Grace Yeoh

5 days ago | cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com | Grace Yeoh

A new voice may soon grace the airwaves: The winner of Mediacorp's 987 STAR 2025 competition, final-year psychology studies student from Temasek Polytechnic Georgina Pattarida Dobson. Dobson on Saturday (May 31) beat out the other three finalists – Lex Whitlock, Nicolette Callie Wee and Shaniah Kiew – in a two-hour grand finale to win the S$5,000 cash prize, courtesy of Fisherman's Friend, and a contract with Mediacorp 987.

6 days ago | cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com | Grace Yeoh

Learning a new skill that has nothing to do with your day job is the quickest way to be humbled. Or so I realised after attending a men’s haircutting course at the Kimage Hairdressing School earlier this year. I was influenced to sign up after seeing a friend, who’d finished the same course previously, use her newfound skills on her very trusting male partner.

1 week ago | cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com | Grace Yeoh

Museum visits can be semi-intimidating. You listen to a passionate docent tell you about an artefact’s rich history. Then at the end of the tour, they ask: Any questions? You have several. Why is a vase pink? Why does the man look so sad in the photograph? Why do these people have their portrait displayed in a museum? But of course, you don’t ask. Because you don’t want to come off stupid. Instead, you ask how the artefact influenced a certain ethic group’s identity in modern day.

1 week ago | cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com | Grace Yeoh

It’s been over two decades since I read The Almost Complete Collection Of True Singapore Ghost Stories (TSGS), but I still remember being, well, haunted by its local lore for months after finishing a book. These “true” story contributions, published under the pseudonym Russell Lee, ranged from tales about taxi drivers encountering long-haired female passengers along particular roads to the misadventures of teenagers at beachside chalets.

2 weeks ago | cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com | Grace Yeoh

When Isetan announced it would close its Tampines Mall outlet in November 2025 after almost three decades in operation, it wasn’t just a regular business winding up. It signalled to me the death of the Singaporean shopping mall template I have a love-hate relationship with, where a department store is the anchor tenant. This wasn’t the only change in the past few years to the Singapore I grew up with.