Todayās millennials have been labelled āThe Strawberry Generationā ā one that cannot withstand excessive pressure or hard work and, like strawberries, ābruise” easily. Compared to the...
I’m an alumnus of the University of Virginia (UVA), located in the impossibly beautiful town of Charlottesville. On Friday, August 11, white supremacists marched onto our Lawn, protesting in...
Go to work. Get frustrated. Feel like quitting. Receive monthly salary. Don’t quit. Repeat. As a young professional barely out of university, my existence seemed to be quickly confined to this...
I still remember my first cigarette. My bi-sexual ex-convict then-boyfriend had broken up with me because I was a virgin and did not want to sleep with him. I was heartbroken and devastated. I was in...
āI now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.ā (C S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters) I think I spend most of my days wasting my life away with nothingness...
“Do everything without grumblingĀ or arguing, so that you may become blamelessĀ and pure, children of GodĀ without fault in a warped and crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like...
My Christian brethren might give me some side-eye at this confession, but Iāve never fasted. InĀ my church, fasting season every year stretches from July 1Ā to August 9. That’sĀ 40 days...
I will never forget theĀ phone call I received back in 2014 ā on Christmas Day āĀ and finding out that I was going to be part of Awaken Generationās pioneer cohort. On the other end of the line...
“This year, on Aug 9, I will have celebrated National Day 52 times,” Jeffrey Goh ā let’s call him Uncle Jeff ā declares, waving his Singapore flag. The National Day tattoos on...