ST On My Mind

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Life beyond the clicking camera

The writer does not click many photographs but here he is, captired in one himself, in a forest in Australia.

Happy from still playing on swings like pre-digital-era kid

The writer spent hours moving from swing to swing in the Singapore Botanic Gardens in 2023 while looking at the trees, sky, families, dogs, and joggers.

My favourite season? When athletes unveil a new version of themselves

The peloton riding through city streets during the Tour de France Saitama Criterium cycling race in Saitama in November 2025.

Exit $500 SkillsFuture credit. Enter ChatGPT and joy of learning

The writer was learning with AI, rather than learning from AI, which she imagined is the scenario for much of lifelong learning.

I’ll miss you when you die years later: Grieving a pet’s death in advance

The writer had grieved her pet’s death for about a decade before the cat died.

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In a second-hand bookshop, a quiet ritual of friendship

Ritual calms us, it offers us order in an unsettled world, it wards off loneliness and binds us in threads of anticipation.

#StrongNotSkinny: Why I want chunky legs

Building nearly 1kg of muscle is not minuscule in the writer's case.

Love going cashless, hate how it may fail

If cash is still king, or rather, queen, its crown is slipping.

The fight to keep talking: The vital art of conversation

There is something powerful to conversation, to holding another person’s gaze, starting an exchange and letting an idea take flight like a kite on two strings, says the writer.

Walking on water: Seeing Singapore anew after a job switch to design

The writer has become much struck by the pervasiveness of design, whether in the national narrative or our personal lives.

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