Articles by

Wong Siqi

Studies & NS

What’s the point of education?

Education has gotten a bit of a bad rap in recent times. Eastern youths equate it with cramming content choc-a-bloc into their heads for a major examination in order to buy a ticket to future...

Mental Health

The fight to fight on

Broken relationships. Uncertainty. Work pressure. Inadequacy. Illness. Debt. Bullying. Injustice … We all have our battles to fight. Itā€™s not a matter of comparing whose battle is more...

Culture

What if Christianity was a lie?

Many years back, a friend told me casually, ā€œGod lives by faith.ā€ At the time, I thought that madeĀ sense. I thought it was rather clever. It did have a ring of truth to it. And it seemed...

Culture

What is Section 377A, and why should it matter to you?

ā€œBefore we are carried away by what other societies do, I think it’s wiser for us to observe the impact of radical departures from traditional norms on early movers,ā€ said Prime Minister...

Faith

Why is it so hard to evangelise to my friends?

After a few years of attending campus ministry at my university, I became increasingly gripped by the Gospel, and evangelising to my friends quickly took a front seat in life. I started spending time...

Mental Health

At the end of myself

I gazed nervously around the room. Iā€™d been trapped here for long enough with only the voices for company. Some mine, others … dark whispers. Talent is wasted on you. So what if youā€™re a...

Relationships

Should couples “test the water” on staycations and vacations?

Last year, a colleague of mine published a controversial article titledĀ Should couples travel together. It drew many differing opinions:Ā Some thought that it needed to be heard, while others...

Mental Health

My messed-up life … now a message of life

I have always been a sensitive girl. Even in primary school, the smallest actions and words of my friends would deeply affect me.Ā So I pushed them away before they could push me away. I often needed...

Faith

I don’t even know anymore. Now what?

Once in a while, we reach a place where we donā€™t know what else to do. That was the place where Executive Pastor Aries Zulkarnain’s (City Harvest) sermon began. ā€œWhen you reach the place of...