Articles by

Gabriel Ong

Workplace

From fear to faith: My journey of serving in a COVID-19 ICU

It was about a week before the first COVID-19 case in Singapore, when my nurse manager assigned me to be part of the COVID-19 ICU nursing team in Singapore General Hospital. It was the first such...

Surveys & Reports

Millennials in the US are rejecting the faith. Are we seeing this happening here?

Last week, there was a study released in the US that looked at the Millennial generation and their worldviews.  Here are a few points that stood out, according to an annual survey conducted in...

Marriage

Amidst a pandemic, we struggled to plan our wedding and find a flat

Planning for our wedding and searching for a house in the midst of COVID-19 has been extremely stressful.  We initially planned for a large-scale church and banquet wedding. However, we were worried...

Tech

The Social Dilemma: A take from someone who’s come off social media

Sitting comfortably at #3 on Netflix for some time, The Social Dilemma (TSD) is probably the single best thing I’ve watched on the streaming platform all year.  It’s a documentary that...

Worldview

How should a Christian respond to injustice and social movements?

With all the disorder and unrest that’s going on in the world today, let’s take a look at Acts 19:23-41 where a huge riot breaks out in the city of Ephesus. In brief, after Paul has spent...

Finding Purpose

Why must I keep waiting?

Between the years 2013 and 2016, after my resignation as a school teacher, I entered a season of the wilderness when I was recovering from a burnout. Going from the fast pace of the teaching service...

Mental Health

The girl with a morbid fascination for death

I developed a love for reading in primary 5. It started with innocent children’s books, before I turned to magic and fantasy. Then I read this goth novel in primary 6 that became the catalyst...

Money Matters

What am I chasing in life?

In a group of 6 successful and high-flying friends, I am the one who went a different way. I just don’t think I got the memo growing up: They went into the good classes, I was in the worst one....

Finding Purpose

“It’s an answer to a prayer I wrote at 19”, says 27-year-old who is refreshing heritage brand CYC

Think of the iconic 85-year-old Singapore brand, CYC, and a picture of made to measure shirts favoured by prominent CEOs, politicians and state leaders comes to mind. But Cara Chiang, 27, has...