Health

Reflections on sudden deaths and unexpected tragedy: Our time will come

I knew Steven Lim, but I hadn’t heard of Pradip Subramanian. Not until the news started to pour in. Subramanian, the president of the World Bodybuilding & Physique Sports Federation...

Culture

I was fit, strong – but I hated my body

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...

Culture

I looked down on women

As the younger sister, I compared myself to my brother all my life. Perhaps I had some sort of inferiority complex. Or maybe I was just a kiasu individual. Either way, it just didn’t help...

Culture

Influencer or influenza: What are we spreading online?

Along with the rise of social media platforms – with Facebook hitting almost 2 billion global monthly active users, more than a quarter of the world’s population – many have risen to popularity...

Culture

Why was I made a woman?

When I was younger, the only thing I wanted was to be male. I think this impulse began when I was about 5. I frequently cried in frustration at how differently – biased, I felt – my parents...

Faith

Birthday musings of a twenty-something: What is there to celebrate?

“So, how does it feel on your birthday?” 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...

Culture

Thoughts on THAT St Hilda’s video: In an online brawl, are you bully, bystander, or peacemaker?

$%#&@!!! You’ve by now surely seen the video of the fight that broke out in a classroom at St Hilda’s Secondary School. It involved three boys, many punches,...

Faith

I’m a woman and I struggle with pornography and masturbation

No, you didn’t read the title wrongly.  Girls are not immediately associated with such sexual sin, but being female does not make us immune to these things. I’m a woman, and I have struggled...

Culture

Weighing the cost of an iPhone X

I remember my first. It didn’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...