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[70] SPACE TRAVEL
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[30] STREET HIP Show off your individuality.
Fashion/Tech/Stuff 22 Opener Tank tops. 24 Snips Hip Hong Kong labels, and other man styles. 26 Opinion Rolled-up pants: Cool or coolie? 28 Grooming Face protection. 30 Fashion Street wear. 38 Sync Watches for the active man. 40 Hardware Modern gadgets.
Q+ A Just the usual, please 42 Aircraft Rescue Fire Ofcer Keeping our airport
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Sorting out your pleasure 88 Festivals Mud, music and
The bit where you come in turning into a dad.
90 Games Shoot to kill. 91 Music Mando-pop, Strokes. 92 Man Simply Ludacris. 93 Woman Fast and furious
14 Train Your Brains The world’s best football manager. 15 Etiquette Beach behaviour. 18 FHM Models 2013 See what you have been missing.
with Michelle Rodriguez. 94 Movies The ultimate horror-movie cast. 94 DVD Is fve enough? 95 Books Human journeys.
04 Talent Star Tan. Nice name. 12 9 Ways… To tell you are
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Star Gazer She’s tall with curves in the right places. Plus, she’s got a fabulous name. Star Tan, a guest relations at Playhouse, lets us in on her exhilarating (night)life.
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Words: Mitchell Pereira Art direction: Pyron Tan Photography: Joel Low Styling: Cheryl Chan
Lingerie set, by H&M. Faux crocodile leather pumps, by Muse Boutique. Stockings, stylist’s own. Photography assistance: Eddie Teo; Hair: Antonio Cheng/9363-5145; Makeup: Naz Kokholm/ 8223-2960 using M.A.C; Location: Playhouse.
Talent What’s the best thing about being a Fantastic Baby? (The girls at Playhouse are known as Fantastic Babies. )
Getting to know so many girls rom dierent walks o lie. I particularly enjoy how we help one another accessorise our costumes or the themed nights that Playhouse organises. My avourite is “nurse” night. What’s your choice of poison?
Champagne and vodka — together! Which drink in hand makes a guy most attractive to you?
Whisky on the rocks. What’s your usual response to guys who try to hit on you?
It depends on their opening line, but they usually pick my height [ Star’s 1.74m tall; even taller with heels on ] as talking point. From there, we’ll see where the conversation leads. Any clubbing no-no for guys?
Jumping around like a monkey or shoving their way through a crowd. And going around picking ghts — that is really not cool. What’s the wildest attire you’ve worn at the club?
During Halloween, I went as Catwoman. At another party, I dressed in boxers, tank top and fuy bedroom slippers; I quite like that look. What’s your best asset?
I like my mouth; it’s small and peach-like, a pretty attractive quality. But guys always tell me I’ve got a good-looking butt. The worst pick-up line you’ve heard?
“I think I’ve seen you somewhere”, to which my answer would always be “No”. What’s the biggest turn-on in a man?
Someone who has ambition and aim in lie. He doesn’t have to be very successul, but as long as he’s ambitious, that’s ne by me. Sexually, he has to make sure I climax rst. What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done in a club?
I punched a girl in the head. It was my rst time punching a girl. She was holding on to my ex-boyriend and I got pretty pissed, so I hit her on the top o her head rom where I was standing — on the podium. She was quite short. FHM
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“I like my small and peach-like mouth but guys always tell me I’ve got a go odlooking butt.”
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Editor’s Letter
Singapore may be forever summer, but FHM likes the notion of a summer break. This 2013 season, we’ll get to witness, on screen, the return of Superman, a zombie war and a recurring Hangover ; be treated to friendly kickabouts by the world’s richest footballers (Barca makes a stopover at Bangkok on 7 Aug); and catch a big-a** musical esta (Japan’s Summer Sonic Festival on 10-11 Aug) without screwing up our body clocks. And in case you haven’t noticed, too, like our climate, FHM is sunny all-year round, which explains why the Girls of FHM are always in very little clothing. To celebrate the most anticipated period of the year, we have, not one, not two, but 10 of the hottest local girls gracing our cover. Guys, say “hi” to the FHM Models 2013 Top 10 Finalists. We also list the 13 Best Summer Holiday Destinations and Top Summer Music Festivals to attend. Still on the subject of vacation, our global reporter contemplates a Holiday in Space (it’ll happen sooner than the COE pricing will drop by half). What’s “hot” without “cold”? We pay tribute to our generation’s greatest wrestling icon — after Russian bears — “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. And if you ip over to our Upgrade section, the spotlight falls on a Canadian Ice-hockey Team and a bunch of Winter Heroes, men who overcome the odds through extreme cold weather activities. This sizzling issue is going to be one hell of a cool read. Take your time.
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It’s a scientic fact that as you get older, it becomes more difcult to keep your eyes open at any given time. It starts when you begin nodding off during movies, but before you know it you’re grabbing 40 winks on the train to work and even casually trying to sneak in a quick bit of shut-eye during a particularly tender love-making session.
You spend hal an hour just staring into space Waiting or someone in the pub? In the olden days, a trusty newspaper or smartphone would have seen you through those empty minutes quite nicely. But now, beore you know it, hal an hour has passed and all that you’ve done is stare deeply into your three-quarter-lled pint glass. To the casual observer you appear almost sage-like, wise, contemplative. The reality? Utter blankness.
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Technology baes you Your parents didn’t grow up with computers or mobile phones. You did. And yet when you try to sync your music to iCloud, you nd yoursel at a dead end, despite the act your 11-year-old nephew can manage it with his eyes shut. See also: Connecting things to Bluetooth, streaming TV shows on your computer, navigating Apple’s App Store and working out who or what a “404” is.
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You purchase comortable shoes When it really comes down to it, those limited-edition Nike Air Max trainers really won’t help you hold your Toyota Wish at the biting point on a 15 per cent hill gradient. But those tan Birkenstock sandals? Why, they’re both comortable and practical. Plus, girls totally dig leather sandals, right?
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You stand at the back at gigs Look, when you’ve orked out $150 to be stood a mere bottle’s throw rom your avourite band, the last thing you want is to get caught up in some sweaty moshpit, soaked to the eyeballs in other people’s salty secretions. You can’t even see the bass player rom there! And don’t even get started on those people who stand up to cheer a goal at Jalan Besar Stadium. They’re just ruining the view or everyone else…
You’ve started listening to Symphony FM Modern music used to be good. There used to be melodies and harmonies and meaningul lyrics and catchy choruses. But now it’s all One Direction this and Taylor Swit that. Much better to kick back with the old wireless, fick it over to 92.4FM and enjoy Beethoven’s Fifth with a glass o red wine and a couple o scented candles.
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Sure, you’ve had that junior toolbox or a ew years now. You’ve got a hammer and a screwdriver and even 20 Allen keys rom all those Ikea Pax wardrobes you’ve erected. But a spirit level: Now that signies you’ve constructed something serious, something that is required to be absolutely, perectly horizontal or vertical. Congratulations, you have now progressed to the next level o manhood. Or at least you can accurately gauge how inept your cratsmanship is beore throwing a wobbly and asking your dad to come and help.
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You actually fnd Christmas cracker-style jokes unny On which side do chickens have the most eathers? The outside. What do you call a man with brown-paper trousers? Russell. Why would you invite a mushroom to a house party? He’s a un guy to be with. I you laughed at any o these jokes, you’re on a slippery slope to Dadsville.
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You look orward to not going out The upside o a big night out is that you see your mates, have a laugh and, occasionally, chat up pretty girls. On the fipside, you’ll spend the next day battling nausea, hangover anxiety and the act that you’ve spent all your money and there’s a week to payday. Much better to spend Saturday night making a nice rustic stew rom the Gordon Ramsay cookbook and watching David Attenborough’s Galapagos. Bliss.
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Train Your Brain
TRAIN YOUR BRAIN LIKE 01 Drive a Crap Car Guardiola’s bonce could have ballooned when he became a Barcelona frst-team regular at 20. It didn’t. “Three years later, he was still driving a second-hand Volkswagen Gol,” recalls teammate Ronald Koeman. The lesson: You’re only as good as your next appraisal; so never let a promotion or pay rise go to your head.
02 Interrogate Others Guardiola wasn’t born a master tactician. He became one by analysing his managers and probing his teammates. “Pep was always asking questions,” says Koeman. “He wanted to know everything. He had an insatiable hunger or inormation.” The lesson: I you don’t ask, you don’t learn,so constantly quiz your supervisors.
03 Control Everything When Guardiola was made Barca boss in 2008, he inherited a lazy squad. His solution? New tactics, tougher training and “Standards had slipped,” recalls Barca midfelder, Xavier Hernández, “Pep was on everything like a hawk.” The lesson: Leave no stone unturned in your pursuit o perection.
04 Don’t Bow to Reputations
Learn from the managerial genius who overcame lazy players and José Mourinho to win 14 titles in four seasons at Barcelona FC.
05 Creative Motivation Guardiola didn’t deliver a team talk beore Barca’s Champions League fnal against Manchester United in 2009. Instead, he played a video that mixed ootage o his team with scenes rom Gladiator . It psyched them up so much, some cried. They went out and won 2-0. The lesson: Words aren’t the only way to motivate.
06 Know When to be the Bad Cop Prior to Barca’s 2011 Champions League semi-fnal with Real Madrid, Guardiola launched into an anti-Mourinho rant, calling José the “**king man” at a press conerence. His critics said he’d snapped — not so. He’d deliberately kicked o to fre up his players. That night, Lionel Messi and co gave him a standing ovation. The next night, they won 2-0. The lesson: Anger, i used properly, can be a great way o inspiring others.
07 Inspire Loyalty People put their lives on the line or Guardiola. “I Pep told me to throw mysel o the second tier o the Nou Camp, I’d think, ‘There must be something good down there,’” says Barca deender Dani Alves. The lesson: To be a successul leader, you need your team to believe in you.
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08 Seek New Challenges
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As ball boy-turned-club captainturned-manager, Guardiola could have stayed at the Nou Camp or lie — but he resigned ater our years. “You have to know when to walk,” he once stated. The lesson: Keep moving orward.
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Etiquette
OH, BEHAVE! Things you should never do at a beach. Ever.
Pitch a tent Tents are a great way to keep the ies out o your ace when you’re camping out. But when you bring it to the beach with your date, it just screams that the both o you will be getting it on. Remember: I you’ve got a bed at home, use it; you wont be able to replicate the same level o comort in your makeshit tent.
Wear Speedos Speedos are a very tricky bit o business; they aren’t inappropriate but there are appropriate places or them. A amily beach, on one hand, is not the most appropriate or a tiny Speedo. Unless you’ve got goggles on your head and are surnamed Phelps, you should not be in a Speedo. It leaves nothing to imagination and it orces people to actually imagine it in the frst place.
Everyone’s done this — male, emale, animals. It is, however, obvious to everyone around you when you suddenly stop your game o beach soccer and request to be excused while you take a dip. Like our encik used to say, “Want to do, go and do, just don’t get caught”
Stuff anything down your pants
Ask a girl for a photo opp
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Ever gone to the beach and spotted guys dressed in berms and polo tees with shoes on and a digital camera slinging from his neck? This is probably what they think: “So many bikini babes, so little memory space in the camera. Might as well rule out those who wouldn’t like to be part of my photo album by asking them directly.”
Steal her lotion
Ogle indiscreetly
Go nude
Did you orget your sun block? How are you going to keep your skin pasty and pale with all these ultra-violet rays? It’s a good thing the girl lying ace down across rom you has her cream and lotion strewn over the sand. You might as well “borrow” some, no need to wake her and ask. Until you realise she wasn’t actually asleep rom the shout o “Help! Thie!”
You’re walking along the beach looking or a place to lay your pale butt down, and you notice a stunning babe with a juicy posterior playing volleyball. She’s looking your way and waving at you! All you can think o is wave back. She runs towards you and as you’re about to say “hi”, she gets on her knees, picks up the volleyball and rejoins her riends.
Ever hung out at the beach and everywhere you look you see penises — and everything is as normal as it should be despite the huge number o naked men walking around? No? Yeah, let’s keep it that way. You should also know that, despite your missus telling you what a wizard you are in the sack, it is not reason enough to wave your wand in public.
So you want to impress, and you’re in your Speedos at the beach (despite us telling you “no to Speedos”) and you decide to stu rolls o toilet paper down the ront. You imagine it’s time to speak to the ladies and bring them back to your tent. (Because that’s the kind o guy you are.) But you won’t be ooling anybody with your party trick once you enter the water.
Fall asleep during a tan You fnally get the time to hit the sand, and all you want to do is laze under the sun and get your pale skin to turn a shade. Despite your best eorts at eyeballing the chick in the water, you soon all asleep. You awake to fnd only your chest and entire rontal region charred beyond belie and the sun has gone down. 06/13
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Pony burgers had Europe fooled, but can the professionals spot the exotic meat? George FAVOURITE SAUSAGE: Pork and herb.
Horsemeat seems to be the meat to chow down on right now, what with it recently being all over the news. But who saw it coming? Absolutely nobody, that’s who. And that’s why, with six exotic meats in tow, FHM headed down to a butcher’s in London to see if they could help us predict the next big meat to take over the world…
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Sam, 22
Sample A: Zebra He guessed: Overcooked veal
Sample D: Crocodile He guessed: Absolutely no idea
“For me, this was the only edible one. It was the best o a bad bunch. I didn’t actually like any o them. They were all pretty tasteless. Revolting, even.”
“I didn’t like it, but I didn’t spit it out like some o the other guys did. It’s tough, dry and like gristle. You’d need to cook this or a very long time to get any avour rom it. I defnitely preerred the camel out o all o them.”
Would you eat it again now you know it’s zebra?
“No thanks.”
Would you eat it again now you know it’s crocodile?
Terry, 47
“Croc or not, I’m not eating it again.”
Sample F: Squirrel He guessed: Rabbit
“I thought this had the nicest avour and the best texture. All the others were quite dry compared to this. It’s slightly gamey in taste, but not massively, so it’d be nice in a casserole. ”
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Sample C: Camel steak He guessed: Bison
“This tastes just like a not-toomature, pretty decent steak. It’d be really delicious pan-ried or a couple o minutes on each side, with a bit o thyme and seasoning.”
“It’s squirrel? Wow, you got a big one there. They’re usually smaller than that. Yeah, I’d have it again but casserole it.”
Would you eat it again now you know it’s camel?
George, 44
Manuel, 44
Sample B: Kangaroo sausage He guessed: Boar
Sample E: Python fllet He guessed: Frog
“It tasted like a pretty good and meaty sausage. I’d hazard a guess at it being some sort Y A L o Arican animal, because we U A C sell a boar sausage and it’s kind M T o similar.” T O C S : Y H P A R G O T O H P
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Would you eat it again now you know it’s kangaroo?
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“Yeah, defnitely, this is the best one.”
“It’s really tough, so it’s hard work getting through it. It’s not that much un to eat, really. It’s nowhere near my avourite, which was the camel. I used to butcher horses, and that’s kind o what camel tasted like — sort o sweet.” Would you eat it again now you know it’s python?
“I’d cook it or a very long time i I had to eat it again.”
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The Big Question
Terry FAVOURITE SAUSAGE: Boar and apple.
Matt FAVOURITE SAUSAGE: Pork and leek.
Manuel FAVOURITE SAUSAGE: Toulouse
Sam FAVOURITE SAUSAGE: Cumberland.
Garry FAVOURITE SAUSAGE: Cumberland.
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Sample D
Sample E
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It’s not that guys don’t enjoy shopping, but we tend to have limited options. Which explains why when we heard Hong Kong multilabel store i.t had landed on our shores, only two words came to mind — wardrobe overhaul. Stand-out brands include Izzue, Fingercroxx and 5cm, all o which carry cuttingedge menswear in various styles. We’ve never been this spoilt or choice, or quite so able to identiy with how our girlriends eel whenever they enter the mall. Exciting stu.
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Constructed or the urban gent, the Braun Buffel Heart collection makes all the right statements. Stylish in a quiet, masculine way — as is the style ideal intended or the male o the species — you won’t nd any fashy, over-the-top garishness here. What you will nd however, are nely crated key- and cardholders, billold wallets and travel organisers. Made with bualo-stamped leather and completed with subtle silver hardware, these little details go a long way.
The way we see it, shades are essential or two things — blocking out the sun, and covering up your hangover. Currently in its 75th year o production, Polaroid’s polarised sunglasses have been protecting delicate eyes rom sun damage and making people look like rockstars or a very long time. With it’s UltraSight lens technology that oers nine layers o everything rom shock-absorbency and scratchresistance to polarising light-lters that block UVA, UVB and UVC light rays — when it comes to sunglasses, these guys denitely know what they’re doing.
From $89 to $279 at Braun Buffel boutiques.
From $85 to $185 at major optical stores.
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Short Story Given the stiing hot weather, it’s pretty much berm season all year round; why not embrace the opportunity to show o your calves? Celio’s summer collection o shorts are available in a neutral colour palette ranging rom khaki to grey to black, making them idiot-proo when it comes to matching pieces. Throw on a striped tee, patterned polo or even a hoodie and you’re good to go. From $63 at Celio stores.
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Traverse the high seas with American brand Nautica’s 30th anniversary collection. A tribute to its seaaring heritage, the Newport collection eatures tees, shirts and pants in navy, red and white. Understatedly sophisticated and crated with quality materials, kit yoursel out in these threads or some eortless style — even i you don’t own a yacht.
We love a good pair o boots because they look cool, are durable and they kick our fckle weather’s (one minute drought, next minute monsoon). Enter Red Wing Shoes, a name so synonymous with bootmaking that you can’t say it without stomping hard on something. These round-toe work oxords are testament to that spirit, eaturing the ever-comortable cushion crepe sole, heel back-stitching and leather lining. Best part is, you could totally get away with wearing these to work.
