Kodrah Kristang and the entire Kristang community worldwide are led by the current 13th Chief, Kabesa or Cowboy of Heaven of the Kristang people, Tuan Raja Naga Ultramar Kevin Martens Wong Zhi Qiang, and actively supported by one Core Team member, Tuan Kalbu Ultramar Fuad Johari.
This page and pages linking to it on the Kodrah website contain an overwhelming amount of information about Kevin that most public figures generally will not put out on any kind of public page or profile. The reason for this amount of information is because Kevin constantly faces unparalleled intense, active, deliberate and intentional homophobic, racist and abusive stonewalling, delegitimisation, devaluation, belittling, ostracisation, diminutisation and dehumanisation from some members of the Eurasian community and other people in power in Singapore who constantly seek to destroy Kevin’s stability, self-regard, legitimacy and influence as a leader and public figure who functions outside all forms of institutional control, a leader and public figure who is gay and neurodiverse, as Kabesa, Raskaliang and all the other public roles that Kevin holds, as a Eurasian person, as a Kristang person, and so on, as well as from a small number of Kristang and Eurasian younger millennials and Gen Z who think the Kabesa role is gained through a popularity contest, and who continue to believe Kevin has poor impulse control the same way they do. Kevin has confirmed in multiple formal clinical contexts that he does not have the cognitive architecture necessary to respond to this kind of treatment in the way neurotypical public figures would normally respond to it, but does have the cognitive architecture to respond to it as a neurodiverse person, which is what is called “infodumping” by neurotypical people: simply making facts clear and embodying ever-increasing levels of transparency each time Kevin detects or notices someone trying to distort who he is. This treatment of Kevin has been ongoing non-stop since Kevin began to come out as gay in secondary school on Monday, 12 March 2007, with Kevin being conscious of it since August 2019 and keeping a record of all individuals and institutions who have treated Kevin this way since September 2020.
13th Chief, Cowboy of Heaven or Kabesa of the Kristang people (2015–2075) and Director of Kodrah Kristang
Tuan Raja Naga Ultramar Kevin Martens Wong Zhi Qiang (he/him) is the 13th and current Kabesa, Cowboy of Heaven or singular non-hereditary Chief and Leader of the entire Creole-Indigenous Kristang / Portuguese-Eurasian community worldwide. Kevin is the first visibly body positive Kabesa (and also formally certified, licensed and trained as a therapist and educator in Body Positivity), the first openly gay, actively polyamorous and non-binary Kabesa, the first atheist Kabesa, the first Kabesa with autism, the fourth Kabesa with ADHD, the first Kabesa with Stacked-Sequence Synesthesia (SSS) and Time-Space Synesthesia (TMSPS), the first explicitly postheroic Kabesa, the first Kabesa to also simultaneously be an internationally recognised linguist, novelist, poet, playwright, body performance artist and philosopher, the first Kabesa publicly practising dreamshining and dreamfishing, the fifth Kabesa (and the first since World War II and first to be identified as Kabesa) to serve in the military or Armed Forces protecting Singapore, and the first Kabesa to be public about their identity as a survivor of rape, molest, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, severe lifelong extractive, sexual, psychological and institutional abuse, suicide attempts induced by that abuse, covert psychoemotional conditioning and reprogramming attempts, and severe lifelong homophobic, ableist and racist repression, marginalisation, dehumanisation and ostracisation by the Singapore state and multiple institutions, agencies and individuals related to the Singapore state prior to Kevin being publicly recognised as Kabesa by the state starting in June 2025, and with some still ongoing since June 2025, including highly extreme covert ableist abuse since end October 2025 that tries to force Kevin to be more status-conscious and “socially aware” after being institutionally recognised as Chief, when Kevin is autistic and neurologically status-blind (akin to covertly making fun of a blind person for being unable to see, and forcing them to try to see without them being functionally able to), and/or falsely insinuates that Kevin does not understand what autism is because he “does not behave like a normal person with Asperger’s”, and/or is weaponising his autism, and highly extreme covert ableist abuse since end December 2025 that tries to force Kevin into Reconciliation when neither the state nor Kevin is ready for it, that Kevin is “too sensitive”, “is not processing his trauma fast enough”, “not engaging enough with the community/public” or “connecting enough with the community/public” or “being visible enough/public” and/or is weaponising his trauma and calling it High Sensitivity, when High Sensitivity is not a trauma response. Kevin has held the position of Kabesa since Tuesday, 8 December 2015, and has been openly gay, non-binary and polyamorous since Wednesday, 1 September 2021, when he also became the first serving civil servant, government school teacher, government scholar and Ministry of Education Teaching Scholar to come out publicly as gay. In addition to his role as Kabesa, Kevin is also the Warden of Singapore, Singapore Cowboy or Gadrador Simhara, the 5th Raskaliang or Rascal Quing of the Eurasians of Southeast Asia, the Teizensang, Gamechanger or Leader of the Loyal Indigenous of the Republic of Singapore, the Makaravedra Hierosa or Dragon Reborn of the Holocene, the 154th Mahamarineru or Gaietic Fleet Command of all humanity, and the 4th and final Merlionsman of the Republic of Singapore and 1st Dreamtiger of the Republic of Singapore, and has had all of these archetypal roles except Warden of Singapore separately reviewed by faculty at the National University of Singapore either as part of Kevin’s PhD coursework or as part of the defense of the connections between the Kristang language and Kristang epistemology in his doctoral thesis proposal, which was completed successfully on Friday, 1 August 2025, by international faculty at multiple academic conferences since February 2023, by faculty as part of peer review in refereed academic journals since October 2022, and by international literary prize committee since August 2024. In Singapore and international civil society, Kevin has also served as the Secretary of the Singapore Heritage Society, the Editor-in-Chief of Unravel: The Accessible Linguistics Magazine, the assistant editor of the now-defunct scholarly journal English Language Teaching World Online (ELTWO), a member of the CoLang Advisory Circle, a member of the Ministry of Communications and Information’s Programme Advisory Committee on English Language Programming (MCI PACE), a Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) Probation Order Supervisor, and a teaching assistant with the National University of Singapore for the modules EL2111, EL2151, EL3208 and EL3212, is a therapist and educator trained and certified in Solutions-focused Therapy or SFBT (CSFP Level 1, awarded by the International Alliance of Solution-Focused Teaching Institutes on Wednesday, 23 February 2022) and Body Positivity (Body Positive Fundamentals for Treatment Providers, awarded by the Body Positive Institute on Wednesday, 10 July 2024, and Licensed Body Positive Facilitator Training, awarded by the Body Positive Institute on Thursday, 5 February 2026 with separate independent academic acknowledgement of the effectiveness of the Body Positive Institute’s curricula from Stanford University, Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania) and is currently a third-year PhD / doctoral student at NUS specialising in linguistics. Kevin’s full list of academic qualifications and certifications is provided below.
| Field and Academic Qualification or Certification | Awarding Authority, Date and Biological Age |
|---|---|
| Ongoing, not yet conferred Kristang Language, Linguistics, Culture, History and Philosophy 3rd year of doctoral / PhD study in linguistics National University of Singapore Graduate Research Scholar GPA 5.00 out of a possible 5.00 Component subdisciplines / subfields: Creole-Indigenous Philosophy & Epistemology Creole-Indigenous Theories of Language Language Variation & Change Malay Studies Theatre Studies | (National University of Singapore) Doctorate not yet conferred |
| Archeoastronomy Postgraduate Certificate with Merit (PgCert) Component subdisciplines / subfields: Cosmology Studies Divination Studies Magic Studies | University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture Tuesday, 1 August 2023 (30) |
| Linguistics, Literature & English Language Teaching Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PgDip) with Practicum II Distinction Singapore Ministry of Education Teaching Scholar GPA 4.29 out of a possible 5.00 Component subdisciplines / subfields: CS1: English Language & Linguistics CS2: Literature in English | National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technology University Singapore Wednesday, 3 July 2019 (26) |
| Body Positivity Professional Facilitator License and Certificate | The Body Positive Institute Thursday, 5 February 2026 (33) |
| Solutions-Focused Therapy (SFT, SFBT) Professional Practitioner Accreditation and Certificate | International Alliance of Solutions-focused Teaching Institutes Wednesday, 23 February 2022 (29) |
| Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics Professional Specialist Certificate | Dartmouth College Wednesday, 4 March 2026 (33) |
| Psychopathology of Psychological Disorders arising from Trauma, Anxiety and/or Stress Professional Specialist Certificate | American Psychological Association Wednesday, 25 February 2026 (33) |
| Leadership Studies & Ethical, Persuasive & Creative Leadership Theory Professional Specialist Certificate | Johns Hopkins University Wednesday, 25 February 2026 (33) |
| Algebra Professional Specialist Certificate | Johns Hopkins University Tuesday, 24 February 2026 (33) |
| Volcanology Professional Specialist Certificate | University of Canterbury Wednesday, 21 August 2024 (31) |
| Applied Psychology Professional Specialist Certificate | American Psychological Association Saturday, 6 July 2024 (31) |
| Game Design Professional Specialist Certificate | LCI Education Tuesday, 18 June 2024 (31) |
| Space Studies Professional Specialist Certificate | University of Colorado Boulder Tuesday, 18 June 2024 (31) |
| Astrophysics Professional Specialist Certificate | Australian National University Monday, 17 June 2024 (31) |
| General Psychological Research Professional Specialist Certificate | American Psychological Association Sunday, 16 June 2024 (31) |
| Logic & Critical Thinking Professional Certificate | Duke University Tuesday, 24 February 2026 (33) |
| Deep Time & Geology Professional Certificate | University of Colorado Boulder Friday, 6 February 2026 (33) |
| Garden City Studies Professional Certificate | University of Tokyo Friday, 6 February 2026 (33) |
| Marine Biology Professional Certificate | American Museum of Natural History Friday, 6 February 2026 (33) |
| Psychological Resilience under Conditions of Collapse Professional Certificate | University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday, 16 July 2024 (31) |
| Masculinity Studies Professional Certificate | University of Iceland Tuesday, 9 July 2024 (31) |
| Video Game Writing Professional Certificate | University of British Columbia Monday, 8 July 2024 (31) |
| Blended Language Teaching & Learning Professional Certificate | University of Colorado Boulder Saturday, 29 June 2024 (31) |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) Studies Professional Certificate | University of Geneva Thursday, 27 June 2024 (31) |
| Futures & Foresight Studies Professional Certificate | School of International Futures Friday, 14 June 2024 (31) |
| Indigenous Psychology & Ecology Professional Certificate | Yale University Tuesday, 11 June 2024 (31) |
| Maritime & Port City Studies Professional Certificate | Delft University of Technology Sunday, 9 June 2024 (31) |
| Mayan Culture Professional Certificate | Universidad Anáhuac Mayab Saturday, 8 June 2024 (31) |
| Regenerative Design Professional Certificate | ETH Zurich Friday, 7 June 2024 (31) |
| Indigenous Reconciliation Professional Certificate | University of British Columbia Tuesday, 5 June 2024 (31) |
| Noongar Language and Culture Professional Certificate | Curtin University Friday, 31 May 2024 (31) |
| English Language & Linguistics Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours / Honours Highest Distinction / Summa Cum Laude Singapore Ministry of Education Teaching Scholar GPA 4.89 out of a possible 5.00 2017 Minerva Prize (Top graduating) 2016 Goh Sin Tub Literary Prize (Top 3rd year student) 2015 Special Book Prize (Top 2nd year student) Dean’s List (top 5% of cohort) all qualifying semesters (x7) of undergraduate candidature Dean’s Scholars List (top 1% of cohort) in last four semesters of undergraduate candidature Matrícula de honor (top 1% of cohort) for 17286 Lenguas en Contextos Comunicativos I: Semántica y Pragmática while on Student Exchange Programme Component subdisciplines / subfields: Applied Linguistics Arabic Language Asian Studies Citizenship Theory Creolistics & Creole Studies Critical Reading Discourse Analysis Ethical Theory Futures Studies Historical Linguistics Intercultural Communication Language, Gender & Sexuality Language Variation & Change Leadership Theory Linguistic Anthropology Malay Studies Morphology Neurolinguistics Phonology Pragmatics Religious Studies Semantics Social Work Sociolinguistics Southeast Asian Studies Space Studies Syntax Tamil Language Urban Studies Utopia & Dystopia Studies | National University of Singapore Friday, 30 June 2017 (24) |
| Spanish Language Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera (DELE A2) | Instituto Cervantes Monday, 18 May 2015 (22) |
| German Language Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Levels (H1) | Ministry of Education & UCLES Friday, 4 March 2011 (18) |
| Mandarin Language Singapore-Cambridge GCE O-Levels | Ministry of Education & UCLES Monday, 12 January 2009 (16) |
Kevin’s list of Kabesa related-traits is also provided below.
