“My mother taught me how to cook. She was my inspiration. She was a Malay language teacher, and every morning before she went to work, she would prepare food for the family first.”
“In some ways, I was cushioned—I never had to go through the grind of job-hunting, multiple interviews, or the uncertainty and rejection that comes with that process. Entering the working world so early gave me structure, not space to explore who I was outside of the classroom.”
“Before I started working at UltraGolf, I was juggling 10 part-time jobs. I was let go from my previous job at the start of COVID-19 in Singapore. That was such an uncertain time for me.”
“I never planned to put myself out there and become the face of the company. It took encouragement and persuasion from my business partners. But I do think personal branding is very important, so is content creation.”
“I don’t think there’s a place or city that I actually call home. Maybe it’s because I moved around quite a bit growing up. Even today, my family is scattered in different parts of the world. So I don’t know where home is. Do I even have one?”
“During those difficult times, I used Freaky Z as a way to heal myself. As I continued to go for hospital visits, I made music to forget about everything. Even after my eyes returned to normal on their own, I leaned on music as a creative outlet to express myself.”
“I’ll never forget the first time I flew solo. It was such an amazing feeling. As soon as you take off, all your problems get left behind on the ground. It’s a whole other world up there…”
“I had to learn the hard way that my career is really not everything…I’ve sacrificed so much family time for the sake of my career, and I’m beginning to realise that maybe it’s not worth it.”
“People don’t want real. Because everyday life is already so real, and people just want an escape. They want to turn off their brains and laugh at silly, low IQ content…”
With the crisis worsening in Gaza, here’s how we in Singapore (and anyone, anywhere in the world, really) can do our part to help the people of Palestine.