January 19, 2021 Drew Pan Geek Culture Singapore’s Circuit Breaker measures to tackle Covid-19, which involved keeping everyone home and limiting external movement for inhabitants of the whole country, was an effective way in managing the pandemic in the tiny Republic, but it also exposed the five million residents to the concept of loneliness and solitude. It also inspired at least one writer to look deeper into himself, and do better. Having recently left his full-time marketing job and with his freelance projects delayed due to Covid, Drew Pan, 41, could have several things to manage his time, finances and career, or lack thereof, but instead, the time to himself, when he was not looking after his two young ones with his wife, was to a notebook and started writing.