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Mental Health: Zen Pencils

Hello! If you’re reading this, you probably came from Zen Pencils. If not, you should go and read Zen Pencils! Recently, I emailed Gavin, thanking him for his role in helping me get through the toughest bout of depression I’ve… Continue Reading →

Mental Health: Totems

In Inception, the idea of totems as items to remind characters they are in a dream is a key point to the story. Totems are basically little trinkets or items that only the characters in the movie knew about in detail,… Continue Reading →

Writing: Culture of Art

Where you come from plays a big part in how far you go. A person born of wealth will be given more opportunities, more open doors, than a person born of poverty. Though whether or not you are a better… Continue Reading →

Writing: Powers

Do you know what I find the most fun about writing? Powers. I love giving characters super powers and following them as they develop it into something formidable. I especially love giving characters seemingly useless abilities as they slowly change… Continue Reading →

139 Years to the End of the World – Afterword

I thought, ‘Hey, I wonder what would happen if I get cryogenically frozen for a century?’ And that was how 139 Years to the End of the World happened. It was one of those happy, spontaneous accidents. Those lurking ideas… Continue Reading →

Writing: U.S, U.K, and a Universal English

My editor, Cassandra Marshal, edits in U.S English while I write in U.K English. This is likely my fault, since I did not mention to her that I wanted the edit in U.K English. But it was one of those… Continue Reading →

Blog: A Country of Smart Idiots

(WARNING: 2000 words post ahead) You couldn’t have missed it. The news have been covering it all the past two weeks. The death of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first Prime Minister and one of our founding fathers, have brought on… Continue Reading →

Blog: To College or to Collage

It should be occurring to everyone by now (myself included) that I’m only ever updating here when I’ve finished everything on my plate. Now, this post will have quite the mix of topics, from my writing work, to mental health,… Continue Reading →

Writing: One Moment

Writing, like all arts, takes hours of practice, stretched out over the course of years. Like many of my generation, my first foray into writing was fanfiction. And like many teenagers back then, I was terrible at it. I was… Continue Reading →

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