Articles by

Wong Siqi

Real Life, Real People

#UnheardNarratives: 3 misconceptions you still hear about mental illnesses

Did you know that World Mental Health Day has been around for nearly three decades? Yet while conversations on mental health have increased awareness and reduced stigma in recent years, we are still...

Real Life, Real People

#UnheardNarratives: Couples who broke up in church

Breakups are not easy to handle, much less in church where everyone knows everyone. So how should one react to a breakup? And why are breakups such a taboo topic anyway? For episode one of our new...

Money Matters

Save or invest? 3 young adults take on financial management

Managing money as a student and managing finances as a young working adult can be two completely different ball games. But it is something we all have to contend with as we go through #adulting....

Missions

From A-Levels to Africa: How a daughter followed in her father’s footsteps

The year is 1975. Rodney Hui, or affectionately known as Uncle Rodney to many young friends, is only 20 years old. Rodney had a long break before starting his university education, so he decided to...

Do Good

Homeless at age 14, this is how a foster family changed her life

In his 2021 National Day Rally speech, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong highlighted Roslina Toh’s effort in mobilising 200 volunteers to organise food and shelter for stranded Malaysian workers...

Real Life, Real People

#SpillTheTeh: The grief of losing a loved one to death

TRIGGER WARNING This article contains content on death and suicide.  Death. It is something that all of us have to face, and yet few of us would want to think about it. Perhaps because it seems so...

Disabilities

#SpillTheTeh: Here’s what people with disabilities want you to know

“My mum would tell me when I was younger that I needed to study hard and be a tuition teacher, so I can ask my students to come to my house and I can earn a lot of money without having to go out at...

How-tos & Handles

3 survival tips as we go back to the office

I’ll be honest here: I died a little inside when the news broke that work-from-home (WFH) would no longer be the default from August 19. On April 5, when Singapore had relaxed regulations on Safe...

News

The crisis in Afghanistan and the comfort of God

I couldn’t sleep the night when news of what was happening in Afghanistan broke. How could I, knowing that someone on the other side of the world had nowhere to turn, no safe shelter to rest in, no...