Low low, high high. BYE BYE 2025.
I closed
@keepitbriefco this year. I’m proud of what we built, grateful for what it taught me, and honestly still a bit stunned it’s over. More than anything, I’m grateful for the people who built it alongside me.
@clarissaedeline and
@enggeng_ , forever. The belief, the graft, the resilience, the candour.
One of the best highs was seeing the eldercare zines land after we’d already closed brief. Brought to life at
@bluetaped Not just because they were beautifully made, but because they kept the spirit moving forward. Clarissa and Geng are basically leading the charge on what I want to help contribute to next: a brief collective. 2026 feels like it might finally give me the time and space to show up for that properly too.
I also stepped away from teaching at NUS (with a great final batch of thesis students:)) and joined the new Social Futures course at LASALLE. Hard to move on from such a brilliant group of colleagues and students, but the pull of something new and experimental will always get me.
Thailand for
@mee_and_mark and
@fableofzm wedding was chaos in the best way. Gatecrash in the sun, dancing to K-pop Demon Hunters, half delirious, making new friends. Also one of those weird full-circle moments, celebrating a couple who met at mine and
@megan.miao wedding, now getting married. Life is strange and sweet like that.
Then I rejoined the work world from the inside and joined OGP. I’m only just settling, but it’s been a genuinely warm welcome. So many familiar faces from the last decade in Singapore, people I’ve worked with, worked for, taught, been taught by.
Also, my sister
@clairenorris95 had a baby. I’m an uncle now, which still feels impossible because in my head she’s about 16. What the hell. Cute though.
And home life has been
@megan.miao , plus three cats negotiating friendship and territory. Pepper, Pickle and Pebble. A lot of lazing around watching them try to become mates, a lot of quiet joy, and a bit of chaos in the corners.
Oh Also I got my PR finally and I got to play Santa, 40 years early.
Hiya 2026.
