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My parents separated when I was 10. I was too young to understand anything about separation, but one thing I knew for sure was that our house now felt emptier. After the separation, my mother moved...
I missed out on a lot of things as a girl because of my mum’s mental illness. I didn’t have someone to talk to about boys, about my period, about skincare. And I never had someone to nag me about...
I officially became a father in early January. Although I had already been “unofficially” initiated 9 months ago, being able to feast my eyes on my daughter when she arrived triggered something...
I’m at a time in my life where I’m figuring out for myself what it means to be a woman — and one who is after God’s heart. Topics like being a girlfriend and eventually becoming...
“She’s okay what. Look at her. Does she not look okay?” When my parents’ divorce was finalised and the relatives were informed, I was a topic of discussion at the lunch table. Not fully...
I experienced my first anxiety attack right after my mum passed away in front of me — from a brain haemorrhage in a Hong Kong hospital. For once in my life, things had actually been going along...
My Kindergarten teacher often encouraged us to draw portraits of our families. With squiggly lines and less-than-perfect circles, I produced masterpiece after masterpiece to the best of my 6-year-old...
When I first found the knife, I thought nothing of it. But I did wonder why it wasn’t in its usual place. It had been wiped clean and was lying beside a bottle of vodka and some lighter fluid...
“Madam Lim doesn’t hate anyone in our class. She loves everyone. But she doesn’t have to like everyone.” That was my reply to a classmate when we were in Primary 3. We were walking in twos up...