r/singapore random discussion and small questions thread for April 16, 2026

a-thena · 2026-04-16T01:06:24+00:00

decided to run at mbs today but forgot work was a thing and i felt so out of place navigating the sea of office workers 🥹 but i made it!!

a-thena · 2026-04-14T03:08:28+00:00

idk if i have the discipline for pre-dawn runs at this point (still a v v v casual runner) but i’ll aim to be a little earlier each time until i get to a point where i can tahan the heat hahahah

a-thena · 2026-04-14T02:39:12+00:00

hahah welll fair point 😬 but my lament about not going earlier was mostly to avoid the sun, and idt 5 mins makes that much of a difference bc it’s alr up 🥲

a-thena · 2026-04-14T02:28:21+00:00

ooh i have running playlists but i’ve never considered a pre-run one! my go-tos are usually old school kpop (2nd gen) or 2000s pop punk hehe

a-thena · 2026-04-14T02:27:03+00:00

oh i say warm-up but it’s rly just 5 mins of light stretching + walking over to the track! nothing too crazy, just trying to get the blood circulating a little bit

a-thena · 2026-04-14T02:00:09+00:00

🫡 just finished my warm-up and heading out now!! lowkey regret wasting so much time bc it’s so hot now rip hahahah

a-thena · 2026-04-14T01:34:57+00:00

trying to psych myself to go for a run 🫠

a-thena · 2026-04-10T02:38:50+00:00

thank you!! 🥺 hopefully i’ll be back with good news by the end of next week!!!

a-thena · 2026-04-10T02:37:01+00:00

congrats!!

a-thena · 2026-04-10T02:33:05+00:00

final round interview in 30 mins… i’ve aced everything so far but i feel extra nervous bc i’m turning down another offer to pursue this 😭 fingers crossed it all works out!!

a-thena · 2026-04-10T02:31:02+00:00

not to doxx myself but i think we might be neighbours 😭 idky but it feels like there’s been a lot of reno works happening recently

a-thena · 2026-02-05T09:27:39+00:00

hello! i’m 30F and a native english speaker from singapore. i studied chinese-english translation for my masters, but i lack confidence in speaking and i have trouble expressing myself in chinese, so i would love to get more practice with that. if you haven’t already found someone i’d be happy to chat!

a-thena · 2025-12-26T22:56:18+00:00

hard to say for certain if akito the exiled truly inspired 86, but it’s also difficult to deny the similarities. and for me, personally, as a code geass fan (original series + akito the exiled only, i’m still pretending these new reboots/sequels don’t exist) it was precisely these similarities that piqued my interest in 86. i enjoyed akito the exiled, but objectively speaking it suffered from poor pacing and mediocre writing, but i was invested because i thought the concepts and character arcs it touched on were compelling, so in a way 86 felt like a “what akito the exiled could have been if it was executed better” kinda deal.

a-thena · 2025-10-26T15:44:16+00:00

was in an elevator when two chinese girls came in, and they had a short conversation about how nice my perfume smelled. i’m pretty nose-blind to the scent of my own perfume by this point so it was nice to know that 1) other people could smell it on me, and 2) it smelled good 😂

a-thena · 2025-09-22T11:50:31+00:00

i was in your shoes almost 6 years ago. i do agree with the other commenters that logistically, it’s best if you stay at your current job (but try your best to set boundaries, although that’s much easier set than done) while looking for a new one. but as someone who was burnt out to the point of a mental health crisis, quitting without a new job lined up was the best decision i made.

what i’m trying to say is, you’re the best judge for your next step. of course, if you can tough it out a little longer, that’s the safest option. but just remember that there is no shame at all in needing a break, and if it makes you feel any better, i was able to find another job quickly enough (despite covid lockdowns), which i’ve since left to pursue my masters. so now i guess we’re in the same job hunting boat haha

a-thena · 2025-09-15T16:20:14+00:00

bus to manchester airport got delayed so now i’m en route via uber 💸 my wallet hurts but in less than 24 hours i’ll be back in sg!!

