A personal blog · Singapore
Mind, flaring
Small ideas that flare up on ordinary days — I write them down before they go out.
I'm Arjun. I live around Ghim Moh and Commonwealth, and this is where I park the thoughts that arrive uninvited — a question scribbled on a café napkin, a chain of coincidences on a bus ride, the afternoon at 51 Chin Swee Road when sirens started and my mind had no facts to latch onto. Not advice. Not a programme. Just a diary of sparks.
About me
I chase the half-second before an idea vanishes.
My head runs a side tab at all times. A stall uncle's pricing sign makes me wonder about fairness. A wrong turn down a Commonwealth lane becomes a whole afternoon of tangents. I built MindFlare because those sparks deserve a landing pad — somewhere they can cool into sentences before the next MRT announcement wipes them clean.
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Five recent pieces — cafés, markets, late-night corridors, and one afternoon at Chin Swee Road. Newest first.
Noise, then sirens — and no answer
51 Chin Swee Road, 12 November 2025 — sirens, a serious incident, and no clear story from where I stood.
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When the block goes quiet but the brain doesn't
Laundry done, fan humming — and still three unfinished questions circling the ceiling.
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One sign, three thoughts, no conclusion
A habit I noticed twice in one week — and the coincidence that wouldn't leave me alone.
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Questions from the market queue
Ghim Moh on a Saturday — one small wonder leading to another like dominoes.
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The napkin that wouldn't let go
A corner table, a half-finished kopi, and a question I had to write down before it escaped.
Read entry →Why I write
Ordinary days are full of unfinished sentences.
Singapore does not pause for your inner monologue. The bus comes, the queue moves, the rain starts without consulting your notebook. I am not trying to teach anyone anything here. I am not a therapist, a coach, or a brand with a framework to sell. I am one person who notices too much and forgets too quickly unless I type it out.
Most entries begin with something tiny — a chalk square on concrete, the way a stall uncle counts change, the particular silence of an estate after ten-thirty. From that seed, my mind tends to branch: a memory, a what-if, a comparison that probably only makes sense to me. That is the pleasure of it. The writing does not need to arrive anywhere definitive. It just needs to exist long enough for me to read it back later and remember what the air felt like that day.
If you have ever walked home with a thought buzzing and nowhere to put it, you might recognise the feeling. Browse the full journal archive, read about me, or say hello if something sparks a reply. I read every note when I can.
