Time Lords who whisk through space in police boxes/ Heroes who are damn sure to avenge the Earth/ Glam rockers in spandex and leopard prints/ These are a few of my favourite things. Strange attachments to fictional characters, questionable music taste and corny not-so-pop culture references aside, Chyi Hui (read: ‘chee-hwei’) would also much rather you address her as ‘Chai’. This involves a lengthy story about embarrassing mispronunciations from many moons ago, a story that nobody really needs to know. The former editor of HYPE magazine spends much of her time watching sitcoms, crime serials, and angry chefs, talking to herself on twitter and inundating her instagram feed with poseur photos of her ungrateful Labrador Retriever, Ollie. She also finds that talking about oneself in the third person is rather grating, more so than talking about oneself in the first, and will thus stop.

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