On paper, Singapore is an economic powerhouse. People love expounding on how a poor fishing village (this was proven untrue) became a prosperous city, and how we have built our…
The year was 2019. The pandemic was much more than the world could handle, and my editor had just screamed at me for writing a shitty sequel. I’d had an…
Before Shu Ping was Shu Ping, she was supposed to be Aisyah, this Malay girl. This was a conscious decision I made because I wanted to have a little more…
While I was having lunch with a bookseller friend of mine, he asked me, “How do you find the time to write?” Writing is something that I do every day,…
I have seen lots of posts on the internet where readers are all making sad declarations that their favourite authors always kill their favourite characters. I get it. I do.…
Like so many other children, I was a reader of Roald Dahl books. He was easily one of my favourite writers because everything in his books were so wild, imaginative,…
I knew I wanted to become a writer at a very young age of six. I was in Primary One, and my school had one of those big picture books…
Four Eyes, by nature, is sad. It’s part of his DNA. That isn’t to say he can’t be happy–while Shu Ping is happy by default, Four Eyes is pessimistic by…
Shu Ping was given this name because I liked it. There is no depth to naming this character. I did, however, name her after a classmate in Junior College (JC)…
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I don’t like the question, “What inspires you?”
Sometimes, when I’m interviewed, I get this question. I actually get it a lot. I don’t blame the interviewer. As a writer who is relatively unknown, there isn’t that much…