Articles by

Gabriel Ong

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....

Illness

One man’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...

Discipleship

How do I help my cell group members when it comes to sexual purity?

“Lord, I’m so sorry… I messed up again. Help me stop.” This would be my almost nightly prayer for a number of years since the first time I began exploring my own sexuality out of curiosity. I...

How-tos & Handles

Help, I’m a blur sotong: How to job hunt like a boss

As a fresh graduate who has been job hunting for two months now, unemployment can feel intensely intimidating. It has been a uniquely challenging phase in life where I’ve had to focus on my...

Disabilities

Brought back from the brink of death, he wrestled with the reality of losing his limbs

Within 24 hours of coming down with a high fever, Jason Leong was lying in the intensive care unit. Earlier that evening, he had noticed traces of blood in his urine, and his fingers, toes and lips...

Discipleship

Like father, like son

After my son Caleb was born, I began to reconsider the meaning of discipleship in my parenthood journey. I started observing our daily lives. Whenever I spoke to family members in an impatient tone...

Life & Death

Stricken with cancer at 22, I came to accept that my life is in God’s hands

In January 2019, I began experiencing nausea, vomiting and bloating in my abdomen all of a sudden. These symptoms persisted for three days. Feeling uneasy, I decided to visit the GP who then referred...

University

Struggling in university, my dream to become a psychologist was fading away

I am not the brightest student. Trust me, I really do study. But more often than not, my results don’t translate. During exam season, I make sure that I spend as much time as possible burying my...