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And just in case you didn’t catch it…

The howling!

Friends, henceforth, things about the store will be posted in philomel-clothing.com or Stevie for store life. This place here will be lots of something else I think.

Today is Sunday. Today is also the day we’re open!

Our opening hours are from 2pm till late. Call the store if you are skeptical +65 6536 8590.

For friends outside Singapore, you can browse our look book at philomel-clothing.com.

See you all soon.

One day we were walking San Lang on a windy path before the beach and the next day he found us a shop!

It’s like one day I was a child and the next day the child found me.

Two weeks and our lives have changed forever. I do not believe that there is a time and place for everything (as they say). But I believe that everything has to end, both good and bad things. I don’t really know what I’m saying, but it’s something like this.

Tomorrow we will be packing up the left-behind things into boxes and moving little planets in our new shop. I say that because the place used to be a salon, and everything to be carried or moved weighs a piano or is orbiting in a stance of bigger things to come. Many things no one wants; more things no one knows what to do with. And little us two will be breaking our backs doing everything ourselves once more. So what sustains?

Fearlessness. Forgetfulness.

Some of you may know that I don’t run INPYARG/Goblin Market full time. For 9 hours every week day (many times more), I am an information developer.

You know those little instruction booklets that come with stuff you buy? Yeah, I write those. Before I became an information developer, I thought monkeys wrote those. I became one of those monkeys. The sentence I use the most in my life is really not What The Fuck like everybody thinks, but a more benign Click OK.

I love being an information developer. I love telling people how to get from A to B in the easiest manner. That’s just the kind of person I am; A to B no fuss.

Well I’ve quit my day job. It took me months to make that decision. To be completely honest, I did not actually think about it. Thinking about it entails planning. I did not actually plan. I just slept on it and slept on it and slept on it. I mostly wanted fate to make a decision for me. I had ridiculous thoughts like, ok, maybe I don’t have to do it, they’ll just lay me off and I’ll get a package.

It’s pretty scary to let fate make your decisions for you, because one day fate will tell you to drop dead. Three days after I put in my letter Michael Jackson died. It was a sign to me.

A week from now I will be running INPYARG/Goblin Market full-time. Not because we are making enough to support two adults, a dog, a fighting fish and some houseplants, but I know that for us to get there I can’t be doing this half-assed. Like my friend Lynda says, can really cheong!

Wish us luck. I have a lot of unlearning to do.