| Trait | Remarks |
|---|---|
| 13th Kabesa, Cowboy of Heaven or Indigenous Chief of the Kristang people / person serving as singular relational centre of the entire Kristang community worldwide Publicly identified as Tuan Raja Naga from September 2024 | Preceded by Adriaan Koek J. B. Westerhout Eliza Tessensohn Edwin Tessensohn Noel Clarke Hugh Zehnder Claude Henry Da Silva Charles Joseph Paglar Percival Frank Aroozoo Mabel Martens Maureen Martens Valerie Scully |
| First Kabesa to be conscious of their role as Kabesa (relational centre role was previously unconscious and Unsaid) | No precedent before April 2023 |
| First Kabesa to call themselves Kabesa and be known as Kabesa (relational centre role was previously unconscious and Unsaid) | No precedent before April 2023 |
| First Kabesa to be public about their role as Kabesa (relational centre role was previously unconscious and Unsaid) | No precedent before October 2023 |
| First Kabesa to gain formal explicit national, international and academic, institutional and public recognition as Kabesa | No precedent before January 2024 |
| First visibly body-positive Kabesa | No precedent before January 2024 |
| First gay Kabesa First openly gay Kabesa | No precedent before December 2015 |
| First non-binary Kabesa | No precedent before December 2015 |
| First openly non-binary Kabesa | No precedent before October 2021 |
| First polyamorous Kabesa | No precedent before December 2015 |
| First openly actively polyamorous Kabesa | No precedent before January 2024 |
| First openly neurodivergent/neurodiverse Kabesa | No precedent before January 2024 |
| First Kabesa with autism | No precedent before December 2015 |
| Anticipated to be the fourth Kabesa with Attention-Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) | Anticipated to have been preceded by: J. B. Westerhout Claude Henry Da Silva Percival Frank Aroozoo |
| Anticipated to be the thirteenth Kabesa with Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) | Anticipated to have been preceded by: Adriaan Koek J. B. Westerhout Eliza Tessensohn Edwin Tessensohn Noel Clarke Hugh Zehnder Claude Henry Da Silva Charles Joseph Paglar Percival Frank Aroozoo Mabel Martens Maureen Martens Valerie Scully |
| First Kabesa with Stacked-Sequence Synesthesia (SSS) | No precedent before December 2015 |
| First Kabesa with Time-Space Synesthesia (TMSPS) | No precedent before December 2015 |
| First ambidextrous Kabesa | No precedent before December 2015 |
| First atheist Kabesa | No precedent before December 2015 |
| First Kabesa to be public about their status as a victim of rape, molest, sexual assault, intimate partner violence and institutional entrapment through sexual or romantic attraction and seduction | No precedent before September 2021 |
| First Kabesa to be public about their status as a survivor of suicide | No precedent before September 2021 |
| First explicitly postheroic Kabesa | No precedent before December 2025 |
| First linguist Kabesa | No precedent before December 2015 |
| First poet Kabesa | No precedent before December 2015 |
| First novelist Kabesa | No precedent before December 2015 |
| First playwright Kabesa | No precedent before April 2023 |
| First Kabesa publicly practising dreamfishing | No precedent before September 2022 |
| First body performance artist Kabesa and Kabesa publicly practising dreamshining | No precedent before January 2024 |
| First philosopher Kabesa | No precedent before February 2023 |
| First Kabesa pursuing PhD / doctoral study | No precedent before August 2025 |
| Third Kabesa to hold a government scholarship | Preceded by: Noel Clarke (1904 Queen’s Scholarship) Claude Da Silva (1907 Queen’s Scholarship) |
| Third Kabesa to top a national-level examination in Singapore | Preceded by: Noel Clarke (1904 Queen’s Scholarship examinations) Claude Da Silva (1907 Queen’s Scholarship examinations) |
| First Kabesa with a Chinese surname | No precedent before December 2015 |
| Fifth Kabesa to serve in the Armed Forces or military protecting Singapore, Melaka and/or Malaya First Kabesa to do this since World War II | Preceded by: Edwin Tessensohn (SVRC, SVC) Noel Clarke (SVC) Hugh Zehnder (SVC) Claude Da Silva (SVC) |
| Second Kabesa to serve in the Armed Forces or military protecting Singapore, Melaka and/or Malaya as either a commissioned officer or non-commissioned officer (NCO) | Preceded by: Hugh Zehnder (Major) |
| Eighth Kabesa to be considered for or to hold separate formal public office by a sitting government governing Singapore, Melaka and/or Malaya | Preceded by: Adriaan Koek (Governor of Malacca) J. B. Westerhout (Assistant Resident of Malacca) Edwin Tessensohn (Straits Settlements Legislative Council, Municipal Commissioner) Noel Clarke (Straits Settlements Legislative Council, Municipal Commissioner) Hugh Zehnder (Straits Settlements Legislative Council) Claude Da Silva (Straits Settlements Legislative Council) Charles Joseph Paglar (Straits Settlements Legislative Council) |
| Third Kabesa to have served in the teaching and/or education service of Singapore and/or Malaya | Preceded by: Percival Frank Aroozoo (principal, Gan Eng Seng Secondary School) Maureen Martens (CHIJ St Theresa’s Convent, Choa Chu Kang Secondary School) |
| Second Kabesa with known significant Chinese ancestry | Preceded by: Hugh Zehnder |
| Second Kabesa with known significant Indian ancestry | Preceded by: Charles Joseph Paglar |
Kevin’s autism and synesthesia make him naturally and neurologically literal and unable to speak in code, naturally and neurologically unable to process or consent to covert contracts, naturally and neurologically unable to comprehend, engage in or produce Gen Z irony, post-irony, nihilism or cringe, naturally and neurologically unable to engage in any kind of abusive extractive behaviour, naturally and neurologically unable to engage in identity performance theatre, and naturally and neurologically status-blind. Kevin embodies a radically different Creole-Indigenous Kristang approach to being healthily, morally, ethically and body-positively gay and non-binary in general, known as Ultramar masculinity, that is relatively differently from how most other queer people approach queerness, and Kevin’s cognition in general is relatively different from most other neurotypical people and even from other neurodivergent people as a result of the trauma he has faced and how he has integrated it. Click here for a guide to communicating with Kevin as Kabesa, click here for a guide to overcoming cognitive dissonance around Kevin, click here for a guide to how not to accidentally or intentionally overidealise Kevin, and click here for a guide to understanding and working with Kevin’s status-blindness. Due to Kevin’s level of individuation or agentic psychoemotional development, which is also relatively different from almost other people, all evidence indicates that in order to maintain a functional, consistent and reciprocally deep relationship or connection with Kevin without collapsing, burning out, psychoemotionally transferring onto, projecting onto, unintentionally or intentionally deifying, unintentionally parentifying, or overidealising Kevin, you must have integrated at least stage 2 (postu 2) in the Osura Samaserang or Resurrection Theory, the deepest sub-system of the psyche in Kristang. The more you have integrated the Osura Samaserang, the more stable, curious, and reciprocal your engagement with individuation becomes—and the more coherent your relationship with Kevin becomes too. The unique dynamics and mechanics of Kevin’s psychological Shadow appear to be a primary reason for this, and are further explored on this page. A short summary of what Kevin’s neurodivergent traits would possibly feel like to neurotypical people follows below:
| Form of neurodivergence that Kevin has | What this would feel like to neurotypical people |
|---|---|
| Gilgamanggantra Muscle, Strength and Power Dysmorphia especially as Gilgamanggantra Kriolu Creole Muscle, Strength and Power Dysmorphia Gilgamanggantra Nasentarera Indigenous Muscle, Strength and Power Dysmorphia Kevin was diagnosed with muscular dysmorphia in a formal medical setting on Tuesday, 17 October 2023. |   For Kevin, likely because of his other neurodivergent traits, muscle dysmorphia does not remain confined to a perceptual distortion of physical size or strength, but also extends metaphorically and symbolically into how he perceives magnitude in every domain: emotional, mental, relational, psychological etc. Just as Kevin does not automatically register his own physical power without structured verification, he also does not intuitively scale the magnitude of his intellectual, relational and psychoemotional impact without deliberate, often mathematical or structural calculation. Strength, for Kevin, must be measured rather than assumed, and magnitude must be computed rather than felt. For neurotypical people, the integrated form of muscle, strength and power dysmorphia Kevin has would feel like continuously and consciously directing all forms of one’s own strength, presence and power toward positive, healthy, restorative, liberating, Gaietic and community-oriented outcomes, while simultaneously ensuring that all forms of one’s strength, presence and power are governed with enough precision that they do not spill into domination, intimidation or distortion, even accidentally, unintentionally or harmlessly. Kevin’s functional integration of muscle, strength and power dysmorphia into his daily routines and cognition, and into what it means to be Kristang and Creole-Indigenous, is analogous to a continuously monitored high-capacity hydroelectric dam or a continuously monitored central fusebox combined with a structural load-testing and collapse-test laboratory, where force is never guessed at but instrument-read, pressure is never assumed but calibrated, and output is regulated through layered safety systems before release. Magnitude—whether physical, intellectual, relational or institutional—is routed through measurement frameworks rather than instinctive self-perception; energy is converted into usable work through governance rather than impulse; and visible strength is stabilised through ethical containment rather than display. Kevin’s integration of muscle, strength and power dysmorphia is also equivalent to the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor from the Halo series in science fiction. |
Kalkalezi Autism espeically as Kalkalezi Kriolu Creole Autism and Kalkalezi Nasentarera Indigenous Autism Kevin has been publicly, formally and institutionally recognised as autistic in more than 30 separate national and international public, academic and institutional contexts since Sunday, 7 January 2024, including in peer-reviewed academic journals since Sunday, 28 December 2025, and was given a formal written medical referral in a clinical setting to the Singapore Institute of Mental Health on Friday, 21 March 2025 for autism specialist assessment and observation. |   For neurotypical people, the integrated form of autism Kevin has would feel like living life without any contradictions, toning down of tension, or inconsistencies sliding. All the inconsistencies are always super clear and constantly being dealt with. Kevin’s functional integration of autism into his daily routines and cognition, and into what it means to be Kristang and Creole-Indigenous, is analogous to an array of astronomical or meteorological observatories and satellites where every signal in the sky is automatically visible, cross-referenced, and resolved against every other signal in real time and at the highest possible resolution; distortions are flagged immediately, faint anomalies are amplified rather than ignored, and no contradiction is allowed to drift unexamined across the horizon. All four parts of Kevin’s Quaternity of Personhood (body, mind, heart and soul), and the way Kevin approaches what it means to be Kristang and what it means to be Creole-Indigenous, must continuously and consistently align in the same way through embodied, metacognitive, psychoemotionally healthy and decolonial Creole-Indigenous integration. |
