
Whenever I ask a friend, “How are you doing?”, I’ll most likely get the reply: “Busy lor. Tired.” We Singaporeans are a busy and tired lot, and a recent study by a UK bedding manufacturer...

“Energy, more energy!” my dance coach would scream at us from the front of the dance studio, occasionally banging the table, which caused all of us to flinch and wince at the loud sound. I was a...

You’re walking down a street, and a guy TOTALLY bumps into you as if he didn’t even see you there. As you pick yourself up off the floor, all manner of invective comes out of your mouth,...

“As a teenager, I wasn’t sure how to find my identity as a person,” confessed Jolyn Kari Ng. “At that time, it was probably through my friends, how popular I was in school and how attractive...

“Dear Diary, It has been 3 weeks and I have been feeling down again. I really don’t think I’m going to come out of this anytime soon. Last week, I saw a rainbow for the first time… and then a...

On the night of the River Valley High School tragedy, an online prayer rally was held for the nation and generation. During the meeting, Isaac Ong from the impossible413 team spoke about spiritual...

Every day, we will hear and witness death around us. It is normal for us to grieve, especially when our loved ones die. Yet, grief can be debilitating and incapacitating. Grief can rob one of the...

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” These words of the Apostle Paul in 2...

There is an unwritten rule that the media in Singapore, apart from the tabloid press, has observed for many years: Not to report on suicides and suicide attempts apart from annual figures or...