Archive · Singapore · since 2018

Mira Lim

Art director in Singapore. Collects cinemas, coffee counters and small islands.

317 experiences·76 films·44 books·39 albums·26 places

317 layers · 2018–2026

“IMAX 70mm at the one cinema in the country with the projector. The cyclops. My ears.”

Watched · 18 July 2026

Watched · 8 June 2026

Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Visited · 8 June 2026

Millennium Mambo

Watched · 7 June 2026

Beitou hot springs

Visited · 7 June 2026

Visited · 6 June 2026

Raohe Street Night Market

Visited · 6 June 2026

Travelled · 5 June 2026

Din Tai Fung, Xinyi

Ate at · 5 June 2026

Watched · 2 May 2026

Is a River Alive?

Read · 11 April 2026

Project Hail Mary

Watched · 21 March 2026

Read · 14 March 2026

The Secret Agent

Watched · 7 March 2026

It Was Just an Accident

Watched · 28 February 2026

Read · 21 February 2026

Mahler 2, Singapore Symphony

Saw · 14 February 2026

Wuthering Heights

Watched · 14 February 2026

No Other Choice

Watched · 31 January 2026

Watched · 24 January 2026

Read · 17 January 2026

First sunrise of 2026

Happened · 1 January 2026

Watched · 26 December 2025

Watched · 13 December 2025

“2:11:40. Walked at 17km, cried at 19km, sprinted the last 400m for no reason.”

First half marathon

Attended · 7 December 2025

Sentimental Value

Watched · 15 November 2025

Watched · 8 November 2025

“Thirteen languages, an orchestra, a saint. Nobody else is even trying this.”

Listened · 8 November 2025

Watched · 1 November 2025

Read · 18 October 2025

Saw · 11 October 2025

One Battle After Another

Watched · 27 September 2025

Listened · 27 September 2025

Brooklyn Bridge at 6am

Happened · 19 September 2025

Listened · 19 September 2025

Visited · 18 September 2025

Maybe Happy Ending

Saw · 17 September 2025

Restaurant16 Sept

“The insalata verde is famous for a reason. It's lettuce. It's perfect.”

Ate at · 16 September 2025

Read · 15 September 2025

Visited · 14 September 2025

Russ & Daughters

Ate at · 14 September 2025

Visited · 13 September 2025

Travelled · 12 September 2025

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Played · 6 September 2025

Listened · 29 August 2025

Watched · 9 August 2025

Read · 26 July 2025

Watched · 28 June 2025

The Emperor of Gladness

Read · 28 June 2025

Listened · 27 June 2025

Watched · 21 June 2025

Saw live · 14 June 2025

The Phoenician Scheme

Watched · 7 June 2025

Listened · 6 June 2025

Watched · 25 May 2025

Read · 17 May 2025

Watched · 13 May 2025

Columbia Road Flower Market

Visited · 11 May 2025

Saw live · 10 May 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Played · 10 May 2025

Restaurant9 May

“Clay pot glass noodles at the counter, flames a metre from my face.”

Ate at · 9 May 2025

Restaurant8 May

“A whole turbot over wood. The best thing I ate in 2025 and it's not close.”

Ate at · 8 May 2025

Visited · 7 May 2025

Exhibition6 May

“The permanent collection is a wall of every object that shaped a century. Stood there naming them like a nerd.”

Visited · 6 May 2025

Saw · 5 May 2025

Travelled · 3 May 2025

Played · 26 April 2025

Watched · 19 April 2025

Watched · 12 April 2025

Listened · 12 April 2025

The White Lotus

Watched · 6 April 2025

Read · 5 April 2025

Restaurant24 Mar

“Jang, aged for years, on everything. Told the chef it tasted like my grandmother's kitchen and meant it as the highest compliment.”

Ate at · 24 March 2025

Visited · 23 March 2025

Read · 22 March 2025

Leeum Museum of Art

Visited · 22 March 2025

For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)

Listened · 22 March 2025

Bukchon Hanok Village

Visited · 21 March 2025

“A hanok full of pastries. Sat on the floor with a pandoro and my laptop, felt like a film about a freelancer.”

Cafe Onion Anguk

Sat in · 21 March 2025

“Season two finale. The marching band. Ran to the window at the end like an idiot.”

