Articles by

Gabriel Ong

Mental Health

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

For the past 10 or so years, Iā€™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 COVIDā€™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 youā€™ve got

Mosesā€™ staff was among the few possessions he had. It was probably his shepherdā€™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 ā€œmoral failuresā€, the latter has come forward with his own statement on Instagram....

Illness

How God healed me and my grandmother

ā€œEverything will work out for the best.ā€ Weā€™ve all heard this phrase before. It comforts us when things that donā€™t make sense happen in our lives, or we encounter difficult...

COVID-19

How to get rid of your unwanted ā€œnew normalā€ habits

As the world adjusts to a ā€œnew normalā€, Iā€™ve awakened to the realisation that COVID-19 has incubated a ā€œnew normalā€ of a different kind within me ā€” one Iā€™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 ā€œinferiorā€ private university degree and lack of internship experience, I felt like I was up against Goliath....

Illness

One manā€™s journey through psoriatic arthritis

Before Tom Cannon got together with his girlfriend, Ethel, he had to lay all the cards down: They might never be able to have children of their own. Since 19 years old, Tom has been suffering from...