RANDOM SPOTLIGHT: FOOD REPUBLIC

Indisputably & undoubtedly, eating out is one of Singaporeans' favourite past times. That's to say, food is often on their minds, among other things.

Whether food has kept our nation going since independence on August 9 1965 as one republic, as depicted in this fascinating ad of the Food Republic, an upmarket food court located on the upper level of the Wisma Atria shopping mall, is debatable.

Interestingly, just the other day during an evening gathering of professionals, John Mauro, an American with Singapore as his home for the last 18 years, had lamented that Singapore had the highest concentration of food bloggers in the world.

'Didn't they have other pursuits?' was seemingly bugging him.