For sale. Melatonin. Never Used.
BUT don’t despair. Connect@Changi launched to revive business travel, Budget to deepen position as global Asia node in startups and deep tech.
I know. It’s shameless, borrowing from the great Ernest Hemingway and his
“baby shoes, never used” quote, but I felt rather teary, looking at my [...]
Welcome to Travellers Anonymous – tips on how to beat VDS
“WHEN was the last time you sat in a bar and had a drink with
strangers?” Someone asked me that the other day on a Zoom call.
He was in Amsterdam, I was in Singapore. We were reminiscing about the
wonderful bars we used to frequent in his city.
Not that I am counting but as I write this [...]
Listen to your dentist, he knows the drill: How to hone enduring skills and stay relevant in a broken world
WHEN New
York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman was asked at the PCMA Convening
Leaders 2021 conference which skill he felt had served him best in his career,
he said, “Deep listening – learn when to listen and what you say when you
listen.”
Which is
why I encourage you to go to t [...]
A survivor’s guide to getting through 2021: Look how far we’ve come
WELL,
that’s 2020 done and dusted. But is it? Dusted for sure and leaving many of us
in the dust, wondering what hit us and now wondering how we pick ourselves up
from the rubble.
Done it certainly is not. Even as many of us took a breather from work the last weeks of 2020 we couldn’t help [...]
Don’t lose the travel spirit, learn from fungi – see you on the road in 2021
THE other day, I watched in horror as my sweet golden retriever pounced on a young monitor lizard, grabbed it by the neck and whipped it about three times. By the time I pulled Bowie off the creature, it was dead with a deep gash at the neck.
In many
ways, it reminded me of what this year has be [...]
Could I have attended this virtually? Events in the age of new protocols, cool tech and changed expectations
I had my first ART yesterday. I wished I could say this involved me splashing blobs of paint on a blank canvas like Pollock or Picasso; rather it was having cotton buds stuck up my nostrils. Honestly, the Antigen Rapid Test wasn’t as bad as I had feared, it felt more like the tingling you get fro [...]
From global to local hero: The Singapore fight to stay ahead of Covid and revive travel
SAFE bubbles; pilot events; partnerships with Klook,
Airbnb, Expedia, Trip.com; domestic vouchers – you name it, Singapore Tourism
Board is pulling out all the stops to buy time for local businesses until
borders open or a vaccine arrives
What happens when the world shuts down and your entire [...]
“Hello, I am Zooming in while cruising” – and best news of all, a vaccine which sends travel stocks soaring
From cruises and conferences, to Tokyo Olympics and Expo2020 Dubai, slow and steady steps are being taken to revive economies.
I can’t believe I
am saying this in 2020 but I had a Zoom meeting this week in which someone was
calling in while she was on a cruise.
Okay, albeit that
it was to [...]
How much do you miss staying in hotels? I didn’t know the answer till this staycation
Hello, Mr Doorman. Here I am.
I never thought I’d ever say “I miss staying in a hotel” but when I got out of the car and was greeted by the doorman at Raffles Singapore, I felt almost weak at the knees. A wave of nostalgia overcame me as flashbacks of special hotel stays raced through my m [...]
Climbing Hybrid Mountain: Lessons learnt from staging WiT Experience Week
Just before Year 2000 kicked in I had the crazy idea that I wanted to mark the decade’s end on top of South-east Asia’s highest mountain, Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, East Malaysia. I called my best friend, living in Hong Kong at the time, and proposed the idea. Even crazier than I am, she said yes [...]
