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She studied food science but found herself drawing comics in class and posting her videos online. This led to her full-time job as a content creator for digital platform SGAG. Syafiqa Noor shares with Joel Chua her unusual journey.
On how dating apps have affected her business: “When dating apps first came into the market, I think a lot of people were asking me, ‘How are you guys going to still be relevant?’ And, of course, truthfully, that’s also a question that we ask ourselves. With dating apps, it’s just so easy. People…
On hearing how rare the disease was: “The typical questions come right? Why us? Why him? But we do attend church so that was what we clung to, helped us get through and process it. Our family, friends, church rallied around us.’’ The cost after the diagnosis: “(They told us) it’s going to cost you…
On the importance of failure: My first experience with trying to be an author was heartbreaking. It took me 77 rejections to get a book published. We learn a lot from failure … It really doesn’t matter how many times we fail, as long as we keep going. And it’s not failure that really crushes…
For him, these letters became short notes of encouragement, a lifeline for days when hope felt a little more elusive. “I wrote to myself: Dear me, no one can make you sad if you don’t want to be,” he reflected. Suhaimi now takes on life with a fresh outlook, new purpose — and the same…
Warning: This story contains references to suicide and suicidal ideation. SINGAPORE: Dementia is often associated with old age, but for some, the disease strikes much earlier than expected. For Alison Lim, a fomer corporate executive in the hospitality sector, the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia – a rare type of dementia – came in her…
