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Last week in Johor Bahru, the Hook & Albert Twill Weekender Garment Bag failed at its one job. My suit arrived creased. The internet's reviews, it turns out, were not to be trusted. So we're solving the problem properly. In this episode of Stryke of Midnight, I walk you through the exact technique I use to pack a suit without wrinkles — no expensive garment bag required, no dark arts, just the right fold done the right way. Why Most Men Get This Wrong The instinct is to treat

Dr Bobby Stryker crosses the Causeway for a gentleman's weekend in Johor Bahru — abandoned buildings, a private meeting, and a marina district that made international headlines for all the wrong reasons. A side of JB most visitors never see.

It started in a cold Yorkshire drawer in the 1980s. Five-year-old me, bored and restless on a rainy British afternoon, prising open a stuck mahogany cabinet in search of a treasure map. What I found instead were a handful of curious brown sticks wrapped in cellophane — my father's old cigars, remnants of a bachelor life I never knew. My mother shut that down immediately. My fascination, however, never quite went away. Then came the 80s and 90s. Bond, Hannibal Smith, Arnie, St