Real Life, Real People

Be inspired by these ordinary people who have extraordinary stories. Wherever you are in life, every story in here is sure to give you hope!

Real Life, Real People

“This is more than just a job”: The preschool teacher who wants to give her kids the love she never had

“You cannot change your past, but you can change your future.” This was what my brother always used to tell me when I was young. As a kid, I grew up without my dad. Initially he went overseas...

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Drugs, sex and prison: How a HIV diagnosis led a prodigal son home

Living a double life as a dentistry graduate student by day and promiscuous drug addict by night, Dr Christopher Yuan was peddling drugs – even to his professor – to support his habit. “Three...

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Believing I was a good-for-nothing, I had given up on my future

Growing up, the only thing I remember about school is constantly being scolded and punished by my parents and teachers because I just didn’t get it. Why do angles in a triangle amount to 180°?...

Videos

The hands that built Singapore: 55 years of challenges, dreams and hopes for the nation

Have you ever wondered what goes into the building of a nation? It’s easy to say “good governance”, but I’ve begun to realise that its people are just as important too. I...

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Havoc and wild, I was backsliding until I took a leap of faith

There wasn’t much about God or Christianity when I was growing up.  My mum believed in another religion and my dad was a Christian who had backslid. At the time, I wasn’t very close to my family...

Friendship

Salvom, my friend from Chennai

As Singapore grapples with the ballooning outbreak in migrant worker dormitories, we’ve been given a rude awakening to the kind of dilapidated conditions and inequalities our migrant workers...

COVID-19

Battling fever for 20 days and getting tested for COVID-19: I was on an emotional roller coaster

On February 3, I returned to Singapore from Shanghai and served my 14-day leave of absence (LOA) without any symptoms.  But on February 21, I developed a fever that broke only on March 11. Yes, I...

Family

I struggled with the idea of family for 16 years

For a good 16 years of my life, family was a concept that I didn’t understand. When asked about my family background, I always struggled to respond. Did I come from a dysfunctional or complete...

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I wouldn’t be here today if my mum wasn’t saved from an abortion

With Mother’s Day coming round the corner, I decided that I would spend some intentional time with my mum. So we had a heart-to-heart talk, and my mum began to share with me more about her...