SHENTONISTA

“If I could have dinner with anyone, living or dead, it’d have to be Henry Ford, because he’s a business legend. I’d want to ask him lots of questions about entrepreneurship.”

“If I could tell my younger self anything, I would say: move on when people hurt you, and don’t try to fix them.”

Whether you’re feeling bold or want to keep it casual, here’s more reason to step out of line and go a little dotty.

“I signed up with a cooking school and learned how to make bread, pastries, and things I thought I’d never be able to do.”

“At work I have to have more of an outgoing persona, but I need to have my downtime and recharge on my own.”

“If I could trade lives with somebody for a day, it would probably be a star athlete, like Usain Bolt. I want to know how they actually go about their lives.”

“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.”