I'm Kaixin. I've spent my life in the business of getting ideas across — in newsrooms, in policy rooms, and lately, in code: bots, pipelines, and small machines that make everyday life run smoother. This is the version of me that doesn't fit on a name card.
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Former broadcast journalist. Current communications person by day. The rest of the time: builder of bots and productivity tools, occasional songwriter, and student of how Singapore talks to itself — in four languages and one glorious creole.
The through-line, if you need one: I'm interested in how meaning travels. Sometimes that's a headline. Sometimes it's a hook in Hokkien-inflected Singlish. Sometimes it's a pipeline that turns chaos into something readable. Same instinct, different instruments.
FILED FROM // Beijing · Bangkok · Shanghai · Fukuoka · Hong Kong · Singapore
Trained on deadlines in a national newsroom. I write fast, edit ruthlessly, and believe every sentence should earn its place — including this one.
My favourite medium lately. I build bots, pipelines, and productivity tools with code and language models — machines that read, sort, fetch, and format, so humans can keep the thinking parts. Craft, just with different materials.
A side language. Original music in English, Mandarin, and the Singlish in between — written for the joy of it.
Two Telegram bots that know when your bus is actually coming — one for the NUS campus shuttle, one for Singapore's public buses. Built in Python, self-hosted, and quietly saving strangers from staring at bus stops. Small problems, real solutions — my favourite kind of project.
Nights-and-weekends automations: pipelines that read and format the news, workflow bots that chain tools together, and a small project tracker built on Supabase and Next.js. If a task is boring twice, it gets automated the third time.
Master's in AI & Innovation at NUS, taken part-time and on purpose — because the tools reshaping my field deserved more than a passing acquaintance.
A side catalogue of original music — English, Mandarin, and Singlish, the half. Made for fun, kept because some choruses deserve to exist. Listen →
On mid-career anxiety, night classes, dy/dx after 20 years, and why upskilling is painful but worth it.
Read on CNA →The Chinese companion to the CNA piece — a mid-career manager goes back to school for AI, and discovers the hype was never the hard part.
Read on Zaobao →On repair over replacement, and why the most sustainable — and most meaningful — tradition might be treasuring what already exists.
Read on ST →A Robin Hood budget? On wealth, taxes, and what a fair social compact asks of those who have more.
Read on Zaobao →What K-drama's domineering CEO trope can teach us about leadership styles and Singapore's next social compact.
Read on Zaobao →Black swans, black elephants, and why imagining Singapore's futures beats being surprised by them.
Read on Zaobao →Went undercover among Beijing's iPhone scalpers. The story earned a Star Awards nomination; the scalpers, presumably, moved on.
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Covered Bangkok's yellow-shirt protests solo — no camera crew. Just a reporter, a camera, and a deadline.
Filed broadcast stories in two languages — English for CNA, Mandarin for Channel 8. Same story, twice the deadlines.
Once grew a Facebook page 60x. Still can't fully explain the algorithm.
Former president of a university snooker & pool club. Undefeated, in memory only.
Taught primary school kids in Fukuoka the fundamentals of journalism. They asked better questions than most press conferences.
Reported from a Maoist women's militia training camp in Nepal. Rifles, drills, and a long walk in.