From Nautica boutique, #04-45 Paragon Shopping Centre.
From Red Wing store, #02-070 Suntec City and Leftfoot stores.
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“It’s got a bit o an ’80s vibe to it. I you want to wear pants that length, why not just wear three-quarter pants instead o rolling the cu?”
“It works or normal pants but please don’t do this or skinny jeans, it would be really unattering. And it also won’t work i his legs are too skinny.”
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LISHIA, 23
“I hate this look! Why are you showing o your ankles? Pants should cover the entire leg and i not, you should be wearing berms. Not in-between.”
“I think it’s quite nice and stylish, I wouldn’t mind my boyriend wearing his pants like that.”
ELISHA, 25
JEAN, 24
“It doesn’t work or most guys; looks a bit eeminate at times. It would be okay or more casual outfts; the top needs to match the overall look.”
“It’s a more special way o wearing pants. I like that the guy is daring enough to change things up a little and take risks with his dressing.”
(She’ll let you know…) Does it say cool, casual and relaxed or “I can’t decide which length my pants should be?” We let the ladies tell you.
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LEAH, 24
“It’s a cool look and also very trendy. I think it looks good on guys; beats the normal way o dressing.”
“Other than a unctional purpose, like preventing the pants rom getting wet, it’s silly to roll it up. Fashion trend? Weird and unmanly.”
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2)Physiogel Hypoallergenic Cream, 75ml, $23 Formulated to work with dehydrated and sensitive skin, this fragrance-free cream locks in moisture for up to three days and guarantees longlasting hydration.
3)Lierac Homme AntiIrritation Shaving Foam, 150ml, $28 Hate razor burn and irritation from shaving? This foam infused with peppermint protects skin and soothes by reducing friction and redness, while providing a cooling sensation that lasts well after your shave.
4)B.liv Shield Me 5)Le Petit Olivier Pure Moisturizing Sunblock, Argan Oil, 50ml, $58 100 per cent pure, organic 45ml, $45 We’ve said it before and we’ll and natural, argan oil say it again — the sun is the contains essential fatty acids biggest culprit causing that combat skin ageing. damaged skin. This quickApply a few drops and absorbing sunblock not only massage into cleansed skin. protects from UVA and UVB A multi purpose product, it rays, it also hydrates and can also be used to revitalise repairs damaged skin. and restore dull, dry hair.
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honestly, Singapore is so humid. No matter how nicely dressed and groomed you are, by midday, you’d start eeling conscious about how you smell. Those ragrances are designed to give o a clean, crisp smell all day. Which scent do ladies fnd most
Gauri Garodia, founder and creative director of artisanal perfumery Code Deco, breaks down the art of fragrances for us and tells us how to select that perfect scent.
attractive on guys?
The preerences are driven by a ew things, such as conditioning — your background, where you grew up, things that make you nostalgic or give you happy memories. Culture is another — where you live, what the weather is like. I it were snowing now, you’d preer a warmer ragrance because that’s a biological response to your surroundings. In my experience, Caucasians and Northern European women tend to preer the drier notes in perumes that exude a lot o warmth; a woman in Asia would tend towards cooler, crisper notes. Constraints aside, what ingredients would you use to make the ultimate perfume?
What is artisanal perfume?
Commercial perume has to appeal to the masses, rom consumers in China to Latin America. It’s created or maximum impact; within fve to 10 seconds, it needs to make a big impression. That might be enjoyable or a lot o people, but it’s not very personal because, at some level, you’re already stripping it o distinctiveness or individuality. Artisanal perumes stem rom more original concepts; out o a collection o 12, hal will do nothing or you. But there will be a ew that really connect much more than a commercial perume. When that happens, you eel a mood transormation. There are some perumes that sparkle on you and make you eel happier.
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not. Code Deco has an online chart that categorises our ragrances according to moods or eelings. Whether it’s sheer, sparkling, warm or dark. This is especially handy when selecting perumes, as you’ll know what type o person your partner is and what she likes. Is it unmanly to buy another guy fragrance?
That’s usually let to their girlriends to do! When women shop, they tend to think o everyone. I’d see something and think, “Those shoes would be nice or my mum”, or “That tie would suit my husband.” But men don’t shop that way. They go to a store, get what they need and come out. They’re not going to think o gits. But it’s a sensible git, o course; it would be a good idea only i your male riend has odour issues!
When choosing perfume for a girl, should a guy pick something he or she likes?
What’s a nice way to tell a girl she needs to put on perfume?
Sometimes I dress to please mysel, but there are days I wear something I know my husband likes. The tricky part is until you smell the ragrance, you won’t know i she likes it or
As a git and choosing some o the resher themes that smell clean. It’s one o the things I thought about when creating the sheer and sparkling collections because,
“[For men ] Buying your guy friend fragrance would be a good idea only if he has odour issues. Leave it to their girlfriends to do that.”
Perumery has a palette o about 3,000 materials; the options are infnite. When creating a perume, I’m like a greedy child, so I have to hold back and keep ocused. Every time one o my ragrances reaches the point where I imagined it to be, where I smell it and think it’s perect, I need to tell mysel to stop adding things to it. That or me becomes my ultimate perume, at least or that day, week or month. Right now, I’d like to capture the sense o monsoon — the smell o earth, water and leaves. It’s not an identifable smell; it’s the smell o a mood. That’s my next goal. Visit www.codedeco.com.sg for more information and Code Deco’s range of artisanal perfumes.
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Board and A l o n e Even when you’re in a contemplative mood, there is no reason why you should ignore style.
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Jacket, by Adidas. Printed shorts, by A|X Armani Exchange. Exchange. Shoes, by Converse. Photography assistance: Darren Kuah; Styling assistance: Dennis Villareal; Grooming: Grooming: Sha Shamsi/9628-7035; Model: Benjamin/ Looque Models
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Denim polo tee and shoes, both by Fred Perry. Striped denim shorts, by A|X Armani Exchange. Opposite: Jacket, by Adidas. Printed shortsleeved collared shirt, by Topman. Shorts, by Calvin Klein Jeans. Shoes, by H&M.
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Jacket, by Topman. Printed short-sleeved shirt, by Adidas. Shorts, by G-Star. Studded sneakers, by Converse.
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Hooded jacket, by A|X Armani Exchange. Slim-ft pants, by Calvin Klein Jeans. Shoes, by Converse. Opposite: Printed jacket, by H&M. Distressed T-shirt, by Calvin Klein Jeans. Belt, by Fred Perry. Shorts, by Topman. Shoes, by Adidas.
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wet environments. Claude Bernard Aquarider (10202 3 BUIN), $749, Tangs, Robinsons The Centrepoint, OG Orchard Point and authorised retailers.
The toughest SOB in the watch world. Reactor Neutron, $834, Reactor boutique at Plaza Singapura.
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Gets you very deep underwater. Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon NEDU, $5,700, authorised retailers.
A yellow hand here, a red arrow there — sports with a trendy twist. Timex Men’s Fashion (T2P041), $199, selected Royal Sporting House stores.
Put vigour on your wrists. Gc Homme (X95004G4S), $1,048,
The time is clear with a luminous dial and bold markers. Nautica NMX 601, $299, Tangs and Nautica boutiques.
Gc boutique at Marina Square and authorised retailers.
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Another half-dozen new timepieces for your choosing. O R ’ S E D I T I C E C H O
Play with colours. Nixon Dip-Dye Collection, $115, Nixon store at Ion Orchard, Tangs, Robinsons The Centrepoint and The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands, and authorised retailers.
Classy without the inated
price tag. Arbutus Open Heart, $375, Tangs, OG Orchard Point, Robinsons The Centrepoint, Mustafa Centre and authorised retailers.
Make ’em green with envy. Tsovet Aviation Collection (SVT-FW44), $565, Robinsons The Centrepoint and The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands and Tangs VivoCity.
Designer face. Issey Miyake Twelve by Naoto Fukasawa (SILAP020), $588, Isetan Scotts, Robinsons T he Centrepoint and The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands,
You wouldn’t mind being seen in this camouage. Adidas Camo Collection — Stockholm (ADH2813), $215, Robinsons The Centrepoint.
Black gold. Swatch Irony Chrono (YCB4021), $230, Swatch stores.
Tangs, Front Row at Rafes Hotel and
Moments by City Chai n at Ion Orchard.
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Wireless Disentangle your listening experience.
Jabra Play
NYNE NB-200
Why’s it good? A neat clip-on Bluetooth
Why’s it good? The portable Bluetooth speaker
headset that lets you toggle between music and phone calls when on the run. Besides handiness, the digital-audio quality is ace, too. Gimme: $88; Stereo Electronics, selected Challenger stores, Apple premium resellers EpiCentre, Nubox and authorised retailers.
comes with a bike mount or those lonely rides along Punggol Waterway. Can even be mounted on a stroller, so you can groove to Psy while carrying out atherly duties. Gimme: $219; Robinsons The Centrepoint and Rafes City, Isetan Scotts and Tampines, Tangs Orchard, HMV, TwoBros Liestyle & Gadget Store, Nimbus@Wheelock and LieCycle.
Creative T3150 Wireless 2.1 Speaker System Why’s it good? Wireless and wired connectivity;
custom-tuned, down-ring sub-wooer; and eective sonic directivity — all or only a two-gure price tag. Gimme: $79; sg.store.creative.com and authorised retailers.
Why’s it good? Super-convenient, super-tiny (6
x 5.7 cm), this cylindrical Bluetooth speaker with MicroSD, built-in microphone and FM radio playback, lets you bring your music wherever you go — even to the gents. Gimme: $129; Tangs Orchard, HMV and authorised retailers.
Sony HT-CT260 Surround Sound Bar Why’s it good? Enjoy room-lling cinema sound
without room-lling clutter, thanks to its wireless eature. Powered by Sony’s proprietary S-Force PRO Front Surround technology, this powerhouse has just two ront speakers in a single bar, plus a dynamic sub-wooer, to create multi-dimensional audio output. Gimme: $449; Sony stores and authorised retailers. 040
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Samsung NX300
Why’s it good? The smart system not only
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makes hot beverages such as coee, tea and chocolate, but also iced peach tea and iced cappuccino. Best of all? It doubles as an ornamental piece with its duck-like design. Gimme: $279; authorised retailers.
ast image recorder (Hybrid Auto Focus system, 1/6000 sec shutter speed and 8.6ps continuous shooting mode) with an even aster sharing capability via Wi-Fi. Best of all? The Samsung 45mm 2D/3D lens (sold separately) is the world’s frst one-lens 3D system that captures still images and HD movies in “perect” 3D quality. Gimme: $999, $649 (45mm 2D/3D lens); authorised retailers.
PowerSkin for iPhone 5 Why’s it good? The shockproo silicone case
eatures a built-in 1,500mAh lithium polymer battery that extends battery lie by 70 per cent. Best of all? It’s is the thinnest design to date, adding only 0.3 inches to your bulk. Gimme: $109.90; EpiCentre, Challenger, Gain City, Newstead, Nubox, Infnite, Gadget World, Harvey Norman and Mustaa.
HP Envy120 e-All-in-One Printer Why’s it good? Convenience at your fnger
tips with web access and wireless/mobile printing options. Best of all? Enhanced eatures such as a ront USB port lets you charge mobile devices without having to shit the printer around. Gimme: $399; authorised retailers.
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Why’s it good? Stylishly designed with strong-yet-light magnesium alloy casing, built-in kickstand, USB port and microSDXC card slot, nicely sized 10.6-inch Gorilla Glass 2-encased touchscreen and detachable keyboard-like Touch Cover. Best of all? It oers laptop capabilities with pre-installed Microsot Ofce Home & Student 2013 RT. Gimme: From $668; Challenger. 06/13
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First-class axe man.
Aircraft Rescue Fire Officer Battling runway infernos and saving lives it’s all in a day’s work for senior airport emergency service (AES) officer Yeo Kian Min. —
Has it always been your dream to be a firefighter?
It started during my university days in the U K. I was cooking on campus and activated the fire alarm by accident. Fire engines came and they looked really cool. That got me interested. Also, in the West, it’s a very challenging job. The selection process is very difficult; even Olympic-standard athletes have been known to struggle with it. I’m very active and like to challenge myself. How does being an airport firefighter differ from a regular firefighter?
Both disciplines have their challenges, but I’d say for an airport firefighter, the response time is of paramount importance. We need to get into the vehicle and be out of the station in 15 seconds, as opposed to my SCDF days where we could take up to one minute. There are also limited resources with the type of fire engines we use at the airport, and getting water from hydrants is not immediate. An aircraft blaze is also a lot hotter compared to a building blaze due to the high temperature of jet fuel. Plus, we don’t use the fireman pole at the airport; all personnel are stationed on the ground floor.
down the pole — Singapore-style with only one arm. They were impressed. I think there’s a similar move in pole dancing. What goes through your mind during those critical few moments before you engage a blaze?
There are two emotions that you face when you respond to a fire: Fear and anxiety. The most important thing is to control them and they’d work to your advantage. People tend to perform better during instances of fear and anxiety, but they need to be controlled. Like fire, you can use it to cook, but if you lose control, it’ll burn your house down.
nothing; that we hardly get calls and have no work. But that’s not the case. There are a lot of training and drills and, at the higher levels, we have different meetings to attend. We also participate in exchange programmes; visiting other airports to learn what other AES officers do and exchange ideas with them. We also check out the latest in firefighting technology, such as the newest vehicles and techniques. More importantly, we have to get the feel of the industry’s best practices, so that we’re in line with what’s going on in the world. What essential traits does one have to
Is it an occupational hazard to put the lives of others before your own? “Of course, but it doesn’t bother me. It’s part of the job; kind of like making a deal with the devil. In order to take a civilian out of danger, I have to switch places with him. But it comes naturally after all the training.”
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Yes, sometimes. We always train ourselves for the worst-case scenario but, most times, we attend to minor incidents. So it’s a bit of a letdown in that sense. But it’s also a good thing if we don’t get major calls because that would have meant an incident where a lot of lives would be at stake. What was your most memorable call?
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Airport fires are generally quite small and aircraft incidents have been handled pretty smoothly so far. However, there was a nonaircraft-related incident that was quite interesting. A foreigner managed to get on an inaccessible ledge in the airport and threatened to jump. The technicalities were straightforward: The crew went in and the supervisor talked him into coming down. The interesting bit was how did he get there in the first place? He actually crawled through the false ceiling and climbed the pipes to reach the ledge. What’s the usual reaction you get when you tell people what you do?
In Asian society, there’s not much status in being a firefighter; people just see it as a normal job and tend to think all firefighting duties are handled by the Civil Defence. But when I go overseas to visit friends, they’re pretty impressed because they respect firefighters more. There was also once I went on a fire-station exchange programme and showed my overseas peers a way of going
Which is more important: The ability to solve problems or the ability to numb your emotions?
A mixture of both. During such dynamic situations, split-second decisions have to be made to solve the problem under extreme pressure. However, emotions have to be numbed in order to make rational decisions. How do you feel when you spot smokers who don’t stub out their cigarettes properly?
The only thing I feel is a tinge of sadness for the environment. Because when you smoke, about 4,000 types of chemicals are being released into the environment. From the firesigns perspective, if a butt is not stubbed out properly, it can smoulder for up to three hours. And if it goes unnoticed, that’s how it develops into a full-grown fire. Would you rather wear your bunker gear 24/7 for a week, or live in a desert for six months?
possess to do what you do?
Firstly, you need to have integrity; knowing to do what is right. You must also be flexible because situations on the fire ground are constantly changing and you have to adapt. Dedication is one of the most important traits about this job. Even after hours, I’m on call round the clock. You also need to have a high level of tolerance because these types of situations can stretch on for days. After the fire is put out, there are implications on airport operations, so the job doesn’t just end at the fire. What’s something cool you get to do as an airport firefighter?
I get to perform high-storey, dangerous manoeuvres such as rappelling, as well as handling equipment used in height rescues. It’s like being Spiderman. The aircraft is of a certain height, so our vehicles have ladders that extend all the way (about four storeys high) to the top of the plane.
I’d rather live in the desert for half a year And the most rewarding thing about because at least there are fluctuations in the your job? weather. But the bunker suit remains forever Just being the unassuming and unsung hero the same temperature; it’s really hot. People during and after the emergency. have actually gotten heatstroke from wearing What would you say to someone who it for too long. was playing with fire? What do your loved ones feel about I’d borrow a quote from American humourist your job? Jack Handey: “If you ever catch on fire, try to My parents have this impression that avoid seeing yourself in the mirror. Because I firefighters just stay in the station and do bet that’s what really throws you into a panic.” 06/13
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All lingerie, by Triumph. Left (Cara Ng ): Knit crochet cardigan, by New Look. Right ( Ophelia Wan): Cotton T-shirt, by Forever 21. Art direction assistance: Dannii Choo; Photography assistance: Alfe Pan; Hair: Peter Lee/Hairloom using Goldwell; Makeup: Venetia Stravens/9838-7087, using Nars.
Words: Janine Lee Art direction: Tony Law Photography: Joel Low Styling: Cheryl Chan
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orget everything you know about beauty pageants and model contests, because the only one worth paying any attention to is fnally here. That’s right, guys, it’s that glorious time o the year again where we reveal the top 10 FHM Models fnalists. The nation’s sexiest girls are ready to rumble. Get to know them, pick a avourite or three, and enjoy the show.
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Left (Michelle Tan ): Crochet cardigan, by New Look. Socks, stylist’s own. Right (Elizabeth Roquita): Oversized cotton tank top, by Cotton On Body. Opposite, left ( Mel Tan): Cropped tank top, stylist’s own. Right: ( Rena Neo): Acrylic knit cardigan, by New Look. Socks, stylist’s own.