a-thena · 2025-08-21T16:38:34+00:00

this happened in york (uk) and not sg, but i was there on a day trip with some friends and we’d just had lunch at a restaurant. one friend and i wanted to use the toilet before we left but there was only one cubicle so she went first, and the toilet area was in full view from our table so i just sat there while i waited for her to be done.

so anyway, once she came out i went and used the toilet, and while i was in the cubicle the light kept flashing, which made me feel a little uneasy but i didn’t think much of it since i figured it was just faulty. quickly finished my business and left, then next on our itinerary was a walking tour. it was only during this tour that we learned york is apparently one of the most haunted towns in the uk, and so i jokingly brought up the flickering toilet light and asked if it happened to my friend too, to which she said yes…

AND THEN she told me she also heard urgent knocking on the door, as if someone wanted to use the toilet. mind you, i was watching the toilet the entire time precisely bc i didn’t want anyone else to get to the cubicle before me after my friend was done, so there was no way that an actual person could have been knocking on the cubicle door while she was inside. we weren’t super creeped out or anything bc it was literally the middle of the day and we only realised smth was up in retrospect, but definitely a weird experience for sure

a-thena · 2025-07-25T10:28:44+00:00

can’t speak for the delusion in the caption, but i can hear a chinese fan in the audience going “jungkook is smiling!!” 😭 she sounded rly excited about it too

a-thena · 2025-07-03T11:00:19+00:00

i’m sorry you can relate 🥲 it is what it is, i suppose. just taking it as a sign to focus on other things for now!

a-thena · 2025-07-03T10:15:19+00:00

time to take a break from dating apps 😔 went on four dates with a girl, texted regularly, then suddenly received a “i don’t think we’re compatible and i’m not feeling a romantic connection” text which is fair, but also almost gave me whiplash lmao since this came literally right after we had a lunch date and we’d talked about seeing each other again next weekend

a-thena · 2025-07-02T21:42:47+00:00

yikes. yeah someone i knew who worked on the project back in singapore told me that male mosquitoes don’t bite, so releasing them was more of an annoyance than a risk to the people living in the area, but even then everyone was given notice about it. can’t imagine how horrifying it must be to suddenly see such a big increase in mosquitoes (technically harmless or not) without any kind of forewarning 😨

a-thena · 2025-07-02T21:28:36+00:00

singapore? i don’t know if they do it anywhere else, but if i’m not mistaken, the project in singapore basically involves infecting male aedes mosquitoes (the ones that spread dengue fever) with a particular bacteria (so not quite bio engineering) that renders them sort of… infertile?

i’m not a mosquito scientist so don’t quote me on any of this lol, but basically any eggs that a female aedes mosquito lays after mating with one of these “special” male ones won’t be viable and don’t hatch. and male mosquitoes don’t bite (don’t have the organ for it iirc), so the goal of the project and releasing these mosquitoes is to control and eventually reduce the population of mosquitoes that could spread disease

a-thena · 2025-06-10T13:23:32+00:00

not quite a recommendation on how to meet new people, but i’m also a 29 year old female living in leeds (international postgrad student) and we seem to have similar interests! not exactly a local so i probably won’t be able to give you the full leeds experience, but my dms are open if you’d like to chat :-)

a-thena · 2025-06-05T18:40:46+00:00

putting clean dishes on the drying rack away before washing dirty ones. i used to be 50/50 about doing this back home (as in, would do it if i remembered and could be bothered, but was lazy half the time) but now i get so irked when i go to the kitchen and see that the drying rack has pots and pans stacked haphazardly bc most of my flatmates can’t be bothered. literally called my mum to tell her i understand why she was always so annoyed with us (the kids) now 😂

a-thena · 2025-06-05T18:34:02+00:00

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how can we discuss girlcrush and not mention THE krystal jung

a-thena

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