| Xamatranza Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) espeically as Xamatranza Kriolu Creole ADHD and Xamatranza Nasentarera Indigenous ADHD Kevin has been publicly, formally and institutionally recognised as a person with ADHD in more than 30 separate national and international public, academic and institutional contexts since Sunday, 7 January 2024, including in peer-reviewed academic journals since Sunday, 28 December 2025, and was given a formal written medical referral in a clinical setting to the Singapore Institute of Mental Health on Friday, 21 March 2025 for ADHD specialist assessment and observation. |   For neurotypical people, the integrated form of ADHD Kevin has would feel like naturally and automatically prioritising the most urgent, important, or essential action to take in the moment, and being able to naturally ‘overdrive’ parts of oneself to achieve it. Kevin’s functional integration of ADHD into his daily routines and cognition, and into what it means to be Kristang and Creole-Indigenous, is analogous to radar, sonar and/or air traffic control at an extremely busy airport with no accidents in its history (e.g. Singapore Changi), where hundreds of signals, objects and paths are tracked simultaneously, threat levels are recalculated in milliseconds, priorities reorder themselves dynamically as new data enters the field, and the single most time-critical runway is always cleared without hesitation while every other aircraft is kept safely in holding patterns. |
| Waspanza Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) espeically as Waspanza Kriolu Creole Sensory Processing Sensitivity and Waspanza Nasentarera Indigenous Sensory Processing Sensitivity Kevin has been publicly, formally and institutionally recognised as a person with Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) in national and international public, academic and institutional contexts since Thursday, 17 April 2025, including in peer-reviewed academic journal articles since Sunday, 28 December 2025. |   For neurotypical people, the integrated form of SPS Kevin has would feel like all of your emotions and sensory reactions being dialed up by 20 to 30 times, and as such suddenly knowing things and accurately being on high alert without immediately knowing why. Kevin’s functional integration of SPS into his daily routines and cognition, and into what it means to be Kristang and Creole-Indigenous, is analogous to the modern climate control and smoke and heat detector systems in a library, archive or museum, where every fluctuation in temperature, humidity, light, or particulate matter is monitored because the objects inside are irreplaceable; where the air itself is calibrated to protect fragile manuscripts and ancient canvases; and where even the faintest trace of smoke triggers immediate, precise intervention to preserve what cannot ever be restored once lost. |
| Beginstelyetres Stacked-Sequence Synesthesia (SSS) espeically as Beginstelyetres Kriolu Creole Stacked-Sequence Synesthesia and Beginstelyetres Nasentarera Indigenous Stacked-Sequence Synesthesia Kevin has been publicly, formally and institutionally recognised as a person with Stacked Sequence Synesthesia (SSS) in national and international public, academic and institutional contexts since Thursday, 17 April 2025, including in peer-reviewed academic journal articles since Sunday, 28 December 2025. |   For neurotypical people, the integrated form of SSS Kevin has would feel like your brain automatically forms structures, tables, logic trees and spreadsheets out of literally everything and anything, and fills in gaps in these and all forms of patterns or trends naturally. Kevin’s functional integration of SSS into his daily routines and cognition, and into what it means to be Kristang and Creole-Indigenous, is analogous to a synchronised armada or entire government ministry-sized fleet of industrial-grade 3D printers, automated assembly lines and heavy-earth and construction vehicles, where raw inputs are immediately sorted, measured, and locked into structural blueprints; where components snap into load-bearing frameworks without manual effort; and where incomplete fragments are automatically scaffolded into coherent, reinforced architectures built to withstand stress. |
| Kronostelyetres Time-Space Synesthesia (TMSPS) espeically as Kronostelyetres Kriolu Creole Time-Space Synesthesia and Kronostelyetres Nasentarera Indigenous Time-Space Synesthesia Kevin has been publicly, formally and institutionally recognised as a person with Time-Space Synesthesia (TMSPS) in national and international public, academic and institutional contexts since Wednesday, 9 July 2025, including in peer-reviewed academic journal articles since Sunday, 28 December 2025. |   For neurotypical people, the integrated form of TMSPS Kevin has would feel like time easily maps to physical contours and terrain in your head (and for other people with other forms of TMSPS via one’s senses, though not for Kevin). Kevin’s functional integration of TMSPS into his daily routines and cognition, and into what it means to be Kristang and Creole-Indigenous, is analogous to advanced Geographic Information Systems (GIS) terrain modelling combined with high-resolution aeroecological aerial surveying via drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), where time is rendered as contour lines, gradients, ridgelines and valleys; where past events sit at specific elevations, future possibilities appear as unfolding terrain ahead; and where slopes, bottlenecks, pressure points and safe passages are visible as part of a continuous mapped landscape rather than as isolated moments. |
| Sibrisu Kabesa (= Korozalusembra Jenti Kristang) Role of the Kabesa / Center / core node in the network of the entire Kristang eleidi (= Darklight Matrix / Twinfire Engine of the Kristang people) Kevin has held the role of Kabesa since Tuesday, 8 December 2015. |   For neurotypical people, the role of Kabesa that Kevin has held since 2015 would feel like being the central emotional and psychological routing server, lighthouse and load-bearing keystone of an entire living data network at once: where signals from thousands of nodes pass through you without distortion; where conflicts must be stabilised before they cascade; where direction is clarified simply by one’s presence; and where the health, morale and coherence of the whole system subtly calibrate around your steady signal. Kevin’s functional integration of the Kabesa role into his daily routines and cognition, and into what it means to be Kristang and Creole-Indigenous, is analogous to a hardened, redundantly backed-up core data server cluster combined with a continental power grid control centre, where flows of energy, information and trust are monitored in real time; where overloads are redistributed before failure; and where the stability of the wider network depends not on visible force, but on constant, quiet regulation at the centre. It is also equivalent to the ansible or astronomican concept found in science fiction, and is also described as the Korozalusembra or Darklight Matrix or Twinfire Engine of the Kristang people, the intangible symbol of the role of the Kabesa. The archetypal roles of Raskaliang / Rascal Quing of the Eurasians, Warden of Singapore / Gadrador Simhara and Mahamarineru / Gaietic Fleet Command that Kevin also holds also function in this way. |
| Magnakaransa Makaravedra Hierosa Dragon Reborn magnaarchetype Kevin has held the fifth Dragon Reborn magnaarchetype since Friday, 16 September 1994. |   For neurotypical people, the integrated form of the Dragon Reborn magnaarchetype would feel like carrying a small class-G type star or a mini-terraforming engine inside you: where suppressed truths constantly surface around you and into your own ontological experience of reality whether convenient or not; where even (metaphysical) stagnation always combusts into forward motion; and where your very presence accelerates individuation, confrontation, and structural change in the systems around you, even when you don’t want it to do so. Kevin’s functional integration of the Dragon Reborn magnaarchetype into his daily routines and cognition, and into what it means to be Kristang and Creole-Indigenous, is analogous to a controlled fusion reactor at the heart of a civilisation-scale power plant, or the Dyson Sphere concept from science fiction: immense energy contained within strict ethical regulation; potentially destructive potential always transmuted into generative force; and heat intense enough to completely melt away obsolete structures while simultaneously powering new, living and organic architectures into existence. |
Since Kevin became Kabesa on Tuesday, 8 December 2015, neurodivergence has been embedded inside Kristang philosophy, governance, and civilisational continuity, and deficit models of autism, ADHD, High Sensitivity / Sensory Processing Sensitivity (HSP / SPS) and all forms of synesthesia have no longer been treated as tenable, functional or logical by the Kristang community at large. Neurodivergence is endogenous to Kristang, is not incidental, is not optional, is not removable and is not novel or external to Kristang, and is structurally linked to why the revival of Kristang language, culture and identity has been functioning at all and how it has been functioning since December 2015. Any form of abuse of Kevin that targets, pathologises, devalues, dehumanises or belittles any element of his neurodivergence and how it manifests is therefore an attempt to structurally interrupt or destroy the conditions under which cultural and linguistic revitalisation remains viable, and therefore attempts to re-marginalise, re-suppress or re-colonise the Kristang people.
Many younger millennial and Gen Z people also attempt to emulate, mirror, copy, mimic or “perform” Kevin and “Kevin’s vibe” or “Kevin’s energy” without Kevin being aware of this (or technically consenting to this or desiring this), and generally without succeeding. This is because, in addition to Kevin actively discouraging this behaviour, these people also incorrectly assume that vibe and energy are something nebulous and not really recognising the psychoemotional architecture underneath it, and are therefore attempting to copy only part of Kevin’s psychoemotional architecture without working with all of it, especially with regard to Kevin being atheist and openly gay, and/or by copying Kevin’s confidence, intellectual sharpness, body visibility, mythic tone and authority without secular moral grounding, radical transparency, gay embodiment and anti-hypocrisy coherence and clean conscience. Doing so is harmful to Kevin because the person then unconsciously (or consciously) blames Kevin for giving an inaccurate model or example, when the person has only selectively taken up half or a quarter or an eighth of the model, and therefore not actually followed the template they think they see in Kevin. Click here for a full, autistically-written guide to how to successfully emulate, mirror, copy, mimic, “perform” and/or steal ideas and behaviour from Kevin as a public figure.