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Left (Esther Lee) & right (Gaby Tan ): Acrylic knit cardigans, both by New Look. Socks, stylist’s own. Opposite, left ( Cynthia Kuang ): Cotton henley, by Cotton On Body. Right ( Anna Huang ): Knit crochet shrug, by New Look.
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GABY TAN 19, makeup student
If the world froze for a day and no one could see what you did, you would… Take all the food supplies from supermarkets in South Korea and deliver them to the people of North Korea.
What would make you more nervous: A promising frst date or an important interview? An important interview. The date is already promising so I’d look forward to it rather than get nervous.
A lifetime supply of your favourite snack or a 30-minute orgasm? A 30-minute tongue orgasm. By that I mean food so heavenly it’s an orgasm for the tongue!
What do you look for in a guy? He has to be sincere, mature and capable.
You’ve come to the end of a pretty good frst date when the guy suddenly says, “I think I love you.” What would be your immediate reaction? I’d smile politely and say goodbye, while freaking out inside.
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CARA NG 20, student
If the world froze for a day and no one could see what you did, you would… Find a white horse and ride it all over the city.
What is your secret talent? Designing and making small gifts. I’m good at crafts.
What would make you more nervous: A promising frst date or an important interview? The interview because I would need to be able to perform well at all times.
What’s one thing you cannot say no to? Partying and having an awesome time.
What do you look for in a guy? I like guys who are faithful, humorous and caring.
You’ve come to the end of a pretty good frst date when the guy suddenly says, “I think I love you.” What would be your immediate reaction? I would be quite astonished as it’s difcult to love someone so easily.
OPHELIA WAN 24, executive
If the world froze for an afternoon and no one could see what I did, I would… Go on a crazy shopping spree.
What is your secret talent? It has yet to be discovered.
If we went through your personal belongings, what would we be shocked to fnd? Nothing. I’m a transparent person, I have nothing to hide.
What’s one thing you cannot say no to? Floral prints and colourful dresses.
A lifetime supply of your favourite snack or a 30-minute orgasm? A lifetime supply of chocolate sounds too good to pass up.
What do you look for in a guy? My ideal man would be romantic, condent and caring.
You’ve come to the end of a pretty good frst date when the guy suddenly says, “I think I love you.” What would be your immediate reaction? I would be surprised but also very happy.
ESTHER LEE 19, student
If the world froze for a day and no one could see what you did, you would… Take money from the bank and give it to the poor, disabled and elderly.
What do you think about before you fall asleep at night? The decisions I’ve made and how my life might have changed if I’d chosen a different path.
If we went through your personal belongings, what would we be shocked to fnd? I keep random things like an unused instant teabag that has been lying around my room for a few years now.
Who would you like to have a drink with? My father as I’ve never met him.
What do you look for in a guy? Neat hair, lial piety and a good sense of dressing.
You’ve come to the end of a pretty good frst date when the guy suddenly says, “I think I love you.” What would be your immediate reaction? I’d be shocked because you shouldn’t say those words just like that.
CYNTHIA KUANG
19, freelance model What do you think about before you fall asleep at night? How to improve myself more. It’s probably got something to do with my horoscope; I’m a Leo and yearn for perfection.
What would make you more nervous: A promising frst date or an important interview? The interview. I’m someone who values my career more than love, and I don’t intend to get married anytime before 28.
Who would you like to have a drink with? Professor Gabriel Owen Emerson, Christian Grey, Gideon Cross and Travis Maddox. Go through my book collection and you’ll understand.
A lifetime supply of your favourite snack or a 30-minute orgasm? The latter sounds better than food — sex over snacks, man!
What do you look for in a guy? He must be nancially independent, charismatic and good in bed.
MEL TAN 28, ofce admin
If the world froze for a day and no one could see what you did, you would… Do naked things in public like swim, run and kiss my crush!
What is your secret talent? Pole dancing.
Who would you like to have a drink with? Can I say Barbie? I used to play with the doll when I was a kid and she’s not a real person so it’d be a fun experience.
A lifetime supply of your favourite snack food or a 30-minute orgasm? The 30-minute orgasm because it would be a crazy experience!
What do you look for in a guy? Humour, kindness and maturity.
You’ve come to the end of a pretty good frst date when the guy suddenly says, “I think I love you.” What would be your immediate reaction? Flattered but suspicious. I would much rather he says it after we have known each other for a longer period of time.
MICHELLE TAN 20, student
If the world froze for a day and no one could see what you did, you would… I would go shopping wearing my favourite lingerie; that has always been a fantasy of mine!
What do you think about before you fall asleep at night? I apply the law of attraction and think about Victoria’s Secret models, hoping I’ll look like them one day.
What is your secret talent? I dance quite well.
What would make you more nervous: A promising frst date or an important interview? There’s no need to make a huge impression on a rst date. Just be yourself. You wouldn’t want him to fall for a side of you that’s trying too hard, anyway.
What’s one thing you cannot say no to? Sexy lingerie.
What do you look for in a guy? Intellect, humour and a decent build — he can’t be too skinny.
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ANNA HUANG 21, freelance dancer
If the world froze for a day and no one could see what you did, you would… Visit all the restricted areas in Singapore like an army base or the tiger enclosure at the zoo.
If we went through your personal belongings, what would we be shocked to fnd? I don’t own any shocking belongings, but you’d nd some unknown body piercings on me.
Who would you like to have a drink with? I’d love to meet Thor — he’s the hottest demi-god around.
What’s one thing you cannot say no to? I could never say no to the person I love.
What do you look for in a guy? Intelligence, height (at least 1.8m) and a nice body.
You’ve come to the end of a pretty good frst date when the
guy suddenly says, “I think I love you.” What would be your immediate reaction? I would laugh my a** off rst, then I would tell him that “love” is a very strong word.
ELIZABETH ROQUITA 18, student
If the world froze for a day and no one could see what you did, you would… Use a marker and go around drawing on people’s faces!
What is your secret talent? I sing and longboard. I might look like the type who just hangs out with friends and shops, but I’m actually an adventurous girl.
What would make you more nervous: A promising frst date or an important interview? The interview; it could determine my future. The guy on the date would just have to accept me for the girl I am.
What do you look for in a guy? He should be understanding, trustworthy and decent looking.
You’ve come to the end of a pretty good frst date when the guy suddenty says, “I think I love you.” What’s your immediate reaction? I’d be shocked because it’s a bit too fast. It takes time to love a person and he’s probably just in love with the moment, not me.
RENA NEO 22, student
If the world froze for an afternoon and no one could see what I did, I would… Run around naked!
What is the last thing you think about before you fall asleep at night? My plans for the next day.
What is your secret talent? I am a sparring gold-medallist in tae kwon do .
Name one person you’d love to have a drink with? Emma Watson because she’s really hot and I admire her a lot.
What’s one thing you cannot say no to? Exciting and extreme sports like skydiving. I’m quite the adrenaline junkie.
What do you look for in a guy? He has to be affectionate, ambitious and diligent.
You’ve come to the end of a pretty good frst date when the guy suddenly says, “I think I love you.” What’s your immediate reaction? I’d give him a peck on the cheek but that’s about it.
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kay, we’re starting with a ash one. But think o it this way — or the price o a ight to New York, you get to visit a city where you can experience the best match-day atmosphere in the world. The Superclásico, Boca Juniors vs
River Plate, is a derby so spicy it makes Manchester United vs Manchester City look like a your local fve-a-side fxture. Plus, once you’ve own to Argentina, everything’s dirt cheap and the women are so beautiul you’ll wonder why Lionel Messi let.
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IBIZA CLUBS MUST VISIT As chosen by Ben Murphy , editor o DJ Mag.
less a holiday...
IBIZA
...more a pilgrimage
GALA NIGHT Benimussa Hills
This abandoned zoo may have long since moved its animals, but party-goers who turn up or Gala’s unhinged raves are just as erocious and untamed. Clubbers get to let loose in the “seal pit” (and other animal enclosures) to a soundtrack o debauched techno and house. UNDERGROUND
San Rafael
Underground is the epitome o low-key cool — where those in the know go to escape the big spectacle and more commercial vibe ound in the ranchises. Attracting hip names rom house and techno (plus the occasional DJ superstar going incognito,) the club is a ormer villa with the walls knocked through. USHUAIA Playa
D’en Bossa
When money is no object, this swish fve-star beach hotel is your No 1 destination. With pools, a huge stage, mind-boggling sound and outdoor dancing, not to mention cocktail bars, restaurants and a spa (i you’re into that sort o thing), Ushuaia regularly hosts super-stars like David Guetta and Sasha. SANKEYS IBIZA Playa
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he journey to the legendary White Island is an essential rite-o-passage that every European bloke must undergo. You, too, can be a part o this hedonistic aair. First up: The boozy lunacy o San Antonio is all well and good but make time or a trip across the island to Ibiza Town (a cab is $40). Less lairy and expensive than San Antonio, the cobbled streets o Ibiza Town are the place or resh-outthe-water seaood and Instagramworthy views across the harbour. But don’t imagine that it’s just San Antonio’s sleepy cousin: As the sun sets, the bars buzz with
swarms o tanned Euro-ftties, while super-clubs El Divino and Pacha — the places that made the Swedish House Mafa the legend it is — are both located there. I you’re a beach lover — and/or a an o Italian models in barely-there bikinis — then escape the hordes o hangover victims turning lobster-red on the beaches o San Antonio and head instead to Las Salinas Beach. Surrounded by pine woods, with white sand and crystal-clear waters perect or body-surfng, it’s a magnet or millionaire ootballers and eye-popping Wag types. The bars and restaurants dotted along
Las Salinas ain’t cheap, but you won’t fnd a more “this is the lie” spot on the whole island. I there are our or more o you going, then sharing a villa can work out cheaper than hotel rooms. You can get a decent villa (with a pool!) that sleeps eight or $2,700 a week — that’s about $338 each. Although you won’t be bang in the centre o either San Antonio or Ibiza Town, you’ll have somewhere to chill during down-time — without the wallet-strangling expense o sitting outside a bar. And on top o that, it gives you a place to impress girls with messy, post-club parties.
A club or connoisseurs, the vibe is low-lit, with killer sound, the best DJs (like Hamburg’s so-hot-rightnow Solomun) and an attitude that’s more “anything goes” than “your name’s not on the list, you’re not coming in”. AMNESIA
San Rafael
Still one o the most spectacular joints on the island, this ginormous pleasure palace, complete with reezy ice cannons, puts on nights that are regularly ram-jammed to bursting. Its Cocoon nights, hosted by techno’s arch-hedonist Sven Väth, are an institution. It gets insanely busy, mind, so make sure you get your tickets in advance. 06/13
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Without the crappy bits
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magine Spain right now in your head. You’re not thinking o Madrid’s squares, probably even not Barcelona’s Las Ramblas. You’re picturing Andalucía, a land o bull ghting, scorched beaches and truly awesome ham sandwiches. For some serious adventure without the serious price tag (or dysentery/malaria pills/kidnap ordeals) simply grab a cheap fight to Malaga (a hugely underrated city, you won’t believe it isn’t more popular) then — like the locals — go with fow. Seriously, no need to book ahead, just take the bus (or hire a car or real reedom) and nd your own Spain. You want epic mountain trails and pant-soiling ravines? Head an hour north to El Chorro. Fancy a romantic city by the sea and o the tourist track? You need Cadiz. Kite surng? Taria. Chilled-out beach scene? Take your pick o anywhere on the coast rom Nerja on. Good ood (and by that we mean, basically, loads o meat) and bars you can spend all day? Everywhere. Rooms From $38 a night — look or pensions or the
best deals. Drink Sherry (It’s made here and cheaper than chips). Ghoulish tourist attraction Ronda’s bridge — people were chucked o this during the Spanish Civil war.
WELCOME TO THE HOME OF SAMBUCA
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o this is the plan: Do everything you usually do on holiday — ride banana boats, down shots, dance on bars, eat plates o meat — but mix it in with some culture. There is no better place to do this than Bodrum in Turkey, home to a Marbella-esque marina, a 15th century castle (think King’s Landing in Game of Thrones ) and, best o all, Halikarnas, a 5,000-capacity outdoor club, which attracts all the world’s top DJs, possesses a has-to-beheard-to-be-believed sound system, looks over the Mediterranean coast, and res lasers so powerul they can be seen in Greece. Must-lie-on beaches include Bitez, which is the resort’s most
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picturesque strip o sand, and Gumbet, where you can hire everything rom a canoe to a catamaran via a jet ski. For clubs, look no urther than the foating Marine Club Catamaran, which sets sail at 1.30am and docks three hours later. What happens in between? Simple. Over 1,500 revellers go mental. Time to go June-August Rooms From $22 per person
per night (triple rooms oer the best value). Drink Whatever you like, it’s always happy hour somewhere. Cultural kick Mausoleum o Halicarnassus. There’s not much let, but this giant structure (built in 353BC) was one o the seven wonders o the ancient world.
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he bad news is, you’re right. Your girlriend is indeed itching to be whisked away to a romantic beach where the sun always shines. The good news is it doesn’t have to cost you six months’ wages and several vital organs. The laidback, 65-mile long Indian coastal stretch known as Goa might be a pain to get to but once you reach it, everything’s cheap. Cool accommodation in the North includes 17thcentury ort-turned hotel Fort Tiracol, but we’d advise heading south and bagging a beach hut in Palolem. This allows you to mix “beach” days — sunbathing, massages, nights out and rampant sex in your beach hut — with “active” days — watersports, sightseeing, nights out and rampant sex in your beach hut. On your sand-based days, snack on resh pineapple, then dine in shore-side restaurants where the fsh is so resh you see it coming out o the ocean. I that gets a bit samey, dive or snorkel, beore jumping on your scooter (by ar the best way to get around) and taking some kick-ass photos o you and your good lady exploring places like the grand cathedral in old Goa and colonial mansion Chandor. Time to go November-February Rooms Beach huts start at $10 per night. Drink Feni, the trademark local booze made rom
cashew apples or coconut sap. Attenborough alert Goa’s Cambarjua Cana,
where you can see crocodiles in the wilderness.
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ometimes all you really want out o a holiday is a sun tan, a huge amount o booze and to get luckier than a doublelottery-winning lightning-strike survivor. I that’s you, then Bulgaria’s Sunny Beach will more than ft the bill. You can orget those Spanish beaches that get busier than Westfeld Shopping Centre — on this fve-mile stretch o golden sand (more Baywatch than Bulgaria) you can go all out and not have to worry about money. Think Lidl-brand Dubai or the main resort (in the best possible way) with new, posh hotels lining the beach that won’t break the bank. The turbocharged nightlie, which is a avourite with hot Scandinavian women, has its sights on the Balearics, already coaxing superstar DJ Carl Cox to the decks.
In and around Flower Street (the only road with a name) are dozens o bars, such as Den Glade Viking (“the only place where dancing naked on the bar is allowed”) and the thumping Disco Orange, which hosts club nights by Twice As Nice and Hed Kandi. Beers start at $2 (24-hour happy hours aren’t rare) and most bars don’t shut until the last rakia (local alcoholic beverage) is downed at sunrise. As ar as sun (and booze) drenched paradises go, this one’s hard to beat. Rooms From $40 a night. Drink Zagorka (local beer) and rakia (strength
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hen you’re brainstorming potential holiday destinations down the pub, Croatia probably doesn’t spring to mind. But this small south-European country is well worth sticking on your holiday wish-list i you want the sunshine, nightlie and lush landscapes o Mediterranean holiday spots such as Ibiza, but at a less walletcrushing price. It’s the clubs and dance-music estivals springing up along Croatia’s sandy coastline that are making it the new “best-kept secret” among party-monsters across Europe (particularly Germany, or some reason). Your most solid estival-going bet is Electric Elephant, which this year runs rom 11-15 July, in Tisno, with tickets at $210 a pop. Held in an amazing, totally secluded sandy bay, Electric Elephant is ve-near-perect days o sun, sea, world-class DJs and demented boat parties aboard the aptly-named “Argonaughty”. And no trenchoot — guaranteed. In terms o clubs, we’d recommend getting your dancing fip-fops down to Club Porat, 060
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located near Pirovac: A huge, completely openair club that attracts world-class house and techno DJs, it’s well worth paying a visit i the idea o dancing under moonlight, among trees, with hundreds o t Euro girls appeals to you (and i it doesn’t then you might be dead inside). Cheeky tip: Club Porat covers such a large area — some 9,000sq m — that it’s incredibly easy to nd a gap in its not-veryeective outer wall and simply hop in or ree. Oops! There’s more to Croatia than boobs jiggling to beats, though. The country has more than a thousand islands dotted along its coastline — quickly and cheaply accessible by water-taxi — and with only 66 o those islands inhabited, there’s plenty o exploring to be done and secluded paradises to uncover. Mljet is the island to head to or unspoilt nature; Pag is a party island, hosting the likes o Tiesto and Armand van Helden; and Rab is worth a visit i you ancy giving nudism a go. Just don’t orget your actor 30 — there are ew things more sore than burnt buttocks…
HVAR
LOPUD
Populated with cocktail bars, lush gardens and European celebs, Hvar is as snazzy as islands get but you and your girlriend can still rent a bungalow on the paradise-like Palmažina beach or less than $95 a night.
This is where you go i you really want to get away rom it all. It’s got no cars, idyllic stretches o white sand and a population smaller than most branches o NTUC. Accessed by a speedboat rom Dubrovnik.
BRAC
DUGI
Craving kayaks and jonesing or jet-skis? Brac’s got all your watersports needs covered. It’s also where you’ll nd Zlatni Rat — Croatia’s mostphotographed beach. Lovely.
