It was two weeks before the wedding and everything was running like clockwork — just as how Jacob and Jaclyn Lau had expected. Renovations for their new home were underway. Jaclyn’s elder sister,...
At the end of July last year, I underwent an operation to halt vision loss in my right eye. In crude terms, the operation involves the surgeon cutting a small slit in my eye to reduce its pressure....
Earlier this year, Christian lifestyle brand Jacob Rachel (JR) began an intimate and wonderful little series called “Community Stories” on their Instagram page. There they shared personal...
Four years ago, I began an intensive jogging programme in an effort to improve my fitness and energy levels. But instead of becoming fitter, I became increasingly short of breath. In a cruel irony, I...
Not many people know about this, but I struggle with chronic pain. It’s mostly deep in my neck and back. A combination of injury and poor posture. And that would be bad enough as is… But...
Every one of us has our fair share of family problems. We may even say our loved ones have caused us some form of suffering. But for one father David Lang, even the diagnosis of a fatal genetic...
When I was 10, my mother noticed ants crawling around the toilet bowl after I had used it. I had also suddenly become prone to fainting spells, and could not put on weight no matter how much I ate....
In 2018, Carole Ann was admitted to hospital due to a sharp abdominal pain. It turned out that a ruptured ovarian cyst had put her in a life-threatening condition. During the month-long coma, her...
5 March 2017. It was a Wednesday evening, and I had decided to take a GrabCar home from school in order to make it back on time for dinner with my parents. Mum hadn’t been feeling well for the past...