Articles by

Gabriel Ong

Workplace

I wasn’t promoted for 8 years and it stung

“I thought you were a senior. You have been working here for so long already!”, my colleague blurted out during a casual chat when we were discussing a work-related case. His words made me feel a...

Mental Health

I was drowning in depression when I found an anchor for my life

For the past 10 or so years, I’ve been dealing with episodes of deep melancholy. Thoughts of suicide came into mind from time to time, but I always dismissed them as a normal part of the human...

How-tos & Handles

How to find the right job: Start at the end

Many graduates and mid-career switchers want to find the right job, but it is an elusive goal (and COVID’s not making things easier). What is a good place to begin? Writer-turned-career coach Yong...

Real Life, Real People

Breaking free of my eating disorder

My eating disorder (ED) first began when I was stressed with A-Levels, facing family problems and setbacks in my school that made me feel all the more inadequate. I felt worthless, alone, inadequate...

Devotionals

Use what you’ve got

Moses’ staff was among the few possessions he had. It was probably his shepherd’s staff and represents what he knew and what he already had. God took that and made it a tool Moses would use many...

News

Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz confesses that he was unfaithful in marriage, leading out of an empty place

A day since Hillsong released its official statement on the dismissal of Pastor Carl Lentz due to “moral failures”, the latter has come forward with his own statement on Instagram....

Illness

How God healed me and my grandmother

“Everything will work out for the best.” We’ve all heard this phrase before. It comforts us when things that don’t make sense happen in our lives, or we encounter difficult...

COVID-19

How to get rid of your unwanted “new normal” habits

As the world adjusts to a “new normal”, I’ve awakened to the realisation that COVID-19 has incubated a “new normal” of a different kind within me — one I’m not sure I should get used...

Finding Purpose

Fresh graduate: I get it, the job-search is killer

Landing a job as a fresh graduate is challenging enough, but coupled with my “inferior” private university degree and lack of internship experience, I felt like I was up against Goliath....