I am an aspiring writer in Singapore, who learned like many others, how to write from scratch.
I'm currently serving national service and due to be released from it this November.
I do not know many people in Singapore who like to write or want to live on being able to write. So in Singapore I would be a dying breed of people who want to be heard and not be delegated to serve the citizens and foreigners their hot cup of coffee, no foam.
I have a passion for esoteric knowledge, to call it new ageism is contrary to the fact that this type knowledge is very old.
Despite the fact that I love writing, I know in Singapore it's a hard business to survive on, so I'm trying my luck here in Helium, to see if I have the skills or the flair for writing stuff people will actually pay to read.
DO support me, and don't be afraid to criticize either. After all, you're the paying audience.

My passion is ...

the truth about people

I know too much about ...

the human heart

My parents always told me ...

to soar out of this country if I could. Too stressful.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a psychologist.

My favorite memory ...

those walks with you going home from school. Talking and laughing.

Why I write ...

to be able to change the way the world thinks with what I write.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

the crowley tarot/arrested development/tori amos

My first job ...

As a tote, who actually tried selling watches in an eerily deserted industrial park.

My best moment ...

finishing a play in the 24hr playwriting competition.

My inspiration ...

Elliot Perlman and my best friend, Ahmad

Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Sanity

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"I need my sanity!"

We have all heard that exclamation once, or have even exclaimed it ourselves. Sanity is a state of mind when things are stable; the emotions are not bouncing all over the place, and life has taken on a predictable beat. But the question that really burns me is whether sanity is actually totally good for us?

Of course, the layman would scoff at the rhetoric of the question, but let us think outside the box. When the environment and the body are stable, we would most likely be in a sane state of mind, because there is nothing to disrupt our emotions and our mundane th...

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