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Meryl YEO, Yawen
Artist, Composer, Entrepreneur
Singaporean
Ignostic. FreeThinker. Firmly Non-AI-driven.
Previously Mrs. SCHINDHELM nata YEO, Yawen. By this I give no endorsement to any individuals and caution people to have a close look at who they really are and represent, to understand who they would be opening doors to. I have no authorized representatives, am the key decision-maker with no superiors or directors at any time — contact me directly. Meryl is my nickname (since 2003) and has never been used on my legal documents. My mother is Mdm. Lam, of Nanyang Girls’/Uni in Singapore, elected into leadership (student council VP, head of govt department) before our family was destroyed. We were excellent investors in spending vs. ROI and had a local following; just looking at cost price alone gives an inaccurate picture; I’ve tracked some of our portfolio items taken during the grab — today, they’re worth 5 to 50x their original value. My grandmother was a town co-mayor, later a teacher in Singapore when she turned down an invite to run for office, as our pawnshop business (we did assessments of precious metal/stones and heritage/royal items on the spot like the British show) would’ve been harassed by communists before they were driven out. My granduncle was an Archivist who ran the cantonal publication, and great grandfather was a farmer who had the region’s most concise library of books on regional law. We’re light-complexioned and temporarily burn or have allergies under too much sun. Things escalated when my grandparents passed away and my mother married my father, a successful capitalist who became Singaporean just 2-3 years after Singapore was founded. My father’s side had risen from poverty to become among the highest earning in the country, owned a car dealership, however he was seen as a gangster and I don’t mean someone who just tries to be edgy. My mother was practically ex-communicated for marrying him, then let back in after he died. Although he had it made, they never let him forget where he came from and set him up to look like he caused his own demise — guess they never thought the kids would learn how to be of much use in “Engrish”, much less learn about laws or economics and accounting, or that there would be eye witnesses to their paperwork and figures before the 20-year statute period on court documents was up.
I’ve been an active and conscious dreamer since I was a child. It’s informed my works, and I’m given to understand that some people became aware of this when I decided to demonstrate these gifts beyond doubt. I’ve noticed that none of the people I was put under, including in Switzerland, are qualified to assess me or manage my affairs. Some of them have never even had dreams, as I deduced from their line of questioning — which fills me with sympathy for them but I am in no way responsible for their lack of consciousness.
My first marriage from Oct 2019 to Nov 2024, formalized in Switzerland, marks the first and only time I entered into a monogamous contract with any individual, by way of official marriage paperwork. I’ve never signed such an agreement with anyone else, despite the fact I met all criterias people changed their minds once they learned my family fortune was gone and I’d worked jobs they felt were beneath our class while getting back on my feet. The fact that I’d worked in hospitality — including as flight attendant - before turning successful — was treated as a social stigma by my milieu. What happened to me over the years in Singapore, was the opposite of natural as it persisted even when these people were repeatedly proven wrong. My rise and the recognition of my works that followed when I started to become independent, however, was natural — but instead of admitting they were wrong, it seemed to only make certain groups with agendas more determined to suppress that natural growth and use crime to bury me. I’m proud to confirm that I upheld the Swiss marriage contract to the fullest extent despite the treatment. No messages, exchanges, activities or meetings of a romantic or sexual nature with any third parties outside the marriage were entertained by myself during this period. We had no children between us, real or adopted, as no space or resources were made available to me for motherhood nor enough to support basic living — Singaporean women are career women who become working mothers, all from free agreements and love, none from feminist movements. I must emphasize that before Oct 2019, no one had ever signed such a contract with me.
I have never given consent nor been approached for consent to be recorded, streamed, tracked and/or monitored in my private life and spaces. I’ve never consented to have any part of my likeness captured or used in any shape or form, in part or full, at any time, beyond one G-rated charity film supporting autistic school kids, and one PG-rated short for a non-artistic exhibition on cabin crew. Neither have I been made aware that anything immoral was being done.
No one can be held to a contract and terms that they never explicitly negotiated, defined, nor signed or agreed to enter. No one can be recorded in their own home or privacy without their knowledge or consent. A verbal contract can only come into existence if the terms are clearly defined by both parties in conversation, where the identities of both parties entering the contract and full terms are clearly declared and made known to the other party. If one or both (or more, in such contracts) parties refuse to define such terms or properly identify themselves, there is no contract. There is no making contracts with a person’s name on it but without their knowledge, involvement or consent, then going after them expecting them to fulfill that contract, much less punishing or extorting them for saying no to such things.
