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Independent Writer of English Literature & Fine Artist
Meryl Yeo, Yawen
Actually written & illustrated by a person (me! As above, and below)
*Registered in Switzerland without a say, as:
Yawen Schindhelm née Yeo*
(formerly aka Mrs. Michael Schindhelm 2019-2024)
My Singapore passport name has never changed. By Swiss law, authorities have to respect my choice.
My numbers have changed.
I’m an Independent writer of Literature, and Fine Artist from Singapore (non-Government), entirely self-funded and self-directed.
Trueorigin is my Channel Name,
Conceived of by myself in Australia in 2012 as a sole proprietor;
It’s never been a Family name.
It’s unrelated to any other individual or group.
I’m firmly non-AI. I’m entirely self-directed in all aspects of life and healthy — even if there are those who wish that it were untrue — and am my own boss. No parent company, no benefactors.
I’m no employee. I’m not being paid at all by anyone’s company, and I receive no benefits except the ones I give myself. I’m the business owner. I insure myself and pay for my own accommodation (such as in Australia). I’m free to arrange my own plans. By the way, I have no home in Italy or the Italian speaking part. So if you’ve been funding somebody for it, none of it is going to me and the individual you’re giving it to has done nothing to protect me. If anything, I’ve had to double my efforts in defending myself since our involvement as they turned out to be selling me out, and that means they rather took away my precious time and resources away from my own career and life — hence the temporary appearance of my life stalling or disappearing off the radar.
My works and I are about the truth against all odds, without the fake colours and distortions of politics/control — authentic human expression & experience, the truths we live out in our real lives on the ground and as they’re experienced.
It’s possible to have healthy & high self-esteem in today’s world without doing only what others want to see. If someone who’s hung up about life sees your fun, your freedom and genuine creativity and wants to put a dampener on it instead of share or join in, that’s on them. They are responsible for their own uncontrolled emotions, maladaptive attitudes towards the world, and inability to get along with the rest of us. There’s space for everyone and nothing wrong with someone living their own life according to their own real ability. I succeeded according to myself. I went to Nanyang Girls’ High in Singapore — Singapore’s top Chinese girls’ school, which had a gifted programme for both STEM and the Arts. I was a junior track & field athlete (Gold, Silver, and Bronze), entered the school’s Gifted Art Program (AEP) with the highest entrance score that year, had a string of awards for both solo and group efforts (Tie-breaker for Gold - theatre/sound design KMW 1997). People wanted to see me succeed, and so I have instant contrast when others are being unnatural or want to put you down or under them (not about their points of view, but the action/s they’re taking and aim/intent). At the height of the attacks against our core founding families in the 80’s through the 90’s, with foreign bad actors trying to undermine Lee Kuan Yew’s unexpected influence in the region by attacking his roots at the heart of his closest communities, I was forced to leave Singapore and continue my education in Australia. However, I was not safe there, someone was giving away the details of our families from the inside. While I started as a Fashion major (Australia), I transitioned into a seamless career starting in Singapore across multiple industries in Fortune 500’s and cream-of-the-crop boutique establishments (3-hat, 5-star), while carrying out my own personal research, eventually graduating in Accounting & Business (Australia). I’ve met many Easterners and Westerners who either absolutely love the fact that my existence breaks all stereotypes and they cackle with delight over my CV/cover (they knew what to ask to be sure that I absolutely worked those jobs and am who I say I am), or who were completely shocked and/or angry when overhearing or engaging in conversations with me like this wasn’t supposed to be possible or they felt unsafe or all ants in their pants unless they could immediately hammer you down into a square peg. As if they needed to be able to explain the world immediately or their heads would explode (I usually eject myself from such conversations quite quickly, like in safari mode on youtube and there’s aggro from a hippo or something).
They tried to change my story. Tried to remove us from the heart of the communities, say we don’t exist. But people remember. We quietly do it our way, even when it’s been made unsafe to be ourselves out in the open sometimes, we do what we can while staying safe, step by step, ignoring the -isms that try to lie about our nature and force us to give our narratives away. And I’ve never stopped Dreaming, our pristine and inimitable Singapore Dream. All these people want in, but this is something they’ve never been able to defile or touch. They’re unable to work with the material. They let Western queens grace the covers of global magazines, while our real-life equivalents are made to be in rags, or made up to look like men (administratively too apparently!), cast down to the bottom and/or be made invisible, while everyone’s told we don’t exist, are servants or up for sale — but this is hardly the truth, the people who say this of us are just the haters trying hard to make sure of it. They’re trying to change our story, they’ve certainly been trying to change mine for the past years — stick on some tacky thing from someplace else as if we’d fit into the next best mould (sorry we’re totally bespoke), or they only know of something that’s already happened before so this must be it and you have no say. A lot of them doing this are pretending to be friends or kindred souls also from the First World, pretending they’re ready and living up to their own espoused standards (they’re not, a lot of them are actually quite backwards and seem to need more time to catch up to their own parroted ideologies whereas my mindset is totally custom-built by myself in the English-speaking First World and layered over time; none of them are qualified to instruct and unless they’re working peer-to-peer with or under me — which again, they’re not — they’re mostly hogging data/information and resources to falsely look like they are in charge or are higher qualified to instruct — once again, they’re none of these and in several cases are unqualified as many a Singaporean professional on the ground has noted) or some sort of role models teaching us something that’s good for us when most of them aren’t even positioned to do anything more than make a quick buck with their marketing spin because many leaders in the West keep their people poor and trapped in cycles where they have to do it for survival even if they hate themselves for it later and overcompensate by giving it up to opportunistic gurus who make money anytime they can alienate them from their own cultural anchors and families; the ones who want to pay tin coins for our immortal material, are victims too and can only make a victim of you!
