SHENTONISTA

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“I like a peaceful life, but I always feel the need to change things up every now and then because I get bored. I’m trying to work on projects around the world, so I can move somewhere new every two years or so.”

“I really like colours and patterns in my dressing, and if I could choose to be a pattern I’d be stripes—I’m a very organised and neat person, so I feel like it puts my OCD at ease.”

“I’ve lived in Singapore for 15 years now, and it’s changed so much and so quickly. There’s an amazing coffee culture and food and bar scene, but a lot of it has really only developed in the last five years.”

“It’s clichéd, but my role model in life is my mum. She’s a working mother, a teacher in a kindergarten and a secondary school, and now she’s working with children with dyslexia—she’s the most inspiring person I know.”

“My irrational fear is dying in a lift, or being stuck alone in an elevator in free-fall.”

“I buy a book every time I’m at a bookstore, so I’d actually like to have some time to read the books that I’ve collected. I probably have more than 20 books that I’ve yet to read.”

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“I’d like to have an unlimited supply of wishes that come true—that basically gives you anything you wish for!”

“I’d love to live in Suspiria. It’s a horror movie, but the set design of it is so beautiful that I want to live in that world.”

“If I could change one thing about the world, I’d make people less angry and more understanding. So many times, when we're angry or when we insist that we’re right, we refuse to listen to others, and that closes the door to so many good things in life.”

“One quote I love is "To define is to limit”, from Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray—it’s only human to not want to be limited in any way.”