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Here at Deployant, we strive to bring you our honest reviews of watches on a daily basis. Today, however, we will not be taking a look at watches per se. In this week’s edition of Feature, we sat down with a watch lover/whisky fan and asked him how he turned his love for whiskies into a dream job.
Feature: Watches, Whiskies and Writing
Passion is a curious thing. It injects meaning into our endeavours. It serves as the fire in our bellies for when the going gets tough. It is the spark that comes alive in our eyes when we do or talk about something we love. It’s completely inexplicable, yet at the same time perfectly logical. It also comes in many forms: it could be a job or a sport, something you do alone or something you do with people. Oh, what would life be without passion?
Of course, not all of us are lucky enough to be passionate about what we do for a living; the realities of life seldom afford us the luxury of choosing only what we want to do, and not what we have to do to put bread on the table. But just imagine, what would you do if one day you had the chance to turn your hobby into your job? Would you make the jump?
That’s exactly what Tan Soo San did. A lifelong avid whisky fan who regularly travels to Scotland, Japan and Taiwan to visit distilleries, Soo San’s hobby got rather out of hand when one day he realised he had amassed over 100 bottles of whisky at home. His wife, Sherin, brought up a most pertinent point: was he ever going to be able to finish every single drop in those bottles in his lifetime? The answer was a clear no, but instead of stopping at those 100 plus bottles, he decided he was going to get more. Many, many more, as it turned out. He had decided to open a whisky bar to share his passion with anyone who loved whisky.
Soo San comes across as a warm, approachable figure to his customers
It had always been a dream for Soo San to start an establishment with his wife. The couple do not have any children, so this venture to them was to be their “baby” and serve as a retirement plan of sorts. They had been toying with the idea for a good 3-4 years before finally committing to it last October. Coincidentally, it took a mere 9 months from conceptualisation to opening the bar, not unlike a normal pregnancy. Both Soo San and his wife worked in the financial sector prior to this venture, and while Sherin is still working as an accountant, Soo San left his job of 20 years to invest his time and efforts into the new whisky bar called The Writing Club. Cosily nestled in a corner of Palais Renaissance on Orchard Road, the bar’s name comes from a group of whisky aficionado friends that Soo San […]
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