But I think there are those of us who know better and have started to see through this, possibly see solutions. Those of us who never give up. And, I’m on it. They’ve done something that takes me a while to recover, tried to falsely associate me with their irrelevant ideologies or political problems to obscure my apolitical message and story. But the truth will prevail, and I’m heartened to know that it will hardly be the one that these misery profiteers want to see. Even when we’ve achieved the impossible, there will be salty people who try all means and ways to deny it ever happened, that we ever existed. I’m often told that the West and their minority henchmen don’t see us as equals, and it’s the Westerners themselves who are telling me this and apologizing, well that’s fine by me I don’t see them as equals either so we’re even — I mean they’ve literally just had to kidnap me to Switzerland for some years after pulling all the stops to make it look like a legit offer with someone who could accommodate to let me have my uninterrupted career with family/kids as late as possible, only to take away my nice clothes (replace with cheap Charlie rags n discount Zara) and sketchbooks/notebooks and luggages, “anyhow” arrange me to be marked as a low level employee not a boss/owner, and hold my pristine ID/admin in Switzerland only to draw childish 1800’s doodles on it thinking it makes them temporarily look better (i.e. “I dun give you yor ID. I go and change ur schurname on gahmen database, chop you suey into two. ha-ha! If I like wat u say, den you are the person. If I dun like wat u say, den sawrie you cannot access yor records coz I mark as another person’s records so it’s not you. No one will belief you, me canton gahmen, my fren got Hooman Rights HQ badge, neni neni boo boo. You haf to westpect us! Achtually we know Singapore no communist, we just want what you haf but dun wan to pay, so we say you communist first, den people dun belief we do this one. Hee-hee!”). Says it all, they can’t win by ideas and good spirit. They had their chance, they can go away until they’re ready, and I’ll carry on finding the ones who are ready for some real authentic adventures.
I’m independent and operating completely on my own funding. I was a business owner while in Switzerland, in Art & Culture. My main successful works and core earnings come from groundwork I laid prior to that, I saw no reason why I would be unable to continue in my career considering their success and proven cultural significance in the West, resulting in several movements and changed the entire way the industry conceives/works with its material. If there’s something that someone wants, especially people who hold official positions in any given global top production machine, they should ask me instead of making me search for them while they’re just totally emotionally devastated about their own existence, holing themselves in feeling tormented and jealous and conflicted seeing the talent of individuals like myself with obvious access to this unrestrained creativity and unfettered pleasure that they want for themselves — the connection that has enabled and enables me to create this material almost spontaneously anytime I want or require, while I’ve clearly had no need to pledge allegiance to anything or anyone, be exceptionally “pure” (by their definitions) or be anyone/any way other than myself. I’ve never had to join anything or date/marry anyone before I did and could do all this.
There’s no excuse to put up for sale my recordings and/or manuscripts claiming it was inherited from your relative(s), when it’s obviously brand new material that’s never been published and we have no relation, then use it in these multimillion dollar commercial productions totally unabridged, word for word and end-to-end and even my music (should I be flattered). I’m in no way being taken care of. I have no parent company, and am no one’s employee. I am unaffiliated with any TV/movie production company, religion, healer, and/or artist. I have paid them to stay at their properties while traveling around for e.g. in Australia. I’m the customer, and I’m my own boss. I decide when I get paid, when I pay people to stay somewhere and whatnot that’s my money. I’m on no one’s payroll and drawing no benefits except the ones I arrange for myself.
I have no disabilities, and am known for my robust good health. It’s always just a handful of sour people who want to see me put down for their own gains (incidentally, many of them appear to have suffered from real illnesses, whereas my creativity comes from a healthy connection and deep meditative ability). I’m paying good money for my stays at Airbnb’s (above-average rates) and Booking.com/Agoda websites, entirely out of my own pocket, and I plan and arrange my own travel itineraries and transfers (also paid for by myself — no company claims, I run my own company with no one else above me). I’m also fully responsible for my own healing. As these are my own expenses which I paid for out of my own pocket, born of my own efforts and manual online searches, I would decline to have them presented as though I were being provided charity/ free accommodation and/or as if someone else were responsible for paying my bills and/or healing me.
