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![No Regrets: The Singaporean Entrepreneurs Who Failed and Returned to the 9-to-5 Grind]()
No Regrets: The Singaporean Entrepreneurs Who Failed and Returned to the 9-to-5 Grind
Regret is worse than paiseh.
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![The VP Scandal Texts Are Evidence That Singlish Is Deeply Unsexy]()
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![The Income-Allianz Deal Is Off (for Now), but How Did It Get So Far?]()
The Income-Allianz Deal Is Off (for Now), but How Did It Get So Far?
Despite the deal collapsing, the damage to trust is undeniable.
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![Why Do I Feel Worse After Taking a Mental Health Day Off Work?]()
Why Do I Feel Worse After Taking a Mental Health Day Off Work?
Work never stops and sabbaticals aren't on the cards for most of us. Can the humble mental health day really provide relief?
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![Singaporeans Share How They Feel About Sharing a Nation With 6 Million People]()
Singaporeans Share How They Feel About Sharing a Nation With 6 Million People
The more, the merrier?
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![Thoughts I Have About Self-Fulfilment Now That It’s September]()
Thoughts I Have About Self-Fulfilment Now That It’s September
If Brat Summer is officially over, does it mean we’re now in Grand Theft Autumn?
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![The Perks of Relearning Your Own Mother Tongue]()
The Perks of Relearning Your Own Mother Tongue
When English is all you need to get by, what's the value of learning your mother tongue?
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![Why Singaporean Students Will Be Better Creators With Fewer Exams and Smaller Classes]()
Why Singaporean Students Will Be Better Creators With Fewer Exams and Smaller Classes
They all just need a bit of room, in every sense, to do their best work.
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![When You Feel Like a Stranger in Your Own Family]()
When You Feel Like a Stranger in Your Own Family
Why do so many Singaporeans feel like outsiders in their own families?
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![The Fierce Ah Mas Playing Water Polo]()
The Fierce Ah Mas Playing Water Polo
For 70-year-old Fong Nam, her greatest fear isn’t dying—it’s losing the strength to play water polo with her fellow elderly friends.
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![The Unspoken Existential Weirdness of Buying Your First HDB Flat]()
![The Art of Coping: What Gen Z Students Get Up To to Get By]()
![In the Afterglow: The Cancer Survivors Finding Light In Their Night Routines]()
![Singapore’s Longest Curved HDB Corridor, and the Distance Between Our Neighbours]()
![In Their Own Skin: Portraits of Eczema in Singapore]()
![The Last Generation of Singapore’s Newspaper Stand Vendors]()
![This Body is Not Mine: Living With Gender Dysphoria]()
The Unspoken Existential Weirdness of Buying Your First HDB Flat
Are we all just faking it to make it?
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![10 Weeks of Extra Parental Leave Is Great. Guilt-Tripping Employees for Taking It Isn’t.]()
10 Weeks of Extra Parental Leave Is Great. Guilt-Tripping Employees for Taking It Isn’t.
Dear employers, leave is leave.
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![In the Afterglow: The Cancer Survivors Finding Light In Their Night Routines]()
In the Afterglow: The Cancer Survivors Finding Light In Their Night Routines
In the stillness after sunset.
Random Opinion
"Singaporean English is brutalist because we’re impatient people. We don’t want use many word when few do trick. It works in professional settings when time is of the essence, but it’s a terrible way to do dirty talk."
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