One weekend in Korea. My brushes with Seoul of late have been frequent, short, and sweet, what with the turn of the new year’s 24 hours of madness and this past month’s weekend in Seoul. I’ve been partnering with Laneige for over a year now, ever since my Uniquely U campaign with them last year,Continue reading #2040 | LANEIGE BEAUTY CAMP 2016
Bangkok, ThailandSome people collect stamps and postcards, I collect pictures of beautiful starbucks outlets around the world. Sound about right? Perhaps this is my starbucks addiction taken to a new level, but when I passed the Starbucks outlet in The 49 Terrace, Bangkok, I just had to pop in for a quick coffee stop… MakeContinue reading #2039 | Stunning Starbucks Showoff: Thong Lor, Bangkok
Tioman, MalaysiaHey guys, So, over one of the weekends in September I finally fulfilled one of my bucket list items and got my PADI Open Water Divers License. I’ve gotten a lot of requests to blog about my experience so in the name of both memory-keeping as well as BSG-creation for those of you lookingContinue reading #2037 | The Broke Student’s Guide to Getting your PADI Open Water Divers License
Johor Bahru, MalaysiaIn the spirit of spontaneity and youth, a group of us made a trip down to Johor Bahru earlier in the week. Somehow or other, I have survived twenty three years a Singaporean without ever having made it to JB, because I have no idea why. Anyway. As a first timer in JB,Continue reading #2017| The Anyhow guide to JB
Taipei, Taiwan Airbnb Yet another really short post, because everyone has been bombarding me with questions on my Taipei Airbnb listing after I snapped a picture for Instagram awhile back. So yes, I figured, what the hell, why not. I did Taipei for the first time in January, a mere three days after flying backContinue reading #1997| More Loft Dreams: Airbnb in Taipei
Seoul, Korea airbnb.com/jemma this listing Happy freakin new year y’all! For the past, well, year, I’ve been nonstop traveling and working and studying (yes it is still a thing you guys) and now that it’s the new year I figure its time to kickstart my travel guides again because even though I’ve been posting aContinue reading #1993| Bachelorette Pad Dreams – Airbnb in Seoul
Filming for CAG 2015Changi Airport is the best airport in the world. I say this with a lot of pride. I nod about it with locals and repeat it proudly to strangers on planes, abroad, etcetera. I say it with such assurance that it throws people off – they laugh at first at such brazenContinue reading #1896 | The barepacker’s guide to Changi Airport
A group of us were invited to Montigo in August, an instagrammable haven thirty minutes from Singapore. I find myself using the word Montigo freely, as if Montigo has become an island of it’s own, independent from Batam. For sure, that’s how it felt – the entire time we were there, we only left theContinue reading #1980 | Montigo: The Instagram Resort
Osaka, Japan. airbnb.com/jemma All photos taken with the Nikon D5500The stuff my childhood was made of: Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Laputa, My Neighbour Totoro, and so on.. there’s something about Studio Ghibli’s charm that endured all the way through till adulthood. A friend of mine wrote her thesis on how Miyazaki specialises in creatingContinue reading #1963 | Jemma x Airbnb Osaka: All your Ghibli Dreams come true..
One of the things I really enjoyed in Hong Kong which I wanted to talk about but that didn’t fall into the brackets of hipster or broke student’s guide material was a really fancy night out at The Pawn. It was a rather spontaneous thing – when she saw that I was in HK fromContinue reading #1961 | Being Fancy in Hong Kong