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“As a leather crafter, I’d say the most enjoyable part about working with leather is also the most challenging, and that’s designing the actual products. Anyone can learn how to make a wallet, but coming up with unconventional designs is not easy.”

“As a photographer, I love working with motion and space, but I don’t want to tie myself down to a fixed style just yet. I've noticed that my photos are pretty dark and dull, so I’m trying to step out of my comfort zone and add more colours into my works.”

“I’m a hairstylist from Tokyo and I run a private hair salon in Singapore. Many of my customers here are cosplayers who go for bright coloured hair, which is my favourite hairstyle to work on as I love the bright and colourful Harajuku fashion culture.”

“My friends (who are also a bunch of oldies) and I run a skateboarding account, @planktoy, where we document our progression as older skateboarders. We used to skate together 20 years ago and now we’re all dads with different priorities—it’s quite beautiful lah.”

“I workout seven days a week. Being a bodybuilder is regimental and time-consuming, but I love it! People always talk about discipline, but if you don’t enjoy working out, then you won’t be able sustain a routine for long.”

“My family owns a winery called Pierre Vessigaud in Burgundy, a region famous for its wines. The name of our winery incorporates both my father’s name and my nickname. My father loves working in the vineyard, and has the patience required to make wine, but he doesn't really like the selling or business aspect of it, so my mother sells the wine.”

“It takes a lot of social and leadership skills, as well as the ability to think on your feet and multitask to be a flight attendant, because you have to deal with a lot of very different types of people. You need to be very flexible and adapt your working style to different people.”

“When I was growing up, some of my aunts got featured in magazines, and that's when I started to love reading magazines, which were mostly about fashion back in the ’80s. So I think that's where my interest in fashion sparked.”

“I admire everything about my dad. I think he is one of the wisest people ever. Like if I ever need advice, he would be the person I would go to. His sense of humour is great too—I feel like he finds humour in everything, and nothing brings him down, so that’s something I really admire, because I could never!”

“You won’t normally catch me out for lunch in the afternoon actually, because most of the time, I’ll be in the gym. It’s become a habit to destress at the gym, either in the morning or in the afternoon, so I always sacrifice my lunch hour to gym.”

“I’ve always been a more passive person, which is kind of a good thing because I can roll with the punches when things are bad, but sometimes, I just have to do something to change what I don’t like instead of ignoring it."

“What I like most about folklore is that they’re always kind of incorporating nature, or going back into nature and being very explorative. And then there’s always a lesson that’s learnt at the end.”