Many countries seem to weaponize the noble desire of today’s youth to make a difference in this world, to turn things around and change for the better. The European region is no exception, it seems, more like stepping into the first major centre of infection. The young seem to get sucked in by all this apathy and privilege-shaming on the one hand, juxtaposed by exciting marketing and political movements, then are unable to get out by the time they figure things out. I see for instance that the groundwork is laid here for such things — that on one hand an image of veritable paradise formed on the basis of human rights is being beamed out to the world stage, yet you arrive to 28 Days Later with your tourist unicorns and rainbows pamphlet and suddenly you’re on the ground fighting off these mindless zombies who clearly haven’t had a meal in a while but put on a front with their 1.5 out of 4 to 5 CV-advertised languages and joke paperwork even a bright 5-year old can do blind. It was astounding to see this being done first and foremost to Europeans. Coming from Singapore, this was really something. Also, a vast number of things marketed to us as “upgrades” are patently inferior in quality. A common mistake is to wrongly conflate dollar pricing with total value and ROI (marketing), assuming what we had before as inferior since we paid little to nothing for it. In the name of obtaining “upgrades”, without accurately discerning value/return and quality, we easily end up abandoning what we were originally outfitted with and paying more for something vastly inferior. Like trading a Miele for one of those US stick vac brands (no points for guessing which). This, in turn, overflows to artists and writers within our respective cultures. For instance in Singapore’s case, despite being a top first world nation it repeatedly fails to understand how things work, fails to properly discern and develop value, blindly assuming things Western, European or overtly paper-certified to be superior and constantly losing money there, never properly recognizing the value of its own artists/writers, or understanding that artists need to be paid for their work. They do this until the West puts their stamp of approval or is seen to profit from it — it lost some valuable cultural material and unrelated parties benefited in unscrupulous ways. Meanwhile it denies independent success, pretending there is no demand for the local artists unless it can say it “taught” them how to become successful. It also struggles to grasp and deal with the fact that someone they looked down on for being a “waitress”, “customer service” or “air hostess” (trades they associate with poverty and sex work) turned out to be an author of intellectual work, even though they know full well what my family background is. Last time I left off, they were constantly interrupting my remote work at cafes, trying to push me into vice, inappropriate activities or outright suggesting that’s the way I earn my money when we’re just supposed to talk about art collaborations. Maybe what they meant, was that they wanted to make sure of it. Such is the level of prejudice I face, and still create my works despite and in spite of.
My works include the full breadth of a production blueprint, from original written compositions — poetry, prose, musical lyrics — original musical notes and baseline/tempo, construction of characters and story, theatre play and scenes also adapted for TV/movie format. In the right conditions I compose with accuracy across cultures and major religions, dead or alive. The response to me and what I do has been excellent, it only changed when some apparently made some false links with my names then decided to use it as an excuse as they wanted control over my estate. And I also underestimated the level of jealousy I faced. Once I was in Switzerland, all funding was refused for my projects or to even obtain a studio. Anytime I started to work on my projects, I was stopped by disruptions to financials and living. In the first instance that I registered my international copyrights and trademarks, I was unable to because of how the Swiss government had changed my surname and registered gender — that same government had denied me corrections telling me no change had been done and it was just their “culture” of recording. Then it turned out that the people who had arranged my entry had set the whole ship up to fail. Later I learned that not only was my Swiss registration (correctly initiated via the Swiss embassy) already set up with wrong records before I arrived, when my ex-husband had my personal belongings and works shipped from Singapore to Switzerland none of it was properly indexed or registered under my name, so I was never given the documentation or receipts when I asked for them. Information and documents were then withheld, with the local postal services doing strange things. Nothing was enough if their problem was they just wanted what I had/have without a fair deal.
I came thinking Switzerland was a first world nation like Singapore, but with a successful human rights, instead I found a place clinging onto the past, less free than Singapore and with more human rights violations, deeply socially maladaptive towards the world, stuck, filled with secret illegal operations and arbitrary detentions — unable to change or commit to honesty unlike us. Their stats are simply from under-reporting or outright suppression and denial of case filing — case in point the one and only Swiss Federal form for reporting/actioning on data privacy violations that explicitly states it cannot be used to report cantonal authorities. They have all these resources, the attention, the passport, and they still feel unattractive and unworthy inside. I showed up in my most approachable form on invite. There’s no helping it if those in charge lie about being advanced, open and committed to human rights when they have incompatible practices and fixed political outcomes in mind that allow them to violate their laws and constitution anytime they wish without accountability, and invite people like myself in only to outright prevent us from taking off the runway. They’ve already decided and pre-arranged it, they only want to take what you have and erase the fact you ever existed — that’s their idea of contracts and acquisition. These fixed views that prevent them from being suitable contract partners, maladaptive behaviours stemming from them feeling unattractive, unworthy and unhappy with themselves and their choices, a great insecurity despite all that they have — rather than genuinely having qualities that grant genuine self-esteem. And sometimes these people are just jealous of your happiness, fun and freedom, but then if you’re not for each other why do they destroy your basic right to stay, pretend you need them then be so upset when it turns out you can leave so easily? And why then do so much to stop you from leaving and taking your belongings with you? Some have much to learn if they want people to stay.
