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Fortylove.tv Travel Photo Contest

Hi, the fun is over here, where May Yee and I are running our first ever Fortylove.tv contest! (Yes, there are more up ahead…) We don’t care what you shot it with. We just want to see interesting travel photos that preferably have cool stories behind them. We don’t care where you live. To enter, [...]
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The Things We Eat

More on Yemen. (I am now in Damascus, Syria! — I have to say where I am on my blog because my family is perennially lost about where I am! Hi mum! *waves*) Singapore’s small Arab community came hundreds of years ago as traders and they almost always came from Yemen. Not just Yemen, but [...]
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Fortylove.tv – Martinis for the Monarchy Part II

Part II of May’s street martini adventures with Mickael the bartender. Mickael the bartender is back, this time to hit it up with the Princes — Charles, William, and Harry. Who’s got chilli in his drink? Whose martini is the fruitiest? Which one is most complicated? Watch it now at fortylove.tv!
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Baby, You Can Pimp My Shaw

It’s Friday morning, 8 am — the weekend for me. I haven’t slept, I haven’t left the office, which just means there’s a new eps on fortylove tv. The premise was pure genius. Take an Indian auto-rickshaw. Put foreigner inside. Make foreigner drive 1000 kilometres to the southernmost tip of India in it. I had [...]
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Martinis for the Monarchy

New episode on fortylove.tv: if every member of British royal family were to be a drink, what would they be? Our friend Mickael Perron, a champion mixologist — some of you may be a fan: he’s sometimes in Singapore’s cocktail institution, Klee, but mostly at various bars around London — shows us how guerrilla bar-tending [...]
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