Pag is Croatia’s most-amous party island but Dugi Otok does a nice line in berserk, 24-hour, open-air raves, particularly on Sahara Beach, whose shores are lined with great bars and caés.
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LAS VEGAS the luxury holiday you can afford
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nly high-rolling, swinging berks go to Vegas, right? Wrong. You can do Sin City on a budget, and what do you know, it’s infnitely cooler to do so. Think “Vintage Vegas” rather than $600 tickets to see Elton John, and you won’t go ar wrong. Cities like Vegas suer in a global recession, S so even the slick hotels on “the strip” can be R U T C ound to oer eyebrow-raising discounts. But I P K sod them, save even more money by going or C I L C the aded grandeur o a ormer mob-owned / S E joint like The Flamingo or El Cortez, both o G A M which were once the stomping grounds o I G P gangster Bugsy Siegel. The Artisan is known T : O T or being a party palace, and downtown, the O H P Fremont will put you up or $45 a night. Go
midweek instead o peak-time weekends, and you’ll be amazed at how little you’ll pay. Meanwhile, gorge on spectacular New Mexican ood at El Sombrero on South Main Street, the oldest ga in town, opened in 1950, or proper Italian pizza at Settebello. Neither will cost you much more than $12 so you can spend what you save on the slots at Palms or the Gold Coast, both o which give you ree drinks while you play. Sweet. Rooms From a staggering $31 at Sam’s Town. Drink Hit happy hour at the Mandalay Bay or
he dream: A estival where you can go mental to your avourite bands until early morning, then head back to your tent or some sexy time with your girlriend. The problem: Mud and your lady pal moaning about mud. The solution: Take the British weather out o the equation by jetting to a small town on the east coast o Spain. In case you haven’t guessed, we’re talking about Festival International Benicàssim, which takes place next to a lovely, long beach rom 18-21 July. And i that’s not enough to get you and your lady excited, we should probably tell you that this year’s FHM -approved acts include The Killers, Queens o the Stone Age and Azealia Banks. The best part is the ticket allows you to camp or eight days, meaning you can spend our days visiting water parks and topping up your tan, then our days losing your s**t in the mosh pit.
$6 cocktails.
Rooms From $72 per person per night (but it’s
Strangest tourist attraction The Atomic
better to take a tent).
Testing Museum, when you’re sick o gambling and drinking.
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RACING SAHARA
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the whi o spent petrol is an essential requirement or your summer vacation, then you could do considerably worse than witnessing The Pharaons International Cross Country Rally. A car, bike and truck race across the sizzling landscape o Egypt, it’s an all-terrain burn-up through the desert in the style o the legendary Dakar Rally. Taking place over six stages rom late September to early October the gruelling race over sand and asphalt is one o the coolest things an engine nut will ever see. Want to get even closer to the race? Book a stay at the Mövenpick Hotel & Casino Cairo Media City, which has a ootball pitch and our swimming pools. It’s where all the teams stay and totally envelop yoursel in the atmosphere. Simply apply as an “accompanying person”, ater which
you can sort yoursel out with a customised programme. Then when the racing’s done, you can check out the bazaars and nightlie in Cairo. The capital’s nightlie is a mixture o regular bars and more relaxed ahwas (coee houses) where you can chill out with the locals and smoke shisha . I you want out-and-out clubbing, then head to the Zamalek district, where top clubs, including Rive Gauche and Latex, stay open until 4am. Rooms The fve-star Mövenpick
or $1,270 (based on two adults sharing). Drink Plenty o water because it will be bloody hot. For the petrol heads
Pestering the drivers at dinner time to get the inside track on the day’s racing.
KAZANTIP
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he Crimea is known or a couple o things. One was a bloody big war in the 1850s, and the other is Kazantip, a estival on the Black Sea Peninsula in the Ukraine that starts at the end o July and lasts six weeks. Yep, six whole weeks. The estival attracts around 150,000 party loons and hundreds o DJs, but don’t be intimidated by its size. Z, as the devoted regulars call it, might sound (and look) a bit mental, but i you rent a room in the budget-riendly nearby town o Popovka, you’ll be able to retreat rom the madness to a sae haven o satellite TV and air-conditioning whenever you like. Okay, let’s get down to brass tacks: DJ sets by the likes o Josh Wink, Pendulum and Armin Van Buuren are all very nice but 062
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Kazantip is renowned or one thing — its jaw-dropping girls. We are talking stunning, Eastern European goddesses, covered in neon paint, throwing back straight vodka like ruit juice. So prepare to all in love on an almost daily basis. A ew words o warning. You should take euros or US dollars or easy exchange and don’t all asleep on the beach — the burning hot mornings ain’t good or a vodka hangover. Oh, and pace yoursel. It never stops, so don’t try and outrun it. You’ll just lose. Rooms $48 per person in nearby
Popovka. Drink Vodka, obviously. Regrettable opportunity
Getting “married” to some ft rave girl you just met up Kazantip Tower (don’t worry, it’s not legally binding).
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his trip’s about orgetting the rat race with some proper, random adventure. There are dozens o Greek islands, all with a unique draw, all interconnected by a reliable network o boats. It’s that easy. Get a cheap fight to Athens then rock up early to Piraeus erry port like Jack Sparrow in espadrilles to choose your vessel. Want beaches and Vespas? Head to Naxos. Postcard views rom a volcano? Santorini. Both seven hours by erry, enough time to meet travellers on deck and get whooped at tavli (Greek backgammon — you can challenge anyone to a game) by an ouzo -charged 80-year-old.
Crete and Rhodes are rip-roaring party hotspots, but those in the know choose Ios. Basically a beach, a port and a town — no ruins to see, just 24-hour hedonism. Never question bartenders on the potency o their drinks though. A shot o homemade tsipouro , a super-charged goatherder tipple made rom letover grapes, is always under the counter to shut you up. For true travel bragging rights hit secret island Amorgos. Resist Katapola harbour, where most people disembark, and stay onboard to the epic port o Aegiali. A good shout late in the season when workers throw all-night beach parties. The best bit? This whole holiday can be had or less than a fight to Thailand. Rooms From $23 a night on Ios. Drink $3 or a beer in Los, although expect at
least double in Santorini. Historical bonus The Acropolis in Athens — climb through olive groves o the lower slopes to reach the the spectacular 432BC Parthenon.
he traditional way to “do” St Tropez involves spending the day on a pimpin’ yacht, then sailing into port and partying at Le Caves du Roy ($19 a coke, booze rom $48). But since you’re not a sucker and your surname’s not Abramovich, you won’t be doing this. You can, however, enjoy the same buzz or a millionth o the price by renting a villa in nearby Port Grimaud or Sainte Maxime, buying some cans (or a bottle o really cheap but delicious rosé wine) rom the local super-marché and jumping on the open-top shuttle boat to Southern France’s most amous holiday hotspot (sit at the ront as those at the back oten get soaked). Once docked, wing a let at the port to gawp at the models partying on super-yachts beore hitting a restaurant in the Place de Lices or a dish o moule frites (that’s mussels and chips) or a not-crazy-expensive $24. Next, head back to and bag a table outside the Bar du Port. It’s always packed and open until 4am. I the DJ or women aren’t doing it or you there, try Papagayo, which is open til dawn. It’s pricey, but i you want to splash the cash or a night o champagne-soaked debauchery you’ll be in with a chance o pulling some o Europe’s nest ladies (or impressing your other hal). Time to go May-September Rooms From $22 per person per night; look or
shared villa or the best deals. Drink Tap water i it’s your round, whatever you ancy i it isn’t. “When in Rome” activity A game o petanque (boules) — locals and tourists play in the Placedes Lices. FHM
BOOK YOUR HOLIDAY LIKE A PRO Fly on a Tuesday
Hide Yo’ cookies
Say you’re a coeliac
Luggage charges
Consumer mag Which? discovered the best day to fy is Tuesday. Flights can be 35 per cent cheaper on this day, so try and get time o to coincide, rather than joining the mugs all leaving on a Friday.
It’s said that some sites can gather inormation through cookies to work out what you might spend and then gear prices accordingly. Prices can also go up the longer you are looking. Sneaky.
Say you require the coeliac (pronounced “see-lee-ack”) menu on the plane, and you’ll get something resher than usual tired greyness hiding ominously under a sweaty oil lid.
You might think you’ve got yoursel an insanely cheap return fight, but make sure you check whether you have to pay or your baggage or hand luggage.
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Words: Janine Lee Art direction: Pyron Tan Photography: Nicky Loh Styling: Thomas Hong
The Knock One Fighting Championship’s (One FC) latest Swiss-Filipino ring 064
Spot Joyeux bra top with sequin strap and matching panties, by Valisere from Triumph. Poetry ring, by Oroton. Hair: Peter Lee/Hairloom using Goldwell; Makeup: Sha Shamsi/9628-7035, using Make Up For Ever.
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hey’re the sweethearts o the ring, adding a bit o sass and sex appeal to what’s other wise a completely male-dominated world. They make a mixed martial arts (MMA) fght look that much more brutal simply by being present, and they’re also the only people on earth who can get a crowd roaring just by walking around holding a sign. All things considered, they’re pivotal to the MMA experience and it’s just peaches or us that they look so damned good doing it. Show some love to Christine Hallauer, One FC’s new ring girl.
Black ribbon lace on white bra, by La Senza. Bracelet, stylist’s own. Opposite: Pink lace padded bra, tanga with tutu and bow, all by La Senza.
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What do you do as a ring girl?
The role we’re known or would be carrying the signs that display the round numbers o a fght. But beore each fght, we also attend a lot o media events with the management team and fghters. We’re the emale aces that represent One FC — the MMA equivalent o F1 grid girls. There are ring girls who are celebrities in their own right, with ans who ollow them. And when they ollow us, they’ll also ollow news about One FC and this in turn generates more interest in the sport. How did you get introduced to MMA and how did it lead to this job?
I was modelling or magazines in Australia when my riend introduced
me to this. So I started doing promotional work or smaller fghts in 2009. That’s how One FC eventually discovered me and it led to where I am now. What does it take to be a ring girl or One FC?
I reckon it wanted someone rom the region with an Asian heritage to be able to connect with its audience here. And since the Philippines is one o the largest markets or MMA and I’m hal Filipino, it worked out. The ring girls also need to be articulate, to speak or One FC. O course, sexy, classy and sporty, too! Are you an MMA an, or is it more o a job or you?
I actually do have a genuine interest in MMA and love to watch the
“The MMA audience are quite respectful to us at the fights and they do n’t do anything out of line.”
Not that I’ve come across; we’re all good riends!
fghts. But this sport is so popular in Australia that it doesn’t need much introduction. Everyone there is amiliar with MMA and it’s common or any one o us to be a an.
How do you defne sexy?
Have you signed up or any MMA classses?
I might do muay thai or ftness in the uture because that’s the one I’m most amiliar with, but I don’t think I can fght. I’d probably appreciate it more as a member o the audience!
How do you eel about being ogled by men?
It doesn’t really bother me. I’m not really concentrating on that; I’m more ocused on the job and walking around and having un. Besides, they’re quite respectul to us at the fghts and they don’t do anything out o line, so it’s quite nice. We’ve seen drama between fghters. Is there any drama between ring girls?
I you could take on one person in MMA who would it be?
Can I say [ boxer Manny ] Pacquiao? Just because o how massively popular he is in the Philippines. It’s what you personally eel comortable in, or eel good wearing. Everyone’s defnition is dierent. For me, it’s a eeling: I I eel sexy, I come across as sexy. What’s the wildest thing you’ve ever done?
Riding a horse while doing a photo shoot! FHM For more info on One FC “live” events, visit onefc.com
Panties, by Valisere from Triumph. Loa bronze bracelet, Ditan bracelet and Trance Rhodium earrings, all by Oroton.
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YOUR STAG DO 2023
SPACE: YOU’RE GOING UP THERE SOONER THAN YOU THINK
Words: Joe Mackertich and Dan Masoliver
S P A C E H O L I D AY
QUESTION 1
WHEN CAN I PACK MY BAGS?
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et’s clear something up right o the bat: You, yes you, will be able to go into space in your lietime. “We’re on the cusp o what we only read about in books 50 years ago — hotels in space, moving sidewalks, orbital villages. It’s starting to happen.” These aren’t the words o some ruitloop sci--obsessive. It’s Bobby Block, a man who has worked at the top o some o the biggest private-sector space companies in the world. “It is extremely possible,” says Block, “that in the near uture, i Valentine’s Day was approaching, or a modest sum, you and your sweetheart could spend a ew days in space, going round the moon on a spaceship.” Block currently works or The Golden Spike Company, one o the many businesses striving to make the dream o aordable, civilian space travel a reality in the next couple o decades. Last year, its hand orced by the global recession, the Obama administration dramatically cut unding to its space agency, Nasa. The budget
could not stretch to the cosmos when there were expensive wars being waged in Aghanistan and Iraq. A host o billionaire entrepreneurs across the world perceived this as the crack o a starter’s pistol. I the US government didn’t have the cojones to take the human race to the stars, then they certainly did. Ever wonder what the heads o companies like Google, PayPal and Virgin are saving up or? It’s this. “It’s like telecoms,” says Mike Gold, operations director or Bigelow Aerospace, the company that is ploughing millions into developing large habitats (think foating blocks o fats) or space. “In the past, only governments could develop communication satellites and launch them. Once the private sector was able to develop and deploy them, you had the explosion o the telecom industry.” The thing that’s made space travel so expensive is the cost o
“WE’RE ON THE CUSP O F WHAT WE READ ABOUT IN BOOKS 50 YEARS AGO.”
blasting o. Currently, the rockets we use to launch us out o the atmosphere can only be used once. Imagine i ater each time an airline few a plane it had to scrap it and build a new one. This is the situation with space travel, but things are set to change. SpaceX, the company ounded by dotcom billionaire Elon Musk is working hard on making the rst reusable rockets. And sources tell FHM they’re close to a breakthrough. “Civilian space travel is seen as a carnival or wealthy people,” says Block. “But research or space exploration is going to change the Earth in revolutionary ways.” Gold agrees: “You’ll soon be able to fy rom London to Tokyo in under an hour. I look orward to when the taxi ride to the airport is longer than the fight.” All the companies agree on one thing: Once companies and investors recognise space as a viable commercial market, the cost o leaving Earth or regular people will come down a lot. “You should be able to go down to one o the many launch pads across the world, and watch a rocket blast into space with humans on board; the same way you can go to an airport and watch a plane take o,” says Block. “That’s where this industry is heading. It’s a huge challenge. But we’re up to it.” 06/13
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WILL SPACE DESTROY MY MIND? pace. It’s all un and games until your eyes explode. We asked Dr Kevin Fong, an expert on space medicine, to tell us about some o extraterrestrial travel’s biggest health risks. “Space looks like the most wonderul, Zen-like experience,” says Dr Fong. “Floating around, everyone’s smiling. Actually, it’s uncomortable, dangerous, with an ever-present threat o a very violent death.” Here are just a ew o the mind- and body-destroying maladies awaiting any budding astronauts, none o which sound like much un when you’re 400 million miles rom a GP.
SPACE MADNESS “Space is tremendously challenging psychologically. You’re in a conned area, death awaits you about an inch away on the other side o the hull, you’re living inside a machine — these aren’t just houses in space, they’re constructions that have to work to keep you alive. You’re isolated rom all your creature comorts and everyone’s monitoring what you’re doing. It’s like Big Brother in space, but the evictions are kind o messier. The thing about taking ee-paying people up there is that there’s a lower grade o psychological selection or space tourists, so you have to accept that there’s a possibly higher incidence o craz y-person-aboard-ship syndrome.”
“AS THE BRAIN SWELLS, IT PUSHES ON THE EYEBALLS.” 072
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DEFORMED EYEBALLS “Inside your central nervous system — your brain and spinal cord — there’s liquid circulating called the cerebrospinal fuid. In space, something happens which causes a swelling o the brain. It may be because this fuid isn’t draining properly, no one’s really sure, but as
the brain swells, it pushes on the eyes and deorms the eyeballs. There are a couple o big problems there: One is that your vision is changing; the second thing is you’ve got this raised pressure in the central nervous system that could cause damage.”
CRUMBLING BONES “Space turns athletic people — astronauts — into couch potatoes. Their muscles waste, their bones waste — i you don’t use it, you lose it, and going into space, you’re not using it. They lose bone mass and muscle mass rom the bits o the skeleton that are load-bearing areas. In those regions, you lose on average 1-2 per cent bone mineral per month. At that kind o loss, you don’t have to go long beore you’re into real trouble.”
BOILING BLOOD “As pressure drops, so does the boiling point o liquid. I you boil a cup o tea on the summit o Everest, the water boils at 70 deg C, rather than 100 deg C. Now, i you keep dropping the pressure, eventually you get to the point at which water will boil at 37 deg C — the core temperature o your body. I you’re at low enough pressure, as in the vacuum o space, the water in the sot tissues o your body and the blood in your veins begins to boil and orm bubbles o vapour. I that goes on long enough, it will kill you.”
LOSS OF FINGERNAILS “Spacesuits look like big quilts and you think, ‘Gosh, that must be the most comy thing to wear’ — but they’re really not. It’s like wriggling into a suit o armour lined with a wetsuit, and you’re out there or six hours at a time. The gloves and boots in particular press up against your nger- and toenails, putting pressure on them. The nail bed needs a supply o blood, and i that is obstructed, the nails lose their blood supply and the whole thing just comes o.”