There were many Swiss people who tried to help, quite a few shared that at least one family member a few generations up had experienced the name issue as well. Ironically, the blueprint and tools I arrived with would have helped the Swiss outfit themselves to go up that mountain that they desire, instead I’m sent home downhill. So I’d infer that the Swiss themselves are being deprived of what they need to help themselves. One can only guess why, looking at how certain outfits are allowed to make obscene amounts money from creating problems while claiming something’s good for you and claiming to adhere to Switzerland’s strict code against ‘amoral activities’.
I was never “lonely” or “homesick” and therefore unable to show up — I am a seasoned traveler who has liked being away from Singapore and traveling the world since I was 17 years of age. I have had no desire or need to commit in one country, the world is my oyster. It’s illogical that I would be any different now. I have spent 7 years away from Singapore, 2 of which were in the airlines to make progress abroad as much as possible. Yet, just to leave this one country that’s clinging on, I’ve just spent 10K CHF of my savings in Zurich on accommodation and lawyers in the last month to make proper records because Switzerland refuses to let me leave, after being forced to sign divorce papers and canceling my residence permit before they would correct my entry name — by putting me in an impossible situation with the help of authorities. It’s like telling Switzerland to close all my accounts, but they keep sending me forms to open a new account with everything set up to look as though I’m a different person. I’m guessing they do this to every single expat or migrant who leaves.
People should stop pretending my use of the website name “trueorigin” has anything to do with any other person or cause, making these false links or speaking for me by interfering with my life. If it’s, and why are these unsavoury people clinging to me?
Switzerland never issued me an entry and exit permit with my correct name. I’m on stopovers in Singapore to mitigate costs and arrange my next set of appointments after the last one at Anwalts Kollective turned out to be a total dud, there should be checks if they follow a SOP script, exact same phrasing of rejection. I had to do everything outside of Switzerland, because I was denied the right to even hire on Swiss soil despite being made to look like I had the permit and full rights. He used lawyers to force me from projects immediately after using my name. There’s a high likelihood of unknown third parties being involved — All my lawyers I paid appeared to be under someone else’s instruction, someone should investigate who, the last one — a female bar association ex-president and male lawyer duo, extorted 5K CHF from me “after discount” on a job worth 600 CHF saying no one else would help me. Normally in a divorce, the lawyer informs the civil office of your name at the end — this decorated woman promised to but did not, took my money and told me to do it myself. So my name in Switzerland is still Mrs. “Schindhelm nata Yeo, Yawen” (surname, first name). This means I currently only stay in Switzerland every 3 months — and from now, I will prove my location by posting pictures of myself and stopping the use of VPN. Before I arrived Ticino authorities had already created a name registration issue. This means it has to be done from scratch, I couldn’t have used my original entry ID from the marriage as I infer it may have been tampered with to “donate” my place to someone else. I was stopped from showing up or meeting people, someone abused their power to put a code red or something on me — it’s the only reason I could have been unfairly monitored and unable to make police reports or hire lawyers, with police confiscations without a warrant in Switzerland, which forced me to stay home and guard my things. And when I showed up, all the meetings and sets were poisoned. I’m in the last place I want to be in and am gearing up to leave again asap. The only reason I’m in Singapore and having to do my work from here is because I was forced out and suddenly had no b permit. I have no reason to stay or operate in Singapore due to its interference in citizens’ lives and what it did to me and my family, and am finding a way to leave ASAP.
People can throw me off and finish the race on their own, but in the world of empty mass data they will need the key which they decided to drop by the wayside. The conditions need to be met. If people want to be stuck forever, they can go ahead, it’s hardly anyone’s problem. I can always walk out, I’m under no obligation to help or put up with anyone’s nonsense. I have my own work to do, am quite happy to just finish it up and go.
I’d like to prevent my presence and contact being used to wrongly endorse or show local/regional & Balinese artists a fake image, disingenously suggesting I’m endorsing the works and ideas of people who are Anti-independence and just flood our markets/drain our resources with fake and empty goods, as though any of it were authentic or to be desired (meanwhile none of it is accessible to Singaporeans like me even after value is proven beyond any measure). I understand the only reason some of you worked with them was because you thought I was onboard. I assure you, I got off that train because it leads to a dark place far away from independence, and I’m taking the train the opposite direction now back to independence and beyond. And I have good data with me.
I said no to some people who wanted to put me under inappropriate terms. I’m ready, some others are slow and need to learn if they want me to show up in their favour at all, much less be on their team. I’m patient, steady and in no big rush. But I’m starting to appreciate the humour in that up till now, few see how I could succeed under the circumstance. I’m guessing they’re starting to believe — possibly be a bit shocked — that my work is really mine.
People should be careful about who they listen to and work with, especially outsiders who had previously never been able to get local or regional artists to work with them as their work was seen to go against independence — rightly so, and still does. Meaning, it’s all about removing people’s labour & authorship and appropriating it to others, removing the right of people to self-represent their own cultural ‘voice’, luring them under false narratives, then using all of this to falsely present themselves as the ones the region defers to — gaining power this way, doing or giving back absolutely nothing of worth, using their seat to lord over others and harm them too. The usual stuff. They use authentic artists to bolster their fake or empty narratives.
