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“A role model I look up to is my mum. She has really influenced me in so many ways—she retired once before, but she’s not one to sit on her laurels.”

“I think that Singapore is like a tropical New York; it has really inspiring architecture too.”

“I work with colour in my practice to such a detail that I can’t stand seeing any of it on myself.”

We’re not talking about going full-on with a trench coat here—though, for some freezing offices, that might be a viable option—but with lightweight options that go a little further than the usual.

“My background is actually in Chinese Studies. I did a one year exchange programme in Beijing, and it was one of the first times that I lived quite far away from my family.”

“I’m a writer; I have unfinished novels on my hard drive just hanging out! I usually write short stories, like fiction.”

“A quote I’m living by right now: "Be faithful in the little things.”"

“If I had a superpower, I’d control time, because I can change a lot of things that I’d done wrongly.”

“I like hiking and I'm not much of a city person, so my trip to Sri Lanka was the most memorable.”

“I started painting when I was three or five years old. My parents didn’t buy many toys for me; my father makes wooden sculptures, while my brother can paint.”

Pearls might seem like a relic from your grandmother's dresser, but they've been making a comeback of late.

“I have a few random thoughts, which are kind of lame. Sometimes I think, for example, if I live to be 70 years old, I’d have spent 10 years of my life on Mondays.”