Lauren: I have been writing competitively, I call it competitive writing, for some time. I used to write short stories and submit them for competitions. Some of them have been published. I always had in mind that I wanted to write a novel, but I never really had the time. Back then, I used to be a legal counsel and I was always working really long hours. When we moved to Singapore about six years ago, I finally had the time to sit down. I had the bandwidth to write. At the same time, I was also trying out stand-up comedy as an amateur. This was the time for me to experiment creatively. I got the idea for the book during a stand-up comedy set about conditional versus unconditional love and Asian parents. That's how I got the idea for the book. It just snowballed from there.