I recently just signed my life away by purchasing a piece of real estate. Although I have yet to move into the place, I am beginning to realise that this move will be accompanied by a large carbon footprint. It is an opportunity for me to discard all the old and barely working appliances [...]

“Maj. Harry Pike and his Flyin’ Fish was attached to the 16th Fighter Squadron when this picture was taken October 22, 1942 at Peishiyi. The following year he was shot down by flak over Hankow and survived a flaming crash although badly burned on his hands and face. A Japanese doctor in Hankow saved him [...]

I have been to many wax museums as part of school field trips. Never once was I particularly impressed with the wax figures of Hitler, General Mao, Gandhi, Mother Theresa and all the others. Sure, they bore a striking resemblance to the actual subject, but they were, nevertheless, obviously mannequins, albeit wrought of wax. Of [...]

I grew up in a different part of the world. My childhood reading consisted of Malaysian fables and Chinese legends, with just a smattering of European folklore and Indian myths. I most certainly did not know of Bigfoot until I came to Canada. Popular in the Pacific Northwest regions of North America, I first heard [...]

Found these wonderful shoes from the Rokin Spring 09 line. Rokin “makes new classic mens shoes, partly seasoned with influences from the West Coast of Sweden, and inspiration from different subcultures; new, as well as old… Rokin shoes are comfortably soft and smell wonderful due to the use of natural materials and a high quality [...]

Like every other starving student, I bought furniture from Ikea. However, I simply never got better at understanding the cryptic diagrams provided considerately to cater to people of different continents and languages. Of course, my inner-cynic contends that Ingvar Kamprad runs his company in perpetual penuriousness, unwilling even to employ the services of [...]