stripe Shirts

“Hello, my name is TwentyNineSomeone and I am a Stripe Shirt addict.” Yes it’s true, right now I could literally wear my new favourite shirt everyday. Especially “Casual Friday” is a good occasion to bring a little bit of a french touch to “le train-train quotidiene” in the office (wearing long trousers though). Find the…

What to wear: It’s Friday…

…I’m in Love. This song from “the Cure” (just love it since ever) might not be about Robert Smith (frontman) desperately looking forward to wearing a pair of jeans on “Casual Friday” in the office…but in my case, it would be (about the shoes mostly)!!!               Ralph Lauren blue…