News – tagged "Attunement"

1000 People & 2000 Chairs

Nov 28, 2022

My desk at work is particularly messy during this time of year as various floorplans, lists and a...

The Art of Confusion

Nov 21, 2022

Have you ever had those moments when the world suddenly seemed so big, and you were drowning unde...

Absurdity in the Garden City

Nov 14, 2022

For as long as I can remember, Singapore has been referred to as a Garden City. I first heard it ...

Take Me Back (One Page At A Time)

Nov 7, 2022

There is a lot of humour in digging up old things. Humour and heartbreak, the intertwined emotions.

Not Just Supporting Actors In A Real-Life Sitcom

Oct 31, 2022

Growing up in a big family that used to live on an island called Pulau Semakau, we faced our fair...

Berdiri sama tinggi, duduk sama rendah

Oct 25, 2022

Imagine the bitter pill of swallowing the fact that your community is never good enough [i].

The paradox of shame and celebration

Oct 17, 2022

It’s 5:45am and I’m on the bus heading home from the gym. Today was my first upper body workout o...

Brown Is Redacted: Our Existence Is Beauty

Oct 10, 2022

Sometimes, I’ll take a trip from the north to Geylang Serai market to purchase bunga rampai—Malay...

We must never forget our work

Oct 3, 2022

A friend texted me from Jakarta two days ago, congratulating me on the 25th anniversary of Ethos ...

Take heart, have courage

Sep 26, 2022

On a trip to Kinokuniya, I chanced upon an interesting book titled Before the coffee gets cold by...

Fields and Roses

Sep 19, 2022

When I was nine years old, the field behind the coffeeshop we frequented on Sunday afternoons was...

Badan Khairat: An Important Part Of Growing Up In West Coast

Sep 12, 2022

Malay/Muslim Mutual Benefit Organisations, or better known as badan khairat to my community, have...

Cast Away in Time and Space

Sep 5, 2022

A week ago, I sat watching the sun recede into the sea. In the foreground: the garden of the hote...

Sisterhood Is A Many-Splendoured Thing

Aug 29, 2022

My sister turned 29 a few weeks ago. It’s an impossible thing to me. I still haven’t quite reconc...

Many Tongues

Aug 22, 2022

When I was growing up, many adults in their 30s and older were multi-lingual, without any certifi...

Mastering the Art of Lightness

Aug 15, 2022

I’ve been trying to master the art of lightness. To move through life with ease when very often m...

In the Comfort of Books

Aug 11, 2022

It’s a big world. So I find comfort in books thathelp me make some sense.

We are not alone

Jul 30, 2022

Have you ever been part of a huge crowd of thousands, singing in unison to a song you all love?

Spring Cleaning

Jul 26, 2022

The books that I’m about to share with you have damages that I don’t even remember of. It’s a sur...

Imperfect pages, sauce on the side

Jul 18, 2022

But there’s something about my old and battle-worn books that make me keep coming back to reread ...

Calm deflection

Jul 12, 2022

Silat is fascinating. It combines martial arts with malay dance, and embraces the same approach o...

An Anthology About Race—and Everything Else

Jul 4, 2022

To honour the intermingling of grief, joy and anger that comes with being an Indian woman in Sing...

In Solidarity With Zakir Hossain

Jun 27, 2022

In today’s Attunement, we would like to express our solidarity with Zakir by highlighting the liv...

Will we ever be old enough?

Jun 20, 2022

I don’t seem to have the ability to make mistakes, fail, all while forgiving myself and moving fo...

Far Away Right Here

Jun 11, 2022

I’m not talking about feeling homesick or merely enjoying the rhythms of Singlish.

On Hybridity

Jun 4, 2022

As I embrace my hybridity, I relieve myself of the pressure to fit into neat boxes that society h...

Hello from the other side

May 28, 2022

Through these letters, I peeked at the inner lives of those who keep an independent publishing ho...

Stories are the clothes you wear

May 21, 2022

I think all our knowledge about our social world are really stories, just different forms of stor...

Of Echoes, Dial Tones and the Metaverse

May 14, 2022

Or maybe, realistically, all that she has to remember me by are the words I leave behind in the s...

In front of a forest, I am in awe

May 7, 2022

There is much I still do not know about the forest. It is still an inscrutable, magnificent, inti...

Fish market

May 4, 2022

I never thought of wet-markets as sites of inquiry, but in the history of science, they were an i...

Thinking of trees

Apr 23, 2022

These days, I make a mental note of the places where trees have been allowed to grow. At the corn...

The heart is the seat of intention

Apr 16, 2022

There is bountiful energy in this time to pursue beautiful change. No task no habit is too mammot...

Safe sounds

Apr 8, 2022

What can I say, but—we are alive—and what a wonderous thing that is to behold. Buoyed by immeasur...

I'm such a sucker for found family

Apr 4, 2022

As I’ve grown older and formed more disillusionments, I’ve increasingly valued pockets in which y...

Leaving things unfinished

Mar 28, 2022

The me that I want to be–proactive, and intelligent, and fearless, is not the me that I am. I’m s...

Remembering

Mar 21, 2022

Currently all I can think of when I think about International Women's Day is my grandmother. It i...

In Your Image

Mar 12, 2022

The fight for liberation for both women and queer rights cannot happen if not for our desire to b...

The past is never far away

Mar 7, 2022

In this place of so many homogenised spaces, I have found my home: a nest for dreaming, a shelter...

The sun, always the sun

Feb 28, 2022

It has been a week of grappling with ever worsening news. Amidst the darkening that’s creeping ov...

Magical, luminous things

Feb 19, 2022

I have flown across an ocean this week. This still sounds surreal to say.

No negotiation for blood debt

Feb 14, 2022

The Burmese language resistance poetry is deeply embedded in the country’s colonial past. When mo...

Burning holes in the darkness

Feb 7, 2022

Poets killed in broad daylight, writers tortured and maimed. I wonder if their ghosts watch on fr...

Tyranny needs no companions

Jan 31, 2022

We are living in a new Age of Authoritarianism, and it is incumbent on all of us to fight its opp...

Crossing threads and hoping for the best

Jan 24, 2022

It’s hard to let go of people who are still, technically, there. Just in another city, another ti...

Still in Motion

Jan 17, 2022

Running made me believe in my body again, that it could be—do I dare?—beautiful. Because it kept ...

Sitting With Grief

Jan 17, 2022

I have often felt violently lonely in my grief. So much that I avoided being alone. I know now th...

Think Before You Throw

Jan 17, 2022

In this new year, may we continue to honour the things that have made us who we are, as well as m...

Ethos' 2021 Favourites (Vol. 2)

Jan 17, 2022

We start December by continuing with the Ethos team's 2021 favourites! This round, we find joy in...

Rumination: This is how the world keeps going

Jan 17, 2022

Earlier this week, we asked you to share your burning questions. In this week's letter, our edito...