Watched · 21 March 2025

Travelled · 20 March 2025

Watched · 15 March 2025

Laneway Festival

Attended · 8 March 2025

Watched · 1 March 2025

Luminescent Creatures

Listened · 28 February 2025

NGV International

Visited · 15 February 2025

Great Ocean Road

Visited · 14 February 2025

Restaurant13 Feb

“A dessert shaped like a Vegemite jar. Jonah's treat, allegedly for my birthday seven months early.”

Ate at · 13 February 2025

Saw live · 12 February 2025

Restaurant11 Feb

“Squid ink tagliolini. Sat at the bar and watched them make it.”

Ate at · 11 February 2025

“Jonah made us queue at 7:30. He was right. I will never say that again.”

Lune Croissanterie

Sat in · 10 February 2025

Visited · 10 February 2025

Travelled · 9 February 2025

Singapore Art Week

Attended · 25 January 2025

Watched · 25 January 2025

Restaurant18 Jan

“Three floors, one meal. The Swedish sourdough course made me briefly reconsider my whole diet.”

Ate at · 18 January 2025

Watched · 11 January 2025

Watched · 28 December 2024

Watched · 14 December 2024

Watched · 7 December 2024

Read · 1 December 2024

All We Imagine as Light

Watched · 30 November 2024

Watched · 23 November 2024

Listened · 22 November 2024

Teshima Art Museum

Visited · 15 November 2024

“A public bath designed by an artist, with an elephant on the wall. Sat next to a fisherman who explained the ferry timetable in detail.”

Bath at I♥湯

Happened · 15 November 2024

Chichu Art Museum

Visited · 14 November 2024

Visited · 14 November 2024

Waited for the pumpkin to be empty

Happened · 14 November 2024

Read · 13 November 2024

Listened · 13 November 2024

21_21 Design Sight

Visited · 12 November 2024

Restaurant12 Nov

“Truffle ramen. Sounds like a crime, isn't.”

Ate at · 12 November 2024

Visited · 11 November 2024

“A bookshop you could live in. Bought four magazines I can't read.”

Daikanyama T-Site

Visited · 10 November 2024

“Norwegian coffee, 1960s furniture, a cocktail bar after dark. All my personalities in one room.”

Sat in · 10 November 2024

Exhibition9 Nov

“Instagram with better lighting. The kids in there were having the time of their lives, though.”

teamLab Borderless

Visited · 9 November 2024

Tokyo & the islands

Travelled · 8 November 2024

“Saw a poet read for eight minutes and forgot the week.”

Singapore Writers Festival

Attended · 2 November 2024

Read · 19 October 2024

Watched · 9 October 2024

Read · 5 October 2024

Singapore Grand Prix

Attended · 22 September 2024

Read · 21 September 2024

Listened · 21 September 2024

Saw live · 14 September 2024

Watched · 14 September 2024

Manning Fireworks

Listened · 7 September 2024

Listened · 24 August 2024

Listened · 23 August 2024

“Harbour water, a wooden dock, a glass of natural wine after. Office workers doing this on a Tuesday. Rearranged my idea of a city.”

Lunchtime swim at La Banchina

Happened · 20 August 2024

Ate at · 19 August 2024

Visited · 18 August 2024

“Cardamom bun the size of my face. Queued in light rain and would queue in heavy.”

Sat in · 17 August 2024

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Visited · 16 August 2024

Travelled · 15 August 2024

Small Things Like These

Read · 15 August 2024

Watched · 10 August 2024

Read · 20 July 2024

Kinds of Kindness

Watched · 6 July 2024

Restaurant29 Jun

“Sri Lankan crab curry reimagined as a tiny sculpture. Best meal in Singapore this year.”

Ate at · 29 June 2024

I Saw the TV Glow

Watched · 15 June 2024

“Light art by the bay. Two good pieces, ten selfie backdrops. The good two were very good.”

i Light Singapore

Attended · 8 June 2024

Listened · 8 June 2024

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Watched · 26 May 2024

Watched · 25 May 2024

The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

Listened · 18 May 2024

Read · 11 May 2024

Saw · 4 May 2024

Watched · 27 April 2024

Watched · 27 April 2024

Sigur Rós with the Singapore Symphony

Saw live · 20 April 2024

Watched · 20 April 2024

“Thirty-one relatives, one restaurant, one very long speech from Uncle Beng.”

