Showcase of his life

WITH 26 years of globetrotting behind him, Carsten Lima has amassed crate-loads of souvenirs, curios and artworks from the many cities that he has lived in or visited such as London, Cairo and Istanbul. But even the knowledge of this does not quite prepare one for the strange timber cabinet on wheels that sits in his dining room.

Filled with memorabilia such as the tiny shoes once worn by upper class Chinese women that he bought while working as a tour guide in Malaysia in the 1990s or the hat that he was made to wear to a Culture Club concert in his teens, the timber cabinet on wheels is actually a stre…