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Beauty of Letting Go, Without Letting Go
We are now in a situation where we are at the mercy of happenings in the macro system. But that doesn't stop us from making the best of the situati...
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For the Love of Making
With a love for making and Mother Earth, Shiying started senkoubou (錢工房), a made-to-order leather atelier that takes inspiration from everyday thi...
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Zairai - The Original Cultivar
Wild and non-conforming, the zairai is a remarkably rare tea plant that is often overlooked for other more famous cultivars. An old world tea that...
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How to be a 10-year-old, again
Being Gellyvieve is being that 10-year-old again. Just like her pottery pieces, founder of Gellyvieve, Genevieve Ang, is all about breaking convent...
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To Behold Beauty
She is without any halo, but she has victory scars that tell of a battle won in spirit. If one may add, beautifully. Jolyn Kari Ng, founder of loca...
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In Writing about Life
Typewriter in hand, Dave Tai of Haiku Fever takes it to the streets in search of stories and haiku writing. He willingly listens to anyone’s story,...
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In Praise of Little
She is slow in a fast world, unhurried in a hurried world, contented in a demanding world. That is her Lyttle Space, a space she has imagined in he...
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Victory of a Different Kind
Words associated with the Singaporean definition of success are always about career, properties and money. For Alvin Chan, who traversed the less-t...
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Weaving Tomorrow's Disciples
From some angles, she mimics the disciples we see in kungfu films and apprenticeship documentaries. We learn from Si Ying, explorer and maker of ma...
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The test is not about time, but about spirit. Holding fast to the belief that tea breeds conversation among individuals, Kenry Peh, at the helm of ...
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All Who Ever Have
At Hvala, we too have a dream — that one day, through tea and art, we can better the world. But it is impossible for us to realise that dream on ou...
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