My name is Marcus. I am in my forties. I grew up in Singapore, moved away for a few years, came back, and settled around Queenstown — Commonwealth Crescent, mostly, with Dover and the MRT lines stitching my days together. I work in operations for a logistics firm. The job is structured. My head is not always.
I started LifeRush because I kept losing small moments. The first kopi of a humid morning. A stranger holding a train door without making it a speech. Ducks on a canal path when I took the long way home because the short way felt too loud inside my skull. These are not events that belong in a group chat. They are beats — quick, easy to forget, worth one honest paragraph each.
I write in first person because that is the only voice I have for this. What you read here is what I saw, heard, or felt at the time I wrote it. Memory shifts. Mood shifts. I will revise if someone tells me I got a detail wrong — a street name, a date, something I misremembered from across a block.
Queenstown is not a backdrop I rent for atmosphere. It is where I buy vegetables, where the auntie at the kopitiam nods when I walk in, where void decks smell like rain on concrete and fried shallots at different hours of the same day. Commonwealth and Dover are part of the same rhythm — market runs, bus transfers, the flicker of corridor lights coming on one floor at a time. I try to write about neighbours and places with care. I do not speak for anyone else. I do not name people who did not ask to be named.
Most posts are light. A pour. A seat. A market win. One piece on the site goes deeper — a memory from near Chin Swee Road that still sits in my chest with unfinished edges. I wrote it because the silence after a sound can stay with you longer than the sound itself. Everything else stays closer to the ground.
If you want to reach me, use the contact form or email [email protected]. I read everything. I do not always reply fast — life has its own tempo — but I do reply.
Thanks for reading. Stay for one post or read the whole journal. Either way, you are welcome here.