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28 August 2026
Why I keep a paper calendar
Digital tools miss the texture of a year. On paper, blank weeks stay visible.
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14 August 2026
The sound of someone else typing
Focus is contagious in shared spaces — loneliness, oddly, becomes communal.
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2 August 2026
On deleting two thousand words
Cutting is not failure. Sometimes the essay was scouting territory for a single sentence elsewhere.
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19 July 2026
Library air-conditioning as muse
Level three has a particular hum. I go when the flat is too warm and my thoughts need discipline.
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3 July 2026
Letter to a younger self who wanted to be a novelist
You will not write the Great Singapore Novel. You will write small true things.
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21 June 2026
Market mornings
Tiong Bahru Market before eight — fish on ice, orchids in newspaper, aunties comparing melons like chess players.
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