3 full days of Lunar New Year festivities and dealing with a 7-going-to-8-month-old over-stimulated and inadequately rested baby. The #momguilt is so so real. (When people say he’s not well-fed and ‘skinny’ like me.) The anxiety being around large groups of people gets to me too. And for everyone/anyone that tells me not to worry, I’m sorry I can’t ‘not worry’. He’s my baby 😭 @noahtobiaschen #familybabschen #babybabschen #mrandmrsbabschen

I'm grateful for the platforms and avenues that allow me to share about things that matters to me. Thank you @channelnewsasia for publishing this story, @samsung_sg for the very meaningful #dowhatyoucant tagline that has since brought so many inspiring stories. Thank you @swiddlydink for our conversation and for writing it so well what i had inadequately tried to say. And big thanks to those of you who wrote to me after reading this writeup. There's so many of you who has reached out and shared about your own journey so openly, sincerely and authentically! It is things like that that makes my work all so worth it. Let's keep growing and heading towards this interesting and unpredictable journey we call Life. Click on the link in my igstory to bring you to the article. https://cnaluxury.channelnewsasia.com/people/challenging-times-make-us-stronger-says-sheila-sim-12046388 #sheilalovesherlife #ssfoodforthoughts #sheilalovesherjob #sspositivepsychology #emotionalhealing #divinetiming #spiritualjourney @thenumanagement @the_celebrityagency

which, during the peak of the Bubble Economy, was an underground movement. As time went on, otaku culture made its way into the mainstream, eventually becoming a shared language around the world. Now, it no longer feels necessary for me to try and explain the culture, inadequately at that. Japan became increasingly poor in the meantime, and I found a group of creators that was still energetically expressing itself by finding ways to manage in this new-found poverty. Apparently they worked in the genre of seikatsu kogei (Lifestyle Crafts) and I didn’t really understand what the movement was about, so I started buying many of their works. It is serious art that can be purchased by the average consumer at a “buyable” price. Similar in a way to otaku culture, its target audience is always and only the general public. After continuously buying these works for about 10 years, something about the language these artists use in telling their stories started to pique my interest. Even such creators need words to express themselves from time to time. The cornerstone these artists keep referring back to is Sōetsu Yanagi (1889 - 1961), the founder of the Mingei (folk crafts) movement. There is also an antique shop, or rather, a shop that deals in furudōgu (literally, “old tools”)—weathered articles which most likely wouldn’t even be considered antiques—by borrowing from Yanagi’s theories, and the philosophy and directionality of this shop, named Furudōgu Sakata, has also attracted many young artists. There is an aesthetic sense to how the shop owner, Kazumi Sakata, finds these items and lays them out in his store, and the trio of players in the realm of seikatsu kōgei—Masanobu Ando, Akito Akagi, Koichi Uchida—attempted to digest this principle. These three men energetically promoted the advancement of its comprehension by making works or writing essays in various media. As the novelty of the trio began to wear off, Utsuwa Shōken, a gallery specializing in contemporary ceramic art, quietly began its business in Kamakura, and started publishing books as well. Continue... 📷 @ikkiogata