‘Third-hand Shop,’ an antique store that sells items to its customers through the stories related by their former owners—entertaining, thrilling, bittersweet, and inspirational stories.

An old game owned by a former model student whose life was changed forever after she accidentally discovered a football game at a gaming shop near her school.

An old video camera and a young documentary filmmaker trying to save up and propose to his girlfriend, but faces many obstacles along the way, including his own dream.

A car and three siblings who returned to their hometown to fullfil their mother’s last wish, reuniting with relatives from whom they had previously been estranged.

Finally, the story about Third-hand Shop’s struggle to survive in a changing market and its eventual closure. The business owner decided to hold a farewell party for its customers who share a good relationship with the store.

‘May Love Be Your Lifetime Poetry’ is a heartwarming comic that has been adapted into a live action series, ‘Good old days,’ which airs in 2022 and is produced by GMMTV, the producer of Asia’s acclaimed ‘2gether.’

If The Man Who Finds His Own Voice was Sa-ard’s way of questioning what it takes to pursue one’s dream, Lifelong Poetry, another collection of short stories published a decade later, tenderly looks back at the years passed, journeys taken, love lost and found, the wounds we carry — all of which continues to unfold and shape who we are in the present. These stories leave us suspended between the soft edges of nostalgia, as depicted through Sa-ard’s whimsical lines and shading, and hard-boiled moments of truth that are sometimes hard to swallow in the absence of self-deprecating humour.

This collection of short stories comprises the vignettes of five ordinary lives: a man who forces himself to forget the losses of his childhood friend, his old lover and his amnesiac grandmother, but reunites with all of them in his dreams; a broken high school friendship that ended with betrayal finds the possibility to mend itself again 8 years later; a struggling comic artist attempts to rediscover her love for comics, only to find that the comic artist she idolises had lost the fire of his youth, but the joy that started it all remains with him in unexpected ways; a woman in her thirties finds herself having to take on her family’s business and the responsibility of caring for her father with anger issues; the eventual discovery that our first experience of heartbreak and loss, while it can morph into a fear of relationships, can eventually evolve into something more fulfilling if we learn to let go.