About Ivy

I’m Ivy, a 26 year-old global citizen currently living in Singapore. I’m an ENTJ. I write for a living and design for fun. I spend my spare cash on gadgets and spare time pondering how the world works.

Ivy the Global Citizen

I am a classic adult third culture kid — multilingual and an avid fan of world cultures. A third culture kid is someone who grew up overseas, and have embraced:

1. the culture of her parents,
2. the culture of the foreign land in which she has resided, and
3. the culture of the communities she belonged to in the foreign land she resided

For more information, go to Wikipedia’s entry on Third Culture Kids.

As a result of my nomadic life, I currently speak 9; English and Hokkien natively, Mandarin fluently, French passively, Cantonese and Malay colloquially, Spanish, Indonesian and Korean basically. I can also understand and read basic Japanese, but I’m not going to include that in the 9, since I can’t speak or write yet.

Ivy the Communications Professional

I am a Communications Manager for SingTel, a major Asian multimedia and solutions ICT company. I was originally hired to oversee the company’s social media communications efforts. My portfolio has since evolved into financial communications, internal communications and event management.

With that said, everything written at nanyate.com and other related profiles, unless stated otherwise, are my personal views and in no way associated with my employer.

Ivy the ENTJ

According to the MBTI personality test, I hover somewhere between an INTJ and an ENTJ. I/ENTJs love efficiency. Everything we do, everything we think about, ultimately boils down to “how can we make the world run a little better?”

Ivy the Web Design Enthusiast

I’ve been designing websites since 1996. My designs walk a tightrope between aesthetics and usability. And while I enjoy designing very much, I have no intentions to monetize my skills any time soon. It remains a creative outlet for me — a therapeutic hobby, so to speak.

Ivy the Gadget Girl Geek

While most girls’ hearts skip a beat at the sight of the latest Chanel bag, my heart races for shiny, new gadgets. Unlike the guy geeks who are all about the specs, I’m sucker for good design and ergonomics. For me, it’s all about beautiful user interfaces, usable designs and decent specs.

Ivy the Philosopher

The world of philosophy and psychology intrigues me. It’s my life’s passion to understand myself and mankind. The quintessential question for me is “why?” — why do we think, feel and behave a certain way? Followed by the question, “how?” — how can I make things better for myself, others and the world?

I like to think that life is about progress; and the way to progress is to re-think the status quo, and nudge it along the path of evolution.

Nanyate.com is a travelogue of my journey to understanding the world within and around me; perhaps even a feeble attempt to change the world one word at a time.

I hope you will find interesting and insightful tidbits about life here.