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In January 2019, I began experiencing nausea, vomiting and bloating in my abdomen all of a sudden. These symptoms persisted for three days. Feeling uneasy, I decided to visit the GP who then referred...
I developed a love for reading in primary 5. It started with innocent children’s books, before I turned to magic and fantasy. Then I read this goth novel in primary 6 that became the catalyst...
When you hear the term “mental illness”, what’s the first image that pops into your mind? For nearly half the participants in a 2017 study, this prompt conjured up negative impressions of...
On 17 May, my grandfather passed on at about 5am. Everything happened in a flash. At 3am, we received a call from my grandmother that my grandfather had fallen down. This shocked us because my...
27-year-old Wiki Tay took her last breath just 6 months after a lung cancer diagnosis. After flying back from the UK for the funeral, her husband Gershon, 37, found himself in hospital fighting...
A recent conversation with a colleague got me thinking about life. She shared that her good friend recently passed away. As a responsible educator, this person devoted much of himself to work, often...
I wept. I don’t know about you, but when I read the news that two people in Singapore – one elderly, one a foreigner – had succumbed to COVID-19, I cried. Driving down the expressway,...
I’m heartbroken because we have been praying for weeks now that we wouldn’t ever have to publish something like this in our COVID-19 coverage. Yet today we must, because we owe it to our God to...
I was 17 that year. One night, my mum came rushing into my room and said my art teacher needed to speak with me urgently on the phone. The next words I heard on the phone were not what I expected at...