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I wanted to take a moment to document this while it’s still fresh in my head. Earlier this month, I played what might have been my first proper large-scale jazz gig in years: a big band show with the Julian Chan Jazz Orchestra and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra at Dewan Filharmonik Petronas. It felt like stepping back into a life I once knew intimately. Long rehearsals, pages of charts, setups, fills, the satisfying punch of a shout chorus landing exactly right. We even

Some milestones occur quietly for you, but this one didn’t. When I first saw the email saying “accepted for publication,” I felt that...

I recently spoke to a few friends going through something, as we often are in Singapore. It translates to many versions of the same:...

Some milestones don’t feel like turning points. They just feel like the next square on a board you’ve been steadily moving across for...