Certain people have always found excuses to not pay the original authors and inventors, press us into the ground to try and force us to abandon everything and run while they take over our material and claim they’re the author/inventors.
When I peaked and became noticed for my abilities and works, it became impossible for others to downplay my significance or attack my character/ideas without giving weight to my ideas/person and/or sounding like they were being sour. Since then and especially in recent years, there seems to have been strong efforts made by others to instead try and cast doubt on my identity/authorship, or arrange to give away credit to unrelated individuals and causes for my own success and healing in ways that they were never involved in. It’s taken some time to get back on track, but I’ve never moped and never stopped moving.
I’m entirely self-made; I am and have been the one responsible for my own success, enabled by my own applied choices and efforts. I was born with the ability. There were those who saw this and chose to quietly help me and/or open doors, remove obstacles in my path, but I’m the main person responsible for doing my own healing and arrangements. Others have helped me release blocks, get there faster and/or facilitated, but the work and ability is mine. No one taught me, I did those parts myself without assistance. Even in today’s vast sea of public misinformation, I can discern what I need to and actually find it slightly amusing, because none of this is enough to stop me — including the false meta here in Australia, where I’ve already made several of my own transfers (to the apparent shock of others who seem unaccustomed to being noticed much less meeting someone in control of themselves — which means I am really who I say I am, and have accomplished what I’ve accomplished, even if they are unwilling to admit that I’m the real deal. There were people who wanted what I have, but worried that I’d become too influential due to my level of authenticity and drive). I have a younger sister who lives in Melbourne, who happened to take some of my personal belongings when I left in 2015. In no way does this confer access to my identity, my abilities and/or what I have achieved. I’ve helped her with her resume and cover letter while in Melbourne from 2010-2015, and she got her first job in her 30s. I’ve had a strong career since age 19, and am no longer an employee of any company. As the business owner, I insure myself and decide when I want to pay myself.
True Leaders use their positions to effect great change, rather than just hog the positions and do nothing. It’s odd that I would be expected to fulfill some kind of leadership role when I’ve been given neither the position or resources to do so. It’s the responsibility of whoever is officially given that position and being paid for it.
I authorize no use of my private details to make false claims of me being an employee of any company.
When you start being successful at anything or are noticed, it seems there are just as many people who try to help you as there are those trying to stop you. Unfortunately, there appears to be little to no immediate benefit to those who help, while the latter are clearly instantly incentivized by money, particularly when they can insert themselves as middlemen to collect what’s yours without doing the work, making sure whatever’s intended for you never reaches you. Or at least, they wish. I’m arranging my own manual transfers by. myself at present. There are people trying to give the impression that they are helping me or acting as my protector, but in fact because they do nothing but make things more difficult, take up my time/space and parasitically channel my resources to themselves, they are and have been creating obstacles to me finding/receiving help to achieve my goals because people mistakenly think something is actually being done or that I’m being helped — even when I keep saying nothing is being done. They make it look like they’re my “saviour(s)” when they’re in fact putting themselves in my way as a main obstacle to me moving forward with my plans — and it’s deliberate, rather than as an unintended effect which would have been easy to resolve.
I’ve never sold my private time, nor consented to have such a thing arranged to look like it were the case. I do no such business and it would be glaringly obvious to anyone within mere minutes of meeting me that it goes against everything I’ve ever worked for, how I’ve gone out of my way to structure my life, and that such an arrangement would’ve have had to be done behind my back — most likely to cast doubt on my authenticity/ authorship/ ownership, to try and block me from continuing to enjoy the good response I’ve had, which comes naturally and has allowed me to stay independent and mobile. I’m a full-fledged professional, not an intern or student. My original unabridged material was embraced by them as their culture, used extensively across successful global works in US fortune 500 entertainment companies for commercial purposes, and changed the way the industry operates/produces. My identifiers are actually closely woven into the material they used, end of the day there’s nowhere to run for them. It’s as though they wish to be able to stop me from being able to provide for myself the way I always have, to continue making my living doing the things I love and possibly even try to stop me from enjoying life unless I do only what “they” want to see for me. “Or else”. Because “they said so”. It may be political, since my organic success challenged/s the narratives we’re being told to accept why we can’t be/have this or that, why things have to be a certain way, or about our true nature as individual human beings in the world at large, and our alleged purpose and place in it.
I’ve never agreed to support any political cause at any time and/or be seen to do so.
People can believe and do whatever they want for themselves. As long as they’re not seriously expecting to force me into anything outside of what we’ve agreed.
For what it’s worth, here I come with pen and brush as sword. :>
I will announce my projects exclusively here on trueorigin.net.
There are many copycats, but only one .Net
Yes, I still like retro video games.
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