Where was Charlie?: Pulling together a Winning Sum

Charlie Lim (@wherewascharlie) and Jasper Tan (@vilecorpses) have been two people that I admired for a long time. And I was having a long (re: shitty as hell) day, thinking that I’d end up living life as a zero-sum game. I’ve listened to Charlie Lim before – he’s a fixture on my Spotify ‘favourites’, ‘quiet’,…

By: thenarhh November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 Inspiration, MusicArt, Beautiful, Life, Local talent, Melody, Music, New Music, R&B, Singapore, talent, Writer, WritingLeave a Comment

THE WAY THIS GOES IS [PERSONAL]

Like she’s trying to sweep remnants of sharp-as-glass pain under a thick carpet.

TAKE ME TO MARS by pop!SUGAR

pop!SUGAR signs off their email with Yours SUGARly. Has there been a more perfect band-brand dynamic? pop!SUGAR had reached out to me prior to the release of their debut single, “Taste the Rainbow”, which charted on the Spotify playlists of New Music Friday Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Vietnam. The trio’s first…

By: thenarhh September 25, 2018 Events, Inspiration, World PositivityBTS, GenUnlimited, Opinion Piece, UNICEF, United Nations, Writer, Writing, Youth2030Leave 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?

now.

2018.2: Let’s Get This Bread

Launching TALKING GAME on Medium,

Wrapping up Finals

Video Production

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Where was Charlie?: Pulling together a Winning Sum

THE WAY THIS GOES IS [PERSONAL]

By: thenarhh November 12, 2018November 12, 2018

Inspiration, MusicArt, Beautiful, Life, Local talent, Melody, Music, New Music, R&B, Singapore, talent, Writer, WritingLeave a Comment

Like she’s trying to sweep remnants of sharp-as-glass pain under a thick carpet.

SOLO

JENNIE shapes a narrative of growing through pain, with clarity.

TAKE ME TO MARS by pop!SUGAR

YOUTH 2030

By: thenarhh September 25, 2018

Events, Inspiration, World PositivityBTS, GenUnlimited, Opinion Piece, UNICEF, United Nations, Writer, Writing, Youth2030Leave 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.