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![LazyCabbie, the Taxi Driver Vlogging Through His Midlife Crisis on YouTube]()
LazyCabbie, the Taxi Driver Vlogging Through His Midlife Crisis on YouTube
"For some, there’s a struggle behind the smile, but they don’t have an avenue.”
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![Does The Projector Really Need the Government to Save it?]()
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![The 60 Things That Somehow Define Singapore Now]()
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![Lessons From Stirling Road: What the Residents of Singapore’s First HDB Flats Know About Contentment]()
Lessons From Stirling Road: What the Residents of Singapore’s First HDB Flats Know About Contentment
Despite leaky roofs and cracked floors, the residents of Stirling Road find contentment in the small things.
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![Li Ling Captures the Weight of Widowhood in the Belongings Left Behind]()
Li Ling Captures the Weight of Widowhood in the Belongings Left Behind
What goes into the quiet rituals of moving on?
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![The Gen Z Handymen Trying To Repair a Broken Industry]()
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![SkillsFuture for the Soul: What 6 Weeks of Sewing Taught Me About Subsidised Self-Discovery]()
SkillsFuture for the Soul: What 6 Weeks of Sewing Taught Me About Subsidised Self-Discovery
SkillsFuture for professional development? Nah. SkillsFuture for personal growth? Yes.
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![A Letter to My Brother, From Halfway Out the Closet]()
A Letter to My Brother, From Halfway Out the Closet
"I've come to terms with possibly losing Mum and Dad if they ever found out. But losing you… that might break me."
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![Return to Kinabalu: A Family’s 10-Year Journey Through Trauma, Grief and Survivor’s Guilt]()
Return to Kinabalu: A Family’s 10-Year Journey Through Trauma, Grief and Survivor’s Guilt
A Mount Kinabalu quake survivor reckons with what it means to be given a life when so many others perished.
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![When Caring for Dementia Pushes You to the Edge of Suicide]()
When Caring for Dementia Pushes You to the Edge of Suicide
"Every day I’d find myself retreating to the toilet to have a good cry just so no one can see my pain."
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![If an MP Works Late and Doesn’t Post About It, Did It Even Happen?]()
If an MP Works Late and Doesn’t Post About It, Did It Even Happen?
The wayang paradox of local politics.
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![Objects in Shirt Are Larger Than They Appear—and so Are the Constraints]()
Objects in Shirt Are Larger Than They Appear—and so Are the Constraints
What happens when your chest grows before your self-confidence does?
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![Singapore’s Independent Bands Earn Their Stripes at Phil Studio—But Who the Hell Is Phil?]()
Singapore’s Independent Bands Earn Their Stripes at Phil Studio—But Who the Hell Is Phil?
How did a Korean-Spanish man from France with two master’s degrees, a PhD, and multiple black belts end up as a pillar of Singapore's alternative music scene?
Random Opinion
"When we refuse to pay more for hawker food, when we don’t want to read local literature, or support local businesses—all of this shapes what we value and what continues to exist (or not) in Singapore."