Role Reversal
If I asked my grandmother what my name is, she wouldn’t know… She couldn’t say how many children she had, where she used to work, or how old she is. She couldn’t even tell you what she did yesterday, yet I have known her all my life. When I was a little kid, she was...
Culinary Crusade: Noodle Kingdom
A trip to Noodle Kingdom is like playing a gastronomic game of Russian roulette. The players risk the threat of lost orders and inattentive staff for magnificently fresh dumplings and noodles. The stakes may be high, but it is so worth it. Like many gamblers, I reminisce about the poor service as a part of the charm of the...
Be First, Be Smarter, Or Cheat
Margin Call could not be released at a better time. Zuccotti Park protests of 2011 and the recent release of Goldman Sachs employee Greg Smith’s New York Times op. ed. have ensured that attention is once again back on Wall Street. Everything the public thought about investment banks is crystallized in less than...
Building a dream into reality
Within moments of entering her newly bought home, Sarah Goodman could instantly visualise the placement of her favourite antiques, the texture of the rug under her feet, and the aroma of freshly cut flowers. “I wanted to convert this warm clinker brick house into a beautiful old English attic style”, she says. Being an experienced...
Adventuring Abroad
Have you ever eaten a guinea pig? Been proposed to by a stranger? Slept in a desert under the stars? Been stung 17 times by wasps in a jungle? Isabelle Jameison answers ‘yes’ to all of these. While she highly recommends global travel, Isabelle warns that a balanced mix of spontaneity and caution is essential. Arriving...
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