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Here’s What a Bonsai Master Taught Us About Pandemic Fatigue

Here’s What a Bonsai Master Taught Us About Pandemic Fatigue

This article accompanies our video interview with Mr Boh Twang Keng, Bonsai Master in celebration of Vesak Day. All images by Feline Lim unless otherwise stated. Boh’s Bonsai is a home-cum-nursery tucked away in Lengkok Mariam. Mr Boh, Singapore’s premiere bonsai master, tends

by Zachary Hourihane

May 27, 2021

Pandemic Reporting Fatigue, As Told To Us By A Mainstream Media Journalist

Pandemic Reporting Fatigue, As Told To Us By A Mainstream Media Journalist

All images RICE file photos. Earlier this month, my colleague Sophie wrote an article about being sian during this long-haul pandemic. It was a colloquial way to say that we are sick and fed up with the virus. The New York Times has given a more fanciful touch to this emotion: languis

by Sean Lim

May 27, 2021

Singaporean Gen-Z Boys Don’t Want To Be Like Their Fathers

Singaporean Gen-Z Boys Don’t Want To Be Like Their Fathers

Top image: Shahzan Ariz. Photography by Marisse Caine. This is part one of a series of articles about Singaporean masculinity and how it is changing. In this episode we speak to Gen-Z boys who are confidently male, yet have an evolved idea of how this should be expressed. In the following episodes w

by Edoardo Liotta

May 24, 2021

The Fix for Burnout: Knowing When to Ditch What’s No Longer Working

The Fix for Burnout: Knowing When to Ditch What’s No Longer Working

This article is part of our new series on burnout, Running on Empty. Watch the third video in the series here. The latest episode in our series Running on Empty documents the plight of Matt Oon: a start-up founder with a bad case of burnout. To be frank, the future doesn’t look

by Zachary Hourihane

May 14, 2021

Let’s Talk About Burnout Culture and the Hybrid Office We Need

Let’s Talk About Burnout Culture and the Hybrid Office We Need

Photography by Liang Jin Tey. You recognise this too, I’m sure. It’s been more than a year since life has felt bleh, a state of being sian in a limbo of stagnation and emptiness. Your senses and your motivations aren’t as sharp anymore, dulled by the lack of separation between work and life. W

by Ilyas Sholihyn

May 11, 2021