Posts written by: TheKopiWrite

4 Productivity Hacks That Actually Do More Harm

Lifestyle

Are you making these productivity mistakes? 4 popular strategies that may actually harm your focus. Can you hear that? Tick-tock, tick-tock... It's the sound of…

by / January 7th, 2016

On Muteness & My Mother Tongue

Opinion, Singapore

I’m a Singaporean Chinese. If I barely speak a word of my ‘mother tongue’, am I Chinese? My lifelong aversion to Mandarin stretches back as…

by / January 6th, 2016

Why Whitewashing Matters Even in Singapore

Opinion, Singapore

Think about the different genres of movies. Romance, science fiction, action, comedy. Certain iconic movies come to mind – Minority Report, The Edge of Tomorrow,…

by / January 4th, 2016

An Ode To The Private Driving Instructors of Singapore

Opinion, Review, Singapore

<ANONYMOUS SUBMISSION>   Disclaimer: This is written from my own experience. It isn’t aimed to offend anyone but to explain how frustrating things were from…

by / December 22nd, 2015

8 Times My Much-Vaunted Singaporean East-West Sensibility Failed to Live Up to Its Billing

Lifestyle, Opinion, Singapore

We in sunny Singapore pride ourselves on our unique talent for straddling both sides of the cultural divide: East and West, oriental and occidental, Asian…

by / December 18th, 2015

[POEM] a history of our (young) love

Literature, Love & Relationships

a history of our (young) love the pupils of my eyes took years to learn to see people as they really are and not what…

by / December 18th, 2015