While her friends searched for jobs in banks and major companies, she doubled her efforts into setting up her own cocktail bar.

"It had always been my parents' dream to open a food and beverage outlet of some sort, but they always lamented that they were too old," says Miss Angelina Pradana.

The 23-year-old is the eldest of three girls, whose parents run a cosmetics business.

Armed with a $100,000 bank loan made in her father's name, the Chinese Indonesian, who is now a Singapore permanent resident, set out to fulfil their dream.

In September last year, she launched The Studio cocktail bar on North Bridge Road.

It was only three months earlier that she graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration.

There are just two employees - a mixologist and a cleaner. So Miss Pradana wears many hats.

"I play the host, waitress and boss," she quips.

In order to keep costs low, her 22-year-old sister, a graduate from Raffles Design Institute, designed the bar's black-and-white interior as well as the look of its menu - for free.

The bar, which is about the size of a studio apartment, has a total of seven drinks on its menu, three of which the young entrepreneur learnt to whip up herself.

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