Faith

Iā€™m a woman and I struggle with pornography and masturbation

No, you didnā€™t read the title wrongly. Ā Girls are not immediately associated with suchĀ sexual sin, but being female does not make us immune to these things. Iā€™m a woman, and I have struggled...

Culture

Weighing the cost of an iPhone X

I remember my first. It didnā€™t resemble a brick. Instead, it was yellow and black, like a bumblebee; the first mobile phone I remember ever seeing was an Ericsson. This was in 1997. My...

Culture

Angry about the Presidential Election that never was?

Madam Halimah Yacob, former Speaker of Parliament,Ā isĀ Singapore’s 8th President. She’s no stranger to breaking new ground, enteringĀ territories which have been traditionally occupied...

Relationships

What to do when your #OTP breaks up

UPDATE: As of June 27, 2019, Song Joong Ki has announced that he is filing for divorce from Song Hye Kyo. Hailed as one of Korea’s dream couples, the Song-Song pair were married for 20 months....

Culture

Are you playing the game, or is the game playing you?

I grew up playing video games. I blame this lifelong passionĀ on my Dad, really. One of my earliest memories was him teaching me to play some cowboy shooting game ā€“ you had to click on a bad guy...

Culture

Taylor Swift says the old Taylor Swift is dead. What a shame

ā€œI’ve got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined. I check it once, then I check it twice, oh!ā€ snarls Taylor Swift in her latest single, Look What You Made Me Do. The music video,...

Culture

Ah ma and the afterlife: My seventh-month thoughts

ā€œCannot swim today, itā€™s too late already, later the zhui gwee (‘water ghost’ in Hokkien) catch you ah.ā€ It was that time of the year again ā€“ the seventh month (äøƒęœˆ) in the...

Culture

In Singapore, we must choose life

ā€œFather, can You take this burden away from me?ā€ With my hands clasped tightly and my head bowed down, tears fell in fat drops onto my hand while my mind struggled to understand what was...

Culture

Battleship Island: The war wages on, but we have hope

WARNING: SPOILERS ABOUND. IF YOU HAVENā€™T WATCHED THE MOVIE, GO WATCH IT FIRST. DONā€™T SAY OPPA DIDNā€™T WARN YOU! ā€œHow was the movie?ā€ My mom asked me after Iā€™d came home from watching...