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MOON (2009)
BARBARELLA (1968)
The plot: Trippy sci- in which Sam Rockwell’s moon miner
The plot: Jane Fonda jiggles her way around various planets in a
discovers he’s the victim o a human-cloning operation. Dr Hugh: “Space mining is big at the moment, and we’re really close to how it’s portrayed in this lm. Two companies — one unded by (Google bosses) Eric Schmidt and Larry Page, the other by director James Cameron — are trying to set up mining missions to asteroids.”
space-bikini. On her adventures she meets many interesting characters. And has sex with almost all o them. Dr H: “I’m pretty convinced that complex lie has developed somewhere. Twenty years ago, we discovered the rst planet outside o our solar system. Since then, we’ve ound 5,800 more, as well as countless other candidates that we think are planets.”
QUESTION 3
ENTERTAINMENT? So you’ve bought a ticket to the moon, hopped onboard the shuttle and now have nine hours to kill beore touchdown. It seems only right you use the journey to enjoy some o the fnest space flms ever made. But what does Dr Hugh Mortimer, planetary researcher and scientifc adviser or last year’s mega-hit Prometheus , make o the scientifc theories at the heart o these six classics? A word o warning: Here be spoilers…
STAR TREK (2009)
AL IENS (1986)
The plot: Captain Kirk and his Starfeet chums zip across the galaxy using
The plot: A band o marines go into hyper-sleep in order to travel across
aster-than-light travel to save humanity rom the dastardly Nero. Dr H: “There’s nothing scientically wrong with the principle o warp speed. You compress space in ront o you and expand it behind you; you’re not violating the laws o relativity, but are travelling aster than the speed o light. I’ve heard rumours o secret teams in the US researching this.”
the galaxy to wipe out a planet o predatory beasts. Dr H: “Space is so vast that to get to another star system, you have to travel incredibly ast or put yoursel into cryogenic sleep. A way o doing this is low-temperature stasis — cooling the body down to the point o induced hibernation. It’s been tried on mice and pigs and works most o the time.”
TOTAL RECALL (1990)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
The plot: Arnie goes on an ultra-violent vacation to Mars, where humanity’s colonists are busy mining the planet or its valuable resources. Dr H: “Mars colonies have been a research topic or a while but it’s still too expensive. Within the next 20 years, we should have a permanently manned lunar base, which could then be used as a stop-o point between Earth and Mars.”
The plot: The crew o a spaceship are atally betrayed by
Hal, its onboard computer. Dr H: “We already rely on computers to land our planes, trade nances and
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QUESTION 4
WHAT TO READ ON A LONG-HAUL SPACE FLIGHT?
QUESTION 5
HOW DOES ONE POOP IN SPACE?
...And four other things you didn’t know you didn’t know. HOW DOES ONE POOP? The majority o space toilets use an-driven suction systems, instead o water, to pull waste away rom astronauts’ bodies beore zero-G can begin playing revolting havoc. On the International Space Station, urine is recycled and turned into drinking water. Poo is dried out, compressed, put in aluminium containers, and disposed o back on Earth.
HAS ANYONE DONE THE SEX IN SPACE? No one’s ever admitted to having space sex, but Virgin Galactic have conrmed that a porn company approached them with a milliondollar oer to let them shoot a lm on one o its soon-to-be-operational sub-orbital crat. Virgin said no. Porn star Coco Brown is also currently training as an astronaut, with a view to becoming the world’s rst “astroslut” (her words) by 2014.
HAS ANYONE DIED UP THERE?
CONSIDER PHLEBAS (1987) By Iain M Banks A proper, no-nonsense space opera. Warring civilisations, galactic politics and a truly epic scope make what would become the rst book in Banks’s Culture saga a wicked read. Will take ages to nish, too. It’s like: Star Wars with a degree.
THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH (1965) By Philip K Dick Bored colonists on a sand-blasted, inhospitable Mars use psychedelic drugs to help pass the time. Mind-bendingly weird. It’s like: Inception, but with drugs instead o sleep.
THE STARS MY DESTINATION (1956) By Alfred Bester Sci- at its maddest and most epic: Gully Foyle is an uneducated thug o a man, shipwrecked in deep space. When a rescue ship passes him by, 074
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he becomes hell-bent on seeking revenge — even i it takes a total rebuilding o his mind and body. It’s like: A Jason Statham lm crossed with 2001: A Space Odyssey .
RINGWORLD (1970) By Larry Niven A mysterious metallic ring, a million miles wide and rotating around a ar-o star, is the destination or two bored humans determined to discover its secrets. Was the Ringworld built as shelter rom a galactic explosion, or is it part o a plan by alien puppeteers to breed human beings? It’s like: Stargate . But with more sex.
…AND HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO READ THEM? The distance between Earth and Mars is always changing (because o their orbits), but i you timed take-o right, it would be about 34 million miles. A rocket-powered fight would take about 6,000 hours.
Nobody has ever died out in space. Ocially. There are conspiracy theorists that allege that Yuri Gagarin — the rst man to leave the Earth’s atmosphere — was simply the rst man to survive leaving the Earth’s atmosphere. It’s said that the Soviet Union shot a number o unlucky “lost cosmonauts” up into the void, never to return.
WH AT HA PPENS IF YO U TAK E THE SUIT OFF? Surprisingly, you don’t need a spacesuit to go into space. The crew on early Russian fights wore sportswear inside their capsules. Even i you leave the ship, you don’t immediately explode or reeze to death: In space you’re surrounded by a vacuum, so you’ll get cold in the shade and warm in the light. Then your blood starts to boil.
WH O OW NS TH E MOON ? It’s rst come, rst served. “I your company reaches the moon and begins mining, you’d have dominion over the land you’ve settled,” says Bigelow Aerospace’s Mike Gold. Golden Spike’s Bobby Block thinks this could be problematic: “Will it be like the Antarctic, where you’ve got treaties stating which countries own which bits?”
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QUESTION 6
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BLAST THE F**K OFF?
F O ) D . Y 0 A S 6 E E 3 D T X R G O U N I B O Y X C F I R E R O G R F U E F W I T O R E T N H N T T E U D C N ( I O Q I H E T E E M B N A I S G Q Y 3 U O E T G C P I E A P R H S T T
“Like going over Niagra Falls in a faming barrel,” is how one astronaut described taking o in a rocket. We sent FHM space cadet Dan Masoliver to the QinetiQ Human Centriuge in Farnborough to nd out how 4Gs eels (the level that astronauts leaving Earth on a low-orbital spacecrat experience). Between 2-3Gs, Masoliver • experienced “grey-out” — there’s a loss o colour and peripheral vision. From 3Gs, the heart has to start • beating extraordinarily ast and hard as all the blood in the body is pulled towards the eet. At 4Gs, Masoliver’s eyesight • ailed entirely. At 5Gs, most people experience • G-LOC (G-orce loss o consciousness aka passing out). At 9Gs, his weight would go • rom 80kg to 720kg. At 16Gs, vibrations begin • rupturing organs.
QUESTION 7
I WEARING TO SPACE? Super hi-tech space clobber that’s also ready to wear down here on planet Earth. The Omega Speedmaster Proessional (right), worn by Buzz Aldrin over his space suit in 1967, was the rst (and only) watch to ever go to the moon. It was chosen by Nasa owing to its toughness. Price: $5,300
The shirt has a lab-tested antimicrobial coating so you don’t have to worry about BO pong.
Nasa Phase-Change material, which absorbs heat from your body and then releases it when your core temperature drops.
Dreamed up by a bunch o MIT graduates called the Ministry o Supply, the Apollo Shirt is crammed to the cus with genuine spacesuit technology. Price: $135
Fabric woven from thermoset yarns, making it entirely wrin kle-free.
TO INFINITY... M O C . S S E R D Y C N A F F O Y S E T R U O C T E M L E H
This is not some bloke rom a Toy Story convention. It is, in act, the prototype o Nasa’s next spacesuit, the Z-1. Designed or uture missions to the moon and Mars, the Z-1 is more mobile, easier to get into and more stylish than anything that’s come beore. The act that nextgeneration astronauts will be foating around the cosmos dressed as Buzz Lightyear is pretty cool, actually.
Waterresistant up to 50m.
Rhodium-plated stainlesssteel strap.
Shatterproof Hesalite crystal face.
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QUESTION 8
We got hold of a load of space snacks and conducted a blind taste test.
WHAT’S ON THE MENU? VAN IL LA AN D
NEAPOLITAN ICE
CHOCOLATE SANDWICH
“Incredibly hard and powdery. Like Chuck Norris in drag.”
MINT AND
VAC UU M- PAC KE D
CREAM
CHOCOLATE-
GRANOLA
“Does taste like Neapolitan ice cream. Becomes gungy. You’ll need a space toothpick.”
CHIP ICE CREAM
There are no ridges in space, so astronaut ood has to be totally dehydrated and sealed in vacuum-packed bags to stop bacteria rom developing.
STRAWBERRIES
PEACHES
“These are good! Strawberries with the natural sugar taken out and replaced with normal sugar.”
“Like someone spilt tinned peaches over a cardboard box. And you eat the cardboard box.”
“A winner. Smooth and not too sweet.”
AP PL E WE DG ES
“Tastes like warm apple pie. But eels like dry, crusty bread.”
QUESTION 9
CAPTAIN? he short answer: Yes! But you might want to hold re on purchasing that Starfeet Command tunic or the moment. You’ve got some hard work to do beore anyone’s going to let you behind the controls o anything as cool as a spacecrat. “In the uture, captains o orbital spacecrats will be ex-airline pilots or test pilots who have a degree in astronautics or space engineering,” says veteran European Space Agency astronaut Jean-François Clervoy. “I you have a problem hundreds o thousands o miles rom Earth, you need to know how to x it. Mis-controlling the uel in an airplane is not that dramatic a problem. In a spaceship, i you mis-timed a rocket-engine boost or injection into orbit, you'd leave the planet on a trajectory that meant you'd never return to Earth. Doomed.” So what would an FHM reader have to do to be in with a chance o one day having “Space Captain” on their CV? 076
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“The most important thing is they can demonstrate that, rom an early age, they were keen on fying and being in the air. They should enrol in test-pilot school and get around 2,000 hours o fight time under their belt, operating high-perormance aircrat.” The good news is once you’ve got your pilot’s licence, spent enough air time and graduated with a degree in something space science-y, you’ll be on a good salary rom the moment you don your captain’s hat. “Basic pay will be around $190,000 a year,” says Cervoy, “and that will rise to $380,000, depending on how oten you fy.”
SPACE CAPTAIN’S FUTURE INCOME
I C S U D E Y B D E I L P P U S D ) O K O U . F O E C . C D A P O S O F D T E U T A A N R D O Y R T H S E A D (
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QUESTION 10
WHAT DOES ZERO-G ACTUALLY FEEL LIKE?
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ike every man born since the rst space shuttle launched rom Cape Canaveral in the ’60s, FHM staer Dan Masoliver has oten stared into the night sky and dreamed o ollowing in the gravity-deying ootsteps o his astronaut heroes. We sent him to Florida, courtesy o Lynx Space Academy, to board a parabolic plane and experience rsthand the weightlessness o space. “As I lie ace down on the carpeted foor o a tiny twin-engine plane, several thousand eet over the Gul o Mexico, the pilot pushes orward on his stick and sends us plummeting towards the open ocean below in a sharp nosedive. Suddenly, this seems more like the worst nightmare o anyone with a phobia o fying than my childhood dream o foating among the stars. “This is the rst stomach-churning stage o the aerobatic manoeuvre known as a parabola — used by Nasa and more recently a handul o commercial companies
oering zero-gravity experiences — to re-create conditions elt by astronauts as they leave the atmosphere and break ree rom Earth’s gravitational pull. “As the pilot pulls back on his controls, we enter phase two o the parabola, a steep 45-degree climb. At 1.8Gs o gravity, my body is almost twice as heavy as on ground level, orcing me to eat carpet, in the worst possible sense. Then it happens. As we level out o our climb, rst my hands, then my shoulders, then suddenly my entire body is pulled up, and I start alling. Upwards. “Jean-François Clervoy, a French astronaut with 675 hours in space under his belt, told FHM
“CLOSE YOUR EYES AND YOU FEEL AS IF YOU ARE A SPIRIT.”
that with zero-G ‘you fy even more reely than the birds in the air or the sh swim in the sea’ — and or a combined total o three minutes, I know exactly what he means. With no resistance against your weightless limbs, you can somersault, air-swim or just foat. Even within the cramped cabin o the small plane, the reedom is like no eeling on Earth. “Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have to live in zero-gravity conditions or months on end. To the earthbound, that seems like a brilliantly ree existence, though the truth is that almost everything is harder in zero G. Food fies out o its containers and splatters on the walls. A restul night’s sleep can only be achieved by strapping yoursel down (or else foating o and hitting your head). And using the loo can be, well, a messy experience. “Despite this, astronauts like Cer voy wouldn’t change it or the world. ‘When you’re in space, looking out at the stars, you cannot eel your body’s weight,’ he says. ‘I you close your eyes, you eel as i you are just a spirit — nothing but a weightless mind.’” FHM 06/13
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Billboard Meet the red-hot redhead from Britain’s favourite ads (and every
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Cardigan, by New Look. Knickers, by Primark.
Beauty lad’s sexy dreams).
Words: Chris Sayer Photography: Zoe McConnell Styling: Kylie Grifths
Hair & makeup: Natacha S, using M.A.C.
Vest, by American Apparel. Knickers, Knickers, by DKNY.
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ince posing or FHM UK’s Halloween special two years back (it was her frst-ever shoot), 26-yearold Daisy Pettinger has taken the modelling world by storm. Just last year, Britain saw her seductively sipping on a bottle o Coke Zero and managing to make a bowl o Kellogg’s Special K look trouserrubbingly exciting. Our UK counterparts even conessed that they’d have her in their mag every single month i they could. In act, east your eyes on these pictures and give them one good reason not to.
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“You’ll pro bably “You’ll find it easier to recognise me with my clothes off. off.” ”
DAISY PETTINGE R
You’re everywh everywhere ere in the UK right now. What’s your latest steamy advert?
some crazy s**t; s**t ; they are absolutely mental over there.
date would be brunch; that’s the best meal o the day.
My last shoot was or an Ann Summers (lingerie and sex toys retailer) Christmas commercial, but you don’t see my ace. Just my bod. I do a lot o lingerie and swimwear jobs. You’ll probably fnd it easier to recognise me with my clothes o.
What was the weirdest thing you had to do?
What kind of men would you like to have brunch with?
One o my frst Japanese adverts was or a breast pump. I was 17 and was given this newborn child, which I then had to hold, topless — I had nothing on. The agency also liked the models to have super-pale skin, so every morning they’d rub loads o sun cream on us, to make sure we wouldn’t get any kind o tan.
Men that aren’t wankers.
What did the ad involve?
It’s really embarrassing. Basically, I had to have a sexy romp with a male model in my underwear. Don’t tell my mum! Actually, she knows… but my dad doesn’t. Do you have any tattoos that might help us recognise you?
Only on my oot, but I don’t think people will be concentrating on the eet. How long have you been modelling?
I’ve been doing it or 10 years, since I was 16. I went to Japan when I was 17 to model. I did
Bizarre. Are you a fan of the model lifestyle then?
No way. I’m proper down-to-earth, I don’t like the whole model scene. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate nice things, but I love a pizza voucher. I just think, why not? Dough balls and a pizza or $15 — who can say no to that? And I love a pint or a cup o tea. A really good
High standards indeed. What’s a real turn off?
Probably a guy who can’t grow a beard. I like a beard. I don’t get the whole One Direction thing at all. What’s the world coming to? They’re children, and people are just going mad over them. I like men. I also like a guy who can laugh at himsel. I meet a lot o male models and they take themselves way too seriously; they’re way worse than the girls. They’re so vain and all they do is talk about gym. Get over yoursel! It’s a shame that they are so pretty, but on the whole they’re just a bit vacuous.
Bodysuit, by American Apparel.
“I’m down-to -eart h, I d on’t like the whole model scene. I love a pint or a cuppa.”
But surely you spend as much time in the gym as they do, no?
Not really, I’m not very sporty. I do a lot o yoga and Pilates, basically because they’re easier. I get a bit reaked out by the gym. I walked a marathon recently. You can say I “did” a marathon, though, i you want. That would sound better and it’s not technically a lie. It was dicult, I’m still in pain rom it. I t took us eight hours, and we were pacing it. We were dying by the end. I really don’t know how people run that. So where do your talents lie?
You know that game where you have a cereal box and you have to bend down and pick it up without bending your knees and without using your hands? I’m **king ace at that game, I’m also very good at the limbo, very good actually. I’m very fexible.
What would be the best way or a man to nd out how fexible you are?
I can’t stand pathetic men. This summer, one guy tried to ask me out. He was lovely but boring as hell. He sent me a message saying, “Um, hi, Daisy, um, would it be okay i, possibly, maybe, I could take you out or dinner, maybe?” No way. You want a man to say, “I’m picking you up at 8 o’clock.” You need some condence. I need someone who’s as bossy as I am. So who would be your perect man?
Jenson Button — I have a small obsession with him. He’s my avourite Formula 1 driver. Though I predict that Sebastian Vettel will win next year again — he seems pretty unstoppable. FHM
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LIVE YOUR LIFE
WRESTLING WAY FHM LEARNS FROM WWE LEGEND “STONE COLD”
STEVE AUSTIN HOW FAR RAISING THE MIDDLE FINGER CAN GET YOU. Words: Oliver Stallwood
In a world ruled by gargantuan men in multicoloured jockstraps paid to knock seven shades o crap out o each other with fsts, steel chairs and tables, it can be tricky getting noticed. For a manual labourer rom Victoria, Texas, named Steven James Anderson, trying to crack his way into the World Wrestling Federation, there were only two options to consider. He could (a) try to ft in with the world’s best, fnd a nut-hugging sequinned suit, get a one-syllable name like “Rock” or “Hulk”, sit tight and wait or the big bucks to roll in. Or (b) drink a lot o beer, act so redneck that he’d get turned away rom a Dukes of Hazzard convention and swear at everyone who could possibly give him a break in the industry. No prizes or guessing which route seemed more appealing. Blond locks would never work, so the 25-year-old Texan workhorse chose to soak himsel with beer, swear like a rum-addled pirate, clad himsel in leather and denim and put his aith in route (b). By 1995, the Stone Cold
Steve Austin who is now known and loved around the globe by generations o ans, a true WWE phenomenon, had arrived: A blue-collar anti-hero you’d expect to fnd throwing someone through a truck-stop window.
