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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!
OneĀ midnight in April 1999, I was pushed into the operation theatre for an emergency operation. I was then 6 weeks pregnant. My first child was growing in my right fallopian tube and the tube was...
As Singaporeans, we know the drill by the time we’re in our teenage years. Get married young, enjoy your first few years as a couple, work hard at your jobs and have children when you’re...
I woke up groggy and disoriented in aĀ bed that was not my own. I looked around and realised I was in a humid hospital ward. Beside me, an old man was wheezing violently, hands gripping onto the...
I was a rebellious child growing up. I didn’t feel I had the love or approval of those around me. So from the age of 12, I began to be involved in a gang.Ā It was my first taste of belonging....
I’ve always been bullied. Growing up, I felt no one understood me. I always felt that my parents favoured other people. At least, to my young mind it looked that way ā it seemed they always...
When I wasĀ 9, I wasĀ molested by my uncle. I was silenced; told not to lie. “Kids will be kids,” they said. When I was 11, I finally stood up to my uncle. I shouted at him to āF***...
At the age of 20, I became one of the youngest leaders in Singapore nominated to sit on the Local Church Executive Committee (LCEC), theĀ decision-making board that governs each Methodist church. I...
About 3 years ago, I woke up barely able to see a thing. There was a sliver of light coming in from my left eye, and nothing through the right eye. The blood vessels in both my eyes had burstĀ that...
I went for open-heart surgery when I was 2 years old.Ā But I was so young then that it seems like a figment of my imagination, an event I cannotĀ recall, norĀ would I want to. But the month before I...