By: thenarhh September 25, 2018 Events, Inspiration, World PositivityWriting, BTS, Writer, GenUnlimited, Youth2030, United Nations, UNICEF, Opinion PieceLeave a Comment

YOUTH 2030

IT IS SO IMPORTANT and BEAUTIFUL to use your influence for good, especially when you are in a position that enables the words you speak to be heard by numerous people, who typically follow the theories or ideas you bring up in your speech. My name is Athena Tan, and I am a young person…

The Last One Standing

Home I went. I paid the bill.

CRAZY RICH ASIANS | WHY AM I YELLOW?

I am not rich, nor crazy, but I am Asian. Kevin Kwan needs to complete NS.

Yellow Chair: MINISTRY OF MORAL PANIC

MINISTRY OF MORAL PANIC is an innocent-looking book; packed within its pages are seemingly explosive weapons filled to the brim with gun powder. Do we say phrases like ‘filled to the brim with gun powder’? Is that sentence correctly constructed? I don’t know. But what I do know is that the debut collection of Amanda…

Like Anyone Else

V is Virginia Woolf and V is also for Validation. The two are not necessarily inter-related, but there is a certain something about her Vivacious life.
— Do we just do what we love or do what we’re supposed to do?

The Last Recipe

I would 10/10 Recommend. — Directed by Yojiro Takita, The Last Recipe was clearly a reflection of the high-quality that Takita — the Oscar Award-winning Director (Departures) — invests into his works. In other words, The Last Recipe took whatever expectations I had and threw them out and above the window — this movie exceeded my expectations.

Light to Night Festival 2018 : At Home in the Mud

The Padang was muddy. However, the festival wasn’t cruddy – Light to Night 2018 was pretty amazing. – We went on Jan 20, 2018…

One Minute To Execute the Change

The New One Minute Manager is a slim volume—one that I imagine is much slimmer than its first, older edition [the #1 Bestseller on Managing Your Work and Life]—and not what I expected at all. The book’s authors are Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson, and both of them came together to write an awesome book.…

now.

2018: Speaking at a Panel, launching Carpe Bloom 2.0, starting an online Interview resource, and…receiving Nat’l Examination results.

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YOUTH 2030

By: thenarhh September 25, 2018

Events, Inspiration, World PositivityWriting, BTS, Writer, GenUnlimited, Youth2030, United Nations, UNICEF, Opinion PieceLeave a Comment

The Last One Standing

Home I went. I paid the bill.

MENTAL STORMS

By: thenarhh August 24, 2018August 23, 2018

ReflectionCalm, Creative, Cure, healing, LEW, Mental Healrh, mental positivity, mental storms, Music, Reading, Singapore, Singaporean, spotify, WritingLeave a Comment

What exactly is a ‘mental storm’? This question surfaced in my mind three hours ago when I was listening to MENTAL STORMS from the ENFJ album (LEW, 2018). Everything about this song was magical and perfect – from the strumming, to the vocals and the poignant chords matched with poetic lyrics. The term ‘mental storms’…

CRAZY RICH ASIANS | WHY AM I YELLOW?

I am not rich, nor crazy, but I am Asian. Kevin Kwan needs to complete NS.

Yourself, in Recovery.

Just five minutes ago, I was thinking of how to answer to an artist friend (who I greatly respect, by the way! Her work can be found here). The month of June brings a crazy number of things that I need to do regarding the production of Issue 5: AMO, ARMOUR for Carpe Bloom. We’re embarking…

YELLOW CHAIR: The Last Immigrant

By: thenarhh June 19, 2018June 17, 2018

Reflection, World PositivityArt, Books, Comment, Family, Inspiration, Life, Opinion, Read, Reading, Recommendations, Relationships, WritingLeave a Comment

Lau Siew Mei wrote wonderfully and terrifyingly about the supernatural world and the treachery of our own internal mind’s workings, creating an entrancing narrative of a neighbourhood that charted each other’s lives and were interconnected by voids meant to be filled, or that had been haphazardly filled.

Listen to Reason

By: thenarhh June 14, 2018June 16, 2018

ReflectionHurt, Inspiration, Life, Reflection, Relationships, sad, Sadness, Teenage Angst, WritingLeave a Comment

I met a stranger in the skin of someone familiar.
In June, 2015, I remember running to the sinks and turning on the faucet. I never turned on the faucet with my bare hands in school because the sink faucets were dirty as hell, and we all knew it.

Yellow Chair: MINISTRY OF MORAL PANIC

Here’s my MIC Drop

By: thenarhh February 18, 2018January 21, 2018

InspirationArt, happy, Inspiration, Korea, Korean Music, Life, Motivation, Music, RecommendationsLeave a Comment

I almost never start stories with a quote, but here I am. William Longgood, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 1963, once said that “Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination”. This is certainly, without any hint of sarcasm, ‘breaking news’ for me. And I’m being completely serious. When we were younger…