In The Know
Everyone’s favorite smart-aleck returns to help you with your problems.
Young Baba
The Peranakan heritage is very much associated with older folks and the pre-65ers in Singapore. I-S speaks with one aberration, 35-year-old Alvin Yapp, a young Peranakan man, and discovers amazing...
Numbers Game
An I-S comparison of our vital statistics compared to those of our neighbors in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Bangkok.
Monkeying Around
I-S speaks to Xiao Jian, a Chinese teacher from the Julia Gabriel Learning Centre, who brings spice and vibrancy into his classes, debunking the notion that learning Mandarin is boring.
Shannon Dragon
The 4th Dimension
We profile Singapore’s quirkier, idiosyncratic and dynamic minorities.
Gorgeous Groomer, Bernice Wong
I-S sits down with Miss Singapore Universe 2003 for a course preview.
Stefanie Sun
Cool Chicks Who Rock
From a single mom to a social activitist, I-S chats to 10 women who are more than every woman.
The Mane Man
A hairstylist for 20 years, Christopher Lim, 35, hopes to one day work in Tokyo, the region’s trendsetting city. He tells I-S how Singaporeans lag behind the daring Japanese when it comes to...
The Amazing Singapore Race
I-S’s proposed route for a race around Singapore.
Star K-Team
Star Struck
More than 1,000 teams sent in audition tapes for The Amazing Race Asia, hoping to make the cut into the reality TV hall of fame. We chatted to three of the teams.
Sundays in Little India
Like Hell It's Paradise!
The Latin Linguist
I-S chats with Dr. Piergiorgio Muzi, a professor who teaches Latin, and uncovers interesting tidbits about this seemingly “dead” language.
Telling Tales
Rosemarie Somaiah, a professional storyteller, debunks the myth that storytelling is something reserved for senile grandparents who love to tell us about “their day” and bedtime tales for kids. I-S...
The Key is Consumption
Save the Environment. Go green. Reduce, reuse, recycle. We’ve heard these phrases over and over again—it’s beginning to sound annoying. But with Earth Day on April 22, there’s good reason why we need...
Green Means “Go!”
Earth-friendly transport for your urban lifestyle.
Money Bags
There’s a huge amount of grant money out there, just waiting for eligible candidates. Why not you?
Gretchen Worth
Gretchen Worth arrived on these shores in 1995 as the founding editor and publisher of I-S Magazine, having decamped from Hong Kong where she served as editor (and one of the founders) of sister ...
Dolly the cloned sheep
Page3 Hall of Fame
It may have left you baffled on occasion but Page 3 remains one of the few (or maybe only) places in Singapore where the great mysteries of life, the major issues of our generation, our silly foibles...
Royston Tan
The X Factor: The people, places, events & trends that broke the mold
Here’s our pick of 10 things that contributed to Singapore’s X-factor over the past decade.
Then & Now
Life these days may generally seem similar to 1995 at first glance, but just how different have things become over the last 10 years? We nitpick and crunch the numbers for you.
10 Years’ Worth of FAQs
These are the things we are constantly being asked during parties, dinners, media events and those verrrry late nights when we get cornered in a dark, noisy club at a time that could best be...
Daneshvar
Geek Attack!
Think you know geeks? Think again. We look at Singapore’s supposed social misfits and discover that the stereotypes surrounding this strange breed are (mostly) exaggerated. Text and photographs by...
Love Bug
Fancy stretch limos aren’t the kind of wedding cars you’d expect to find Ken Teo dealing with. Instead, the founder of Ken’s Vintage Wedding Rentals will get you to the chapel on time—but in a more...
Skin Deep
The son of the legendary Johnny “Two Thumb”, Richard Tat has carried on in his dad’s footsteps and continues to create perpetual paintings on nature’s very own canvas: the human body. I-S sat down...