SHENTONISTA

“If I could do anything I wanted, it would be to travel the world to do voluntary work.”

“I think it’s very important to always find time to find stillness in your life.”

“I’m from France, and I’ve been in Singapore for two years now. I like that everything is simple: you can commute easily to different parts of the city which is good.”

“I’m a chartering broker for a shipping company, but I actually grew up wanting to be a news broadcaster. But after a while, it stopped being challenging, so I changed my career path.”

“My personal goal is to find direction in life.”

“I still skateboard—it’s kept me fit and strong! It’s also broken my bones; I’ve had two major injuries so far.”

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!”