My core criticism is that leaders in the region would sooner go with a foreigner or diaspora with faked prestige, than one of their own whom they witnessed starting from nothing at one point. They simply have become blind and unable to discern, they’ve lost the ability to understand those on the frontlines with the Vision. They’d blindly go with an outsider who offers unseen rubbish in exchange for priceless authentic, than learn to recognize the talents and work with one of our own, properly reward and offer our own kind a fair deal and way, or pay us properly for what could’ve been ours — even until now. There was also a problem with interference by people who look like us, talk like us, but are totally different from us. People should have waited for my findings to be concluded and shared/published, or spoken with me directly to obtain those findings especially while I was sounding the warnings actively. They never found out why I was there investigating the connection. Instead they transferred the power to outsiders with fake “prestige” but nothing else that gives them the right/suitability to be given that power, rather than grant prestige to a local who proves their suitability to power. Those findings will gradually come to light.
Also, I own NoDamnPie.com. The email for that is hello@nodamnpie.com. Gmail was a tad too insecure, /unsubbed. I’ve never fallen seriously ill, I collapsed from overwork once in Australia in my late 20s/early 30s — 3 jobs, full study load (finance this time, didn’t go back to fashion as my fam situation changed), trying to launch my art career and find a footing. Full and almost instant recovery once a longtime dental infection was removed. Took a long time to raise my own funds and get on my feet. I’m not just a muse, I’m the artist. The waist is unaltered; You go on a liquid diet or no-carb/high cruciferous veg diet before a commercial shoot or public appearance, and if it’s important you tuck your tummy up your ribs for the look most need waist trainers or corsets to achieve — Walking is painful. In Switzerland & Germany, producers and my ex put me >>behind<< the camera as a floater, put hyphens in between my married & maiden surnames then kept flipping it around on contracts and credits. I had no say on this. I have no kids, real or adopted. In Basel, my ex husband had an apartment with a nameplate “M. Schindhelm” from across a Buddhist organization. My ex-husband’s name starts with Mi, my English nickname starts with Me. I was stopped from using my English nickname in Switzerland. I did insist.
Strictly no authorized representatives. If you are in possession of my sketches or writings, in any state of progress, please know that they are reported as stolen from my spaces that were locked and carefully secured, or on me at all times. Kindly contact me for an immediate return. Thank you.
I am currently busy and travelling solo for the next months in Switzerland. I work for myself and am on back to back business trips. I’m trying to get my own secure art studio now as I’ve never had any funds released to me that would’ve made it possible in the last years. I’m now in the midst of securing my own independent backing and commitments for my art & culture-related ventures, as I’d always intended. (And curbing a renewed urge to acquire mobile powerstations for surviving other people’s uninspiring disaster scenarios.) I will release details soon. Please contact me if you would like clarification on any matters, including my involvement in past projects and where I’m based. I may be unable to reply right away to enquiries but will do so at the soonest possibility.
I’m an independent writer and artist from Singapore, free of any false and/or external narratives, and until some years ago co-owner of a cultural business based in Basel which had nothing to do with my body of works. No rights to my IP were transferred through contracts at any time. I’ve recently been granted a divorce and paid a fraction of what was owed to me, and am at present organizing and funding myself so that I can show up on the world stage. I have several projects underway and had to make unconventional choices to mitigate the theft and deliberate-administrative problem in Switzerland.
For better or worse, anywhere I go and no matter what, I get a compelling feeling that I want people to do well. I want to make sure they’re okay. But I need to make sure I’m on firm ground too, there’s no helping anyone when the ground is being burned out from under you. It’s easy for someone like me to transcend agendas and pigeonholes, but escaping them takes real physical work. Simply ignoring it exists is no solution if you want to go far in one lifespan. Ignoring problems is the drug you can afford if you have the luxury of staying put and never getting nowhere fast. I have no fear of radicals or cultists, it’s just endless excuses to treat people badly and take their work like mindless zombies. A complete waste of power.
Since youth, I noticed the lack of voices representing perspectives of mine and my local region and so I rose to the occasion. I saw that people were using our names, references or claimed to be speaking for us, but everything was overcast with an ‘accent’, like we were watching others tell us what we were, are, and what we should be, rather than the other way around. Somehow, we were never the ones on stage saying it. Our accent, it would seem, had an accent. Since the world claims a level of advancement which invites us to simply stand and speak up for ourselves, that is what I did and have done. To my surprise, people paid attention. However, I came to see how things were made less simple than the marketing would suggest. The irony was hardly lost on me, that those who claimed to be champions of freedom — freedom to be who you truly wanted to be, to fulfill your highest potential without restriction per se — now wished to add a clause that you had to want what they want. It’s like boring people trying to tell you you’re boring, unlikeable people wanting to be gatekeepers of what’s popular, people with no capacity for fostering life trying to define life and impose it on everyone. This was truly bizarre, not to mention Orwellian.
