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Much has been said about the negativity of video gaming: obsession that borders on unhealthy, declined social interactions, reduced amount of sleep…  The list goes on.

Even with this supposed bad reputation, there are signs that the ubiquitous hobby of our wired generation is slowly making headway as a more respectable past time. For some, it might be even a career option.

Eric Khoo’s first animated film, Tatsumi, is a cinematographic birthday tribute to Japanese manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi and based on his autobiographical "A Drifting Life".

Elaine Ee-Meyers speaks to author Gerrie Lim on his book on Singaporean, former porn star Grace Quek, aka Annabel Chong. The following article was first written for and published on Time Out.

Back in the early 1990s, a bright, 22-year-old upper middle-class Singaporean Chinese woman, well on the fast track to success, did the unthinkable. Having already dropped out of law school in London and moved to Los Angeles to enrol in a gender studies course at the University of Southern California, Grace Quek made a bold move unprecedented for someone of her pedigree – she became a porn star. And so Annabel Chong was born.

CNNgo's Elaine Ee, who also writes for publichouse.sg, picks the Top 10 most boring things to do in Singapore. See if you agree.

Old habits die hard, in spite of Singapore’s efforts to shed its boring image, a lot of what happens here remains, well, boring.

Should you ever feel the urge to utterly bore yourself silly Singapore-style, there are, ironically, plenty of things to do.

We pick the dullest of the lot.