Alisa Maya

I did not expect to spend my last summer before graduation this way, doing marketing for a play, running around helping to produce videos and delivering sponsorship decks. It's been a process of great trial and error. And in a way, the hands-on experience I'm getting through this experience is something that could never be replicated in an internship elsewhere, simply because our tiny team only knows as little as we know and everything is truly, roughing it out, experimenting

A couple of people have asked me recently how I find the time to do everything I do. I thought I'd write a post on some tricks I've learnt to help me cope with life. In a way I cannot take all the credit for the content of this post, it is a cumulative, collective wisdom. Anyway here it goes: 1. If you don't schedule it, it will not happen... For one of two reasons: 1) You will forget. You think you won't but you will. 2) You will be so tired from having to remember everythng

All these people around us, the people we call our friends, they're gonna have more money than us, and have nicer houses than us and have prettier clothes than us. And they'll seem like they have it all together. But you and me, we're going to have crazy adventures. We'll have interesting and surprising lives and it's going to be beautiful and challenging and exhilarating. And as for those other people, they may never know what that's like while they sit in their pretty house

This is a post I've been thinking about writing for a long while, but hesitated about for a really long while. BMT For the sake of chronology, I will start at the beginning: the day G enlisted for National Service. I remember we had a silent lunch at the Manhattan Fish Market outlet at some mall in Pasir Ris. If the men in Singapore can be classified into a simple binary-- those who are enthusiastic about NS because it represents machoness, bravado and all things manly and th