People

“Plain white tops are my wardrobe essential—I’m always on the look out for plain white tops in various cuts and styles as they go with everything.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”"