Attended · 14 April 2024

Read · 6 April 2024

Diamond Jubilee

Listened · 6 April 2024

Listened · 30 March 2024

Listened · 24 March 2024

Listened · 23 March 2024

“The sunlit table by the window. My Saturday office since March.”

Apollo Coffee Bar

Sat in · 16 March 2024

Played · 9 March 2024

Saw live · 7 March 2024

Watched · 2 March 2024

Read · 24 February 2024

The Zone of Interest

Watched · 17 February 2024

Visited · 11 February 2024

“Coconut coffee. Wore a jumper for the first time in a year.”

Cộng Cà Phê

Sat in · 10 February 2024

“Linh's cousin's Honda. Stalled eleven times in a car park. Eventually did a lap. Felt like flying.”

Learned to ride a motorbike, badly

Happened · 10 February 2024

Two Star & the Dream Police

Listened · 10 February 2024

Restaurant9 Feb

“The Obama combo. Sat on a plastic stool at 11am and understood everything.”

Bún chả Hương Liên

Ate at · 9 February 2024

“Crossing the road is a trust exercise. Motorbikes flow around you like water.”

Hanoi Old Quarter

Visited · 9 February 2024

Travelled · 8 February 2024

Saw live · 27 January 2024

Es Devlin in conversation

Attended · 20 January 2024

“Twenty-four Monday nights. Can now order, apologise, and read a menu very slowly.”

Japanese, JLPT N5

Took · 15 January 2024

Watched · 6 January 2024

“Fireworks from six different beach clubs at once. Nobody had planned it and it was perfect.”

New Year's Eve on the sand

Happened · 31 December 2023

Priya & Marcus's wedding

Attended · 30 December 2023

Restaurant29 Dec

“Twenty courses of things I didn't know grew here. Fermented everything.”

Ate at · 29 December 2023

“Went at seven to beat the swings-for-Instagram crowd. Worked.”

Tegallalang rice terraces

Visited · 28 December 2023

Travelled · 27 December 2023

Watched · 23 December 2023

Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America

Visited · 2 December 2023

Watched · 2 December 2023

Watched · 25 November 2023

Anatomy of a Fall

Watched · 11 November 2023

Blue Eye Samurai

Watched · 5 November 2023

Kenya Hara on emptiness

Attended · 4 November 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon

Watched · 21 October 2023

Listened · 21 October 2023

Chants of Sennaar

Played · 14 October 2023

Watched · 7 October 2023

Listened · 7 October 2023

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

Listened · 16 September 2023

Baldur's Gate 3

Played · 16 September 2023

Restaurant2 Sept

“29th birthday. Dad kept asking what the foam was. Mum stole the bread.”

Ate at · 2 September 2023

Saw live · 18 August 2023

Read · 5 August 2023

Watched · 23 July 2023

Watched · 22 July 2023

Restaurant21 Jul

“A cocktail with ants in it. Actual ants. Delicious. Don't think about it.”

Ate at · 21 July 2023

Watched · 15 July 2023

Watched · 24 June 2023

Sunset at Foz do Douro

Happened · 19 June 2023

Visited · 18 June 2023

Visited · 17 June 2023

Visited · 14 June 2023

“The bell rings when a fresh tray comes out. Pavlovian. Went three times.”

Sat in · 13 June 2023

Restaurant12 Jun

“Garlic prawns, then a steak sandwich as 'dessert'. Whoever invented that deserves a statue.”

Cervejaria Ramiro

Ate at · 12 June 2023

Visited · 11 June 2023

Travelled · 10 June 2023

Watched · 28 May 2023

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Played · 27 May 2023

Watched · 9 April 2023

Listened · 8 April 2023

Arashiyama bamboo grove

Visited · 7 April 2023

Read · 6 April 2023

Visited · 6 April 2023

Philosopher's Path

Visited · 5 April 2023

“Hidden in a car park. Best filter coffee of the trip, drunk standing next to a Toyota.”

Weekenders Coffee

Sat in · 5 April 2023

Fushimi Inari at dawn

Visited · 4 April 2023

Travelled · 3 April 2023

Listened · 1 April 2023

Watched · 12 March 2023

“Six years of 'we'll see'. Bought a bottle of champagne and drank it alone on the roof, which I'm told is not sad.”

