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“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.”

“When you’re just starting work, choose the right place, somewhere that you think you can fit into the culture, because your first job sets the pace and tonality of your next career path.”

“I want to go forward to when I'm sixty, because I think that women are so wise when they’re older.”

“If I were a dish, I’d be an onigiri (Japanese rice ball). I’m not very adventurous, and I like simple things. I like my routines.”

“A lot of people know that I love wearing hats, and today is one of those rare days that I’m not wearing a hat. I think I have like 20 hats at home.”

“If I could be part of a TV series, it would probably be How I Met Your Mother. I love that show and I think it had really good takeaways about life and friendship.”

“After a week at the stall I wondered: how did my mother single-handedly manage the whole shop? That was actually the main reason why I came on board—I want to take over the whole business and let her retire.”

“My biggest fear in life is to have fear itself stop me from fully experiencing life.”

“The best advice I’ve received is from the movie Kungfu Panda: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow’s a mystery, and today is a gift, that's why they call it the present.””

“A philosophy that I live by: you’ll never know till you try.”

“Bak Chor Mee is one of my favourite comfort foods—after I return from a trip, that's what I feel like eating.”