Articles by

Gabriel Ong

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 donโ€™t translate. During exam season, I make sure that I spend as much time as possible burying my...

COVID-19

When COVID-19 disrupted my life

โ€œThe staffroom has been asking after you! How have you been in such messed up times?โ€ That was what my ex-colleague recently asked me, out of concern at my seeming lack of a career. For around...

Tech

Genshin Impact: It’s all fun and games until you lose control

If you’re a gamer, you’d have probably seen the banners in City Hall or the YouTube ads promoting the hottest game on the market by now.ย  Genshin Impact’s (GI) September 28 release...

Mental Health

What I learnt about God from my depression

A big part of what makes suffering from depression so difficult is how isolating it feels. We crave to be fully understood in the depths of our emotions, and yet the pain we feel is so personal that...

Tech

#HACK2020: How can tech and talent transform the world?

I never wanted to do missions. There, I said it. Doing missions, I assumed, was something you really went out of your comfort zone for and dedicated your life to, moving into unfamiliar countries and...

Discipleship

Vacation deprived? Now’s a good time to unpack our wanderlust

Spend any amount of time with friends in conversation or on social media, and one topic’s bound to come up: travel. You can see it in the #throwback posts and pictures of exotic locales. You...

Worldview

The Christian and submission to governing authorities

This is a response to Shuin Jian’s article onย “How should a Christian respond to injustice and social movements?”. I would like to bring up another topic which has been extremely...

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...