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Why I’m still here (or, A Night Out With Related Bizarros)
The bus is crowded, but not as crowded as the train would have been. The rain is pelting down on to the blacktop. The combination of a cool wet evening outside and the air-conditioning inside makes it...
View ArticleMy Singapore on the Go
I was born in Singapore. I grew up in Singapore. I won’t say that I will always live in Singapore, but I’m here now, and that’s the important part. No matter what I say about Singapore, I live in a...
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6 Moments of 2011.
2010 was a big year, a year in which so much changed. In many ways, 2011 was a variation on the theme. A much louder variation: more adventures, more new friends, more ideas and more opportunities....
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Thoughts on Set: Time to go home.
We’re in our last week of the shoot now, and for once I’m stationed in an office with a floor that isn’t disgusting with grime and dust and grit. It’s not that cold, and despite having suffered from a...
View ArticleWanted: A change of heart for Singapore
In his blog post ‘The Search for Singapore’s Semangat‘, Lucian Teo writes about Singapore’s search for something, a search for “an articulated set of beliefs and values that would transcend the basic...
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Meeting the royals in $9 shoes.
This post is dedicated to my friend Crystal because she would never forgive me if I didn’t blog this. Dress code: Summer Cocktail Googling it didn’t help. As it turns out, everyone has a different...
View ArticleThat ‘once in awhile’ feeling
Lately I’ve been dreaming of home. Nothing too spectacular. Just that feeling of familiarity. Fleeting images of bus rides and my cat lying on a shelf. My granddad giggling at his own jokes and my...
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Do I want to go back to this dynamic Singapore?
“A Sustainable Population for a Dynamic Singapore” It sounds great. It sounds like we’re going on to good things. Who doesn’t want to have sustainable dynamism? Then you read the paper and realise...
View ArticleLiving in a World of Digital – Notifications in the Morning
The following was a blog post I submitted to Cardiff University’s competition for the Women of the World Festival 2013 held at the Southbank Centre in London. I was selected to join competitors from...
View ArticleJoseph Stiglitz’s Singapore is hardly the one I grew up in
The following was first published in Quartz: Joseph E. Stiglitz may be a brilliant economist, but familiar with Singapore he is not. This fact could not be more glaring than in his piece in the New...
View ArticleOn Medium: Jumbled dissertation-related thoughts
I’ve just started writing on Medium. It’s a beautiful platform and interface, and I’ve also started a collection called The Singapore Conversation for anyone interested in writing about Singapore to...
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