For many parents-to-be, finding out the gender of their unborn baby is usually an exciting and touching moment. But not for my parents. My father really wanted a son.Ā Imagine his disappointment...
I stared at the rows of bottles in the room Marina had ushered me into.Ā Iād been awestruck by the sights in New Zealand over the past few weeks, but nothing could prepare me for this. In the jars...
I knew Steven Lim, but I hadn’t heard ofĀ Pradip Subramanian. Not until the news startedĀ to pour in. Subramanian, the president of the World Bodybuilding & Physique Sports Federation...
I’m a SEA Games Medallist in discus throwing. I’m fit, but when I was a teen, I hated my body so much! I remember being in an all-girls cell group in church when I was 14, and we were...
As the younger sister,Ā I compared myself to my brother all my life.Ā PerhapsĀ I had some sort of inferiority complex. Or maybe I was just a kiasu individual. Either way,Ā it just didn’t help...
Along with the rise of social media platforms ā with Facebook hitting almost 2 billion global monthly active users, more than a quarter of the worldās population ā many have risen to popularity...
When I was younger, the only thing I wanted was to be male. I think this impulseĀ beganĀ when I was about 5. I frequently cried in frustration at how differently ā biased, I felt ā my parents...
āSo, how does it feel on your birthday?ā I didn’t know how to respond when someone asked me this last week on my birthday. To be honest, I felt older, that’s all. What are birthdays...
$%#&@!!! You’ve by now surelyĀ seen the video of theĀ fight that brokeĀ out in a classroom at St Hilda’s Secondary School. It involved threeĀ boys, manyĀ punches,...