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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...