THE $56 MILLION REDNECK “I helped a little old lady cross the street just yesterday,” Steve Austin tells us as he sits in his LA home, nursing a knee injury. “I don’t think I’ve done enough good deeds lately.” The image o a 48-year-old, 1.88m bald ormer WWE Champion, WCW Tag Team Champ, WWE Hall o Famer, sharer o the silver screen with Sly Stallone and Dolph Lundgren in The Expendables and the only man to walk away rom middle-fngering Mike Tyson’s ace, bent down and holding hands with someone’s grandma just doesn’t register. “Sure, in wrestling I’m the baddest man on the planet. But Steve Austin away rom WWE is a dierent animal. The elements are still there, but the volume’s turned down rom 10 to one.”
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redneck on Earth. In 1998 alone, Stone Cold shited $22m worth o merchandised T-shirts that he personally had a hand in designing. Not bad or a persona that was once regarded as “unmarketable” by ormer World Championship Wrestling (WCW) vice-president Eric Bischo (a remark that apparently led to his sacking). So where does his multi-million-dollar appeal come rom? “Stone Cold was hell-bent on getting to the top,” Austin says. “He did exactly what he wanted to do, how he wanted to do it. That was a break rom what everyone else was doing, and people appreciated that. People didn’t think that Stone Cold was a good role model, but they were entertained by his character.”
MARKETING THE MIDDLE FINGER Every man needs a trademark. And Stone Cold Steve Austin’s middle nger has met the ends o noses belonging to opponents (including the aorementioned Mike Tyson), crowds and gures o authority over and over, not only as a threat, but as a statement o intent to reach the top o his game without anyone holding him back. But once you’re past the public image, perceptions change. “I wouldn’t be anywhere near as ruthless as Stone Cold,” he says. “Nonetheless, i you’re going to fip burgers in McDonald’s, I think you should go out there and be the best burgerfipper you can be. My personal goal has always been to be the best I can be.” Even with those intentions, chucking **k you’s about will eventually spark conrontation. He’s been at loggerheads with numerous people during his career, most recently reportedly calling wrestling veteran Hulk Hogan a chump and being accused o criticising younger wrestlers — both o which he says were taken out o context. “Hal the stu I say is tongue-in-cheek,” he assures FHM . “People take it word or word and that’s the thing that disturbs me about people reading into what I say. I mind my own business, try my best to live with the people I choose to surround mysel with. No a**holes are ever allowed.” The reality is this: Here is a guy who once had very little to show or himsel, bar a ew cans in the boozer, and has dragged himsel up to be one o the world’s most recognisable aces, with a little help rom a beer can here and there and a middle nger to naysayers.
SMACKDOWNS TO SPELLING BEES For a man who has made his name by pummelling opponents in ront o millions and has a fourishing acting career, another
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unexpected thing you’ll learn about Steve Austin is that he’s a “very private individual”. Even when he’s staying in LA, the big man tries to avoid contact with too many people. “What annoys me is that everyone is on their damn phone these days. It’s all people seem to do. I’d rather be in wide-open spaces than crammed on top o those people in the city.” And you don’t get much more dierent rom the hubbub o LA than Broken Skull Ranch, Steve’s 2,000-acre home near Tilden, M cMullen County, Texas. It was the place he’d always dreamed o, even when he was making a living on a orklit beore wrestling skyrocketed him to superstardom. And the name? “Hey, I had to break my skull in the ring to buy the place,” he justifes. The ranch is where Austin continues his passion or hunting. He’s been shooting and stalking since he was eight, and now has around 40 guns to his name. But shooting isn’t his only pastime he indulges in on his man ranch. Prepare or the fnal Stone Cold Steve Austin surprise… “I relax by watching spelling bees,” he tells us, without even a hesitation to suggest the image o him kicking back in ront o a televised children’s spelling competition is even a little peculiar. “I’m a good speller, but these kids, I couldn’t spell three-quarters o though. That’s or damn sure.”
The
Top: On the quad bike he uses to chase opponents. Above left: With The Expendables co-star Dolph Lundgren. Above right: In the 2012 action flm, The Package .
MAKIN’ AN ENTRANCE Prior to slapping someone’s face off, Austin has some of the most colourful entrances in the business. Here are some of our favourites:
The Ice Breaker
Concrete Evidence
The Cold One
Dropping In
Easy as ATV
The Texas Rattlesnake opted to drive a Zamboni — an ice resuracer — into the ring in September 1998. He then dished out a clothesline and then got nicked by the cops.
It seems 1998 was a vintage year or reaking out in vehicles. Next up, he chose to drive a cement mixer up to WWE owner Vince McMahon’s Corvette and fll it with the grey stu.
Perhaps one o Stone Cold’s most amous moments. In 1999, he drove a beer truck into the arena and hosed down rival The Rock.
In 2000, Austin completely lost it. He acquired a crane, dropped a block through then-WWE champion Triple H’s bus and towed it into the arena with his pick-up.
At WrestleMania XXVII, Stone Cold used his trusty ATV — or quad bike — to chase his opponents in a kind o Mad Max version o Mr Bean.
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The elder statesman o dancemusic ests, Creamfelds has been running since 1998, so knows how to throw down. Now it runs over three days, giving you more time to immerse yoursel in the bleeping, pounding madness with the fnest
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and Paul Oakenold. From $200, creamfelds.com, 23-25 August. You want to... GO NATIVE ON AN ISLAND IN HUNGARY Then go to... SZIGET FESTIVAL
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estival has been dubbed “paradise city”. This year, Boys Noize, Hadouken! and
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It’s not all rave, rave, rave on the White Island, thanks to Ibiza Rocks. The parties, accommodation and ights are all bundled too, making it proper easy to arrange yoursel a lost week o guitar-based excess. Jake Bugg plays the opening on 5 June, while Foals winds it up on 18 September. From $335, ibizarocks.com 5 June-18 September. You want to... LIVE IT UP IN LA Then go to... FYF FEST
In September, the LA State Historic Park in downtown LA oers itsel up to the hipsters or a weekend o superb comedy and music. Think blazing-hot indie girls in super-trendy specs wigging out to angular guitar noise and electro-pop. Sweet. From $110, yest.com, 1-2 September. You want to... GET YOUR FANCY DRESS ON Then go to... BESTIVAL
Bestival is almost as well known or its ancy-dress theme as it is or its music (this year it’s sailor attire all round), but its hugely varied line-up is still the ocus. This year, Elton John, Snoop Dogg, MIA and The Flaming Lips are all heading or the very beautiul Isle o Wight. From $345, bestival.net, 5-8 September. You want to... ROCK OUT LIKE YOU’RE IN EUROPE Then go to... SUMMER SONIC 2013
Held concurrently in Tokyo and Osaka, this two-day, two-venue aair eatures acts who will jet between the two cities. Rock behemoths Metallica and Muse headline on separate days, with perormances by other arena-flling acts, including Linkin Park, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Roses and Pet Shop Boys. I you want to experience a real estival vibe (Laneway doesn’t count) without travelling halway round the world, Summer Sonic’s it. From $165, summersonic.com, 10-11 August. 06/13
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Game on, sucker!
Test Your Gaming Expertise
Try to work out which of the powers below are in-game real ’uns and which are the ones we’ve hilariously made up… A. Murder of Crows Hatch a nest of crows onto your unsuspecting victim, and watch them peck your enemy to death. B. Bucking Bronco Go all Darth Vader on your baddie’s a**e by raising them into the air without touching them, shaking them about and then battering them to death.
Bioshock is back, and even beore a
controller button has been bashed, it’s sat atop many a gaming must-buy list or 2013. In this third instalment, main-man Booker DeWitt, an agent with a dodgy past, is called to rescue a damsel in distress rom Columbia, a city in the sky. But, as usual, in this massive ranchise, he’s not only armed with bullets, but a number o weird powers to turn his living enemies into very dead enemies. Bioshock Infnite is out now. 090
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C. Ape S**t Grow one really long, hairy arm and magic up a suspicious, sticky brown mess, then ing it into evil eyes to blind them before killing them. D. Shock Jockey Fire a bit of electricity out of your palms at your enemy to shock them into paralysis. E. Psy-Sarean A toot of your magic ute summons a small Korean pop star inside your baddie, who disables them by dancing out of their stomach. ANSWERS: y . r r o S . p u e d a m e r a E d n a C
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Comedown Machine A milder Strokes on its fth album.
This saccharine-sweet Eurasian singer is making waves in the Mando-pop community. Allow us to introduce her to you.
Since young, I have always loved listening to Mandarin songs. They have the ability to
evoke emotions within me, even making me cry sometimes without ully understanding the lyrics. I love the melodies and when I started to understand the lyrics more, I realised how hauntingly beautiul the metaphors were. I’m ascinated by the Mandarin idioms and only hope that I can write such deep lyrics one day.
I love acting but singing and songwriting will always be my frst love. Singing is very
and “ming tian” (“tomorrow” in Mandarin). It means no matter how your day was today, there’s always tomorrow. Tomorrow is a new day and a chance to start aresh. I want people to always look on the bright side and be happy.
personal; it’s all me — my eelings, my story. I listen to every type o music. Have a peek into my iTunes and you will fnd music rom Slipknot to Britney Spears to acoustic olk — and even classical pieces and movie scores. I’m an absolute mess but I love it all. I love alternative rock most, though. It will always be my go-to genre.
I started intensive Mandarin lessons only last year, although I did dabble in a bit o
I have absolutely no idea that I have more “likes” on Facebook than FHM , but
Mandarin singing when I was 14. I remember singing a Jolin Tsai song at Teenage Icon, a singing competition that I went on to win. At that time, I was told that sticking to English music might be my best bet.
I’m so happy that I’m able to share my music with more people. It’s amazing. And I love talking to my ans so… More riends!
There is no set process to songwriting.
pretty un! And Lord Coe, too, when Britain got to host the Olympics in Singapore.
My debut Mandarin album is entitled Ming Tian/Ming Day , a play on words with my name
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there are some lyrics that I had to use Google Translator to fnd out how to say what I really wanted to say! I’d love to speak and sing in Malay. My mum speaks Malay and fve other languages. No pressure but once I master Mandarin, I’d have a go at Malay. I did sing Chan Mali Chan once in an Ivan Heng production.
It just happens and each time it gets penned a dierent way. As my Mandarin still isn’t that good, I was ortunate to have (lyricist) Xiao Han’s help. I hope one day my Mandarin will be good enough to sel-produce all my songs. I’m not going to lie;
I’ve sung and belly-danced in ront o David and Victoria Beckham. That was
I you’ve been a long-time Strokes an and have listened to its latest release, you’re probably wondering what on earth happened. While not a complete radical departure rom its signature garage-rock identity, the overall sound o the band’s newest eort is a lot cleaner and less likely to strike a nerve. Another puzzling aspect is the creative decision to swap lead singer Julian Casablancas’ distinctly cool “I really don’t give a toss” vocals or a whiny indie-driven alsetto — especially noticeable on One Way Trigger and Chances . There’s a time and place or everything; maybe that place really isn’t on a Strokes album. That said, Comedown Machine does have redeeming qualities. The defning elements that made The Strokes so special in its early years are still evident: Reverberating drums, choppy guitar ris spinning in wild circles and bass lines that work its way into your brain, staying or days. Tracks like Welcome to Japan and 50/50 do exactly that; Playing up the moodier vibes and garage-rock grit — and this is where The Strokes shine. The trick to Comedown Machine is not to go in with preconceived notions about the band. Because it’s not that it’s suddenly making bad music, it’s just not the type o music long-time ans are used to. I you can drop the o The Strokes to identiy with.
Ming Tian/Ming Day is out now.
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06.13 a dierent language. I can’t tell you what they are, though. Otherwise, people would know what language I talk to my dog in. Have you ever successfully stared somebody out?
Yeah, we used to play that game when I was little. I was good at it, but I’m sure I lost a couple o times, too. Have you ever worn a trilby?
Air Force One
Yeah, I think I’ve worn one beore. It might have been or a video or a photo shoot or something. Those are some pimp hats, d’yall not think so?
“I’m very proud of my manhood. There’s no reason to trash that!” Have you ever taken a girl on a date using a discount code or voucher code?
I think I’ve used git vouchers or the movies or some s**t on a date. That would have been a long time ago, though. Have you ever thrown a punch and missed?
O course! First time I threw a punch when I was boxing, I missed completely. I got trained up by Floyd Mayweather’s amily, though, so it didn’t stay that way or long. Have you ever followed through on a particularly exuberant fart?
Oh, or sure. That’s defnitely happened. Not recently, though — back when I was younger. Have you ever made growling noises at yourself in the mirror?
[Laughs ] When I was a little kid trying to be The Hulk or some s**t like that, perhaps. How do you behave at barbecues?
You could defnitely say that I party and go hard. Anyone that’s been to one o mine will tell you I throw a great barbecue. Have you ever let a girl put makeup on you?
The American rapper and Fast & Furious 6 actor has the swagger, but will it be enough to get him through these 14 questions?
F**k, no! That’s one o the things that I don’t do. We do movies, so we have a makeup artist to do certain s**t, but I’ve never let them put makeup on me. Not even or music videos. Have you ever killed anything and then eaten it?
Er, no I’ve not. Apart rom a fsh. That would be the only the thing. Have you ever had a really manly nickname?
What is the biggest thing you’ve ever set fire to?
Probably a big blunt in Amsterdam; it was in my Blueberry Yum Yum video. Long story short, it was six regular blunts put together, making one huge-ass blunt. Do you own any coloured jeans?
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thrown all-white parties beore. As a matter o act, I just did one or LudaDay Weekend [ a day in Atlanta named ater him ]. It’s one o those things where white is a representation o being so resh and so damn clean. Have you ever spent a significant amount of time talking to an animal?
I have a black Belgian malinois, which is in the German shepherd amily, and I talk to him a lot. He’s very well trained. All o his commands are in
I used to be in a group called the Loudmouth Hooligans with our riends when I was in high school. That’s the closest I’ve got to a nickname. Have you ever put your penis through your legs and pretended to be a girl?
[Laughs ] No, but I’ve heard about people doing that s**t. I’m very proud o my manhood. There’s no reason to trash that! Look out or Ludacris’ new album Ludaversal later this year. You can also catch him in man fick, Fast & Furious 6.
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She’s fast and she’s furious.
A decade on, the Fast & Furious franchise is still going strong. Do you have a cult fan base among street-racers?
Yes, or sure. But I don’t think it’s so much “cult” at this point; it’s more pop culture. It started PG and is still PG. “Cult” would have been more like a Rob Rodriguez flm, or more like Resident Evil — the darker stu where you get to see naked people and boobies. What’s new in the latest sequel, Fast & Furious 6 (FF6 )?
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I think it wanted to go more or the big “wow!” actor, like “How much s**t can we possibly destroy?” or “What’s the craziest s**t we could possibly do with our location?” And I believe it accomplished that really well. Do movies these days demand bigger action scenes?
That is what happens when people don’t understand what storytelling is about. When the writer doesn’t understand that, he starts to explore
explosions and s**t to blow up, and “What can we do that hasn’t been done beore?” That’s what people do when they don’t have the creativity to understand heart in a story. I am looking at it rom another perspective, o listening to stories, reading stories, being intrigued by mythology and so on. I have worked in the action movie world or the last 13 years and that’s my world so I can tell exactly when somebody is running out o ideas.
“More girls should be fighting. We’d probably get along better.”
Who’s the toughest?
You see how big she is? I stand in ront o her and I’m like, “I should drink some protein, dude!”
What can you tell us about your fight scenes in FF6 ?
Oh, man, I swim in that stu. I’ve been doing this or way too long. It doesn’t aze me anymore. Vin [Diesel ] is a pussycat with me. He is a sweetheart. And so is Dwayne [Johnson]. He is really cool. I’d like to hang out with him more. I don’t have enough scenes with him. I grew up watching WWE and The Rock. That’s my world so whenever I see him, it’s surreal. Not many people impress me because I was a physical kid when I was younger. But I actually eel Dwayne’s muscles every time I see him. It is true. They are like rocks.
It’s important that a director is able to be calm. Justin has to play the mediator, to make everybody happy enough with the story because you get this ear that you are going to lose the heart, the integrity, and it is just going to be a bunch o explosions. And I don’t want to be a part o that, because I have been in this business so long. I don’t want to make the movie without any heart. So Justin is good at bringing us all together and making us believe in what we are doing.
I trained or about a month-and-ahal or the fght with Gina [ Carano, MMA fghter ]. More girls should be fghting. We’d probably get along a lot better and stop sneaking behind each other’s backs and talking smack while smiling in one another’s aces. I we were a little more physical about it, we’d respect each other a lot more and men wouldn’t take over the way that they have! I had to train pretty damn hard just to make it look credible. I mean it’s Gina and she’s pretty hardcore.
How do you deal with the testosterone level on the set?
In a street sense, I’d say Vin. In the training sense, in a capacity sense, I’d say Dwayne because he has been wrestling or so long and he trains every day. Why has director Justin Lin been so good for this franchise?
You sound like your character. How much of Letty is in you?
Well, she’s more LA-Mexican. I am more the New York-Jersey type; I am more Sopranos , baby! Fast & Furious 6 opens 23 May. 06/13
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Watchable Five Kua si me?!?
