Tech

At 22, I fear about the dangers that my generation faces

I first fell for porn at 11 years old. A few classmates started talking about it after we had sex education classes. Out of curiosity, I searched for it myself. Then I got hooked. I stole a look at...

News

The hug that shocked a nation: How do you forgive the person who killed your brother?

“Did anyone see this?” My colleague held up her phone wondering if any of us had read about Brandt Jean’s forgiveness of ex-police officer Amber Guyger – she had wrongly shot and murdered...

Worldview

This is my Father’s house, how dare I turn my back on it?

My dad is an environmentalist and I grew up slightly averse to all this creation care jargon. After all, this was “the work that took my father away”. As a follow-up to the previous article I...

Music

The sound of surrender: Clarence Chan on building music platform Bandwagon

Looking back at his eight-year journey of transforming an idea in his head to one of Southeast Asia’s leading music media companies, the founder of Bandwagon revealed that this wasn’t...

Personalities

Justin Bieber: How a bad boy became good

It isn’t every day that you get to see one of the world’s biggest celebrities open up about his life behind the glitz and glam. But that’s exactly what Justin Bieber did. A few days...

Worldview

In this culture war, we all need to calm down

This year’s MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) concluded earlier this morning and the biggest prize of the night – Video of the Year – went to Taylor Swift for her Pride-themed video “You...

Dating

Falling in love with someone who struggled with SSA

I must confess that I grew up with a kind of grid for envisioning how my life and relationships would look like. At every stage, I thought I knew what I wanted and looked for in a man and in romance....

News

City Harvest’s Pastor Kong Hee released from jail

He’s free. City Harvest Church’s founding pastor Kong Hee was released this morning after being in jail for 2 years and 4 months. He turns 55 tomorrow.   As quickly as the media mob...

News

Hong Kong protests: When the streets I knew turned into turmoil

A couple Sundays ago, my husband, son, and I found ourselves in the vicinity of a protest march. It was in the neighbourhood I had grown up in, and I was amused watching crowds of people dressed in...