Dine

Tippling Club
The White Rabbit
Supperclub
Much-needed breaths of fresh air in the dining scene. Good concepts, great food, new experiences.
 
Cuppage Terrace
Gillman Village
Revamped One Fullerton
Rochester Park
One On The Bund [Clifford Pier]
More good dining options, and—there is life after Dempsey.

Astons Specialties
Bistro Petit Salut
Botak Jones
The rise of affordable restaurants with great food.

Whine

Cassis
Jing
Yan Ting
Expensive forays in the fine dining scene. Note: Not all great food is expensive and vice versa.

Singapore Flyer
Playground @ Big Splash
The closure of Corduroy & Finch outlets
They aimed high, but fell short. Too hard to get to (the Flyer), too predictable (Playground), too much too soon (Corduroy).

Flicks

12 Lotus
Juno
Brideshead Revisited
Tokyo
The Visitor
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Quality indie films

Flops

The Leap Years
Dance of the Dragon
Money No Enough 2
Australia
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Twilight
Bombastic disasters. Pass the sick bucket!

Played 

Kylie
Manic Street Preachers
Kraftwerk
Sandy Lam
Alicia Keys
Sting
The Pussycat Dolls
Powerful stage performers.   

Flayed

Steve Aoki
We Start Fires at Zouk
Jens Lekman at White Rabbit
The Whitest Boy Alive at Zouk
Predictable, press-play DJs and over-hyped gigs.

Art 

72-13 Offsite
Black Earth Art Museum
The Other Side
Smaller indie galleries, collectives and offspaces that are either usually artist-run, artist-founded, regularly holding shows for zilch or are non-commercial by nature.   

Fart

8Q at SAM
ARTSingapore
Singapore Biennale
Boring, under-selling and embarrassingly lackluster. C’mon guys, get your act together.

Club

Supperclub
Gilles Peterson World Wide Festival
Music, debauchery, art. All in one spot. Quite simply...bliss.   

Clob

Ministry of Sound
Indie nu-rave parties
One should come back, the other should go.