Here’s a bunch of movies recently released on discs to bring your through those mundane nights. The Master
A near-masterpiece by director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood ). Inspired by Scientology ounder L Ron Hubbard, it's about a war vet who alls or the charisma and ideology o a leader o a religious movement. Did You Know? The score is penned by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.
Rise of the Guardians
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Bruce Campbell’s Finest Monster-slaying cult hero and producer of the new Evil Dead , discusses his ultimate horror-survival dream team.
Even guys need a cartoon break. How about a Avengers like kiddie tale where household antasy fgures such as Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Sandman and Jack Frost join fsts to beat the s**t out o the Bogeyman? Yeah! Did You Know? The animation is Peter Ramsey’s directorial debut or a flm.
Life of Pi
See how a tiger, a teenager and a server ull o digital eects bagged Ang Lee an Oscar or best director. Did You Know? A storm scene won it an MTV Movie Award or Best Scared-As-S**t Perormance, beating Texas Chainsaw 3D and Zero Dark Thirty . No s**t.
Killing Them Softly
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David Beckham
“He’s defnitely the pretty boy that goes frst, but he’s athletic and a useul tool. He’s nice on the eyes or the ladies, but I’d kill him o in the frst 10 minutes. A good frst victim.”
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Prince Harry
“Harry’s got some great chopperpilot skills. He seems like a good guy, too. He likes to party, so he can raise our spirits. And the chicks like him, so he’d be very popular.”
Jennifer Lawrence
“You need at least one hot babe. Jennier Lawrence came out o nowhere, but she seems pretty interesting. She’s tough as well.”
Bill Belichick
Brad Pitt
“He’s the New England Patriots ootball coach, so he’d help work out a strategy i we were stuck in a cabin. He’s not ripped, he can’t fght, but I’d need his mind to help us survive until the end.”
“I’d need a Fight Club -era Pitt — he was hot s**t then. I’d kill him o ater Beckham. Your audience will think he’ll be around till the end, then — BAM! — he’s dead, it’s just Campbell and the chick let.”
A neo-noir crime thriller based on novel Cogan’s Trade . Not Brad Pitt’s best work but it’ll make his new World War Z look like The Silence of the Lambs . Did You Know? The shotgun used by Pitt, Mossberg 500 “Cruiser”, has also been eatured in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.
Back to 1942
Directed by Feng Xiaogang, who made FHM weep with his 2010 earthquake epic Aftershock , Back to 1942 is another catastrophe drama about a major amine in China. Did You Know? The Mainland flm co-stars Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody.
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Righteous Journeys Everyone has to take one at some point in their lives. The Daylight Gate Jeanette Winterson
Following a ailed assassination on him, King James “cleanses” his kingdom by outlawing witchcrat, alchemy and Catholicism. Blending history with fction, the novel walks us through the witch trials o 1612 and promises to be devious.
George Anderson: Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time Peter Dimock
A tiny yet a “heavy” read. We get little traces o the author’s personality and ideals through the narration o protagonist, ghostwriter Theo Fales, who earns a living whitewashing the transgressions o ormer generals and CIA operatives.
Books That Smell and Notes from Prison Sonallah Ibrahim
and Hen Weekend Double the read, double the fun.
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As the title may suggest, this book could be misconstrued as a story about weekends with animals. In a way it is, since we all exhibit our wildest side on stag ’dos. What’s novel about this novel, however, is it eatures two ipside covers and two stories, representing both bride- and groom-to-be. The hook: You can start reading rom either side. We suggest reading both
ends simultaneously so you get a simultaneous climax. But, hey, that’s just us. Despite the double perspectives, author Mike Gayle manages to spin a simple yet charming book without repetition on each tale, plus he manages to squeeze in a suspenseul climax. For those about to make lie’s biggest decision — where and what to do or your stag ’do, that is — watch The Hangover trilogy. Or read this book.
Banned in 1966 or its politically damning portrayal o Egypt, That Smell takes us through the imprisonment years o a political dissident. Nearly 50 years on, the writings are translated and coupled with notes written on cigarette paper and smuggled out o jail upon the author’s release.
My Beautiful Bus Jacques Jouet
The author lets us in on his encounters during a cross-country bus ride in France. Jacques ignored scenery and visual stimulation in pursuit o the stories and people he met. A perect read or a long journey — especially when the MRT breaks down. 06/13
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ICE HOCKEY It's more than just a bunch of guys in an ice rink they sometimes trade blows, too. Ice hockey is a high-level, hardhitting sport and it's the pride of Canada. —
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anada is known or many things but mainly maple syrup, (like it or not ) Justin Bieber and ice hockey. It is also known or its graciousness, but one wrong word about their hockey team and Canadians would throw down their stick, lose the gloves and beat the reason into you (basically, they’d hit you and then apologise). Bearing that in mind, FHM treaded cautiously into the studio or the photo with the players rom Kreuz Subsea Sharks only to be surrounded by some o the riendliest sportsmen around.
What teams do you guys play for? Josh McNair: We were thrown together to orm the team Kreuz Subsea Sharks, as part o Singapore Invitational Ice Hockey Tournament. We're rom all over the place and play at dierent levels. For example, Todd Warriner is a ormer National Hockey League (NHL) player. Todd Warriner: Yeah, I used to play in the NHL until 2003. I’ve played or Tampa Bay Lightning, Toronto Maple Leas and Vancouver Canucks, just to name a ew. Most o these guys have played tier-two hockey or college hockey back home, so it's a pretty high level. Plus, they're a lot younger than me! Is ice hockey Canada's leading sport? All: For sure! 100 per cent. Evan Haga: Every Canadian boy dreams to play at the NHL. TW: I you turn on the TV, you're going to fnd hockey somewhere on it; it's really everywhere. How did you guys get into ice hockey? JM: My uncle played in the NHL, so, naturally, my brother and I were put into it. TW: I started playing on the pond just like these guys. I grew up watching the [Toronto Maple ] Leas and got a chance to play there. My mum was a pro fgureskater and my dad played senior hockey, so I got on the ice a lot at a young age and moved up through the ranks beore being drated into the NHL. JM: It's a cultural thing; people just get going at ice hockey. Some stick with it longer and go to the
"Hockey is my life; it's in my blood and will always be." Todd Warriner —
"Ice hockey can be summed up in three simple words: Wheel, snipe and celly." Evan Haga —
NHL; others play juniors, get scholarships, then go to college. Adam Hercules: When I was young, I had a hockey stick and loved it. Growing up, I had a lot o buddies to play with, too. Mark McKitrick: I was the frst guy in my amily to play hockey. It was completely new to them, but it's a good sport. How seriously do kids in Canada take ice hockey? JM: Very seriously. Unlike basketball or soccer, you can't just pick up the game as and when you like. The gear is really expensive and your parents have to take you to the rink every morning (practice starts at 6.30am) and to school ater that. You'll also have games ater school. On weekends, you'll be out o town or tournaments. It's crazy.
"Ice hockey is a way of life until you can fill that void with another passion, which is often impossible." Josh McNair —
It's nothing or a 14-yearold boy to play 60 to 70 games in a six-month period. Kids now even play right through summer; they have special training centres where they get 24/7 hockey. It's very intense. What's the difference between field hockey and ice hockey? J: I've tried feld hockey and broke my wrist. I've never played it since. EH: It's dierent; you can only shoot one way because o the rounded club… JM: And the speed and hits are dierent. TW: You can go a lot aster in skates, too… EH: And ice hockey is or lazy people! You can glide. How often do fights break out? Chris Gelencser: It happens at every game! JM: But it usually ends ater the game is
over. We've all played with guys whom we've ought with and had a beer ater. For most parts, it's riendly and part o the sport. You fght on the ice, you become enemies on the ice, but ater the game, it doesn't get carried into the dressing room or parking lot. Very rarely does it escalates and carried on ater the game. Why do you fight? JM: Because the game is competitive and heated; there's a lot o physicality involved. You get a lot o hits and a lot o stick, so it's only natural to want to return the avour. Because it's part o the game, there are people on the team whose role is to fght. I you ever have a fnesse guy who’s a goal scorer, the fghter is there to protect him and make sure he doesn’t get hurt. What's the penalty for fighting? All: You're taken out o the game or fve minutes. After five minutes, you can get back in the game and fight again? TW: Yeah, but you only get about two more fghts and you’re out. Twenty-fve years
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"You wake up in the morning and have three things on your mind: Women, alcohol and hockey. They go hand in hand." Adam Hercules —
REGIME "Ice hockey has always been more to me then a sport. It changed my life and provided me with memories I will never forget." Chris Gelencser —
ICE HOCKEY 101 Things you need to know about the sport. ICE HOCKEY RINK The rink is segmented into three zones: Defensive, neutral and attacking. There are three lines (one red, two blue) to determine further rules, mainly "icing" and "offside".
CLOCK There are three periods, each lasting 20 minutes. The clock is stopped every time a stoppage occurs much like every other American sport. —
PLAYERS Each team consists of six players (two defenders, three forwards and one goaltender). You can make unlimited substitutions as long as the outgoing player is fi ve feet from the bench.
BODY CHECK ago, there used to be two or three fghts a game, but they’re cutting it down. There are less fghters and less fghting as the sport changes. How many bones have you broken from ice hockey? EH: Every bone in my hand. JM: I broke my wrists, back, hip, ankle, elbow, jaw, nose (fve times) and a couple o fngers. TW: My nose. My ligaments have taken a lot o bruising, too. Do you see Asians making an impact in the icehockey scene? JM: They need more time. EH: They also need more rinks, more acilities and more training. TW: Japan has always been competitive but Korea is maybe the next up-and-coming country. JM: It all comes down to development. Most kids’ coaches, or the most part, have played top-league hockey. And guys that have played regularly are teaching them. The kids are on the ice fve to six times a week. TW: Japan is in the second tier, just outside the top 10 teams in the league. So that’s not too bad.
It's legal to tackle an opposing player in possession of the puck using your torso, shoulders or hip. Anything else is illegal.
SCORING Ice hockey goals can be scored from anywhere on the ice.
MINOR PENALTIES
"People ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them'." Mark McKitrick —
When you do illegal things with a stick, like swinging it between someone's legs, you get sent to the sin bin for two m inutes. The penalty ceases if opponents score during the period of hi s sentence.
MAJOR PENALTIES Happens when a foul is deemed to be deliberately harmful. You get sent to the sin bin for five minutes. Players may get ejected at the referee's discretion, forcing a substitution. The incoming player has to then pay for his teammate's wayward ways.
EQUIPMENT Like mediaeval jousting, ice hockey players are decked in full regalia, from helmets to shoulder pads to shin pads. Goaltenders wear chest protectors made from Kevlar to absorb abuse.
ACHIEVE THE
IMPOSSIBLE Conquering the world's most remote locations isn't just for "other people" -- meet the ordinary blokes who took on planet Earth's harshest extremes And won! …
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PULSE I CLIMBED
EYES FROZE! 29-year-old personal trainer from Surrey, England, hadn't even been on a mountain at the start of 2011. But on 25 May 2012, he was updating his Facebook profile with a shot of him grinning from the 29,029ft summit of Mount Everest. Here's how he reached the top of the world. I needed a challenge to experience what’s out there, so I decided to get to the summit o
Everest in a year. I had never even climbed beore. Things like rowing the Atlantic had no appeal, but climbing Everest seemed incredible. I read books about Sir Edmund Hillary and modern climbers but I tried not to be inuenced by other people’s journeys. I wanted this to be as much my own story as possible. The hike through the Khumbu Valley o Nepal to Everest base camp is unbelievable. Walking through the most beautiul peaks in the world was quite spiritual. Trekking to base camp is a manageable and inspiring challenge in itsel. When you climb rom base camp, the most dangerous part is the Khumbu iceall, which is ull o crevasses and giant seracs [towers of ice ] that topple over. The western shoulder o Everest is vulnerable to avalanches. I had to travel through a
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Keleher at the summit of Everest. On the way down, his cornea froze and he spent 24 hours in bandages.
whiteout so I couldn’t see more than 10m ahead and kept hearing creaks and groans. It’s very reaky. A lot o people died on the mountain
this year and you had to walk past those bodies. I saw a Sherpa being rescued rom a crevasse ater alling o a ladder. It can be difcult emotionally. Summiting Everest actually involves a mix o head-down Himalayan slogs, ladders, ropes and climbs. It’s dierent to what people think. I never let base camp without Haribo sweets. They were an essential or every day. We set o or the summit at 8pm, and ater
8-9 hours o darkness, the sun rose. It was like pulling a page back slowly to see the whole world beneath you. You’re exhausted, dehydrated and hallucinating rom the lack o oxygen but the views were mesmerising. I unurled an Olympic fag on the summit,
but getting a photo in the wind wasn’t easy. Ater 10 minutes at the top you reocus: You’re only halway and you need to get down alive. On the descent my cornea roze and I had to spend 24 hours with bandages over my eyes. It
was a horrifc scratchy, stabbing eeling but it improved and I made it down. Looking back, climbing Everest doesn’t seem real; you eel like part o a special club. I’m now giving talks and am completely addicted to climbing. What I really wish I’d known beore going…
“You have to really want it and show your passion. I noticed the more enthusiasm you have, the more sponsors trust in you and the stronger you eel on the mountain.” dosummitgood.co.uk
PIMP UP YOUR SHERPA SKILLS
GET MOUNTAINS OF MUSCLE
BE YOUR OWN AGENT
YOUR PLAN B
Sadly, there isn’t a giant elevator with panpipe Rihanna music to whizz you up to the summit o Everest, so you’ll need to learn to climb. “I did all this in a year by going mountaineering in Chamonix and learning climbing skills in the Peak District or Swanage,” says Keleher, who used Dream Guides and Adventure Consultants or his Euro climbs, and Ice 8000 or Everest.
Training isn’t all about scaling mountains with a backpack ull o bricks. “I ocused on weight training, so I was as strong as possible because most people lose a stone o muscle on the expedition,” explains Keleher. Bulk up in the gym and you’ll prime your body or Everest and look good when you boast about it in the pub.
Climbing Everest isn’t cheap ($42,000$88,000) so get somebody else to pay or it. “I got a brochure made up, worked out costs and passed it on to businesses to gain sponsorship,” says Keleher. Sharpen up your Angel’s Gate pitches too: Keleher took up 100 watch dials, which will be converted into limited-edition Everest timepieces.
Try tackling a 17-day Base Camp trek with Exodus ($3,300, Exodus.co.uk) or conquering the Everest Marathon ($5,300, everest marathon.org. uk) so you can ogle Everest without losing fingertips, or wads of cash.
Cookson with all his life-saving kit and an ironing board.
TO THE SOUTH POLE AND GOT DRUNK! Henry Cookson, 37, from London, had worked as a banker and a builder, and hadn't even done a sponsored walk before tackling the poles. But with gritty determination (and morale-boosting games of "laxative roulette" with his polar pals), he has now conquered both the Arctic and Antarctica. I got into polar adventure by accident. I was
chaed, the unnier it got. We put rozen polar-bear s**t in a sleeping bag, which was unny until it thawed. Mentally, i you’re unhappy you’ll just stop. But laughing kept us strong. We then heard of the Pole of Inaccessibility (POI), which is at the
geographical centre o Antarctica. Nobody had been there since a 1958 Soviet Antarctic Expedition that used tracked snow-trains. They let a hut with a statue o Lenin so we organised an expedition with kite-skis to fnd it.
in between jobs and a stupid conversation with a The POI is much colder than the South riend got us talking about the North Pole. There Pole. It is at a higher altitude and urther rom was alcohol involved. The next day we thought, **k the warming ocean. The coldest temperature ever it, why not? recorded was minus 89.2 deg C at Vostok, 600 miles away. It is a lonely but spectacularly I didn’t even know which ends o the world penguins and polar bears lived. When we tried beautiul place. cross-country skiing we just ell over. When someone’s lips cracked, we’d make them laugh so it hurt more. Some mornings we’d We entered the Polar Challenge, a 360-mile race to the magnetic North Pole — you just pay a play laxative roulette with bowls o porridge and ee and they provide the kit and training. We were see who lost. totally written o — we were against Arctic After 1,000 miles and 50 days o suering, we trained Marines, while we spent our time in ound Lenin. I still get a uzzy eeling nightclubs — but we won. remembering that moment. I spent two days Our secret was our determination and digging an 18t shat to get into the buried hut ridiculous humour. The more painul the sores and but it was locked. I had a massive temper tantrum. bleeding blisters, the more your private parts I have to go back.
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LEARN POLAR SKILLS I your only icy experience is getting fsh fngers out o the reezer, man up. “We trained with oldashioned tyredragging or six hours on the Fosse Way in Gloucestershire, normally with a hangover,” says Cookson. “Also cross-country skiing in the Alps and musclebuilding with PowerPlate machines.”
PLAN OR DIE You can only piss about i you know your stu. “Explorer Roald Amundsen said adventure is just down to bad planning,” says Cookson, who stresses the importance o logistics, sponsorship, training and getting a skilled guide like “the polar Jedi” Paul Landry (polarconsultants.com).
We entered the Guinness Book of Records
as the frst people to get there on oot. The guys at the Russian base, Progress, thought we were heroes or uncovering Lenin. We fnished with nine days on an icebreaker with Russian sailors, drinking home-brew spirits, and ell onto the dock in Cape Town. What I really wish I’d known before going…
“Winds are worse than the cold. The wind lited me up and crashed me down and let me with bruised ribs. I had to hit the morphine and ended up puking.” Visit Henry Cookson Adventures at henrycookson.com
EAT FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY You should be on frstname terms with your local McDonald’s sta beore you go. “A lean athlete won’t last long in a polar environment as you use more calories than you consume, and weight gives you insulation against the cold and traction on your skis.” Tough gig…
YOUR PLAN B Begin your polar career more gently with the Polar Circle Marathon in Greenland ($420 entry, polarcircle-marathon. com) or splash some cash and join Cookson on a four-day Northern Light Arctic Experience with wolf encounters and dog-sledding ($8,200, henrycookson.com).
