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August 2009
IN THIS ISSUE

IN THIS ISSUE
07 Big Brother or Big Bother?
Expat View: We’re still going nowhere – despite what the local press would like you to believe

09 Your Say
Letters: Corby supporters take issue, but they don’t win the pen


15 Falling On Your Sword

Upfront: Bushido revival In Tokyo and the Singapore Service Awards (we kid you not)


28 Brother Louis

People: Paul Theroux’s documentary-making son debuts in Singapore

FEATURES

30 Back To Black

Style: The new gothic revival

36 Masters Of The Road
Style: Motorities and more

46 Boy’s Own Adventure
Feature: Two men, two mountains, and the challenge of a lifetime

52 Home Is Where The Heart Is
Commentary: Howard Banwell writes of the emotional decision to renounce his British citizenship in favour of Singapore

54 Tearing Up The Roads
Feature: The cars we love to drive


72 Like A Wombat Out Of Hell

Sporting Life: Aussie Rules – Okay?

76 Say Cheese
Clubland: American, Swiss, Dutch. The best of Singapore’s clubs


80 Java Jive

Travel: D’omah away from d’omah. Off the beaten track in Yogyakarta

REGULARS

84 Lean On Me

Bars: Bob, Pierre and John Jacob. Geraint Price goes out drinking with the boys

86 Green Around The Gills
Spirits: Expat has an absintheminded evening with the newest arrival on Singapore’s liquor scene


88 Any Way The Wind Blows

Restaurant: Yet another Italian restaurant opens in Tanjong Pagar, Geraint Price wonders if they shouldn’t just rename the place Little Italy


92 Wind Of Change

Motoring: Tony Watts gets behind the wheel of the VW Scirocco and goes on tour in the new Maserati


96 Mad And Bad

Books: Joanna Hughes rounds-up some rainy night reads


100 Gym’ll Fix It

Personal Fitness: Geraint Price gets his kit on, all in the name of health

103 Scotch On The Rocks
Sport: Jason Dasey looks at the future of Scottish rugby


112 Virgin On The Ridiculous

Horoscope: Virgos: be braced for enormous last minute changes, says Shelley von Strunckel


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