Whenever I ask a friend, “How are you doing?”, I’ll most likely get the reply: “Busy lor. Tired.” We Singaporeans are a busy and tired lot, and a recent study by a UK bedding manufacturer...
It’s been all over the news in recent days so you would have probably seen the reports about China’s latest crackdown: games. Well, games, tech and education, to be more precise. Earlier...
One evening, as an introductory question to our Bible study session, our happily married leader asked the singles in our group to share why we were still single. The answers thrown out were along the...
You’ve probably heard before that teaching is a profession that transforms the next generation. But few like me would have the privilege of seeing how teaching transforms the teacher. I am married...
I was born and raised in a Christian home with parents who brought me to church and Sunday School every week. I had heard stories from the Bible and about Jesus from a young age. I grew up attending...
It was two weeks before the wedding and everything was running like clockwork — just as how Jacob and Jaclyn Lau had expected. Renovations for their new home were underway. Jaclyn’s elder sister,...
This sentence took hours. Honestly, I didn’t know how to begin this article. Have you seen the images and videos of Afghans falling from the sky? They had clung on to aircraft, even though...
Online dating in one’s 30s is not for the faint-hearted. Repeating answers to the same few questions for months on end, labouring to shape an organic conversation out of a vacuum, doing my best not...
At the end of July last year, I underwent an operation to halt vision loss in my right eye. In crude terms, the operation involves the surgeon cutting a small slit in my eye to reduce its pressure....