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Thir.st

Relationships

Happily ever after

A few days ago, I was talking to my girls about why we humans like to collect things. The things we collect can range from small items like stuffed animals and toys to bigger items like cars, houses...

University

My FYP endgame: 21 days before our submission, my project was doomed to fail

“If I had to set an ambitious goal to work towards, success to me would be having our project featured in the newspaper,” I told my Final Year Project (FYP) partner as we sat across each other 10...

Family

A young woman’s journey out of sexual trauma and brokenness

My family used to be tight-knitted when I was younger, and I was especially close to my father. We would attend church services together every Sunday and do family activities on every other day. It...

National Service

Why I serve

I’m currently in camp for military reservist training. It has been a rather eventful in-camp cycle so far, largely due to the unfortunate passing of Aloysius Pang. We have all been following the...

Worldview

How a young atheist ended up in church

For 16 years of my life, I lived through my days following the norms set before me and in the way I felt life should be lived – mostly happy, with tinges of frustrations and sadness along the way...

Culture

Standing up for the love I believe in

This is how I feel about the ongoing public debate about Section 377A: I feel like a student who had to study real hard for an examination, only to find that the paper had only one question. There is...

Health

My journey through psychotic depression

I was diagnosed with psychotic depression eight months after I became a Christian. As a young Christian then, it was a confusing and devastating season. The diagnosis came when I had just started...

Faith

Your identity isn’t tied to what you do

When I was in school, I consistently topped the class in maths and sciences. I was a straight-A student except for the consistent B’s I got for languages and humanities. I went to top schools...

Relationships

To the children of divorced families: My life is proof there is hope

In 1989, my parents’ tumultuous divorce proceedings began, and so did my fears and insecurities. What was going to happen to our family? What was going to happen to me? The years leading to my...