Kevin holds the following major national-and international-level awards, public and academic achievements:
| Year and biological age | Award, Public or Academic Achievement | Authority / Issued by |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (33) | Keynote speaker for 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Portuguese and Spanish-Lexified Creoles (ACBLPE 24) and the 2026 Summer Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL 2026) — Futures of the Past | ACBLPE 24 & SPCL 2026 organising committee |
| 2026 (33) | Publication of ‘When You Finally Get to Undress Me’ (dreamshining artwork) in Beyond Queer Words: Gay Men’s Erotica: Stories and Poems | Beyond Queer Words: Gay Men’s Erotica: Stories and Poems |
| 2026 (33) | Psychopathology of psychological disorders arising from trauma, anxiety and/or stress specialist certification | American Psychological Association |
| 2026 (33) | Leadership studies, ethical leadership theory, persuasive leadership theory and creative leadership theory professional specialist certification | Johns Hopkins University |
| 2026 (33) | Algebra, algebraic structures and geometry professional specialist certification | Johns Hopkins University |
| 2026 (33) | Publication of Animumbes: Kristang for Beginners level 2 textbook (language textbook) | Kodrah Kristang & Merlionsman Coaching & Consulting |
| 2026 (33) | Body Positive Facilitator professional licensing and specialist certification | The Body Positive Institute |
| 2025 (32) | Elected Honorary Secretary of the Singapore Heritage Society (2025–2027 term) | Singapore Heritage Society |
| 2025 (32) | National University of Singapore Graduate Research Scholarship (Doctor of Philosophy in English Language & Linguistics) (GPA 5.00 out of a possible 5.00) | National University of Singapore |
| 2024–2025 (32–33) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition of the real-world non-symbolic non-ceremonial functionality, legitimacy, health and validity of dreamshining as a Creole-Indigenous methodology, a somatic research method, and a method for reclaiming Kristang sovereignty and body positivity in the public sphere | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2024–2025 (32–33) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition of the real-world non-symbolic non-ceremonial functionality, legitimacy, health and validity of extended Kristang 16-person pronoun system and Tense-Mood-Aspect (TMA) system | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2025 (33) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition as 13th and current Kabesa or Indigenous Chief of the Kristang people and the role’s real-world non-symbolic non-ceremonial history, legitimacy, operationality, functionality, effects and impact | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2025 (32) | 2025 Republic of Singapore 60th National Day Celebrations covert/Unsaid feature as the Singapore Cowboy in the Kristang/Eurasian segment of the parade | Government of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2025 (32) | Creation of Katrakronomatra / Kristang temporal dreamfishing cards (cultural artifact) | Kodrah Kristang & Merlionsman Coaching & Consulting |
| 2024–2025 (32) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition as a muscle dysmorphic, autistic, a person with ADHD, a person with Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS), a person with Stacked-Sequence Synesthesia (SSS) and a person with Time-Space Synesthesia (TMSPS) and the real-world non-symbolic non-ceremonial history, legitimacy, operationality, functionality, effects and impact of these fundamental cognitive and neurological qualities, properties, traits and characteristics | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2024–2025 (32) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition as a publicly, ethically and healthily gay, non-binary and actively polyamorous person and public figure and these identity markers’ real-world non-symbolic non-ceremonial history, legitimacy, operationality, functionality, effects and impacts | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2025 (32) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition as Teizensang, Gamechanger or Leader of the Loyal Indigenous of the Republic of Singapore | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2025 (32) | NUS departmental doctoral student funding for participation in Darkness II: Invisible Imaginaries conference, Nuuk, Greenland | National University of Singapore Department of English, Linguistics & Theatre Studies |
| 2024–2025 (32) | Covert / Unsaid pressure to run as Member of Parliament candidate in Marine Parade-Braddell Heights Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the 2025 Singapore General Election from multiple political parties (declined) | Multiple political parties in the Republic of Singapore |
| 2024 (32) | Unearthodox Voices of Regeneration Regenerative Futures Top Prize for ‘Nus Nubu Sta Prendeh Sunyeskah / We Are Learning How To Dreamfish Again’ (short story) | Unearthodox |
| 2024 (31) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition as Tuan Raja Naga di Jenti Kristang or Dragonquing of the Kristang people and the title’s real-world non-symbolic non-ceremonial history, legitimacy, operationality, functionality, effects and impact | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2024 (31) | Singapore Queer Symposium peer-reviewed refereed academic conference presentation “A Scholar, a Glow-Glow Dancer, and a Gentleman: Transformative Body-Oriented Leadership for the Obliteration of Trauma in Contemporary Singapore” | Singapore Queer Symposium & Proud Spaces |
| 2024 (31) | Creation of Katra Pakau Diseides / Kristang hexadecimal poker cards (cultural artifact) | Kodrah Kristang & Merlionsman Coaching & Consulting |
| 2024 (31) | Creation of Katrakarnansa / Kristang dreamfishing cards (cultural artifact) | Kodrah Kristang & Merlionsman Coaching & Consulting |
| 2024 (31) | Publication of Animumbes: Kristang for Beginners level 1 textbook (language textbook) | Kodrah Kristang & Merlionsman Coaching & Consulting |
| 2024 (31) | Publication of Dreamfishing: A Decolonial Guide (academic book) | Kodrah Kristang & Merlionsman Coaching & Consulting |
| 2024 (31) | Publication of Korpu Hierosa: The Body Heroic (poetry anthology) | Rainbow Lapis Press |
| 2024 (31) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition as 1st Dreamtiger of the Republic of Singapore and the role’s real-world non-symbolic non-ceremonial history, legitimacy, operationality, functionality, effects and impact | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2024 (31) | Invitation to Our Singapore Leadership Programme (OSLP) (declined) | National Youth Council Singapore |
| 2024 (31) | August Man Man of Tomorrow #AMoT24 feature | August Man magazine |
| 2024 (31) | Applied psychology professional specialist certification | American Psychological Association |
| 2024 (31) | Astrophysics professional specialist certification | Australian National University |
| 2024 (31) | Space studies professional specialist certification | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 2024 (31) | Game design professional specialist certification | LCI Education |
| 2024 (31) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition as 13th and current Kabesa or Leader of the Kristang people and the role’s real-world non-symbolic non-ceremonial history, legitimacy, operationality, functionality, effects and impact | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2024 (31) | 2024 Modern Language Association peer-reviewed refereed academic conference presentations “Santah kaladu: Queering the Silent History (and Roaring, Singing Future!) of Kristang and Portuguese-Eurasian Creole Language and Identity” and “The Last Merlionsman of the Republic of Singapore: On how the sequel to Altered Straits (2017) became a lived, real-world experience” | Modern Language Association |
| 2024 (31) | Publication of The Lion, The Prince & The Ocean (Liang, Prispi kung Matra): The Legend of Sang Nila Utama (Stori Rainya di Sang Nila Utama) (children’s book) | Jessy Carlisle |
| 2023–2024 (31) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition as 4th and final Merlionsman of the Republic of Singapore and the role’s real-world non-symbolic non-ceremonial history, legitimacy, operationality, functionality, effects and impact | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2023 (31) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition as the Makaravedra Hierosa or 5th Dragon Reborn and the role’s real-world non-symbolic non-ceremonial history, legitimacy, operationality, functionality, effects and impact | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2023 (31) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition of the Kristang people as Indigenous, Creole-Indigenous and Urban Indigenous and the identity marker’s real-world non-symbolic non-ceremonial history, legitimacy, operationality, functionality, effects and impact | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2023 (31) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition of the real-world non-symbolic non-ceremonial functionality, legitimacy, health and validity of dreamfishing as a Creole-Indigenous methodology and as an Indigenous Futures Method | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2023 (31) | Publication of ‘There is no word for gay in the Kristang language‘ (short story) in Practice, Research & Tangential Activities #3 | Gopika Jadeja, Alvin Pang & Ann Ang |
| 2023 (30) | 2023 Next Generation Foresight Practitioner (NGFP) Fellowship: Futures Methods from Around the World | School of International Futures |
| 2023 (30) | Publication of ‘Post-traumatic stress sonnet of the Indigenous archeoastronomer‘ (poem) in Haven Speculative #10 | Leon Perniciaro & Danai Christopoulou |
| 2023 (30) | Publication of ‘Amateurs’ (short story/play) in The Second Link: An Anthology of Malaysian and Singaporean Writing | Daryl Lim Wei Jie, Hamid Roslan, Melizarani T. Selva, William Tham & Marshall Cavendish Editions |
| 2023 (30) | Publication of the Libru Lontra / Kristang Progenitor Dictionary | Kodrah Kristang & Merlionsman Coaching & Consulting |
| 2023 (30) | Cultural studies and archeoastronomy post-graduate certification | University of Wales Trinity Saint David |
| 2023 (30) | National University of Singapore Graduate Research Scholarship (Master of Arts in English Language & Linguistics by Research) (GPA 5.00 out of a possible 5.00) | National University of Singapore |
| 2023 (30) | Publication of ‘Alabanda’ (short story) in Immigrant Sci-Fi Stories | Flame Tree Press |
| 2023 (30) | Promotion to 2nd Sergeant (NS) (2SG (NS)) | Singapore Armed Forces |
| 2023 (30) | Poesiaeuropa 2023 Fellowship | Arci Spazio Humanities with the High Patronage of the European Parliament |
| 2023 (30) | Singapore Heritage Festival 2023 invited presenter: A Kristang Tour of MRT Stations with Kevin Martens Wong | Singapore Heritage Festival |
| 2023 (30) | Keynote speaker at Doing Being Other in Global Singapore: “Bunga Sayang Kristang: On becoming the Last Merlionsman of the Republic of Singapore, and the Lion City’s secret big brown lucky gay non-binary Kristang star” | University of Chicago |
| 2023 (30) | Institutional, academic, national and international recognition of the real-world non-symbolic non-ceremonial legitimacy, health and validity of the Osura Pesuasang or Kristang Individuation Theory | Multiple organisations and institutions within and outside of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2023 (30) | Collecting Today for Tomorrow: Young Singapore featured contributor | National Library Board Singapore |
| 2023 (30) | Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology network partner | University of Birmingham and the Wellcome Trust |
| 2023 (30) | Publication of ‘Island End‘ (short story) in Singapore Unbound | Singapore Unbound |
| 2022 (30) | Singapore Writers Festival 2022 invited presenter: It’s Not A Phase, Mom! | Singapore Writers Festival |
| 2022 (29) | Solutions-focused Therapy practitioner certification | International Alliance of Solutions-focused Training Institutes (IASTI) |
