Editor's Letter: February 10

Twenty eight days may be short for a calendar month, but it's definitely not short of festivity and romance as both embody each other for the year 2010. Coincidentally, Chinese Lunar New Year and Valentine's Day marked on the exact same square on your calendar monthly grid will induce a truly unique experience this year.

Chinese Singaporean couples will face a queer dilemma where they will have a choice to make. Dating your partner of romance to a luxurious night out versus reuniting family members for a sumptuous domestic steamboat. Everyone has an opinion pertaining to this phenomenon, so what's yours? I say it'll be family over romance as per traditional Chinese culture favours. Or better still, bring your date home for a reunion dinner with your folks and relatives!

As we gear up for the most important Chinese festivity, many of us will be cumbered by goodie purchases, spring cleaning and new year outfit shopping. Unsure of how your attire can be fashionable in mind of keeping to obligatory cultural restrictions and traditions? Do keep a look out as MSR might just offer fashion interest reads with a local twist. Just before CNY hits us, the Fall/Winter 2010 Fashion Week will begin in New York (Feb 11), followed by London (Feb 19), Milan (Feb 24) and finally Paris (Mar 3). Ladies, I hope you are ready for what's to roll out on the runways with the recovering economy this year. We've already seen the menswear collection earlier last month, so the possibilities are intriguingly vast!

Film buffs will be pleased to know that the road to Oscars are already well in place with the Golden Globe and the Guild Awards concluded in January and early this month. The Academy Awards will be presented on March 7, with the nominations announced it is time to critique and pick who in your fine opinion should go on to win the statues. Let us know if you have interesting ideas and theories to share as well, in fact, feel free to. We'd love to hear them.

Before we see you again in March, MSR will like to wish all a prosperous joyous Chinese Lunar New Year!

With that, enjoy what MSR has in line for everybody this February.