Product Reviews
Filofax launch the world's largest tablet case collection
The largest collection of tablet cases in the world is from none other than… Filofax?! Their range consists of over 600 cases in more than 39 colours and with four different constructions. Each case has a slot for a tablet holder, so you buy the case and then the appropriate holder for your tablet. The…
Read MoreBest notebook for kids
Toddlers love iPads Having used an iPad for several years, my 2 year old son caught on to the popularity of using tablet devices in the Chi household. He wasn’t interested in the kid apps I downloaded or the story books on Kindle. Of all things, he loved the camera app! A few weeks on,…
Read More90:10 man clothing range
Sometimes in life you meet some people who inspire you in some way. Dan Glatman used to be the manager for a British boyband called Blue and has now launched his own men’s clothing label 90:10 http://9010man.com Kwai Chi chats with Dan Glatman to get the lowdown of the origins of the brand, it’s identity…
Read MoreThe Kwai Chi Diet – A minimum fuss diet that really works!
What does it take to lose weight? So I’ve lost a lot of weight in a relatively short period of time. This is mostly down to an improved dietary intake of food, using kitchen scales, more intense exercise and documenting it all via Withings Smart body analyzer and Withings Pulse. I don’t really want to…
Read MoreReiss Personal tailoring fitting was an absolute shambles!
Jesse gave me a call last week to tell me that my suit was arriving this week so I booked in to see him for an alterations fitting. Walking in early to the Reiss store in New Change shopping mall, I found Jesse ready to greet me with my suit. The first thing I noticed…
Read MoreMark Marengo cock up
Following on from my review of my Mark Marengo suit, I thought I’d share with you my wonderful revisit to Savile Row to fix my crotch rip. I thought that I would premiere my wonderful new Mark Marengo number for an EMEA marketing event hosted by Excelsior recruitment the other week. Everything was good,
Read MoreMark Marengo Review plus Cad & the Dandy Basted fitting
A couple of days ago I went back to Cad & the Dandy for my basted fitting session. I turned up about 10 minutes for my appointment which was made over the phone with Ian, the guy in my previous Made to measure suit post. There was another guy around who hung around. I wasn’t…
Read MoreMade to measure suits (also known as personal tailoring)
As I look back at my YouTube videos from 2006 I have noticed one major difference… I used to be a lot thinner. Oddly as I have gotten older and fatter, people still ask whether I am a recent graduate. I even got asked for ID when buying a £10 meal deal from M&S recently.…
Read MoreJeep Wrangler review
I have driven a lot of different cars over my driving years so far. This is mainly due to work and also use of rental cars instead of owning outright until recently. I had never driven a jeep before though as they are not a very popular car in the UK. In Hawaii though they…
Read MoreToto Washlet Review
Toto is the largest producer of toilets in the world. I’ve never even heard of them in the UK but in their native Japan, Toto have over 70% of their flagship washlet toilets in installed in Japanese households. My stay in a Mauna Kea hotel room was the first time I had encountered one of…
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