Articles by

Joanne Kwok

How-tos & Handles

How do you know when to quit?

Todayā€™s millennials have been labelled ā€œThe Strawberry Generationā€ ā€“ one that cannot withstand excessive pressure or hard work and, like strawberries, ā€œbruise” easily. Compared to the...

Culture

I’m a Singaporean who studied in Charlottesville – and I cannot stay silent

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...

Work

God is at work

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...

Real Life, Real People

How I quit smoking after 9 years

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...

Culture

How to waste your life

ā€œI 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...

Faith

Time to shine

“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...

Culture

Why I left Instagram

My Christian brethren might give me some side-eye at this confession, but Iā€™ve never fasted. InĀ my church, fasting season every year stretches from July 1Ā to August 9. That’sĀ 40 days...

Faith

Rend the Heavens: My cry for my generation

I will never forget theĀ phone call I received back in 2014 ā€“ on Christmas Day ā€“Ā and finding out that I was going to be part of Awaken Generationā€™s pioneer cohort. On the other end of the line...

Culture

Why Uncle Jeff loves Singapore and you should too

“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...