Ariel Shing Yi Nga

The Clausius-Boltzmann formula for entropy is the mathematical statement that in a closed system, order doesn’t stay. Stars fade and dust settles. Everything drifts toward mess. This concept really unsettled me when I first discovered it at ten. Now I’m fourteen, and it makes me ask questions. What can possibly be accomplished for a universe that refuses to stay tidy? Do you somehow try to freeze it, or do you force temporary order inside the drift?

That question pulls the rest together. My widespread passions in literature, history, mathematics, politics and sciences are merely different perspectives of watching the same process - holding a mind still, making sense of why one arrangement of power lasted, and finding pattern before it disintegrates. I am an avid debater - as the vice captain, I love the tournaments, thrive under pressure, and savour how a good argument forces you to fiercely defend yourself and make concessions. My strong performance at the World Scholar’s Cup taught me to link ideas across fields and convey them clearly - skills that I am honoured to bring to the table at Inkoders. I enjoy writing as a student journalist and author, because language is one of the few tools we have for holding shape against the current. But what remains of a thought once the mind that held it is gone, and how far can we stretch the brief light we are given?

I do not have a tidy answer. Rather, I look back to the places where language, knowledge, and systems intersect. Literacy is the oldest tool we have for building order, and technology is one of the newest. As the editorial and media officer at Inkoders, that is the work I want to do - reinforcing the tales we tell, and giving them a longer life before they dissolve.