Change

Understanding mental health with systems thinking

a simple holistic perspective on the complexity and importance of mental health

There is a lot of misinformation on mental health. The science and research has been…

Defying powerlessness

The past couple of weeks were difficult to endure for some of us. It was very tempting to disengage from reality — all that anger, sadness, pointing-of-fingers, apathy and curl up in my own safe comfortable space, at least for now.

Break glass ceilings

For most of us in the first world, we are living in conditions that have made the act of creation so easy — a random…

I am leaving, because I can

on agency and self-love

In roughly two days I’ll leave the United States and will probably be unable to return again.

This has been a sharp about-turn for me, even for myself. I remember setting foot in San…

Piecing myself together after burnout

The process of finding the root cause and addressing it

I am gradually recovering from a period of burnout — I was still functional but there was a chronic fatigue that wouldn’t go away no matter how much I rested, apathy to things I used…

The courage to be ourselves

why it is important to the world to be who you are

Someone once told me that we have to dress for the job we want to have. I thought: if how I dress is the way you perceive how serious I am about my work, we have a much…

Overwhelmed
so I got real instead

I am now sitting in front of the screen, thinking about what to write. There is just so much to write about, until I don’t know how anymore. I want to write about what is it like to understand privilege, about being born into a dominant race in Singapore and becoming…

When humanity disappoints

be extremely hopeful

Pride

on being unapologetically gay

It is the Pride weekend, and I am reminded again that I should not take my freedom to be who I am for granted. For many people this is the only time in an entire year that they feel truly free to express themselves, in the open for the whole…