PULSE "We put frozen polar-bear s**t in a sleeping bag, which was funny until it thawed."
No bombing, no running, no heavy petting and no wetsuits unless you’re a total wuss.
ARCTIC… Dan Martin, a 31-year-old teacher from Peterborough, England, was "never much of a swimmer" but discovered his chunky physique could be converted into an awesome adventure-swimming machine. He has braved Arctic waters, the North Sea and the icy lakes of Britain in search of winter thrills. I swim outdoors all winter and the last ew
have been pretty entertaining with the amount o snow and ice. At rst, it eels like agony. Nothing will cure your hangover better. But it’s addictive; you get an amazing buzz and it makes you eel alive. Ninety per cent o winter swimming is psychological. The un comes rom overriding
your brain and mastering your own body. It’s like winning a ght. You get a huge endorphin rush. Winter swimming is the anti-sport: It’s great or guys with a bit o blubber, which buers your organs against the cold, and the worse your technique, the more heat you generate, which helps. It’s awesome having a rog’s eye view o the world. You get to explore amazing locations,
and otters, sh and other wildlie aren’t scared o you. Sadly, neither are sharks or jellysh. I had to wear a device with an electro-magnetic pulse to deter sharks. I once swam above the Arctic Circle o the coast o Andoya in Norway. I saw a BBC documentary, Human Planet , which showed
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reindeer being herded into the ocean and swimming across to the other side. Everybody swims with dolphins, so two weeks later, I few over to swim with reindeer — just to be dierent. There was fve eet o snow, so sadly the reindeer didn’t show. I am ocially tougher than a reindeer. Swimming in beautiul, remote Arctic scenery surrounded by mountains and snow was amazing. I was once so cold that I lost eeling in my hand and the skin o my leg. I couldn’t understand
what was hitting me until I realised it was just my dead hand. I avoid warm showers and warm drinks beore a swim to tell my body to keep producing heat. Wetsuits are or weaklings. And they don’t work. Your body is telling your brain you’re warm so it keeps pumping hot blood to your extremities. That’s why people in wetsuits nd their ace, hands and eet sting. Also, smothering yoursel in duck at doesn’t help. I swam in Loch Ness a ew years ago. The light plays tricks on you so you think a massive scaly monster is swimming underneath you.
Once you’ve been swimming in reezing water, you eel like you can achieve anything.
ESCAPE CHLORINATED CAPTIVITY
FIND THE WARM BIT OF THE ARCTIC
Paddling in pools on a sunny aternoon ull o toddler piss won’t help you. “Your body can be trained to stay warm so acclimatisation with cooler swimming pools is key,” says Martin. “Start with 30 seconds, then 40 and keep building up.”
EASE YOURSELF IN Yep, getting in is the hard part. “I have a mantra: ‘Warm like a whale, smooth like a seal, brave like a lion’, which I repeat to keep my mental ocus,” says Martin. “Never dive in. Go up to your knees, then beore the water hits your balls, launch in and swim like mad.”
I’m now hunting sponsorship to swim, bike and run around the world in the rst-ever Global Triathlon. What I really wish I’d known beore going…
“I your thumb can’t touch your little nger because you’re too cold, or you start suering rom ‘umbles, stumbles or mumbles’ it’s time to get out.” danmartinextreme.com
The Looten Islands in Norway are north o the Arctic Circle but, thanks to the Gul Stream, the waters are warmer than other Arctic areas. Sign up or a luxury six-day swimming expedition ($6,700, coninghamrolls.com) or fy via Oslo to nearby Harstad/ Narvik ($165 rom London Gatwick, norwegian.com) and start shivering.
YOUR PLAN B If the Arctic seems too mental, man up for a winter swim instead. Check out UK's Outdoor Swimming Society website for events like the December Dip. Freeze your nuts off then thaw out at your hotel with blankets and booze.
PULSE
"Winter swimming is the anti-sport: It's great for guys with a bit of blubber."
HOME! Paddy Graham, a supertalented 24-year-old British freestyle skier, grew up bombing down indoor slopes in Sheffield, England, but he now has enough stunts and tricks to mix it with Europe's best. When he's not competing, he loves the crazy adventures of heli- and backcountry skiing. The best thing about backcountry and heli-skiing is that you don’t have much control
over nature, and that’s part o the un. It’s not neatly arranged — you’re in the wild and you have to step out o your comort zone. It takes you to the most beautiul places in the world. You’re alone with nature. Well,
nature and a million pound helicopter… On my last trip to Canada we got a helicopter tow-in, which means the heli can’t land on the mountain so it sticks its nose down and hovers and you have to get out smoothly. I you get out too quickly, it messes up the balance o the helicopter. It was pretty scary. A ew years ago we wanted to flm some pillows — stairs o snow which you land on and bounce o onto the next. The cameraman cut in ront o where I was going to drop and because it was so unstable, the frst step ell o and, like a domino eect, it ripped through the woods, taking down all these 20m trees. I learned to ski on Shefeld’s indoor slopes when I was 12. It proves you can
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achieve anything. I was hundreds o miles away rom mountains and now this is my job. I was in an America vs Europe contest in Chile recently and among all these skiers rom Scandinavia, Germany and Switzerland. It was nice being known as the guy rom the UK who can do cool things.
What I wish I’d known beore going…
TURN UP SKI-FIT
GET KITTED OUT
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Never jump out o a helicopter unless you have a bag ull o kit and warm clobber. Graham takes thermals, snow jacket, helmet, goggles, gloves, shovel, beacon, emergency blanket, knie and a backpack with a built-in airbag, which will help you survive i you get smashed by an avalanche. Maybe.
If dropping out of a chopper sounds like a recipe for soiled pants, warm up with some normal backcountry ski fun in Davos Klosters ($1,140, lineupexplorers.com)
To smash a day o heli- or backcountry skiing, you need to be very ft. “I need to hike around all day, with the strength to land 30m jumps and a strong core,” says Graham, who recommends mountain biking or ftness, squats or beey pins and trampolining or killer abs and aerial awareness.
DON'T GO TOO FAST Somersaulting downhill isn’t cool. “Slowly learn your skills with both easy and hard runs,” says Graham. When you’re ready, hit the heli-skiing in Courmayeur, Italy ($540, guidecourmayeur.com).
“I you see a sign that says ‘don’t ski here’, don’t ski there. Go with a guide to keep you sae and show you the best places.” Paddy Graham was part of Red Bull’s High Performance Camp.
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It's dark and near impossible to haul yourself out of bed in the mornings. But change all that with a huge caffeine blast and our pick of the coolest coffee gear around.
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BREWS FROM THE FUTURE Everyone needs a coeemaker that looks like a spaceman’s helmet. It just looks great, y ’know. Nescafé Dolce Gusto Circolo (model sold in Singapore is by Krups ), $269, authorised retailers.
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TASTE TO POOP Why rely on humans when you can place your trust in palm civets to poop out the very best kopi ? It’s Earth’s rarest: Only 500kg o beans collected yearly. Enjoy a cup of kopi luwak ($38) at D Good Cafe at Holland Village.
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BORN IN THE USA Dunkin Donuts sells 1.5 billion cups o coee a year. That’s 30 cups a second! Dunkin’ Donuts Original Blend, $23, amazon.co.uk SEE THE SCIENCE Make your coee like Doc Brown rom Back to the Future . This device works by pushing vapour pressure up through your coee. Bodum Vacuum Coffee Maker, $105, amazon.co.uk
SEVENEATS A restaurant to try every day of the week.
SPATHE PUBLIC HOUSE Mohamed Sultan has undergone a cosmetic change Woes Wu would be proud o — rom clubbing asylum to oodie haven. Spathe is a ully charged bohemian restaurant that brings rough street-charm to our dining experience. I you’ve never been to Brooklyn, New York, this might be your frst taste o what it might be like, rom its music playlist to wall murals to culinary options. Order: Looking or a bite beore a night out at nearby Clarke Quay? We recommend the Meter Dog (veal and chicken spicy curry wurst , wasabi mayonnaise, caramelised onions and feld greens; $18, individual portion, $55, i you’re sharing). Opens Mon-Fri, 11am to 11pm; Sat, 9am to 11pm; Sun, 9am to 5pm. Mohamed Sultan Road, Tel: 6735-1035, www.spathepublichouse.com
STREET 50 Go around the world in one sitting at Bay Hotel’s revamped restaurant and bar. With an extensive menu eaturing a mixed bag o international and local cuisine, and myriad options rom seaood to poultry to pastas, pizzas and beyond, this place is like Globetrotter meets Iron Chef . The next time you eel like having Thai but your date wants Mexican, you know where to go. Order: The hal-dozen mouclade mussels ($14)
come drenched in white-wine egg sauce that is begging to be licked o the plate. The duck pot pie ($22) is topped with a crown o buttery, aky golden pu pastry and is hearty comort ood at its best. Opens daily, 6am to 10.30am, 12pm to 2.30pm, 6pm to 1030pm. Bay Hotel Singapore, 50 Telok Blangah Road, Tel: 6818-6681.
RICE AND FRIES I hearty ood, chill ambience and pocket-riendly prices are what you’re ater when dining out, this hidden gem will make your weekend dinner plans that much more appealing. Helmed by hoteltrained che Ken Chia, who gained his culinary cred working at the Ritz-Carlton and the Fullerton, the Western-inspired menu eatures comort ood that doesn’t compromise on quality. And the best part — prices are nett. Order: Start with the creamy and robust Forest Mushroom Cappuccino ($4.80), then work your way up to R&F’s amed lamb shank ($24.80). With tender, avourul meat that alls o the bone, ans o lamb will eel like it’s Christmas, and nonans will become converts — it really is that good. Opens daily, 5pm to 11pm. 484 Changi Road, Tel: 9738-6648, facebook.com/rice.fries.steak
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HEDONISM ORIGINAL SIN I you, like us, shriek at the sight o a meal without a sliver o meat, then Original Sin is a perect introduction to vegetarian cuisine. Despite it’s intimidating lack o meat, every dish is packed so ull o avour and heavy savoury bites, you’d barely remember you were eating just greens. Order: I you’re a burger-munching oodie, go straight or the Magic Mushroom (baked Portobello mushroom with ricotta cheese, spinach, pesto, topped with a tomato basil sauce and mozzarella; $18).
ITO KACHO Fancy nothing better than a good grill-out? The new kid on the Asian B BQ block will give you
Opens daily, 11.30am to 2.30pm, 6pm to 2.30pm. Blk 43, #01-62 Jalan Merah Saga, Chip Bee Gardens, Holland Village, Tel: 6475- 5605 www.originalsin.com.sg
marbled imported wagyu
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that lets you experience dierent cuts o and also kurobuta leeks, pumpkin and mushrooms. options are available i you decide to pick a avourite. Trust us, it won’t be easy. Opens Mon to Fri, 11am to 2pm & 6pm to 11am; Sat to Sun, 11am to 11pm. #04-08 Mandarin Gallery, 333A Orchard Road, Tel: 6836-0111.
TIM HO WAN The lauded one-Michelin-star Hong Kong dim sum restaurant has fnally made its way to our shores. With mile-long queues spotted in the frst month o opening, expect Tim Ho Wan to bring its A-game to the dim sum party here. Hype aside, how does the ood actually are? We’re happy to report that it’s authentic, aordable and innovative — expect to see some dishes that aren’t mainstays in most local dim sum eatries. There’s even a separate takeaway counter, so you can beat the queue to grab and go. A R I Order: The signature baked buns with BBQ pork E R E ($4.50) consist o a delightul crumbly exterior and P L L sweet-salty char siew flling, and the steamed egg E H C cake ($3.80), which looks unassuming, is T I M & incredibly sot and uy with a distinct E E caramelised avour. L E N I N A J : S D R O W
Opens daily, 10am to 10pm. #01-29A Plaza Singapura Atrium, 68 Orchard Road, Tel: 6383- 2828, facebook.com/timhowan
Fatboys ingredients with “in” technology (iPads) to help you D-I-Y a burger according to your appetite and taste. Order: There’s no set menu; your chow is whatever you can imagine it to be. However there are certain ingredients unique to Burger Bar, such as peanut butter, caramelised bananas and pineapples. Opens Mon to Thu, 4pm to midnight; Fri to Sun, noon to midnight. #01-16 Far East Plaza, 14 Scotts Road, Tel:
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BEERS YOU HAVE TO TRY If beer were music, then most stuff coming out of the taps is bland, inoffensive pop created for the mass market. That's right: Most beer is basically Maroon 5. It's time to broaden your horizons. Here are three buckets full of craft beers from Britain that are worth your pint.
Hells Lager (4.6%)
Camden Town Brewery From: London
Situated under railway arches and staed by a motley crew o skaters, hellraisers and old riends, Camden Town is one o the bestloved booze brewers in London.
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Kill Your Darlings (5%) Thornbridge From: Derby
In 2005, a bunch o riends started brewing beer in a shed in the grounds o a stately home. Eight years later, and Thornbridge is one o the biggest names in crat beer.
Imperial (10.5%) Dark Star From: West Sussex
Scarlet Fever (4.8%) Wild Beer From: Bristol
You like your beer strong? Then Dark Star is your guy. It started up in Brighton in 1994 with almost no equipment, brewing under a pub, and became a business almost by accident.
Created by two mates in 2012, Wild Beer already has a rep or producing odd (they like to chuck around ingredients like toee and apricots) but delicious crat beer.
Hoppiness (6.7%) Moor Beer From: Somerset
Dobber (5.9%) Marble Brewery From: Manchester
Moor Beer is owned and run by Caliornian Justin Hawke, who dug it out o a muddy Somerset hole in 2007. “Everything is larger than lie about us,” he says. “That’s why we use the 660ml bottles.”
Marble started up as a way to help fnance an ailing Manchester pub and became a huge hit. “The beer, the work and the laughs make it all worthwhile,” says project coordinator Harriet Carr.
Weird Whisky Mac (6.1%) Offbeat Brewery From: Cheshire
Obeat Brewery has — in just three short years — become a big boozy success. Founder and ex-IT geek Michelle Kelsall runs the whole thing with just two mates.
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Table Beer (3.3%) The Kernel From: London
Queboid (8%) Hardknott From: The Lake District
Magic 8-Ball (7%) Magic Rock Brewing From: Huddersfeld
Fubar (4.4%) Tiny Rebel From: Newport
Hopslinger (5.6%) By The Horns From: London
A South London brewery so cool it doesn’t care about being cool. “We don’t have any written ethos as we have no perspective on whether or not anything makes us special,” says top man Evin O’Riordain.
Starting o in an inn at the oot o the steepest road in England, this microbrewery is proudly independent. “We don’t have to kowtow to marketing execs, CEOs or committees,” says coounder Dave Bailey.
The brainchild o brothers Richard and Jonny Burhouse, Magic Rock has already picked up some big indie awards or its weird and wonderul booze creations.
Billing itsel as South Wales’ only micro-brewery, Tiny Rebel oers strong beers and cool labels. It has even done a brew called the Hadouken. Bonus points or the Street Fighter reerence.
“We were two mates rom uni ed ed up with job hunting, so began brewing beer in our kitchen,” says co-ounder Alex Bull. “Two years on, we ound a local lock-up near Wimbledon and established our brewery.”
Red Rocker (5%) Cromarty From: Cromarty Firth
Independence (4.6%) Bristol Beer Factory From: Bristol
“We want to make beer as awesome and avourul as we can,” says Craig Middleton, who heads the amily frm. “We built the shed and constructed our own gadgets to make the beer even better.”
The mad scientists o the West Country cratbeer scene, Bristol has some weird stu up their sleeve. “We’re at our best when we’re creating,” says team member Sam Burrows. Champagne beer? We’re game i you are.
Barista (4.8%) Summer Wine Brewery From: Yorkshire
Sublime Chaos (7%) Anarchy Brew Co. From: Northumberland
The brainchild o twentysomethings James (astrophysicist) and Andy (trainee Royal Marine), SWB is all about bold experimentation (as demonstrated by this espresso stout).
Anarchy Brew Co. is run by fve close riends. “We called ourselves Anarchy because we mean to break the rules when it comes to brewing,” says boss Dawn Miles. “And we like punk music.”
Hackney Gold (5.5%) Redchurch Brewery From: London
“We don’t tolerate bland, avourless beer,” warns top man Gary Ward. I you’re around East London, check out their bar, where they requently test their new concoctions.
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CHANG OF HEART
More than just another brew, Thailand's Chang Beer has it full-bodied, malty taste steeped in heritage, sports and quality.
“Chang ” is Thai for “elephant”, the symbol of Thai culture and pride. The Chang Beer logo incorporates two white elephants symbolising happiness, harmony, and prosperity, while the golden fountain represents the colour and quality of the beer.
Chang Beer bagged numerous global accolades, including Asia’s Best Premium Lager at the World Beer Awards in 2011; and four Gold Quality Awards from Mode Selection (2008-2010 and 2013), the Michelin Guide of consumer products. Unlike other international premium beers, Chang Beer stays true to its heritage and is produced from its birthplace, not any other breweries outside Thailand. Yes, even the can you’re holding in your hands right now.
Chang has been Everton FC ’s main partner since 2004. The partnership is now the longestrunning shirt sponsorship deal in the Barclay’s Premier League. Chang Beer also became a regional partner with FC Barcelona in 2012.
Chang Beer is available at supermarkets, convenience stores and selected bars including The Lounge at Hotel Intercontinental and Club V outlets.
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