Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, a Singaporean writer based in New York, is the author of the novel Sarong Party Girls, A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family and is editor of Singapore Noir.
A general view of the Universal Journey during a media preview of Santa's All-Star Christmas at Universal Studios Singapore in Resorts World Sentosa on November 17, 2016.
Singapore's Universal Studio broke the Guinness World Record for having the largest indoor display of lightbulbs with 824,961 bulbs in a festive light display separated into eight thematic zones. / AFP / Roslan RAHMAN (Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images)