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An Interview with Dr. Georgia Lee
Wanna know what it's like to be a socialite in Singapore? HOOKED chats up with Dr. Lee, a prominent figure in Singapore's high society, to find that socialites need not be all about play and no work. |
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SCENE'N'HEARD
NUS Arts Festival Coverage
HOOKED reviews some of the top performances held during the recently concluded festival, including Love Is In The Air opening concert, Hip Hop Night '08, Terpsichore 2008: __:59 dance showcase, as well as I Left My Heart At Outram Park KR hall production. |
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SCENE'N'HEARD
Cleo Bachelors Finals Party 2008 - School's out!
Every self-respecting lady should arm herself with a man worthy of her. HOOKED troops down to the party in search of the most eligible man for you. |
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SCENE'N'HEARD
An Evening with Broken Social Scene
Less than half of its contingent came, yet Broken Social Scene has doubled the expectations. HOOKED spends an evening with these talented musicians for a night of hyper-kinetic fun. |
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CAMPUSRAVE
Fake it 'til you make it:
The Elitist Complex
Does plastering yourself with branded clothing alleviate your social status? With the rising number of brand-conscious upstarts seen around campus, HOOKED attempts to make sense of such atas behaviour. |
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REALLIFE
Living the High Life:
Not All About Money
What is it that separates the bourgeoisie from the aristocrats? HOOKED explains why cold, hard cash is not enough to buy your way into the high society. |
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HE SAYS SHE SAYS
How Low Would You Go?
They say love can transcend all boundaries, but can it really overcome class differences? HOOKED examines how important it is to have an equal footing in a relationship between He and She. |
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GLAMOURUS
Fashionable Elites or Elitist Fashion?
Fashion may be part and parcel of our lives, yet it still seems elusive to most of us. Is Fashion only for the elites? Let HOOKED's resident fashionista tell you what it takes to get on the Fashion highway. |
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FOODTALK
Atas Makan Places
Check out HOOKED's list of posh restaurants to see and be seen in! Don't be silly; it has nothing to do with how good the food taste. |
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E-REVIEWS
The Atas Guide to Museum-Hopping in Singapore
We don't only review movies and albums. This time, HOOKED assesses our local museums where you could cultivate the atas soul in you. |
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E-REVIEWS
Crows Zero: Of Blood-thumping Violence
If being refined is not for you, how about watching some blood and violence to release your pent-up frustration? |
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10 Ways To Bluff Your Way Into Being Atas
HOOKED teaches you how to fake your way into the upper class. Whether you make it or not, however, is another story altogether. |
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CROWS ZERO: Of Blood-thumping Violence |
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Written by Alicia Tan
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At the all-male Suzuran High, you need
more than just butt-kicking grades to pull you through those tumultuous
teenage school days - you need to pack a powerful punch too. Trust
me, your life literally depends on it.
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Written by Joanne Lim
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Assuming you have found it, most of us would like to eventually marry
for Love. The thing is, can Love really conquer everything (I sense the
cliché in this)?
All things being equal, would girls be able to trade
dating up for dating down, or would guys be able to handle a relationship with overachieving women? We often wonder if romance can bridge the
class divide in the modern society, so why not let HOOKED find out for you?
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Fashionable Elites or Elitist Fashion? |
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Written by Rohaizatul Azhar
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Years ago, when I was in secondary school, I remember claiming the top spot of the bottom tier in my Mathematics and Science classes with alarming regularity. I could never understand what my tutor was droning on about and it bore me to death. However, I knew even back then that there is only one thing that would make a difference to my life. Ok, I might be exaggerating a wee bit but I think you get the idea.
Fashion is my (YSL) opium - it is my antidote to
the otherwise mundane repetitions we all like to call school life. I
never thought twice about spending my miserable allowance on the
various fashion magazines – or anything fashion related for that matter
- that I could get my hands on instead of assessment books, or a new
calculator.
To date, I believe I was right. I mean, unlike having a
complete Dior Homme wardrobe, knowledge of covalent bonds is hardly
ever going to make me look good.
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10 Ways To Bluff Your Way Into Being Atas |
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Written by Akshay Kothari
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I spend my days at the kopitiam (read: coffee-shop), drinking fifty-cents kopi (read: coffee) out of a
glass mug. My singlet is branded, I'll have you know. Flying Horse
brand. My slippers are from Bata, no wait…actually, they’re from Bato,
a cheap ripoff of Bata with a letter altered to avoid copyright issues.
As I sit there, watching all the 'bananas' drink
their Starbucks coffee, clad in their Fandi tote-bags and Kuchi
shoes (did I get the brand names right? Oh, never mind!), I am filled
with the desire to be like them - to be atas (read: high class).
So how can I fake being
atas, and hide the fact that I'm terminally low-class? Come! Let hooked show you…
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Living the High Life: Not All About Money |
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Written by Corinna Choh
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With oodles and oodles of money,
you can go anywhere, literally and figuratively. But really, is it that
easy to attain the same level of cultural sophistication? HOOKED shows you the other side; money does not always make the world go around.
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The Atas Guide to Museum-Hopping in Singapore |
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Written by Nur Rashidah and Lee Meixian
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To be atas, you have to act atas. And nothing screams you're atas more than if you're a museum-goer. There are more than 24 museums in Singapore and we reckon that you won't have time to visit all of them.
So HOOKED has helped you out and checked some of them out for you.
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A Socialite's Tale: An Interview with Dr. Georgia Lee |
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Written by Charmaine Tan
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As vicarious consumers of gossips on the lives of the rich and famous, which are regularly fed to us courtesy of celebrity gossip magazines and the paparazzi, we tend to view these high-society people through a myopic lens, especially with the gloss and shine on the magazines, potent enough to permeate our senses.
As a result, when we judge those people who are prominent fixtures in high society galas, we are fixated on their appearance, developing preconceived notions about their characters, based primarily on the way they look. Unfair? Absolutely.
Therefore, HOOKED has decided to jump off the bandwagon of generic stereotyping by featuring a well-known local socialite Dr. Georgia Lee, who has proven to have more depth in personality and in her professional life than most of us non-socialites have had thus far.
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Fake it 'til you make it: The Elitist Complex |
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Written by Alicia Tan and Michelle Lim
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These days, in NUS, it seems like brands are all the rage – and not just any old brands, mind you (yes, OP isn’t that kind of brand)! We’re talking about the real deal here: from Louis Vuitton (affectionately called “LV”), Chanel, Gucci, Longchamp to the preppy upper-middleclass of Abercrombie and Fitch, Banana Republic, JuicyCouture and the like.
So what exactly fires these brand-babies up so much to the extent that they’ll take on bratty tuition kids, scrimp and save every penny to that S$450 pair of Chanel shades?
HOOKED explores this issue from two differing camps - the atas (read: high-class) snob who is willing to do anything to own anything from Christian Dior to Prada versus the easily-contented slob who is happy wearing even a S$10 shirt from pasar malam, as long as they are comfortable.
Which camp are you on?
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Written by Huang Yifang
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Food-wise, we all have our different definitions of what qualifies as atas (colloquial term for high class).
If you think S$18 for a main course is stretching it, consider those who pay that price for a Soupe de coque au safran (New Zealand "Little Neck" clams soup with saffron and cream) at Au Petit Salut French Restaurant on Harding Road.
Wait, so what are New Zealand "Little Neck" clams? How are they different from those canned clams (which aren't that cheap either) you buy from the supermarket? Well, I don't suppose most of us would taste the difference. However, a hint of exoticness always bodes well in the atas food hunter's book.
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