Homing in on green
With natural shade, insulation and a lot of ingenuity, an architect’s award-winning home helps reduce stress on the environment, writes Kasmiah Mustapha
FOOD: Satisfy your tastebuds
Along the narrow Irrawaddy Road in Penang is a fine delicatessen where almost everything is made on the premises, as Kitty Kaye discovers
MEN: Sailing through life
From the boardroom to the open seas, a ruddy, tanned gentleman chats about his life as an ex-CEO of a trusted supplements company to a sunburnt Su Aziz
Flower of the gladiators
Popular for their beauty and considered auspicious, gladiolus flowers are perfect for romantic occasions, writes Elaine Yim
WELL LIT. SESSIONS
THE Well Lit. Sessions are part of our sustained effort to get people reading. It is our attempt at creating a shared social space where people can come together and talk about all things literary. It will take the form a monthly reading club that is open to one and all.
FYI: In the name of the Rose
1. The Grace Darling Grace Horsley Darling was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper in the Farne Islands. In the autumn of 1838, 22-year-old Grace became a national hero after she and her father went to the rescue of the steamship Forfarshire, which foundered in heavy seas. She died in 1842 at the age of 26.
GREEN: Gentle giants
Though hefty in weight and heavy in tread, a couple of Sumatran rhinos mesmerise Meena Sreenivasan with their grace and habits
AFTERWORDS
I GREW up, the very definition of a romantic, eternally homesick for somewhere else. I grew up feeling an irrational sense of solitude each time I gazed up into the night sky, feeling that same sort of mystery and isolation the Greeks must have every time they considered the vast stretches of sea that lay between them and those far-flung islands that Homer’s wonderful characters would one day visit.
SHOWBIZ: Napoleon Hill’s life in songs
The life of the writer will be chronicled in a musical, writes Farhana Ab Rahman
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