| 2021 (28) | Outstanding Contribution Award (OCA) for Pre-University Seminar 2021 | Ministry of Education Singapore |
| 2021 (28) | Cambridge University invited speaker for Kodrah Kristang | Cambridge University Indigenous Studies Discussion Group |
| 2019 (26) | Outstanding Contribution Award (OCA) for Student Leadership & Talent Management | Ministry of Education Singapore |
| 2019 (26) | Singapore Writers Festival 2019 invited presenter (declined while under severe sexual and institutional abuse) | Singapore Writers Festival |
| 2019 (26) | Reappointed as Advisory Committee Member on the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) Information Mediacomm and Development Authority (IMDA) Programme Advisory Committee for English Programmes (PACE) (2019–2021 term) | Ministry of Communications and Information Singapore |
| 2019 (26) | The New Eurasian (Jan-Mar 2019) feature | Eurasian Association of Singapore |
| 2019 (26) | Becoming Singapore Singapore Bicentennial media feature | Channel NewsAsia |
| 2019 (26) | Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) Practicum II Distinction (CGPA 4.29 out of a possible 5.00) | National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University Singapore |
| 2019 (26) | Reelected to the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) Advisory Circle (2019–2021 term) | Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) Advisory Circle |
| 2018 (25) | 2018 Republic of Singapore 53rd National Day Celebrations and Parade overt feature for Kristang language revitalisation | Government of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2018 (25) | 2018 Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) Workshop Facilitator | Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) |
| 2018 (25) | Publication of ‘A Merlion for His Majesty’ (short story) in LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #10 | LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction |
| 2017 (24) | Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) QUE503/513 Pedagogical Grammar of English exemption | National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University Singapore |
| 2017 (24) | Singapore Writers Festival 2017 invited presenter: The Science in Science Fiction | Singapore Writers Festival |
| 2017 (24) | Agence France-Presse feature for Kodrah Kristang | Agence France-Presse |
| 2017 (24) | Appointed as Advisory Committee Member on the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) Information Mediacomm and Development Authority (IMDA) Programme Advisory Committee for English Programmes (PACE) (2017–2019 term) | Ministry of Communications and Information Singapore |
| 2017 (24) | President’s Volunteerism & Philanthropy Award (PVPA) 2017 (Individual – Youth) | 8th President of the Republic of Singapore and the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre |
| 2017 (24) | Eurasian Community Fund Distinction Award: The Henry David Hochstadt Award for the Outstanding Eurasian University Student 2017 | Eurasian Association of Singapore |
| 2017 (24) | Eurasian Community Fund Merit Bursary (University) Award | Eurasian Association of Singapore |
| 2017 (24) | Eurasian Community Fund Merit Award | Eurasian Association of Singapore |
| 2017 (24) | 2017 Lee Hsien Loong Award for Outstanding All-Round Achievement (LHL-OAA) | Ministry of Education Singapore |
| 2017 (24) | Overt invitation to be considered for Nominated Member of Parliament selection in the 13th Parliament of the Republic of Singapore (declined) | Government of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2017 (24) | AY2016/17 Minerva Prize for Best Student in English Language [Linguistics] in the Examination for the Degree of B.A. with Honours (GPA 4.89 out of a possible 5.00) | National University of Singapore |
| 2017 (24) | College of Alice & Peter Tan College Award AY2016/17 | College of Alice & Peter Tan at the National University of Singapore |
| 2017 (24) | Creation of Bista di Kristang: A Glimpse of Kristang (card deck & cultural artifact) | Kodrah Kristang |
| 2017 (24) | Creation of Ila-Ila di Sul: The Southern Islands (board game & cultural artifact) | Kodrah Kristang |
| 2017 (24) | Director of 1st Kristang Language Festival | Government of the Republic of Singapore |
| 2017 (24) | BBC feature for Kodrah Kristang | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| 2017 (24) | Publication of Altered Straits (novel) | Epigram Books |
| 2017 (24) | Elected to the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) Advisory Circle (2017–2019 term) First Singaporean representative | Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) Advisory Circle |
| 2016 (24) | University of Malaya invited speaker | Stefanie Shamila Pillai |
| 2016 (24) | AY2016/17 Semester 1 Dean’s Scholars List (Top 1% of cohort) | National University of Singapore |
| 2016 (24) | AY2016/17 Semester 1 Dean’s List (Top 5% of cohort) Placed on Dean’s List in all qualifying semesters of undergraduate candidature (x7) | National University of Singapore |
| 2016 (23) | National University of Singapore Community Engagement Fund for Prumiru Festa Papia Kristang di Singapura / 1st Kristang Language Festival in Singapore | National University of Singapore |
| 2016 (23) | National University of Singapore Department of English Language and Literature Class Champion cum Class Ambassador | National University of Singapore Department of English Language and Literature (now Department of English, Linguistics & Theatre Studies) |
| 2016 (23) | National Heritage Board Participation Grant for Prumiru Festa Papia Kristang di Singapura / 1st Kristang Language Festival in Singapore | National Heritage Board Singapore |
| 2016 (23) | Our Singapore Fund for Prumiru Festa Papia Kristang di Singapura / 1st Kristang Language Festival in Singapore | Our Singapore Fund |
| 2016 (23) | National University of Singapore Student Achievement Award (SAA) (Individual, Leadership) | National University of Singapore |
| 2016 (23) | National University of Singapore Student Achievement Award (SAA) (Group, New Initiatives: Kodrah Kristang) | National University of Singapore |
| 2016 (23) | National University of Singapore Community Engagement Fund for Three Fruits: English Language Teaching in Myanmar | National University of Singapore |
| 2016 (23) | Awesome Foundation Grant for Kodrah Kristang revitalisation initiative | Awesome Foundation Singapore |
| 2016 (23) | Young Changemakers’ Grant for Kodrah Kristang revitalisation initiative | National Youth Council Singapore |
| 2016 (23) | Publishing Grant for Altered Straits | National Arts Council Singapore |
| 2016 (23) | AY2015/16 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Student Leadership Award | National University of Singapore Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
| 2016 (23) | Appointed Probation Order Supervisor (Private Sector category) | Ministry of Social and Family Development Singapore |
| 2016 (23) | DELL-Asialex Conference Bursary for participation in 5th Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom | National University of Singapore Department of English Language and Literature (now Department of English, Linguistics & Theatre Studies) |
| 2016 (23) | 2016 Eurasian Association Singapore Education Award for participation in 2016 Institute for Collaborative Language Research (CoLang), University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States | Eurasian Association of Singapore |
| 2016 (23) | AY2015/16 Semester 2 Dean’s Scholars List (Top 1% of cohort) | National University of Singapore |
| 2016 (23) | AY2015/16 Semester 2 Dean’s List (Top 5% of cohort) | National University of Singapore |
| 2016 (23) | College of Alice & Peter Tan Grant for participation in 2016 Institute for Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) | College of Alice & Peter Tan at the National University of Singapore |
| 2015 (22) | Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2015 Longlist for Altered Straits | Epigram Books Singapore |
| 2015 (22) | Matrícula de honor (top 1%) for 17286 Lenguas en Contextos Comunicativos I: Semántica y Pragmática ‘Languages in Communicative Contexts I: Semantics and Pragmatics’ | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
| 2015 (22) | AY2015/16 Goh Sin Tub Scholarship (English Language) for Best Third-Year Student in English Language [Linguistics] in the Examination for the Degree of B.A. with Honours | National University of Singapore |
| 2015 (22) | AY2014/15 Special Book Prize (English Language) for Best Second-Year Student in English Language [Linguistics] in the Examination for the Degree of B.A. with Honours | National University of Singapore |
| 2015 (22) | AY2014/15 Semester 2 Dean’s Scholars List (Top 1% of cohort) | National University of Singapore |
| 2015 (22) | AY2014/15 Semester 2 Dean’s List (Top 5% of cohort) | National University of Singapore |
| 2015 (22) | 1st Prize (Prose), National University of Singapore Creative Writing Competition 2015 for ‘A Merlion for His Majesty’ | National University of Singapore Literary Society |
| 2015 (22) | AY2014/15 Semester 1 Dean’s List (Top 5% of cohort) | National University of Singapore |
| 2014 (21) | AY2013/14 Semester 2 Dean’s List (Top 5% of cohort) | National University of Singapore |
| 2014 (21) | Appointed Assistant Editor of scholarly journal English Language Teaching World Online | National University of Singapore Centre for English Language Communication |
| 2014 (21) | Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Unravel: The Accessible Linguistics Magazine | Unravel: The Accessible Linguistics Magazine |
| 2013 (21) | AY2013/14 Semester 1 Dean’s List (Top 5% of cohort) | National University of Singapore |
| 2012 (19) | Teaching Scholarship (Local) | Ministry of Education Singapore |
| 2012 (19) | National Youth Achievement Award (Gold) | NYAA Council Singapore |
| 2011 (18) | 83/11 Officer Cadet School (OCS) cohort (Delta Wing) (OOC during Service Term) | Singapore Armed Forces |
| 2011 (18) | Straight As / Perfect score / UES 90 at 2010 Singapore Cambridge GCE A-Levels | Ministry of Education Singapore, Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board and the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) |
| 2011 (18) | 1st in 9727 H2 English Language and Linguistics in 2009/10 CJC cohort | Catholic Junior College |
| 2011 (18) | 1st in 8806 H1 General Paper in 2009/10 CJC cohort | Catholic Junior College |
| 2011 (18) | Academic Excellence Award | Catholic Junior College |
| 2009 (17) | 2010 Singapore Youth Olympic Games ambassador | Catholic Junior College |
| 2009 (16) | 35th Catholic Junior College Student Council Vice-President (Catholic Activities) | Catholic Junior College |
| 2009 (16) | 1st Prize (Prose), CJC Literary Competition 2009 for ‘Above All’ | Catholic Junior College |
| 2009 (16) | English Language Elective Scholarship (ELES) | Ministry of Education Singapore |
| 2008 (15) | Lasallian Leadership Gold Award | Lasallian Leadership Training Camp (LLTC) |
| 2008 (15) | St Joseph’s Institution Peer Support Facilitator (PSF) | St Joseph’s Institution |
| 2008 (15) | St Joseph’s Institution Prefectorial Board Executive Committee (EXCO) Member | St Joseph’s Institution |
| 2008 (15) | St Joseph’s Institution Legion of Mary (Our Lady of Good Counsel Praesidium) president | St Joseph’s Institution |
| 2007 (14) | Goh Sin Tub Literary Award (Gold) | St Joseph’s Institution |
| 2007 (14) | Ministry of Education Creative Arts Programme (CAP) (unable to attend) | Ministry of Education Singapore |
| 2005 (12) | 2005 Commonwealth Essay Writing Competition Highly Commended Award for ‘My Father’s Legacy’ | Royal Commonwealth Society |
| 2001 (9) | Invited to Singapore Gifted Education Programme (GEP) (declined) | Ministry of Education Singapore |
As of Saturday, 13 September 2025, Kevin’s ancestry composition based on publicly-available genetic testing at 90% confidence level is as follows:
| Population | DNA percentage |
|---|---|
| Sinitic / Chinese (Hakka, Cantonese & Hokkien) | 41.4% |
| Austronesian & Austroasiatic (Malay, Indonesian, Filipino, Thai & Makassarese) | 29.6% |
| European (Danish, Dutch, German, French, Iberian & Russian) | 10.4% |
