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TRUEORIGIN.NET: Home of Singaporean Artist & Author,

Meryl (maiden nickname)

Mrs. Schindhelm nata Mdm. Yeo, Yawen {雯}

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TRUEORIGIN is the name of my channel. Some may have mistaken this as a surname, but it’s never been one. I’ve said this before — wearing your slur can make you look stronger. There’s no such thing as blaming the “system” — I certainly never bought into it. That’s just what someone says so they never have to deal with you as a person or do the work. Every system is made of people. Every person can choose. But it would be wrong for anyone to remove my choice just because it’s easier to let someone more familiar do things which they know are also wrong, even if only doing what’s easier hurts everyone including themselves.

I have never sold my shares. I have never donated them nor authorized any such transactions. I have never transferred nor donated my rights. There was failure to disclose information to me as shareholder. Because I was never made aware that I had a stake in anything, and my requests for information were denied, I could never have given consent to donate my position, stake or assets or whatever I was never made aware of.

I am trying to find a lawyer.

It’s never been about virtual names. TRUEORIGIN was never a surname, it’s my channel name. Meryl is my maiden nickname, I’ve used it since I bussed tables in Melbourne and earned a modest hourly rate to make my dreams come true. And I did make it happen, even when others especially Singaporeans were saying it should be impossible! People who saw my effect, helped make it happen. I could’ve earned more but I avoided things misaligned with who I am and was becoming. And I had my success.

I’m someone who worked from scratch and from nothing after my family lost everything at the turn of the century. No one has the right to force me to donate what’s mine to someone else, when I’m using it for myself to make a difference. Many people before them saw how I work, saw how my work lifted others, and opened doors because they believed I deserved to succeed. They saw that I could make a difference. That’s why I had my first breakthrough and success before coming to Switzerland. No one has the right to decide for me or force their way, just because they think they deserve to take what I have without working for it and without ever getting to know me.

We, the little people, deserve to have our own stories told by ourselves. And not by somebody else. We should have a choice. I already tried out the other way, after everything was taken from us in my teens, and I had good offers but it’s not for me. So why can’t I choose? I did the alleged impossible and earned enough to fund my own launch in Art & Culture as an artist & writer. I earned my right to tell my own story. It should be up to me. There is demand. At my 22 Starlight Road studio in 2017, a 94-year old Singaporean pitched in the moment he heard that I’m a literary writer because he ‘got’ it. After a lifetime of giving to others, why should we still be forced to have others speak for us, to use my material and say it’s theirs, to force me to “donate” my assets when they never sought consent, just because a small handful who take the position to look good feel it would make them look bad? Just because they need to look like the clever ones all the time, to please goodness knows who? I thought these people were independent, which master do they serve? After I had my first breakthrough, why should anyone help one or two bad eggs force me to donate my voice to somebody else, after so many self-made people saw the difference I was making and decided to open doors for me?

I never “came out of nowhere”. When someone says that, it just goes to show that they never had to consider or see as human anyone who had to work from the bottom up or lift a tray and do a service. They literally never thought any one of us would succeed. But now I’m here. What gives them the right to decide, when none of them pass their own tests and have to use force or manipulation because to them it’s a giant competition and they’re unable to “win” any other way. To me it’s always been more about finding one’s own purpose and seat in life and, by example, help people find their own seat and purpose too. To figure out what life could come to mean for yourself, in tandem with others and the wider world as a collective.

I’m an MoE certified instructor — Gallup Strengthsbased, specializations in Lifeskills & Anti-cyberbullying. ~15 year full-time international career spanning multiple industries & MNCs, including high performing teams in top establishments big and small.

I designed and use a series of self-conceived performance art techniques to produce my own original artistic and literary material. It’s an entirely unique creative process which has never been fully reproduced. Some people have begun using small parts of it, but never yet the whole.

In 2016 my successful debut, the Art of Zine-making workshop, was well-attended and received an excellent response. The non-charity event raised my profile as an Artist & Author. I had a studio on 22 Starlight Road (2016-2018). At present Google AI’s writeup has incorrectly linked my workshop to someone else’s Instagram account. The girl looks subcontinental Indian. I’m very obviously a certain type of diaspora Chinese as seen from my Zinemaking workshop picture. I’m trying to get this fixed and will drop SingLit Station a line. I’ve included the non-black and white version of my photo below.

I’ve never sold, leased or transferred any part of my original works, IP, copyrights and/or rights. I’m firmly non-AI, do no ghostwritten work, and use none. My works are original and my own, derived from a lifetime of real-world lived experience. I tend to choose my own experiences, but in this world most societies are still wary of self-directed women. I’ve never consented to my work being presented as charity. There are areas of consent within agreed exchanges, certain terms set with transparency. Then there are ones without consent, where you have people who are simply unable to control themselves. The latter is to be avoided.

Choose kindness as the highest form of leadership. In a ruthless world, it’s heard the loudest, even when others dominate the airwaves waving messages borrowed, or stolen.

If interested in using my material, I welcome a sit-down chat about projects and collaboration with egalitarian, mutual value exchanges.

I’ll post a video soon on what’s been going on. It’ll be pretty obvious it’s me.

This Page is Under Construction.

Stay Tuned!

Me in 2016. Not the type to be stationed right behind the camera, although I can also write & direct. Oh yeah, and, I’ll post a video soon to talk about what’s been going on so we can all stop playing guessing games. Been busy clearing things up after someone tried to make me go missing. I’m on it.