Friday Fries Night - June

Come spend a cosy Friday night with your favourite Irregulars, eating fries and "reading" some fascinating Human Books! 📚 

🗓 27 June 2025

🕖 7 - 9PM

📍 284 River Valley Road

🍕 Dinner provided

What is River Valley Irregulars (RVI)?

RVI is a platform supporting youth with irregular backgrounds or aspirations by providing opportunities for growth and meaningful collaboration!

What is Human Library @ Friday Fries Night?

Friday Fries Night is a bimonthly gathering hosted by RVI - a safe space for youth to unwind, build community and network.

Meet our Human Books!

Brenda Tan

Cited by Singapore’s Prime Minister as a role model, Wellness Coach and bestselling author Brenda Tan (she/her) empowers people globally to heal, grow, and lead intentional lives through coaching, dream decoding, and emotional resilience. She knows first-hand what it feels like – looking glamorous on the outside but feeling crap on the inside. As someone who flunked her GCE O’ level exams but went on to manage close to 100 staff at just age 26 in an MNC, life was supposed to be great! But she was not happy. So she quit her job in 2010 and went on a spiritual journey. Her life went the other way round. She spiraled down as an entrepreneur and almost went bankrupt. She felt so miserable. This led her on a self-discovery journey about what is true contentment in life.

Ozzy Muhammad Syaeful

Name is Ozzy (he/him). Went the longer route of education and finally settled to be what he wanted to be, an automotive technician working with one of the prestigious and higher end of automobiles. Been to places to support races and also juggling with work at the workshop. Faced the darkest moments in his place. Dealt with some issues. Came back out but different, but life goes on.

Pathma Kumaari

Pathma (she/her) spent most of her youth in a 45 square meter 1-room rental flat. Today, she is a homeowner. She took a student loan to put herself through university and worked to pay off the loan and interest on her own - best birthday present to herself! She has been laid off twice in her life - the second time she was pregnant. Her work experiences include being an account executive at ad agency Ogilvy, youth work at CARE Singapore and operational change management at TikTok.

Danial A.Jalil

Danial is an ex-Assistant Instructor at Evolve Mixed Martial Arts in Singapore. He is a veteran competitor in the boxing scene with over 15 years of boxing experience. A 5x Boxing National Champion in Singapore, he represented the country at the Southeast Asian Games and Asian Boxing Championships in 2017. He also secured one gold and two silver medals at the Hong Kong Open in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Danial is the current Asian Boxing Federation and WBC Continental Asia Super Featherweight Champion.

Rachel Cheang

Rachel’s (she/her) work lives in the in-betweens: between systems and stories, children and elders, the classroom and the forest. She leads School of Imagination, a nature-based program that asks what learning could look like if we centred creativity, wonder, and courage instead of performance. Rachel also leads Energy CoLab, a youth-led educational initiative designing learning experiences and public resources to shape more inclusive narratives around the just energy transition. Last year, she produced Moving Earth, a short documentary film examining our relationship with land and soil-based farming against rapid urban development. Her facilitation practice also spans communities and contexts: from co-creating workshops with migrant domestic workers with SayurStory, to delivering workshops for youth across ASEAN, and hosting linocut printmaking sessions at Stranger Conversations. Led by curiosity, she is guided by the question: What else is possible?