IN THIS ISSUE
09 Coffee Shops and Hawker Woks
Expat View: Life in Singapore is not all Beer and Skittles

11 Nose in the Trough
Letters: Bouquets for the writer who made a pig of herself

14 Seoul Mate
Upfront: The Butler did it to The Merry Widow

38 The Less the Merrier
Style: Style on a Budget

FEATURES
46 Slice of Life
Insight: Singapore is a hub for many sectors, but in the light of stiff regional competition medicine still
attracts the lion’s share of patients. Michelle McMurray investigates why

56 Melbourne Mix
Travel: Graham Simmons discovers the top ten attractions of Australia’s second city

66 Grandes Dames
Feature: Expat profiles two of Asia’s hotel icons

72 Spice World
Archives: Dr Julian Davison charts the rise and fall of Singapore’s nutmeg plantations

82 Bearing Up
Investment: Do you trust stocks? Neither does Dennis Khng, who discovers alternative ways to beat the bear market

94 Flat Broke
Feature: Who says greed is good? Romesh Navaratnarajah analyses what went wrong with Singapore’s property market

REGULAR

98 Bursting the Brand Bubble
Finance: Just when you thought worst was over, Rowena Everson warns that falling brand values could signal another financial crash

100 Estate of the Nation
Motoring: Tony Watts gets in trouble with the law in Audi’s new RS 6 and takes a shine to Renault’s Koleos, despite the silly name

104 Rock of Ages
Seen and Heard: Geraint Price reviews the Guns N’ Roses album he thought would never see the light day and practises his duck walk with Angus Young

105 On the Shelf
Books: Annabel Tan rounds up the new releases

106 Meat and Greet
Restaurants: Sunita Shahdadpuri says aribba aribba to a Mexican on Cuppage Terrace and meats [sic] the boys from Brazil

110 Major Achievement
Sport: New Zealand’s first golf Major winner talks to Jason Dasey about his plans for the future


112 Water Way to Start the Year
Horoscope: Shelley Von Strunckel finds out what’s in store for Aquarians

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