No one should be able to pretend that I was in a “coma”, earning income from dubious activities or being rehabilitated in Switzerland for the last 5 years, when I was being actively suppressed, had my independence and rights stripped from me and stopped from showing up using threats and coercion by those closest to me — to stop me from showing up in an art & literary career and take my IP without payment. If it was the business of anyone to find out, all they needed to do was ask me to explain and demonstrate my techniques. No one asked me. For instance — the winning piece that impressed judges and got me placed at RMIT Fashion in the 2000’s was a 2.5D fashion presentation with changeable coats on special sheets — which, I learned when I was told 2 decades later, is reminiscent of cel painting used by animators and ironically a technique oft miscredited to Disney. Nobody taught me how to do it or that it existed, I’d figured it out. The origins of how I developed my Freeform writing are also completely visible in my recent and present work. Any prominent writer — not a manager or guest writer, but a pro senior creative — in the field would be able to ascertain this in minutes.
I had to start from nothing after my family fell on hard times, but I thought I’d find someone to duke it out together with and make everything from scratch together. There was trouble being taken seriously, and no one wanted to work for anything anymore, everyone I’d met just wanted everything handed to them on a platter as though superior people fall fully-formed from the sky with no development trajectory. Evolution is treated with suspicion. When I came to Switzerland I had expected little, but it turned out worse than especially considering I’d shown nothing but goodwill apart from the basic protection and self-esteem a person needs. Exits were blocked by the time I realized what it was and by the way, the Yale hostage manual advises cooperation and to never attempt escape unless there’s a good chance of survival. Some of those last hands nearly killed me.
Switzerland has something similar to the US 4th Amendment, in Article 10 of the Swiss Federal Constitution which guarantees personal liberty for individuals and Article 13 which covers the “right to privacy” and protections against the “misuse of personal data”. Look up the full terms on the Swiss government website, if you wish.
I left Singapore after disagreeing with how it treats its homegrown artists, putting us under unqualified people pretending to “assess” us, as well as the extent to which it interferes with its citizens’ lives and affairs. I’m aware that we’re deliberately marked down to get our work for free when Singapore is super wealthy — self-advertised — and can well afford to foster its own artists, it just lacks real desire, leadership or ideas. More recently, some of us Singaporeans made successful efforts to effect social change for disadvantaged locals and racial/religious minorities, share our resources to make it possible for them to enjoy a better life & future on our soil. I never came to Switzerland only to be made to repeat what I’ve already overcome, I came to use my privilege rather than be forced to give it up and walk away with nothing.
Also, I’m given to understand that there are 2 people out there who are sometimes confused as me, both based in Australia with allegedly some similarities — one is my younger sister whose name rhymes with “hey”, another is a boomer who sounds Mainland-Chinese and has something to do with art management and own practice — if in doubt, I’m the one who never set foot in Hong Kong or Basel this year (I was stopped from doing so and suspect it was so they could donate my place to somebody else) and actually using my position to effect change and open doors for others rather than just sitting on it and obstructing others, and also the one with the body for modelling — not catwalk. I’ve never been a model nor signed away any rights. I’ve made all my social media accounts private to eliminate all doubt about my choices. I do intellectual work, have a distinct radio voice and speak in Received by default — not Australian although I can do a good one, not China. I can show up representing my own ideas in ways that strengthen my ownership of my own intellectual property. I can use a stage name in ways that add to my level of recognition, as opposed to ways that aim to remove it. It’s not hard. Just because someone wants me to be something for them, hardly means I am now automatically in an unknown contract to fulfill the role and/or activities they want. And once I find out this kind of contract exists and goes too far, they have no right to harm me and/or stop me from leaving. When I’m alive, they have no right to record or capture me in ways that let them move my name and assets around on documents, works and balance sheets as though I were dead or unable to give age-appropriate consent, and/to block me from leaving or engaging the necessary professionals to contest their ‘squatting’ activity, catch them red-handed and evict them. Every man, woman and child has this right.
I have never consented nor been approached to give consent to have any part of my likeness captured, recorded, and/or streamed at any time and/or in any way, including during my personal time, in or from my private spaces or during personal activities. I have never been properly engaged or compensated for my work. I am a writer and a digital artist who uses pencil, ink and a combination of elements and experimental mediums. I have original intellectual property. To my knowledge, I have never consented nor been approached to give consent to have my personal likeness as an adult recorded and/or used outside of one teen lifeskills coaching workshop I conducted (blurry video), an exhibition for airlines service staff and a special film event supporting autism. If anyone has evidence to the contrary please contact me so that I can make a formal police report for my own safety.
I said I was willing to help people find solutions. I never said I could be “jailed” in their place. It’s their debt. It can never be transferred this way. They will be found out.