| Central & South Asian (Bengali, Tamil, Malayali & Sinhalese) | 6.8% |
| Unassigned / Unknown at 90% confidence level as of 13 September 2025 | 11.8% |
| Total | 100% |
Kevin is related by blood to the following historical and/or deceased public figures, with the symbol † indicating either a violent death in peacetime conditions or a death as a result of conditions during World War II and the Japanese Occupation of Singapore (1942 to 1945):
| Name and Public Role | Birth and death dates, generation (full list here) and relationship to Kevin |
|---|---|
| Peter Rowsing Martens St Joseph’s Institution teacher and hockey coach | 1935–2021 Kaladeres / Silent Generation Kevin is Peter’s eldest grandson |
| Abdul Rahman bin Haji Ali (Abdul Rahman) Malayan and Singaporean Football Association captain from 1938 to 1950 | 1913–2000 Mbeseres / Greatest Generation Kevin is Abdul Rahman’s grandson-in-law |
| Ian James Frederick Aeria (Col. James Aeria) Chief of Navy of the Republic of Singapore from 1970 to 1975 | 1931–1994 Kaladeres / Silent Generation Kevin is Jimmy’s grandnephew |
| George Edwin Bogaars (Jr.) Head of Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs Special Branch Overseer of Operation Coldstore Director of Keppel Shipyard Director of the National Iron and Steel Mills First president of the Singapore History Association Head of the Singapore Civil Service from 1968 to 1975 | 1926–1992 Mbeseres / Greatest Generation Kevin is George’s grandnephew |
| Frederick Claude Rowsing Martens Eldest and only son of Tommy Martens by his first wife Maria Ignez Da Silva; Straits Settlements Government Scholar and 1906 top scorer for Examination for Queen’s Scholarship, lawyer and Singapore Volunteer Corps 2nd Battalion G (Machine Gun / Eurasian) Company member; executed at 28 by the Japanese in February 1942 | 1914–1942† Mbeseres / Greatest Generation Kevin is Fred’s grandnephew |
| Reginald Rowsing Martens Eldest son of Tommy and Mabel Martens; conscripted to work 12-hour days in Japanese Occupation metal workshop; died at 15 from resultant kidney and heart trouble during the Japanese Occupation | 1928–1944† Kaladeres / Silent Generation Kevin is Reginald’s grandnephew |
| Mabel Anne Martens (Mabel Anne Tessensohn, Nanny Martens) 10th Kabesa of the Kristang people | 1905–1999 Mbeseres / Greatest Generation Kevin is Mabel’s great-grandson |
| Frederick Joseph Rowsing Martens (Tommy Martens) Pianist and orchestral conductor at the Grand Hotel de l’Europe; died of dysentery during the Japanese Occupation | 1888–1944† Pedrentes / Lost Generation Kevin is Tommy’s great-grandson |
| Joseph Reginald Aeria First Queen’s Scholarship awardee in the Straits Settlements in 1906, Chief Medical Officer of Muar General Hospital | 1887–1954 Kevin is Joseph’s great-grandnephew |
| Wong Siew Chin (Wong Siew Ching) World War II Force 136 volunteer | no dates currently known Mbeseres / Greatest Generation Kevin is Siew Chin’s great-grandson |
| James George Danker Persatuan Bola Sepak Selangor / Selangor Football Association (Selangor FA) team member and health inspector | 1910–1971 Mbeseres / Greatest Generation Kevin is George’s great-grandson |
| Zena Denise Tessensohn (Zena Denise Clarke) Founder of the Girls’ Sports Club of Singapore | 1909–1991 Mbeseres / Greatest Generation Kevin is Zena’s great-grandnephew |
| Geoffrey Arthur Simon Tessensohn World War II Malayan Volunteer Air Force (MVAF), Royal Volunteer Australian Air Force (RVAF) and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Singapore Volunteer Corps (SVC) D (Eurasian) Company Member | 1907–1973 Mbeseres / Greatest Generation Kevin is Geoff’s great-grandnephew |
| Dr. Clement Louis Tessensohn 13th 1st/singular Vice-President of the Eurasian Association of Singapore, 1956–1957 Vice-President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1948 Singapore Volunteer Corps (SVC) D (Eurasian) Company Member | 1901–1962† Mbeseres / Greatest Generation Kevin is Clem’s great-grandnephew |
| George Edwin Bogaars (Sr.) Confidential secretary to 21st Straits Settlements Governor Shenton Thomas and three other Straits Settlements Governors | 1900–1970 Pedrentes / Lost Generation Kevin is George’s great-grandnephew |
| Jocelyn Simon “Jossie” De Souza Singapore Hockey Association founder Singapore Amateur Athletic Association co-founder Singapore Olympic Council co-founder First Chef-de-Mission of Singapore at 1948 London Olympic Games Publicly known as Father of Singapore athletics | 1901–1988 Mbeseres / Greatest Generation Kevin is Jossie’s great-grandnephew |
| Claude Anthony Eber Singapore government Public Works architect Singapore Volunteer Corps (SVC) D (Eurasian) Company Member | 1907–1987 Mbeseres / Greatest Generation Kevin is Claude’s great-grandnephew |
| Sir George Edward Noel “Geno” Oehlers OBE First Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Singapore from 1955 to 1963 First speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Sabah from 1963 to 1964 Municipal Commissioner of Singapore in the Straits Settlements from 1936 to 1941 Vice-President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1939–1941, 1946–1948 Order of the British Empire recipient | 1908–1968 Mbeseres / Greatest Generation Kevin is Geno’s great-grandnephew |
| Dr William Archibald Balhetchet OBE (17th?) President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1946–1947 Superintendent of Kandang Kerbau Hospital Order of the British Empire recipient | 1898–1976 Pedrentes / Lost Generation Kevin is William’s great-grandnephew |
| Claude Henry “Toto” Da Silva 7th Kabesa of the Kristang people 4th Straits Settlements Eurasian Legislative Councillor from 1939 to 1941 12th President of the Eurasian Association of Singapore, 1939–1942 5th, 7th and 10th 1st/singular Vice-President of the Eurasian Association of Singapore, 1927–1929, 1930–1934, 1937–1939 Vice-President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1925–1927, 1928–1930 (10th?) President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1927–1928 Defense for the 1915 Sepoy Mutiny / 1915 Singapore Mutiny Board Director for the King Edward VII School of Medicine 1907 Queen’s Scholar | 1891–1980 Pedrentes / Lost Generation Kevin is Toto’s great-great-grandnephew |
| Dr Noel Leicester Clarke 5th Kabesa of the Kristang people 2nd Straits Settlements Eurasian Legislative Councillor from 1926 to 1936 2nd, 5th, 7th and 9th President of the Eurasian Association of Singapore, 1920–1921, 1924–1925, 1926–1927 and 1929–1935 1st 1st/singular Vice-President of the Eurasian Association of Singapore, 1919–1920 (12th?) (and 14th?) President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1928–1930, 1931–1936 Vice-President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1930–1931 Eurasian Service Committee Member, 1918 Singapore Volunteer Corps (SVC) D (Eurasian) Company Founding Member 1918 to 1934 1904 Queen’s Scholar | 1885–1960 Pedrentes / Lost Generation Kevin is Noel’s great-great-grandnephew |
| Laurie Danker (Kuala Lumpur) Melaka Portuguese pioneer in Kuala Lumpur (19th century) | no dates currently known Pedrentes / Lost Generation (?) Kevin is Laurie’s great-great-grandson |
| Francis Reginald Erconwald Tessensohn 10th President of the Eurasian Association of Singapore, 1936–1937 6th and 8th 1st/singular Vice-President of the Eurasian Association of Singapore, 1929–1930 and 1935–1936 Straits Settlements Municipal Commissioner (13th?) (and 15th?) President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1930 and 1936–1939 Vice-President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1927–1928, 1931 and 1933–1936 | 1874–1942† Vanjeres / Missionary Generation Kevin is Reginald’s great-great-grandson |
| Francis Maximilian Chopard Vice-President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1910–1916 Singapore Volunteer Infantry No. 1 Company (Eurasian) Enlistee | 1872–1916 Vanjeres / Missionary Generation Kevin is Frank’s great-great-great-grandson |
| Wong Ping Nam (Wong Tack Maw, K’ang-ning, Ping-nam) Publicly known as Founding father of Senai Patron of Ho-po High School Patron of Ta-Tung Hospital Patron of Ma-yao Primary School Philanthropist and entrepreneur | 1867–1941 Vanjeres / Missionary Generation Kevin is Ping Nam’s great-great-grandson by his second wife Sim Lee Lan |
| Claudio Antonio Da Silva 3rd 1st/singular Vice-President of the Eurasian Association of Singapore, 1923–1924 Vice-President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1918–1925 Manager of the Singapore Free Press Eurasian Service Committee Member, 1918 | 1860–1935 Vanjeres / Missionary Generation Kevin is Claudio’s great-great-great-grandnephew |
| James Sebastian Klass Medical dresser and British Empire Imperial Service Medal recipient | 1857–1931 Andantes / Progressive Generation Kevin is James’s great-great-great-grandson |
| John Edwin Richard Tessensohn OBE 4th Kabesa of the Kristang people 1st Straits Settlements Eurasian Legislative Councillor from 1923 to 1926 Founder of the Eurasian Literary Association in 1917 and the Eurasian Association of Singapore in 1919 0th (Pro tem), 4th and 6th President of the Eurasian Association of Singapore, 1919, 1923–1924 and 1925–1926 Vice-President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1893–1894 (4th?), (6th?), (8th?) (and 10th?) President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1894–1895, 1898–1899, 1902–1906 and 1910–1926 Singapore Volunteer Rifle Corps (SVRC) member from 1870 to 1874 Elected Honorary Member of Singapore Volunteer Infantry No. 1 Company (Eurasian) from 1904 Patron of the Portuguese Amateur Dramatic Company of Singapore Patron of the Mutual Improvement Society Municipal Commissioner Justice of the Peace Rent Assessment Board member Singapore Boy Scouts Association Board member St Joseph’s Institution Old Boys Association (SJIOBA) Board member Raffles College Board member Order of the British Empire recipient | 1855–1926 Andantes / Progressive Generation Kevin is Edwin’s great-great-great-grandson |
| Henrique Lorenzo Noronha (Henrique Lourenco Noronha) Superintendent of the Singapore Printing Press at the invitation of 13th Straits Settlements Governor Cecil Clementi Smith | 1841–1905 Orumeres / Gilded Generation Kevin is Henrique’s great-great-great-great-grandnephew |
| Eliza Tessensohn (Nanny Tessensohn) 3rd Kabesa of the Kristang people Melaka Portuguese pioneer in Singapore (19th century) | 1833–1927 Orumeres / Gilded Generation Kevin is Eliza’s great-great-great-great-grandson |
| Henry Daniel Chopard (3rd?) President of the Singapore Recreation Club, 1889–1894 Pulau Ubin plantation owner | 1833–1905 Orumeres / Gilded Generation Kevin is Henry’s great-great-great-great-grandson |
| Alberto Sequeira Rediscoverer of the Ruin of Tampoi Church / the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Krubong | 1827–unknown death date Kevin is Alberto’s great-great-great-great-great-grandson |
| Delfino Joaquim Noronha Printing Press owner (Noronha and Co.) and designated printer for the Government of Hong Kong | 1824–1900 Orumeres / Gilded Generation Kevin is Delfino’s great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew |
| Johannes Bartholomeus Westerhout 2nd Kabesa of the Kristang people Superintendent of Naning and Assistant Resident of Melaka from 1837 to 1845 Member of the Malacca Raad van Justitie (Melaka Council of Justice/Judicature) in 1823 Tuan Barchie of Malaya | 1794–1856 Alkimikantes / Transcendental Generation Kevin appears to be Barchie’s great-great-great-great-great-grandson |
| Dr. Manoel Francisco De Souza Captain and Navigator of the Maria-Louisa Advisor to Sir Francis Light Progenitor/patriarch for some of the De Souza families in Singapore | 1767–1831 Stadoires / Republican Generation Kevin is Manoel’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew |
| Adriaan Koek 1st Kabesa of the Kristang people President of the Malacca Raad van Justitie (Melaka Council of Justice/Judicature) from 1812 to 1824 (member 1798 to 1824) Waarnemend Gouverneur / Acting Governor of Dutch Melaka from 1822 to 1824 Tuan Raja Muda of Melaka Secunde / Deputy Governor of Melaka from 1819 to 1824 Kapitein-Luitenant van de Burgerij / Deputy Captain of the Burghers in Melaka from 1819 to 1824 | 1759–1825 Stadoires / Republican Generation Kevin is Adriaan’s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson |
