SINGAPORE: When events started being put on hold around January 2020, I wasn’t particularly afraid. I thought I could adapt, and that I was assured of a job in the company where I’d done my internship.
I majored in interactive media, and before my final year at university, I had interned at a creative agency. When school started, I continued with the agency on a part-time basis.
I was a creative technologist. I was the tech lead in events, doing projection mapping and augmented reality (AR) installations. (Projection mapping is a technique that turns irregularly shaped objects into a video display surface.)
The news that I no longer had a post-graduation job came subtly.
I go, “Boss, you’re still hiring me?” And he says, “Eh? You know the situation — I can’t.” And I go, “Okay, I understand.”
