This Weekend – Time To Stock Up on Your Wines

Our friends at Top Wines are rolling out their annual Christmas wine sale again this weekend, from 3 - 5 December at their quaint premises in Joo Chiat at 33 Tembeling Road. They promise up to 60% discounts and it’s always a fun and festive affair - which is why I have been going every year for the last six years at least! (See the picture at...

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This Weekend - Warehouse Sale to Help the Needy

If you’ve not a lot planned tomorrow, do a good deed and go the the "Every ONE Can” warehouse sale at 39 Keppel Road #01-02/04, Tanjong Pagar Distripark tomorrow, 16 October, from 10am to 6pm. This is organized by FoodXervices Inc Pte Ltd, a leading food distributor in Singapore, and ONE (SINGAPORE). Buy essential items like rice, noodles, tuna, bread,...

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This (Coming) Weekend – Wines, Weddings and Good Company

HALIA WEDDING SHOWCASEI love weddings, so long as it’s not mine. Methinks the wedding couple is the most stressed people during the day, and the people who have the most fun are the guests….if they’re not made to wait an hour and a half for dinner to start at 9 pm, that is! For those who are tumbling headlong into this state of matrimony, you...

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This Weekend – Bak Chang with Bubbly this Saturday!

We like what the ladies at Top Wines are doing this month – they have just launched a bimonthly bubbly tasting event – and every gal loves her bubbles, right? On 5 June and 26 June, they will be serving four Champagnes to be paired with bak chang at their new showroom Momento del Tesoro. It’s an uncanny, but lovely match and believe me, it works...

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This Weekend - Carrie K's Sangria and Bling Afternoon Is Back!

Not much to do this weekend? It's worth checking out Carrie K's funky new jewellery collection on Saturday 29 May at 52 Norma Terrace at Opera Estate. Get your friends and head over. It'll be a quiant, cosy, stylish shop-and-chill experience happily soothed with her signature sangria. Very potent!   Things to watch out for are her...

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This Weekend - Land Sakes! Sweet Angels of Charity!

Look what landed on our laps! The Angel of Charity? Maaan…we wish! (Stop peeping up the loin cloth, darling! We KNOW you did!) No, it’s pictures of the Manhunt contestants who pottered about Orchard Road last week, bare-chested and selling dinky little Ben & Jerry's ice cream for charity in the sweltering h-h-h-h-hot afternoon sun....

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This Weekend Hong Kong - Handicraft Bazaar at Discovery Bay

Summer is officially here in Hong Kong. Before the heat gets sweltering, pack the beach mat, picnic basket, mozzie spray and sunnies and hit the beach on Discovery Bay this weekend in Hong Kong.  And whilst you are there, be sure to check out 'Handmade Hong Kong' their out door arts, crafts and bazaar fair at DB Plaza on from 10am to 5pm, Sunday,...

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This Weekend – Thai Fest At The Thai Embassy

The yearly Thai Fest at the Thai Embassy on Orchard is here again from now until 23 May, Sunday. This time they’ve done it up in a more organized set up, with around 80 stalls of jewellery, food, household items, toiletries and clothes in neater sections. Madam pottered over there for a look see, and my conclusion is, if you’re in the vicinity, it’s...

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This Weekend – Sparkly Little Trinkets! Free Diamonds!

Like sparkly baubles? Pop into the The Goldheart Jewel Sale this weekend, starting tomorrow, Friday 30 April until Sunday, 2 May, and pick up great deals on dinky trinkets at a whopping 70% off. That means diamonds on a whim! And if you’re a Goldheart member, that’s another 10% off for you, Luscious! Deals to beeline for are the Solitaire...

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This Weekend - Screening Room - Coco Before Chanel with Dinner

If you have nothing planned this weekend, here's something perfect for a night out with the girls. Catch the movie ‘Coco Before Chanel’ at The Screening Room (today and tomorrow – 26 & 27 March), and get treated to a cosy evening at a dinner-theatre setting. Dinner is served in the restaurant at the first floor of the Screening Room. Expect serious...

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This Weekend - Sale Events and Contests in Singapore!

Two Sale Events this week in Singapore that you may want to catch: FLAMING QUEEN HOME at #02-32 at the Mandarin Gallery has some terrific NEW stuff coming in April hence a 4 day clean house sale from Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 March. Everything is on SALE including a special selection of samples and testers tagged at cost price from S$5 onwards (only...

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This Weekend – Wine Sale

Time to stock up on Christmas wines! The Top Wines Festive Sale is back, and I’m heading over to pick up some good buys….and this time, they’ve shifted to my neck of the woods….which means a 5 minute drive rather than the 25 minute I used to make! Mind you, they’re not cheap plonk, but mostly good wines made affordable (expect most of the wines...

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This Weekend - Check these out!

If you like unusual gemstones and jewelry then check out the PAVA collection from UK in their one-day special sale, this weekend. The collection features a selection of dainty pieces, chunky accessories, coloured stones and minimalist items. Partial proceeds from the sales are in aid of the Rainbow Centre Children’s Early Intervention Programme....

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This Weekend – Stargazing and Silky Wishes

STAR GAZING! Pack your night cream, portable pillows, flask of coffee and grab this once in a lifetime chance to witness a meteor storm. The Leonids Meteor Shower is definitely an overnight event for the whole family happening sometime between 8pm and 5am on 17 to 18 November (overnight) at the Singapore Science Centre. The Science Centre and...

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This Weekend – 'A Different Journey' with Russel Wong

Walk ‘A Different Journey’ with photographer Russel Wong this coming weekend from 6 November to 29 November. Best known for his celebrity portraits and as the photographer to the stars, this exhibition-sale will instead show a very different side to Russel’s eye, sensitivity and unique imagination. In this new exhibition, there will be no...

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This Weekend – Beauty Still Prevails

While this weekend seems to be turning lotsa lovelies into ghouls, thank goodness there is still some sanity in certain quarters who have not tumbled into the madness of Halloween here. (Since when did Singapore start celebrating Halloween anyway? Didn’t we just have the Hungry Ghost month?) So where can you go this weekend without being greeted with...

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This Weekend - New Wines and Your Favourite Brit Labels

Wine for Asia - Lotsa Libation! We know - it's a campy picture, but behind these ladies is a vast show of grape juice done the way we like it.....WINE!! Totter down to Wine For Asia 2009, the annual wine and spirits show, at Suntec City from tomorrow till Saturday (22-24 Oct) for copious quantities of heavenly libation. You can to see,...

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This Weekend - Events to Enrol For!

Exciting events coming your fabulicious way in the next few weeks:  Hands up if you remember MR. BIG with melodic ballads like "To Be With You" and "Just Take My Heart.  The band are performing as part of their 20th Anniversary Reunion Tour in Singapore this Sunday,18 October at Fort Canning Park featuring the original line-up...

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