“I think we Singaporeans are kind people, but we don’t know how to express it outwardly. I’d love to see people smile at each other more, strangers or not!”
"What I like about Singapore is the hustle and bustle, I think a lot of people don't like the rigidity of studying or working here, but I do like the 9 to 5.”
“I’ve live Singapore, but I'm originally from the North of Vietnam, where we have all four seasons. One thing I miss is the feeling of riding my scooter around the city during winter and having a hot bowl of pho after.”
“I got my tattoos done at 18 when I thought it was cool to get tatted like everybody else—ultimate regret! I’m in the process of removing them all because I think I’ll look better with a clean slate in a wedding gown. I’m currently single but a girl can dream.”
"When I was retrenched during Covid-19, I started curating vintage clothing, and now run a small store on the online platform, Grailed. It’s going well so far but of course there are ups and downs depending on the season.”
“I think literature is downplayed these days, so yeah, my wife and I are quite the nerds—there’s always a magazine or a book in our bags whenever we go out. In fact, I used to work for Borders, which feels like a whole lifetime ago, so you can guess how old we are.”
“I wore braces for eight years, and my teeth still aren’t perfectly straight. Eight years leh! I put them on in Secondary 1, and only took them out when I was in my first year of university. My original dentist even retired halfway through.”
“I enjoy scuba diving a lot. It’s another world, what the sea gives us. It’s paradise just a few feet beneath the surface, and down there it’s always calm, peaceful, and serene.”