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Ditch those other bandwagons; let me take you for a real ride. Everything in Penny's Daybook is literally & pictorially crafted with care for our smart and spirited readers with diverse interests!
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Learn to Read Korean in 15 Minutes

The human race can do many things. We’ve landed on the moon, advocated change and succeeded, and most recently, we’re aiming to learn a language in the shortest time possible – 15 m...

03 may 12

15 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle of Insanity

Insanity’s a creep. Insanity’s a weirdo. What the hell is it doing here? (Thanks, Radiohead.) You step out into life and when it spins out of control, insanity steps in, pushes you aside and spins it...

14 apr 12

Street Slick: April Flowers

Spring is here and floral prints are big this season! To complement the friendly sun, you’ve got to dress the part. But because we know that our readers are an ingenious bunch, there really are...

05 apr 12

The Story of The Merlion

As I sat and watched Sentosa, The Story of the Merlion by Lydia I was a bitter fistful of “Darn it. Why couldn’t we learn history this way too?” Lydia retells the story of how Princ...

25 mar 12

15 Minimalistic Fairy Tale Posters

I don’t have a favorite fairy tale. I have many favorite fairy tales. Which can be a problem because I can never properly decide which is a better story to share with kids when I met them. Bu...

17 mar 12

Dress Sense: rent, buy, or rent first & buy later

By Penny K If you have an upcoming party, wedding or company dinner and you’ve asked yourself the perennial “what to wear” question, you should be so glad you’ve chanced upon this article. Unlike cel...

13 mar 12

Life is an empty cup, fill it with what you wish: A review of the “Guru of Chai”

By Isaac Bosque Guest Contributor “Big head, think more; small eyes, better concentration; big ears, listen more; small mouth, talk less; big stomach, digest all that is good and bad” — this is just ...

09 mar 12

Guru of Chai and Krishnan’s Dairy

With sold out performances in 2011, Singapore Repertory Theatre and New Zealand’s acclaimed Indian Ink Theatre Company are proud to bring back Guru of Chai in repertory with Krishnan’s Dairy this mon...

06 mar 12

15 Cupcake Nail Art

Who would have thought? 15 cupcake nail art on display! Doesn’t matter how long this beauty trend’s been going because there’s still so much fuss over pretty cupcake nails. We have ...

04 mar 12

The Argyle Hotel

I was recently in Sydney for a quick trip and spent a little bit more time by The Rocks, which is a rather touristy spot, but home to The Argyle Hotel. I had gone there thinking it would be like any ...

02 mar 12

Geek vs. Nerd

Geek vs. Nerd – the battle begins! He wears ironic t-shirts. She is a proven gadget fan. A few are socially inept. This one’s an early adopter. Their interests include Fantasy, Science Fi...

26 feb 12

25 Unusual Buildings

You know what, people should have fun making things. In fact, they should be given all the fun that they can have. Especially if having fun requires much architectural ingenuity. These 25 unusual bui...

22 feb 12

Expressively Clean

Zara Picken’s illustration style mirrors an era where creativity is expressively clean and simply eye catching. Picken is an illustrator who finds inspiration in large cities, vast collections,...

18 feb 12

Spring Awakening by Pangdomonium! Productions

Cramming and memorising endless amounts of information for school, a lack of sexual education at home and questions left unanswered; we’re not talking about an afterschool special here where Pa...

18 feb 12

Takanori Aiba’s Terrific Worlds

Born in 1953 in Yokohama, Japan, Takanori Aiba attended Tokyo Zokei University and studied Japanese traditional textiles and dyed clothing. He started his career as a freelance maze illustrator since...

15 feb 12

Goodbye, Page One

By Penny K Image from Page One - http://www.pageonegroup.com/in dex.html 80% off design titles. 50% off all other books. 30% off non-book items. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you haven’t b...

12 feb 12

Love Overdose

Any more couples going overboard with their declarations of love online and Penny C is about to convulse in the corner. That’s what they call it – a love overdose. Who needs the display o...

09 feb 12

Potter Illustrations

Just the other day we found some wizardly goodness from Lucy Knisley, an illustrator, comic artist and author. Her lovely illustrations of a book series look very familiar.. hmmm..   Related Po...

29 jan 12

Review: Urban Relish

When I was in kid in school, I had to come up with Haiku and it went something like this: Food, oh glorious food. <insert forgotten 7 words> Food, oh glorious food. It sounded a whole lot bette...

25 jan 12

Street Slick: White Play

Short skirts, lacy shorts, clean shirts and white socks. Wearing white isn’t so hard. Let white be your base colour and you’re set for a day out on the town. A bright dash of color create...

25 jan 12

An interview with :phunk

by Penny K :phunk is a local contemporary art and design collective. Their most recent works have been seen on limited edition FRANK by OCBC cards. The :phunk soul brothers have also worked on projec...

24 jan 12

4 Ways To Better Days

You’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a million times. It’s time to stop those habitual complaints because you can change things! We’ve got 4 ways to better your days; 4 every day activities yo...

24 jan 12

M I N E by Thanasis Tsimpinis

M I N E , written, directed and edited by Thanasis Tsimpinis is beautifully shot with a Canon EOS 550D. The colours are amazing, the editing is spot on and the roses suspended in the air add a lovely...

16 jan 12

33 Songs in 3 minutes

2011 Earworm magic! At the end of the year, tons of wannabe/real DJs and singers galore turn on their microphones and cameras to create mixes/mash-ups of the top songs of the year in their eyes. This...

13 jan 12

SMART Resolutions

Penny is here to be your personal cheerleader as you follow-through on your new SMART resolutions. It’s the second week of January and I’m pretty sure that many of you have already broke...

12 jan 12

25 Pin Up Girls

Beginning the new year with 25 pin up girls? Boy, we’ve got a treat! Originally from Quipsologies, these are 25 “before and after” photographs of models prior to being illustrated o...

04 jan 12

Should You Use Twitter?

If The Killers had a song to tweet about, it’d be Mr Brightside; almost every line of that song can be a tweet. But should you use Twitter just the same? Do you have the ability to self censor ...

28 dec 11

4 Things Not To Do At Christmas

“But Santa, I can explain!” That could be the cry of some on Christmas morning if Santa didn’t come to town or worse, filled their stockings with rocks and coal. But the only reason ol’ S...

16 dec 11

Have Yourself A Classy Christmas

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year - Thomas Tusser Yes, it’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas! We’ve picked 12 Christmas classics by well kn...

16 dec 11

Pretty Leaf Art

Spanish artist, Lorenzo Duran of Naturayarte shows the world some pretty leaf art. He studies various cutting techniques like the Spanish Picado, Chinese Jianzhi and Japanese Kirigami and experiment...

16 dec 11

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