SHENTONISTA

There’s no end to the options when it comes to hats.

The sides less seen; the challenges that we don’t know about; the unspoken struggles—all for the sake of their dreams, or for someone else’s.

“You have days or weeks when you just don’t feel like being on air; you don’t want to smile, so you have to psych yourself up for it.”

“One of my passions is to create things, be it pasta or cupcakes or pieces of art. I hope I get to do something like that in the future!”

“I’m trying to be better at what I do in the real estate industry. I’m just trying to get better at negotiations, pitches, and things like that—in whatever I do, basically.”

“I was born in Germany, but I moved to the United States—I was this seven year-old Asian that only spoke German. I confused a lot of kids!”

“I would tell my younger self to stop stressing about the need to fit in and to just be yourself. It’s clichéd but it saves me a lot of unnecessary anxiety!"

The films that have been on our minds this month.

“My guilty pleasures are bubble tea, 7D dried mango and kaya waffles!”

“I’ve learnt that there’s no end to learning as a doctor.”

“I used to live in India for three and a half years but I never had Indian food there. It’s too spicy—I can’t take it!”

“Something I’d tell my younger self: don’t worry too much as everything will work out.”