The Slow Sunday Journal
Slow Living
How to switch the week off and do Sunday well — the art of the unhurried weekend in Singapore.
A perfect lazy Sunday in Singapore, hour by hour
A slow Sunday in Singapore's east, hour by hour — sunrise at East Coast Park to a golden-hour picnic under a tree — and the science of why resting outdoors does more for your sleep and your “cortisol face” than the gym.
How to close the day without a drink: the grown-up wind-down
A drink feels like it ends the day; it only postpones it. The founder of the 5:15 Club on the grown-up way to close the border of the day — and let your body power down the way it was built to.
What to bring when you're invited over: the considered non-alcoholic gift
A Singapore guide to the buah tangan for the way we live now — what to carry through the door when wine no longer fits the table, and how to hand it over well.
The new flex is being unbothered: why rest became the real status symbol in Singapore
Busyness was Singapore's favourite boast for a generation. The founder of the 5:15 Club on why the status symbol has quietly flipped — and why the most enviable thing you can be now is rested.
How to Sunday well: a Singaporean's guide to doing absolutely nothing
The founder of the 5:15 Club — 5am wake, gym check-in timestamped daily, never misses — on why doing absolutely nothing is the hardest skill a Singaporean can learn, and why Sunday is where you learn it.
How to Do a Slow Sunday in Singapore
A field guide to the off-switch — the early hour before the heat, the long unhurried lunch, the afternoon that asks nothing of you, and the evening that keeps Monday at bay. Not a productive Sunday done gently, but a day you let go slack on purpose.