Standing in front of the camera now, I feel more comfortable than ever. Chatting with Ngiap Heng during this session, I realised he’d been there for several key moments in my career. He was the one who did my first-ever professional shots for a TV gig in Singapore 18 years back. That was for 9 Lives on Arts Central in 2005, a show Tan Kheng Hua put together. Working on that show with veteran actors such as Pam Oei, Lim Yu-Beng, and Sani Hussin it opened the door for me into the theatre industry. Back then, I’d only been in Singapore for six months and was pretty jittery, not knowing a soul that day. Those first photos capture that mix of excitement and the whole adjusting to a new home. Looking at the latest pictures Ngiap Heng has snapped, it’s like seeing the journey from those early days to where I am now.