Made Art Director

Happened · 1 March 2023

Saw · 25 February 2023

Desire, I Want to Turn Into You

Listened · 14 February 2023

Listened · 21 January 2023

Watched · 17 December 2022

Listened · 10 December 2022

Watched · 3 December 2022

Read · 12 November 2022

Swam in the Hampstead ponds

Happened · 20 October 2022

Performance19 Oct

“Three actors, one glass box, 160 years. Theatre can do anything, apparently.”

The Lehman Trilogy

Saw · 19 October 2022

Barbican Centre

Visited · 18 October 2022

Ate at · 17 October 2022

Visited · 16 October 2022

Ate at · 15 October 2022

Travelled · 14 October 2022

Read · 10 September 2022

Watched · 20 August 2022

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Read · 13 August 2022

Decision to Leave

Watched · 9 July 2022

Watched · 2 July 2022

Watched · 25 June 2022

“Made eleven bowls. Kept two. Learned that centring clay is a metaphor for absolutely everything.”

Wheel throwing, six Saturdays

Took · 11 June 2022

Top Gun: Maverick

Watched · 4 June 2022

Watched · 1 May 2022

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Watched · 16 April 2022

Read · 16 April 2022

Played · 19 March 2022

Restaurant12 Mar

“The beef marmalade sandwich. Sat at the counter and watched the four-tonne oven do its thing.”

Ate at · 12 March 2022

Braiding Sweetgrass

Read · 5 March 2022

Listened · 19 February 2022

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

Listened · 12 February 2022

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1

Read · 15 January 2022

Watched · 18 December 2021

Watched · 4 December 2021

The Worst Person in the World

Watched · 27 November 2021

Played · 13 November 2021

Restaurant6 Nov

“Moonlight hor fun with the raw egg on top. Nothing else needs to exist.”

Keng Eng Kee Seafood

Ate at · 6 November 2021

Watched · 23 October 2021

Read · 4 September 2021

Watched · 14 August 2021

Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 1

Read · 7 August 2021

Discovered · 10 July 2021

Crying in H Mart

Read · 12 June 2021

“First morning in the new flat. Kouign-amann downstairs. Dangerous.”

Tiong Bahru Bakery

Sat in · 1 May 2021

Listened · 1 May 2021

“Art deco walk-up, a window that gets the 5pm light, and a bakery downstairs. First place that's ever felt like mine.”

Moved into the Tiong Bahru flat

Happened · 30 April 2021

Listened · 27 March 2021

Klara and the Sun

Read · 20 March 2021

MacRitchie TreeTop Walk

Visited · 27 February 2021

Read · 30 January 2021

Played · 16 January 2021

Watched · 29 December 2020

Listened · 5 December 2020

Read · 7 November 2020

Played · 3 October 2020

Played · 15 August 2020

Breasts and Eggs

Read · 18 July 2020

Singapore Botanic Gardens

Visited · 20 June 2020

Untitled (Black Is)

Listened · 20 June 2020

Watched · 7 June 2020

Watched · 24 May 2020

The Remains of the Day

Read · 16 May 2020

Watched · 10 May 2020

Watched · 3 May 2020

Watched · 1 May 2020

Listened · 25 April 2020

Watched · 19 April 2020

Chungking Express

Watched · 12 April 2020

“Lockdown. Started writing these down properly, to remember there was a before and would be an after.”

Circuit breaker, day one

Happened · 7 April 2020

Read · 5 April 2020

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Played · 21 March 2020

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Watched · 14 December 2019

Watched · 8 December 2019

Read · 23 November 2019

Read · 19 October 2019

Performance21 Sept

“Ivan Heng in a kebaya, alone on stage for two hours. My mother laughed and cried in the same breath.”

Emily of Emerald Hill

Saw · 21 September 2019

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Read · 10 August 2019

Watched · 6 July 2019

Read · 8 June 2019

Visited · 11 May 2019

Read · 16 March 2019

Saw live · 9 March 2019

In the Mood for Love

Watched · 14 February 2019

Played · 12 January 2019

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Watched · 27 December 2018

Watched · 15 December 2018

Watched · 10 November 2018

Convenience Store Woman

Read · 15 September 2018

Watched · 25 August 2018

Listened · 2 June 2018

Read · 21 April 2018

Listened · 10 March 2018

Read · 10 February 2018