Hi, I'm Prasatt! I'm from a tiny island 🏝️ called Singapore 🇸🇬 My hope with this blog is to tend 👨🏾🌾 my patch of the web and nurture a space for curi...
On my recent trip to Switzerland, I spent a fair amount of time wandering down the supermarket aisles to put together cheap meals. I enjoyed the experience of trying out Coop and Migros-branded supermarket chocolate and trying out Heidi milk. But I didn’t realise many other people were doing this. Apparently there are: We might not all be able to afford a red Michelin-starred meal or a private…
In about 20 minutes, Singapore’s national football team faces Thailand. Winners of their group games, Thailand’s War Elephants pose an immense challenge to Singapore. This first leg of the semi-finals of the ASEAN Cup, held at home at the Jalan Besar Stadium is crucial for Singapore. While we last won Thailand in 2012, there is a lot of hope and belief among Singapore fans. I’ve been really glad…
The title comes from one of Kevin Kelly's aphorisms in his book Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier . This is a book that I find myself picking up from time to time, with something new standing out to me each time. The aphorism I shared above resonated with me because I feel like the world could do with much more enthusiasm. Today, it can feel like the intelligent…
Unlike in many parts of the world, public housing in Singapore doesn't not carry any negative connotations. In fact close to 80% of the resident population lives in public housing. Built by the Housing Development Board, or HDB, these public housing buildings are known colloquially as "HDBs". And these occupy a significant space in the collective geospatial identity of Singapore. One unique…
I was reading Bill Bryson's compelling * n a Sunburned Country* where I encountered this sobering anecdote: Although inland Australia has never been exactly verdant, much of the marginal land once experienced periods of relative lushness, sometimes lasting years, occasionally lasting decades and, it enjoyed a natural resiliency that let it spring back after droughts. Then, in 1859, a man named…
Singapore celebrated 61 years of independence on 9 August this year — National Day. And after many years of trying, I was lucky enough to get tickets to watch the National Day Parade in person, at the National Stadium. For those who don’t know, the National Day Parade (or NDP for short…we Singaporeans love our acronyms) is a parade that commemorates our independence from the British. It has…
Bad things have upsides, bad things have downsides. Good things have upsides, good things have downsides. — Jerry Wise
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. — Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
We have to remember that our bosses are also human beings. [T]here are days that they could be a certain way. Maybe not the most positive examples of being a boss, but it is what it is. You know, and this is where we give and take just like how we ourselves are not optimally performing every single day, right? — Gerald Tan, Work It (podcast)
I came across a snippet of an old Kobe Bryant interview and I felt like I had to share it: Interviewer: There's players who love to win and players who hate to lose. Which one are you? Bryant: Neither. I play to figure things out. I play to learn something. If you play with the fear of failure or you play with the will to win, or that supersedes your fear of failure, I think it's a weakness either…