The Corona Diaries - Richard | Singapore Tour Guide

We are happy to welcome a recent addition to the Hello! Singapore Tours Team, Richard Kan. Richard is a graduate of Electrical Engineering with a diploma in Marketing. He has worked 30 years in the corporate world in various industries but has found passion in tour guiding thus leaving the corporate world and became a Hello! Singapore tour guide. Richard loves telling stories that he sees fit to his guests’ interests thus making his tour very personalized.

A wanderlust like everyone else, he also loves walking around ‘like a local’ every time he is overseas to discover the best local places to eat. He is passionate about Singapore and always on the go to discover different places to eat or places to visit where he can bring his guests making his tours more fun and memorable.

Now that, Singapore is still observing its Circuit Breaker measure to prevent the spread of the deadly virus, we had a chance to catch up with Richard and he shared with us his everyday COVID-19 story.

Singapore Tour guide Richard enjoying his household chores

On a normal day, you are usually out on the streets showing our guests the beauty of Singapore. Given the travel restrictions imposed by several countries how are you spending your time now? What keeps you busy?

When the Circuit Breaker in Singapore started, I spent the first two weeks being a couch potato catching up on all the TV dramas and movies that I had planned to watch but never had the time to do so before.

Then for the next four weeks, I started on a project converting my church’s 25 years of audio cassette tapes to digital Mp3 and setting up their Audio Library server. It was a laborious task (10 hours each day) but it was fulfilling and I felt a great achievement once it was completed.

I also kept myself busy doing some domestic chores and found that I really enjoy the simple task of walking to the local wet markets and food centres to buy food for the family – It also helps me clock my daily 10,000 steps!

We know that you also suffer from wanderlust. When this Pandemic is finally over, and you can go anywhere overseas where will your wanderlust take you and why?

My planned trips this year to Moscow, Melbourne, and Seattle have been canceled by the airline. So I hope to proceed with all these trips in 2021, especially Moscow as that is on our (my wife and me) bucket list.

After the world comes out of this dark time and everyone can travel to Singapore again what is the thing or place you are most excited about showing our guests and why?

The full Hello Singapore food tour experience of course! I can’t wait to show our guests the wonderful local culture of our little red dot island and all that “Food, glorious food!” that Singapore has to offer.

What is the one thing that you this very unfortunate event taught you and why?

I realize that it is good to take a step back sometimes, take things slow and reflect. But I also should not procrastinate on completing the things that I had planned to do.

Richard’s message to our Hello! Tours guests and friends:

As the saying goes, “Change is the only constant in life”. This pandemic is certainly a huge change in all our lives, and things will be very different as we move forward. Although we all need to make significant adjustments, we can still learn new discoveries, face new challenges, gain new experiences, and make new memories. So stay safe and take care, and I hope to meet and take you to a Hello Singapore food tour soon!

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