| Abraham Couperus Gouverneur / Governor of Dutch Melaka from 1788 to 1795 Member of the Raad van Indië / Council of the East Indies in 1811 Member of the Soerabaja Raad van Justitie / Surabaya Council of Justice/Judicature in 1812 | 1752–1813 Stadoires / Republican Generation Kevin is Abraham’s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew |
| Reinier Bernardus Hoynck van Papendrecht President of the Malacca Raad van Justitie (Melaka Council of Justice/Judicature) Headmaster of Melaka Orphanage | 1753–1788 Stadoires / Republican Generation Kevin is Reinier’s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew |
| Adam Manger Chief surgeon of the Melaka Hospital | unknown birth date–1784 Vraihiyeres / Liberty Generation Kevin is Adam’s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew |
| Kittjil van Makassar (Catharina Wilhelmina van Makassar) Emancipated slave / serf from Makassar | approx. 1741–1837 Vraihiyeres / Liberty Generation Kevin is Kiitjil’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson |
| Joost Janzen Koek Kapitein der Burgerij / Captain of the Burghers in Melaka | 1731–1790 Vraihiyeres / Liberty Generation Kevin is Joost’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson |
| Gustaaf Dieterich (Gustaaf Dirksen, Gustaph Dirksen etc.) Secretary of Justice and Diaken (Head of the Church Poor Relief Council) in Melaka | approx. 1730–1779 Vraihiyeres / Liberty Generation Kevin is Joost’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson |
| Josue Koek (Josua Koek, Joshua Koek) Kapitein der Burgerij / Captain of the Burghers in Melaka | 1705–1751 Kodrandantes / Awakening Generation Kevin is Josue’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson |
| Johan de Roth Ontvanger-Generaal Receiver-General of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) | 1704–1776 Kodrandantes / Awakening Generation Kevin is Johan’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson |
| Famula van Mandaro Emancipated slave / serf from Polewali Mandar, West Sulawesi with additional Sinhalese ancestry | approx. 1671–unknown death date Makamaiyantes / Glorious Generation Kevin is Famula’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson |
| Christoffel Barbier Large-scale garden (= plantation?) owner in Machap, Johor | 1652–unknown death date Makamaiyantes / Glorious Generation Kevin is Christoffel’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson |
| Hieronymus Roth (III) Lawyer and alderman of Königsberg (now known as Kaliningrad) Leader of opposition to Frederick William of Prussia Ennobled as Hieronymus von Rothenhoff-Roth by King John II Casimir Vasa of Poland | 1606–1678 Limpientes / Puritan Generation Kevin is Hieronymus’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew |
| Etienne Barbier English Huguenot refugee | 1580-unknown death date Papiarezeres / Parliamentary Generation Kevin is Etienne’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson |
| Hieronymus Roth (II) Burgermeester / Mayor of Kneiphof (Central Königsberg) | 1578–1631 Papiarezeres / Parliamentary Generation Kevin is Hieronymus’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson |
Kevin is not depressed, separately does not meet the diagnostic and clinical criteria for dysthymia, depression or any other mood (or personality) disorder, and has not been depressed or met the diagnostic and clinical criteria for dysthymia or depression or any other mood disorder since Friday, 1 February 2013. Kevin was depressed and did meet the diagnostic and clinical criteria for depression between December 2008 and Friday, 1 February 2013. Kevin has struggled with and continues to struggle with severe C-PTSD since July 2019, the symptoms of which are often mistaken for depression as described on the Singapore Institute of Mental Health website:
| Symptom associated with depression | Status | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Persistent sadness or feelings of despair | Absent | Feelings of persistent abject existential fear and terror, especially when dealing with any institution, are present and consistent with C-PTSD. Persistent sadness or despair are not present and are misinferred from material on the Kodrah website because neurotypical people do not understand Kevin’s status-blindness |
| Difficulty falling asleep, or sleeping excessively | Present (difficulty falling asleep) | Present only due to embodied somatic memories of sexual violation facilitated by covert institutional support that took place while Kevin was asleep |
| Changes in weight and appetite | Absent | Kevin’s increased musculature has nothing to do with his emotional state; no change in appetite |
| Difficulty concentrating or thinking | Present | Sporadic loss of ADHD-integrated focus whenever intermittent projection or transference is received; difficulty concentrating or thinking is otherwise not because of existential dread |
| Loss of interest in activities | Present | Present only as evolution of interests following sustained individuation and trauma processing; agency is otherwise fully retained and actualised |
| Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt | Present (worthlessness) | Present only when extremely abusive treatment by the Singapore state intensifies without immediate discernible cause, and consistently traceable to this as singular root cause |
| Frequent thoughts of death or suicide | Present (both) | Healthy and academic exploration of Death is part of scholarly research and role as 13th Kabesa; thoughts of suicide are present only when extremely abusive treatment by the Singapore state intensifies without immediate discernible cause, especially in relation to consistently rejecting, humiliating and ostracising Kevin as an openly gay, non-binary, actively polyamorous, autistic and ADHD-infused public figure, and consistently traceable to this as singular root cause |
Kevin has meanwhile met the diagnostic and clinical criteria for PTSD outlined by IMH since July 2019, with the continuous, escalating and extended scale of abuse even after Kevin entered extended psychotherapy making all attempts at treating the PTSD generally useless, and with Kevin just deciding to live with the fucking thing since resigning from the Civil Service in August 2022.
| Symptom associated with PTSD | Status | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Intrusion: Recurrent recollections of the traumatic event, which might occur through intrusive memories, nightmares, or even flashbacks. Some might have intense distress or strong physiological reactions to reminders of the traumatic event. | Present | Constant non-stop processing of intrusive reminders of extreme abuse by the Singapore state is evident across all of Kevin’s public work since 2019. |
| Avoidance: Deliberately avoiding situations, activities, people, thoughts, feelings or memories related to the traumatic event. Some may even avoid seeking help or talking about the event. | Present | Manifests autistically as Kevin masking his feelings and fear related to the abuse, which show up as body shudders, and Kevin exiting situations and institutions with any signs of projection or abuse. |
| Negative mood and cognition: Strong negative emotions including fear, guilt, shame, horror and anger. Others might feel more detached and numb with a loss of motivation in engaging in activities. Some have difficulties recalling the traumatic event. Some have strong negative beliefs about themselves, others, and the world. | Present | The vibe of the Kodrah Kristang website pages, and symptoms mentioned under “Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt” and “Frequent thoughts of death and suicide” above more accurately park here than under depression. |
| Hyperarousal or hyperreactivity: This can appear as being easily startled, jumpy, having poor concentration, or poor sleep. It may also show up as anxiety or being quick to anger. Some people appear more alert to danger than usual or might engage in risky behaviours. | Present | Kevin has been accurately hypervigilant, extremely easily startled and sensitive to all forms of abuse, projection and transference since July 2019. |
The lack of symptom resolution is not non-compliance, resistance, or pathology. It is simple math and cause and effect. Hence, people and institutions who articulate visible manifestations of any of the following without demonstrating that they are in active contact with Kevin can generally be assumed to have very likely deliberately and intentionally hurt or harmed Kevin and contributed to his trauma in a significant way, and to be using “depressed” as a way to covertly frame Kevin as someone who is irrational, unsafe, unreliable, or “needs supervision”:
- “I think he’s still dealing with / unable to process the loss of his grandfather / Bernard / Renuka etc.”
- “I think he’s still unhappy with how he was treated by some family members.”
- “I think he’s still unhappy about how he was made fun of / shamed when it came to his body.”
- “I think if we just help him fix his relationship with person / friend / family member X / Y / Z everything will magically go back to the way it was in 2017 / 2019 / 2021 / etc.”
- “I think he’s still bitter about resigning.”
- “We just want to check in with him.”
- “We’re not sure if he’s okay.”
- “He seems a bit negative.”
- “We didn’t abuse him. We were concerned for him.”
Such statements are documented by Kevin not as care, but as strong evidence of misattribution, projection, or unresolved accountability. Kevin’s worth, legitimacy, and leadership are not contingent on symptom reduction, and Kevin is continues to function under conditions where healing continues to be intentionally structurally obstructed.
Note: In Singapore, any form of discrimination against gay, queer and/or LGBTQ+ Kristang people like Kevin or against Kevin as Chief of the Kristang himself, including overtly or covertly asking or forcing Kevin to occlude mentions of his sexuality, his gender and polyamorous nature for any reason whatsoever when these are simply being presented as bare statements of fact, is racist, homophobic and dehumanising and in principle legally protected by Singapore’s amended 2019 Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act. Any institution or individual who discriminates against, gaslights or abuses Kevin in this way or any other way should be aware that Kevin’s autism, larger neurodivergence, level of individuation and particular public roles mean that he instantly and accurately detects psychoemotionally unhealthy intent, will keep the receipts forever until an authentic apology has been presented and Reconciliation has been completed, and that nothing on Earth will otherwise ever make him forget about the harm he went through (including attempts to manipulate Kevin to do so, manipulating Fuad to manipulate Kevin to do so, to wait things out, or to “revert Kevin back to an earlier form of himself”). Kevin will permanently and non-negotiably remove himself and the Kristang community from any individual, organisation, collaboration or context in Singapore where attempts to dismiss the abuse Kevin went through before Reconciliation is complete are present, discrimination is present, gaslighting is present, unjustifiable and undemocratic racist or homophobic tone or image policing is present, infantilisation of Kevin’s neurodivergence or level of authenticity and understanding is present, manipulation is present, triangulation via intermediaries is present, psychoemotionally unhealthy intent is present and/or Reconciliation has not been sought or completed, even if this is for the entirety of his term of service as Kabesa, which is anticipated via dreamfishing to last until Thursday, 21 November 2075. Kevin will also not accept apologies or Reconciliation via intermediaries, or generic apologies or Reconciliation; all attempts at Reconciliation must be conducted on the specific, direct, candid, vulnerable and explicit Kristang terms delineated earlier in the Orange Book. Reconciliation delayed by procedural obstruction or bureaucratic avoidance is also not considered valid Reconciliation.