There should be a higher criteria for who gets to present globally as leaders and helpers. If they are there just to sport the badge and title but have no genuine intent or capacity to fulfill the role, they should stop wasting everyone’s time and leave gracefully. Good leaders enable the rise of more superb leaders who want to help others become strong and lift the world from where they stand — rather than only beat others down to take what’s never theirs. And they should step aside to allow to ascend those who have done the inner work and are qualified, ready to usher the world into the next human evolutionary stage. Promoting and giving resource access to only actors who powder their face white with wig and say the lines but do no real work, or blind ‘prison guard’ followers for the purposes of beating others down, trying to ensure real leaders never rise by removing or corrupting all the resources meant and needed for them to move through the world and self-develop from when they’re children, putting the worst and most incompetent in charge of the best of us — all these are evidence of deeply unsuitable leaders in place. And when someone flies under their radar and succeeds to leadership, instead of acknowledging them they knock them back. These are the weak and myopic leaders sans all the priceless qualities that make a person great, who have no business being in that seat of power but expect others to donate their position and belongings to them. Simply removing the real leaders with substance because they want their voice and their stage, and giving their place and labour to puppets of weak or empty character, is no substitute for leadership strategy/qualities or a successful plan for the world order. Such backwards practices are incompatible with First World values and constitutions. They’re in leadership and governance not just an unethical PR-and-marketing company that’s all about the kickbacks. People who want to continue such “customs” are most welcome to conduct themselves in whichever third world countries support their monkey business, so that the real leaders will be allowed to rise to their earned seats globally in the First World. Leaders, who will naturally help their own and each other lift the world back into its rightful orbit and trajectory towards success. No one needs handouts when things work, and when there’s nothing stopping the right people from ascending to their rightful places.
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Culture holds a value that is priceless, unspoken. The storytellers from a community are the ones who lead the way, regardless of who wants the title or seat for themselves.
My work balances and attempts to bridge ‘impossible’ opposites — anarchy and monarchy, liberalism and conservatism, STEM and spirituality, and so on. Each original piece I bring forth comes from deep place of emotions and thought, of hardship and joys. The language inherent speaks of relationships and connections to the world around and the people in it. Some pieces are private — capriccio or capriccio? Others, I was finding a studio to finish them right up till I was displaced and had to extract myself from a bad situation in Switzerland. Plans kept being made then were cancelled, all the documents arrived wrong and due to sign on the spot. Things were made difficult if I said no — to diva behaviour, deliberately unsafe and unprofessional conditions, and so on. I said no, and was given trouble for leaving. My contingencies were barely enough for an escape even for someone with my background — there’s little more a civilian can do before they have to become professional. I was being told I should abandon my belongings and run; I took this as a self-confession from these individuals. I have eidetic unbiased memory (but via the feminine channels not the masculine ones), you’ll need to ask someone of that category what it really means and they normally explain nothing if you’re not one of us. It felt like business as usual for these people. I fought my way out and left through the front door WITH my belongings. Switzerland states it is against immoral activity, but despite a mountain of evidence to support my case, after years of finding independent representation I’m still trying to find even one person who will start an investigation/file. Virtually all the proper fact and identity verification processes are missing in this country. Their Swiss ID apps and essential services portals are a shell, frontend service personnel can only seem to relay to an unknown 3rd party to execute, none of them talk to each other or perform their advertised functions to any standard KPI.
Before that, I was getting ready to publish my own novels while offering creative workshops for all ages (art therapy), and lifeskills/confidence coaching for vulnerable teens. I’ve had a long career with companies that included Sun Microsystems, ABN AMRO Bank, Singapore Airlines, Vue de Monde, and Australian Property Management (APM), to name a few.
In Switzerland, they changed my surname without consent then issued my ID only a year later in a way that let them claim they never changed my name, so I had no way of finding out until I was unable to register my manuscripts at the copyright office because of it. Then all my documents arrived printing a different surname, authorities and professionals pretended not to understand how I was asking them to write my surname (“Yeo”, Literally 3 letters), and when I tried to leave the place. I was handling national and corporate databases for 3 years, with consistent customer service awards, there is no way any of them, and across all those seniorities, would have trouble knowing what I’m talking about. They then claimed I somehow agreed because they issued my 1st ID so late that I had to immediately send them a renewal form. When I persisted and began to write in fluent Italian, they started to use their own mistakes to say I was a different person. So I said no to this, and left. They tried to stop me, so it took about 3 years for me to leave instead of the usual 3 days to weeks. I was there on official invite, married to the owner of the house I then stayed in.
They said I could never win. But here I am, having swum against the tides, resisted the power of suggestion to be guided by the power of Vision, and swimming some more. I will never give up, and will find my way.
