SHENTONISTA

“If I could have any superpower, I’d like to be able to read minds, because I’d like to help people who cannot speak up for themselves.”

“I’d like to visit Bhutan someday. It’s so beautiful, and I think it’d be a surreal experience to go somewhere so vastly different and withdraw completely from city life.”

“I recently read Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends And Influence People—it made me rethink the interactions I have with people on a daily basis.”

“If I could be a material, I’d choose to be seersucker—it’s quite classic and conservative in a way, but it’s also quite dandyish and flashy at the same time.”

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“I've lived in Singapore, Boston and the U.K., but Boston is my favourite, because it was my home for four years.”

“I’d like to live in The Sims, because I’ll get to live in a big house and design it as I wish without having to worry about money.”

“My guilty pleasure is mindless shopping—I like to just walk into a shop and try on what I like, though it’s not always practical.”

“A dish that describes me would probably be rojak. I was born in the Philippines, grew up in Kuala Lumpur and moved to Singapore. I guess that makes me a third-culture kid, so rojak would be appropriate.”

“If you’re willing to look at it in a positive light, even pain can be an inspiration.”

“Being an educator means that you’re learning for life, and you always need to keep up with what’s relevant.”

Yeye's affable, happy-go-lucky attitude belies an entrepreneurial, innovative spirit—one that has helped him raise a family of eight children by sheer determination.