Snippets from Singapore and around the World (31 May 2026)

For your refreshing, Le Petit Society, a childrenwear label, and Delugs, a watchstrap maker, are featured here followed by snippets from Singapore and around the World. 

As gleaned from its website: 

"Le Petit Society - the little society was founded upon the desire to create versatile, well-crafted clothing for children that will journey with them from the moment they arrive into this world, as precious little newborns, to the time they step out as spirited young individuals.

Image credits: lepetitesociety.com

With the founding principle that great style should be for everyone, Le Petit Society was formed in 2012 by an inspired Singaporean couple, Robyn Liang and Dylan Ong, with the desire to fill a gap in the kids garment world. Through developing an Asia-made line that delivers top quality and design, the collections boast of the most comfortable and stylish pieces befitting for all occasions, across all ages. Over the years, our clothing range has grown to include adult and family-twinning outfits, making Le Petit Society a choice family lifestyle brand." 

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Delugs - Click here for How I Started Delugs.

Image credits: Delugs.com

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Build An Evening Harbor

 

Ships are not repaired in the middle of storms.

They return to harbor.

Your evenings should become your harbor.

Create small rituals that signal safety to your nervous system:

• Warm tea or coffee
• Gentle music
• Dimmer lighting
• A walk beneath the evening sky
• Reading a few pages of an inspiring book
• Stretching tired muscles
• Writing thoughts onto paper instead of carrying them into bed

Tiny rituals train the brain to unclench.

The human soul is astonishingly responsive to rhythm.

Even lighting a candle can become a declaration:

“The battle is over for today.” 

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Snippets from Singapore and around the World (30 May 2026)

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Your Mind Is Like A Garden, Not A Factory

 

Many people treat their minds like factories — machines meant to produce endlessly. 

But your mind is far more like a garden.

Gardens cannot bloom under constant harvesting. Soil must be watered. Weeds must be removed. Sunlight must alternate with darkness. Rest is not laziness; it is preparation.

At the end of each day, ask yourself:

• What drained me today?
• What strengthened me today?
• What deserves my energy tomorrow?
• What can I release tonight?

A tired mind magnifies problems the way darkness magnifies shadows.

Many battles become smaller after rest.

As the old saying goes:

“Never make permanent decisions from temporary exhaustion.”

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Tomorrow is a Mountain Nobody Climbs Tonight

 

On the edge of a long and tiring day, a young architect named Elias would climb the narrow staircase to the rooftop of his apartment building. Below him, the city still buzzed like a restless engine—cars flowing like rivers of molten light, windows glowing like tiny constellations, people hurrying toward tomorrow before today had fully ended.

But Elias had a ritual.

Every night, he carried three things with him: a small notebook, a warm drink, and silence.

At first, he thought success came from pushing harder, sleeping less, and outrunning everyone else. Yet the harder he ran, the more his mind became like a cluttered room where even important things were lost beneath noise and exhaustion.

One evening, an elderly neighbour named Mr. Rahman joined him on the rooftop. The old man noticed Elias staring anxiously into the distance.

“What are you looking at?” he asked.

“Tomorrow,” Elias sighed.

Mr. Rahman chuckled softly.

“Tomorrow is a mountain nobody climbs tonight.”

Then he pointed to the city skyline.

“Do you see those buildings? Every tower goes dark floor by floor before dawn returns. Even cities rest. Why do you think you are stronger than a city?”

That sentence stayed with Elias for years.

From then onward, he stopped treating the end of the day as merely the collapse after work. Instead, he began treating evening as a sacred workshop where tomorrow was quietly prepared.

And slowly, his life changed.

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The Only Moment You Can Truly Live In Is This One

 

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We are extraordinary time-travellers, and not in any sense that science fiction has managed to capture. Every day, without effort and almost without noticing, we dart backward into yesterday's regrets and embarrassments, replay conversations we wish we had handled differently, rehearse the defences for confrontations that may never come. And we dart forward into tomorrow's anxieties and next month's concerns and the vague, generalised dread of what might go wrong — all while the only life we actually have is happening right here, in this breath, in this room, in this unrepeatable moment that will never come again.

This is not a new observation. The contemplative traditions of almost every culture on earth have been making it, in various forms, for thousands of years. What is new is the extraordinary sophistication of the modern context in which this ancient challenge now plays out. We live in an environment designed, at significant cost and with considerable expertise, to prevent us from being present. Every notification is an invitation to leave the now. Every feed is an engineered drift into content that happened elsewhere, to other people, in other moments. The present has never had more competition.

Mindfulness and presence have, in some quarters, become wellness industry buzzwords — associated with expensive retreats, meditation apps with soothing interface design, and the general flavour of self-improvement culture. This is unfortunate, because what they point toward is both simpler and more radical than any of that. Presence is not a technique. It is an orientation. It is the decision, made again and again in ordinary moments, to actually be where you are — to give full attention to the person you are talking to, to taste the food rather than consuming it while reading, to notice the evening light rather than photographing it for later.

When you are fully here, something changes in the quality of experience. Conversations become deeper — you hear not only the words but the thing beneath the words, which is often the thing that most needs responding to. Meals become richer. Beauty becomes more visible, because you are actually looking at it rather than at the thought of it. Problems become more solvable, because you are engaging with them as they actually are rather than as you fear they might become. The present moment is not just where life happens — it is the only place from which anything useful or real can be done.

There is also a profound kindness in being present with another person that cannot be replicated by any other quality. You can be intelligent, articulate, and well-intentioned in a conversation, but if your attention is elsewhere — if you are composing your response while they are still speaking, if you are performing listening without actually doing it — the other person knows. Not always consciously, but in the way that the body knows things. The most generous gift you can give someone is your full, unhurried attention. It says, without words: you matter enough to have all of me, right now.

Come back to now. Not because the past and future are unimportant — they are not — but because now is the only place where anything can actually be done, felt, loved, created, or changed. The past is fixed. The future has not yet arrived. Now is where you live. It is where everything real happens. And it is, reliably, more interesting than the distracted, half-present version of it that most of us are experiencing most of the time. Wherever you are, be entirely there. The present moment will not wait — and it is magnificent.

Wherever you are, be entirely there. The present moment will not wait — and it is magnificent.

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Snippets From Singapore And Around the World (24 May 2026)

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Nothing is going to keep him from making harmonica music.
He is on the right direction!

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