If you want something I’ve made and/or own, please contact me directly to obtain or loan it. I have transferred none of my intellectual property or rights at any time — while in the company, when I left the company, and anytime after I left the company — and I was not being properly involved. If that’s what people want, they could’ve explained that they wanted to use the place I had gained, the resources that I earned therefore belong to me, and ask me if I could let them have my seat for a time. They could’ve easily chosen to do things upfront and above-board, to negotiate. They never registered to book the space in Switzerland, they never obtained permission to do so — I did and received it, and I need to do my work here. And so the Swiss are unaware that any others are now using that place instead of me. Their eagerness to scam and cut out their own Singaporean artist — me — to get ahead ended up in them paying the wrong person for something that’s worth nothing, when if they’d negotiated direct with the artist all involved could’ve had a fruitful and honest outcome multiplied in time. Now all they’ve got are empty castings and no deal was ever made with me. Additionally, my sketches are all reported as stolen and I’ve been so public about this, I’m unsure how they can justify never checking with me. For people who call themselves exceptional, that was an exceptionally daft and blind move.
I have never sold my original pencil sketches or written drafts of my original compositions. If you have purchased them or paid to see them, please know that they are never-released material that I have reported as stolen and announced publicly to everyone on my contact lists. The police were given a detailed itinerary of stolen items — my sketches and sketchbooks, initial drafts of written material and manuscripts in their first fully copyrightable form — my original compositions, done in my personal style developed independently over years from my own observations of nature and direct lived experiences. If you or anyone you know have come into possession of any of the aforementioned items, they are stolen — kindly return them to me. The sketches show clearly my roots as a (High) Fashion major. They are in no way based on the work or themes of artists known or dead/alive. The writing has clear identifiers in linguistic structure and time period, because Singapore is a new branch and at no other time will people speak or write like us, the pioneer groups. Singapore has the world’s best administration by no margin of error. These will be found out, and held to the spotlight in future. I have never benefited from any inheritance. If anyone was that keen on obtaining my originals or unpublished works, they should have approached me. I’ve yet to publish them and have never offered a platform with a user login and t&c to access my works.
I’ve never forged or merely lifted anything. My works come from dreams, direct lived experience and complete visualisations in my mind’s eye, aided with techniques from performing arts. These are original connections as opposed to being based on any other people’s works or direction.
If an offer is insincere or deceptive, I move on. There’s no excuse for anyone to pay others to destroy a person’s life or career just because they’re unhappy that that person moves on and finds happiness so easily . Luckily, some of us have inside of us those priceless things that can never be destroyed, and can recreate paradise from within wherever we go. Even if you cut us to pieces hoping — fat hope — that we’ll never put ourselves back together again and rock too.
Under construction.
I was born in 1983 at Gleneagles hospital in Singapore as YEO, Yawen to Singaporean parents. I have been known as Meryl since 2003; As a nickname, it appears on none of my legal documents.
Historically, the men and women in our family had loved each other too much to allow any poor treatment. We have no need of coercion, or financial or sexual interest in people in order to have a desire to protect, care for and mentor them, and that is why we were often chosen. If there’s a flaw in modern systems of thinking, it’s the one that encourages people to think they can only profit by working against solutions and pitting good men and women against each other.
Growing up, I’ve never taken on debt products nor been in debt. In first world countries, it’s illegal to go after innocent kids for anything signed by their parents, deliberately introduce pests to pretend a regularly cleaned house is “dirty” as a prelude to justify illegal breaking and entering or/for theft, and so on. It’s also impermissible to put someone’s name on some form of unknown contract without their involvement or knowledge, then come after them in an attempt to get them to fulfill its alleged terms.
In 2019-2024 Ticino Swiss authorities apparently registered my married name as: Yawen SCHINDHELM nata YEO. However as I was not my husband’s daughter unable to give consent, the correct way to record my name but denied by authorities is Yawen YEO Ehename SCHINDHELM.
I hold a Singapore passport, which fortunately bars dual citizenship so things are clear. If/when I come back, my arrival would have to be redone in a neutral Swiss state, respecting Federal law and the status of the Singapore passport.
Although I have no plans to go to Basel this year, I may visit in future. My experiences still seem to meet expectations when acquired independently.
I am fortunate enough to be able to make a living from my craft, which in turn enables me to travel and live the way I envision. I am currently following my own blueprint, after all as they say, if you have to be apparently only a tragedy, a donor/martyr or anything but yourself in these endlessly-unhealthy people’s musical story, then decline to sing their chorus and get yourself on track soon as you can. Why even pay it much heed, when one is busy carrying out their highest dreams. Take back the reins, write your own story and carry/live it out, too. As for the rest — All will be revealed in time. The best reply to those who act like they can only profit if you are miserable, is to pick yourself up, keep going and then show up by succeeding on your own terms. And finding real joy, too, in spite of all.
I speak in Received Pronunciation and have no children. My Chinese name is the one that looks popular, has to do with elegant cloud patterns or raining culture/ literature.
To those who did help me dodge some bullets — thank you.
As someone from a family of several opposite worlds, I never stopped believing I am more than any limits that can be placed on the human imagination, and that I can live out my highest dreams and best life. I’ve tended to believe the best in others and treat them as equals, as long as they were reasonable.
