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2 days ago | cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com | Khoo Bee Khim

We don’t blame you for feeling slightly vulnerable when you’re eating out with people you hardly know. Whether you’re a loud chewer, soup slurper or double dipper, your manners and habits are all laid bare on the table for your dining companions to see and hear. Including some that others might think of as unusual – like separating the components of even the simplest dishes. A co-worker once shared how she would painstakingly compartmentalise each ingredient.

5 days ago | cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com | Khoo Bee Khim

Spit, drool, and more recently, hawk-tuah… all choice words associated with some rather unsavoury situations that involve saliva. As eek-inducing as this by-product of the mouth appears to be, your oral health would be in a very different state if not for your saliva. And your body knows that – it produces one to two litres a day, and enough to fill a bathtub in a year. In fact, during your lifetime, you could produce over 23,000 litres of saliva, according to Cleveland Clinic.

1 week ago | 8days.sg | Khoo Bee Khim

Having a cat beckon you with his paw like a real-life maneki-neko (Japanese beckoning cat figurine) is probably one of the cutest things you’ll clap eyes on. Say hello to chubby, furry greeter Totoro at Brew With Grace, a home-based, takeaway-only cafe in Sengkang. “[My cat Totoro, who ‘greets’ customers] gets paid in treats and pats,” says owner Grace Teo, 36, scooping up her two-year-old British shorthair like a baby and taking an invigorating sniff of his belly.

1 week ago | cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com | Khoo Bee Khim

You love to travel but jet lag? Not so much. It’s a little difficult to get excited about exploring a holiday destination when you’re groggy and grumpy. And it’s not only from messing up your circadian sleep rhythm in the new time zone; your usual sleep duration may be cut short from having to wake up at 5am to catch an early flight. Or you just can’t sleep on the plane – even when armed to the teeth with a travel pillow, noise-cancelling headphones and melatonin pills.

1 week ago | 8days.sg | Khoo Bee Khim

The Cloud Forest will be transformed with the addition of life-sized animatronics and interactive exhibits from Thursday (May 29). Jurassic World Jurassic Park gardens by the bay cloud forest things to do events singapore The warning signs, flashing lights and snapped cables can only mean one thing. Something big, prehistoric and full of teeth has escaped.