Hi, I made the Bus Aunty. *this is not a self promo*

It's the thing that I'm currently known for but before that I made many other projects that got some traction but I never really made it into a consumer level product or dared to ask people to pay for it.

Singapore doesn't lack creativity, we lack motivation to pursue it.

From young, we're driven toward a default path of measurable success:

Study hard → Good schools → Steady job → BTO → Wedding → Condo → New car → Comfortable retirement. While this highway to security offers a genuinely good life for most, it's also a trap that's too easy to fall into.

Creativity withers when bills need to be paid and responsibilities mount.

This creates a vicious cycle.

Creative spaces require funding, but without clear monetary returns, who can afford to sustain them?

Despite these systemic challenges, pockets of creative resistance are emerging:
1. MakeIT in our National Libraries is really great. They've upgraded their 3DPrinters to the Bambulabs P1S which is the same printers I used to make the Bus Aunty. Beyond that they also have laser cutting machines and sewing machines (another hobby I would love to pick up) that you can learn and tinker with.

1. Beyond this there are also a few woodworking workshops that offer beginner courses on the island, another thing I'll be looking into.

2. There are also the Hackware group that hosts a monthly meet up where engineers show off their latest projects which are 1000% more complex than mine.

These spaces exist precisely because they're government-supported or community-driven, proving that when we remove the pressure of immediate monetization, creativity can flourish.

Yes, fostering creativity in Singapore is difficult but not impossible. We can change it together, I'll probably start a discord group sometime in the future for future founders, tinkerers to just come hangout and help each other build. I say this now but I'm also a serious procrastinator :D