Despite some opposition to my career and avant-garde nuances in expression, I fortunately enjoy a strong constitution and robust mind from a combination of choice and background. I had been in several industries and had offers in modelling (competition & jobs), TV & Radio, frontend big tech/telco and 5-star hospitality including Singapore Airlines (with their friendly hiring policies for air hostesses, of course — it’s not the job that’s tough it’s the people. Most people never survive that environment) before making the conscious decision to pursue my dreams as an artist and original composer in my own right; I‘d been gradually building up to the right moment to do so, having accumulated my own complete works since age 7 ready for copyrighting, publishing and archiving.
I strongly disapprove of those who hurt others on purpose, or find excuses to hurt innocent parties over things done by other unrelated people or groups. Debts can never be transferred this way, the initiators will owe the unrelated person(s) to whom the transfer attempt was done. Especially those who go after innocent children of a family to humiliate them for what they think their parents did, then act like they did something wrong for saying no.
As an apolitical Humanist, I specialise in restoring the human connection in a self-conceived, spontaneous mode of art therapy, and have made a living from this on top of my art and writing. My Substation workshop “The Art of Zinemaking” enjoyed a higher than expected turnout. There, I taught the Stream of Consciousness technique to participants, demonstrating how they can tap into their own creativity no matter who they are and what they do. At the end of the session, each participant went home with their own book which they had created based on their own desires, hopes and dreams.
As a neo-digital artist, my works demonstrate the Freeform interaction of all-sensory perception at the intersection of 2D and 3D, suspended in and through a free falling higher dimensional framework. It expresses the earliest clear form of its type of legacy encryption.
As a writer, I distill human perception down to its elementary forms, marrying reality with imagination and revealing all the threads and seams. As for the stories, you’ll have to read the books when they’re out. :)
At present I am traveling solo. It’s nice to see that my new experiences and interactions have been closer in line to what I’d achieved in Melbourne.
I was in a gifted arts stream and school theatre with contributions that once broke a tie for gold. Later I was one of two international students of the year to be accepted into RMIT’s Fashion degree. My first fiancé was a fashion photographer. My first husband was a quantum chemist turned performance art manager then filmmaker/artist. We are divorced and have no children between us.
As an independent author, I excel at Freeform original compositions; I use my early background in performance art to instruct and narrate my own material, but I’m more of a visual wordsmith who can see and hear their own works — fully composed, complete works done ‘live’ and in one go, layered, with few corrections if any.
Art is my response to the world around rather than any one single or group of individual(s). For instance, out of many pieces I once live-composed a short prose piece about an Apple tree in a garden, direct-to-German using a good translator. I’m told it was fluent. Only one person has ever been audience to that, they were anonymous and also very surprised. I understand that when you’ve met one person of a kind, you’ve met one person. I do occasionally use my web space as a thinking-out-loud pad. If this place looks busy, it’s just evidence that I’m busy for myself. I have done no commissions.
My art & writing explore existential questions, remove intellectual “dialect” and make allegedly difficult ideas accessible to the layperson. I reckon people know it when they see it. And that’s the part which scares the fearful within the establishment, that people can and do wake up.
Personally I prefer working out real solutions and egalitarian relations, and that’s where I’ve invested most of my time.
My favourite animated character is Moro.
I’ve recently seen how my work receives positive valuation when published in others’ camp. This proof and insight into those opaque arenas has steeled my resolve to continue forth and confidently shape my life’s work. It took a while to get to this point.
I’d been lucky enough to develop independently going through a girls’ school in Singapore during my formative years.
Despite initially feeling a lack of support for local talent or serious girls’ education back home; in a strange twist, this turned out to possibly have been the best thing that could’ve happened for me in the circumstance — no external interference in my development, and being told I was expected to do well without assistance! It let me explore the way I wanted and take ownership of my own ideas early on. When doubt can be at least as strong as the positive responses, it can be quite a challenge. It’s always a privilege to meet other individuals on this path.
People notice and are inspired by those who show up in this crazy world as owners of our own endeavours and assets, yet still manage to be kind, connected and creative.
Plans change for the better whenever you put yourself in charge.
Some of us require no belief to exist as we do, doing what we do. When people behave like a pack of hounds, you just have to be the better ‘man’. The best answer to naysayers is to succeed on your own terms.
As a popular motto goes — The best is yet to be! :)
Words mine.
Meryl YEO Yawen 2025 All Rights Reserved.
***I have sold, leased nor transferred NONE of my IP or copyrighted works, whether in part or full, I remain sole owner and handler of my undivided estate.***
I give no consent to donating my writing/art, works, likeness or any part of my property to train anyone, their algorithms and/or AI.
I’ve never been based in the US or UK and have never lived there. Only in Melbourne Australia and Singapore. Just returned from Switzerland.
None of my completed works have ever received official “valuation”. I’ve only ever been irregularly paid living allowance, but never for my work or time. I’ve never been a technical assistant and have my own contacts and business/ social connections but I was denied funding raised in my name for my projects although I was ready with my own team to start.
Here’s to what and whom lasts, all the way down memory lane.
The world is my Oyster.
