Health

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

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...

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,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...

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 impulseĀ beganĀ 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?

ā€œSo, 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...

Culture

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

$%#&@!!! 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,...

Faith

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

No, you didn’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. 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...