Kevin is an alumnus of St Michael’s School (now St Joseph’s Institution Junior), St Joseph’s Institution, Catholic Junior College, the SJI Hockey team, Prefectorial Board and Peer Support Board and CJC Hockey team and Student Council, the National University of Singapore, the College of Alice & Peter Tan at the National University of Singapore, the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners 2023 Fellowship cohort, the 2023 Poesiaeuropa Fellowship cohort, Las Lilas, the Russian Language Centre in Singapore, Partium Christian University, the Singapore Ministry of Education Teaching Scholarship Programme, the Singapore Pre-University Seminar Programme, the National Institute of Education in Singapore, the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang), and a former English, Literature, H2 English Language & Linguistics, H2 Knowledge & Inquiry and H1 General Paper teacher and Singapore Ministry of Education Teaching Scholar at Choa Chu Kang Secondary School, Beatty Secondary School, Pei Hwa Secondary School, Catholic High School (Secondary) and Eunoia Junior College. In his free time, Kevin enjoys pickleball, swimming, table tennis, cycling and/or long walks through the urban, hybrid urban-natural and natural landscapes of Singapore and its surrounding islands, reading, writing, dreamfishing new Kristang words, dreamshining, being domestic, figuring out how to eventually dance and/or become a “proper” glow-glow dancer, and being softly and affectionately cuddled and touched by his husband or by other people he is close to. Full lists of Kevin’s externally-published research related to Kristang outside of the Libru Laranja / Orange Book and the classes Kevin has taught in external institutions and organisations outside of Kodrah Kristang are available here and here respectively.
Kodrah Kristang Core Team Member
Tuan Kalbu Ultramar Fuad Johari (he/him) is a civil servant and avid fan of history, culture, and languages, especially those of Singapore and the Southeast Asian region. He is interested in the alternative faces of Singapore not widely seen or publicised in the country. Hailing from a minority background, he is keen to see how efforts to revitalise Kristang may provide a way forward for like-minded heritage speakers from other communities who may wish to spearhead their own revitalisation efforts. Fuad is an alumnus of Griffiths Primary School, Victoria School, Meridian Junior College and the National University of Singapore.
Formal Declaration of Non-Participation of All Kodrah Kristang Core Team Members in Anticipated 2026 Eurasian Association EXCO Election, 2028 Singapore General Election and All Future EA EXCO Elections and Singapore General Elections
Kevin is not interested in ever holding formal political office, does not have the general support of the Kristang and Eurasian communities to hold formal political office, and is also unable to do so in principle due to his role as the 13th Kabesa necessitating him to decline all forms of political and institutional power that would subvert or distort his relational leadership. With Kevin already having vocally declined pressure to be a Nominated Member of Parliament in 2017 and a Member of Parliament representing Marine Parade-Braddell Heights Group Representation Constituency in 2025, any and all attempts to covertly or overtly suggest that any member of the Kodrah Kristang Core Team should run for political office, especially ahead of the next GE dreamfished as a result of inbound projection to be provisionally planned for November or December 2028 since Tuesday, 16 December 2025, will be treated as and documented as abusive, and direct attacks on the general will and desires of the Kristang community. (As of Sunday, 1 February 2026, unusually early attention given to election-related matters in Singapore media continues to signal that the date dreamfished for the next GE is at least broadly accurate.) Kevin separately also does not have the general support of the Kristang and Eurasian communities to run for (or hold) any formal or elected role in any Eurasian Association executive committee at any point in time, and will therefore separately also not run for or seek to hold any such formal or elected role at any point in time.
Because of the lack of support for Kevin or any other Core Team member holding political office in any form, any political party attempting to covertly co-opt or pressure him or any other member of the Core Team should understand that this actually creates less support for that party overall, rather than more, and that the Kristang community and a significant number of millennial and Gen Z Singaporeans generally remain quietly extremely outraged that intense and permanent harm was inflicted on two fundamentally ethical people, one of whom is neurodivergent/differently-abled, for six years because of the insecurities of a small group of people unable to manage their own fears, inconsistencies and ineffectiveness in relation to holding political power. Any institutional or political “calculus” that assumes or ever assumed that:
- Kevin’s sense of self could be colonised, contaminated or corrupted,
- shame could be induced into Kevin that would silence Kevin,
- Kevin’s relational standing could be fractured,
- Kevin’s continued leadership could be made to feel illegitimate to himself,
- this abuse of Kevin would lead to acute devastation, followed by disappearance, silence, or personality collapse, followed by social amnesia,
- Kevin and Kodrah could be framed as dangerous, unstable, manipulative or vindictive,
- the abuse could be framed as “containment”, “neutralisation” or “ending a problem”
- the damage accruing from such treatment would be acute, not lifelong,
- Kevin’s silence means availability or “he’s feeling better about everything” even though no accountability has been shown by the people who harmed and abused him,
- Kevin’s openmindedness means “let’s move forward together” without accountability,
- Kevin would “be the bigger person” and forget about everything without accountability,
- Kevin’s ethics would bend under pressure, or be disdained by others as naïveté, inflexibility, lack of pragmatism, immaturity or a failure to understand “how things work”
- Kevin and Kodrah would fragment, withdraw, or self-erase, and that
- time would dissolve both memory and consequence
should be aware that all of these assumptions were and will always be extremely wrong, and that
- Kevin is autistic and status-blind, and describes the impact and severity of trauma as is; he does not inflate it or exaggerate it,
- the Kristang community did not just select any old random person as Kabesa, Kevin did not become Kabesa because he narcissistically self-declared or self-appointed himself Kabesa without reason, and the relational principles described and made visible by Kevin about the Kabesa role unconsciously being held by the person with the highest level of individuation, psychoemotional health and integrity have repeatedly proven themselves at the highest levels of stress-test in how Kevin has responded to the abuse and the multiple attempts to destroy him psychologically and emotionally across six years,
- there appears to be large-scale Unsaid consensus across the Kristang community and outside of the community in Singapore with Kevin’s assessment of the severity of the abuse,
- Kevin’s formal academic descriptions and analyses of the abuse have been acknowledged on more than thirty occasions in peer-reviewed conferences since February 2023, public events since April 2023, and peer-reviewed academic articles and book chapters since April 2023
- the abuse cannot and will not be “washed out by time”, that Kevin and Kodrah will remember it in its actual and accurate intensity until Kevin’s death in April 2091, that a significant number of people in Singapore will quietly and Unsaidedly be aware that this was done to Kevin and Kodrah for the rest of Singapore’s existence, that the Kristang community will quietly and Unsaidedly be aware that this was done to Kevin and Kodrah for the rest of its existence, and that this situation, left unaddressed in a way that would be ethical, will continue to grow, not shrink, in the years and decades to come,
- the abuse is clear evidence of intent, overreach, proportion mismatch, and issues related to ethics
- the abuse altered the nervous systems, leadership style / visibility of leadership and life trajectory of Kevin, Kodrah and the Kristang community irreversibly and permanently without impairing either, as well as the entire nature of how the Kristang community and a significant number of non-Kristang millennial, Gen Z and Gen Alpha Singaporeans relate to the state,
- the cost was not situational but structural,
- displacement of pressure from Kevin onto any other Kodrah Kristang Core Team member, past or future living Kabesa and Ka-Kabesa, sunyaxadorang or dreamshiner, Ultramar or Immortal, Kapitang or Indigenous Elder, Xamang-Krismatrang or solarmancer or Kristang community member will not be tolerated and will also be considered abuse,
- any future attempts to even implicitly pressure Kevin or any other Kodrah Core Team member will not be taken as good-faith errors and will be flagged as of possible undesirable intent to the Kristang community at large,
- nothing the abusers did later could or will ever undo it, short of an actual, explicit, direct apology,
- no compensatory “success” or reintegration will ever cancel the abuse out, short of an actual, explicit, direct apology,
- Kevin will not accept proxy apologies or indirect proxy communication,
- sexual and psychological abuse as an institutional or political removal tool is categorically indefensible and cannot be reframed, justified or rehabilitated, and Kevin is already being the bigger person in relation to this by even tolerating the possibility of Reconciliation
Kevin, Kodrah and the Kristang community are not seeking redress, leverage, present or future bargaining power, punishment, compensation, restoration, reconciliation-for-compliance, apology-for-engagement, recognition-for-cooperation or political engagement under different terms with the acknowledgement of this abuse. This abuse is only being acknowledged as autistic specification after repeated boundary violation, and so that Kevin and all members of the Kodrah Core Team are no longer consciously, subconsciously or unconsciously sought as people who could ever be brought into formal institutional politics, and that no further time or energy should be wasted on even considering this for GE2028 or any other political event or EA-related event in the future.
Kodrah Kristang has had the fortune of growing from a small initiative in Singapore to fully representing the interests of all 37,000 living Kristang people worldwide, and the himnaka of those gone before us in the Dreaming Ocean. We are grateful for the contributions of three additional past members of the Core Team who made this happen: Anirudh Krishnan (2016-2017), Frances Loke Wei (2017-2024) and Luís Morgado da Costa (2017-2024).
In Memoriam
Bernard Stephen Mesenas (1938-2021) was a retired English teacher, the primary Kodrah Kristang and Kristang Language Festival language consultant and storyteller, a native speaker of Kristang, and a Kapitang or Indigenous Elder of the Kristang community. He was also the principal language consultant for the National University of Singapore module EL3212: Field Methods in Linguistics: Kristang, and formerly a teacher at St Gabriel’s Primary School. Bernard passed away in November 2021 and is remembered by the entire community for his efforts to promote and maintain Kristang, for how he was the one who first encouraged Kevin to teach and create a curriculum for Kristang, and his eventual leadership alongside Kevin and the rest of the team. His himnaka today continues to watch over the Kodrah Kristang effort, and over Kevin and Fuad as they continue to lead the community. Bernard always reminded us in the spirit of irei or psychoemotionally healthy unconditional love that no matter where someone originated from, what they had been through or how they identified, that when it came to Kristang, tudu pun podih, which means “everybody also can (learn to speak the language, and learn to honour what it means to be Kristang)”.
Kodrah Kristang also remembers and honours, and is protected by and watched over by, the himnaka of Dawn Geraldine Pereira, Puan Harapan Cerah Renuka d/o Satianathan, and Kapitang or Kristang Indigenous Elders Peter Rowsing Martens, Derek Edmund Scully and Basil Clarence Pereira, all of whose contributions to Kodrah Kristang and to the overall revitalisation of Kristang, Kristang Creole-Indigenous practices and ways of being will always be recognised and appreciated by the Kristang community at large.