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The lighter
things in life
Time to take stock of your life. Working too hard? Pursuing the
material things that, as it turns out, don’t matter much at all? If
keeping up with the Joneses is leaving you stressed out and unhappy,
it’s high time you negotiated what truly makes you tick, and begin
building those passions into the fabric of your life. Make time for
family, start a sport, pick up yoga – whatever you decide, do it now.
Life’s too short to spend pursuing stuff that doesn’t matter. And if
you need help getting in touch with your spiritual side, just look
into the following pages for inspiration.
 CATCH
The Office on
Star World. Now in its second season, the award-winning comedy about
the everyday goings-on at a paper company airs Thursday nights and is
just the thing you need after a long day at work. It’s one of the few
American reworkings of a British comedy original that manages to make
a successful journey across the Atlantic. If you think you have it bad
with your incompetent colleagues and insufferable boss, you’ll be
loving them come Friday morning.
GET
your geek on and gear
up for the 27th Indonesia Book Fair (November 14-18).
Held at the Jakarta Convention Center, the annual international
exhibition will bring together local and international publishers,
bookstores and distributors, and writers and academics on a single
platform to elevate reading habits throughout Indonesia. Look forward
to book sales, book launches, signings, seminars and more.
 BE spoiled for choice as a whole string of stellar
recording artistes release albums this month. Bruce Springsteen’s
Magic marks The Boss’ first studio recording with the E Street
Band in five years while Alicia Keys will likely hit all the right
notes with As I Am. Elsewhere, Celine Dion gives fuddy-duddy
the finger in Taking Chances with surprising collaborators such
as Linda Perry, Evanescence’s Ben Moody and Ne Yo, while Josh Groban
sticks by his goody-two-shoes reputation and spreads Christmas cheer
early with Noel.
TAKE
a break from pop music and feed your soul instead with the angelic
sounds of choral groups duking it out at the 1st Asian
Choir Games (November 2-10). Organized by Germany’s Interkulter
Foundation and the Indonesian Culture and Tourism Ministry, the event
marks the first-ever Asian leg of the World Choir Games (considered
the Olympics of Choral Music) and will be held at the Jakarta
International Expo. Over nine days, thousands of participants from
Asia Pacific choirs will compete in 21 categories across different age
groups and genres, and show Britney a thing or two about singing while
at it.
 TUCK
into Service
Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter, a
delightful dish-all on all that went on in the kitchen of one of New
York’s finest eateries, Per Se, when it first opened. Written by
former Per Se waiter Phoebe Damrosch , the youthful memoir charts the
author’s eventful journey from backserver to captain in the four-star
restaurant while weaving in personal stories like her romance with a
sommelier colleague, humorous observations of the fine dining world
and accounts of celebrity sightings. Yummy.
+ Chan Hse May
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