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

Iā€™m not ready to meet you, God

ā€œIf the plane crashes, then weā€™ll just go to heaven earlier!ā€ We were about to board a plane to Sydney when myĀ friend said it. We’d been talking about MH370 and other recent aviation...

Culture

We need to rethink how we talk about sex

What if I told you that you would have to wait longer than any other generation to get married? Thatā€™s not the only news. What if I said your generation would need to wait longer than any other...

Culture

I live to fight another day: Reflections on Dunkirk

Sometimes, after a movie,Ā I find myself walking outĀ of the cinema feeling the same way I leave church services on good days. I got this same feeling again when I sawĀ Dunkirk. Nolan’s latest...

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...

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...

Faith

Thereā€™s much to be thankful for this National Day

Iā€™m not theĀ most patriotic person around. I donā€™t volunteer with the grassroots and Iā€™m completely oblivious to any community events held in my constituency. Truth be told, I donā€™t really...

Faith

Where is home, truly?

Home. Itā€™s a seemingly simple concept.Ā But as you begin to peel back its layers,Ā you find it’s quite an elusive thing. Sometimes it’s a physical place, on other days it’s a...

Culture

On the ‘gram, I get to be God

Recently, it seems like more people are privatising theirĀ Instagram accounts. I kinda get that. Most of us don’t want to be stalked by strangers ā€“Ā we only want to share our lives with those...