Friendship

3 handles on navigating conflicts in a friendship

What do you consider to be a conflict? Many think that a conflict probably involves a lot of screaming, shouting, holding strong feelings against each other or giving the cold shoulder to one...

Real Life, Real People

I lost a kidney growing up, but I would come to gain so much more

I was three years old when I lost a kidney.  From a young age, I had been having regular fevers. My mother kept bringing me to the general practitioner, but there was no other sign from my body that...

Singlehood

What helped me navigate singlehood in my twenties

I was single for most of my twenties. I didn’t really mind it at first, since most of my friends were also single. But when our peers started to get married one by one, our “single” status...

Dating

Missionary dating: Finally in a non-toxic relationship, I was desperate for my boyfriend to believe

Maybe I can lead him to Christ and maybe God will help me. Boy, was I wrong. Let me preface by saying that I am a newly born again Christian. My family was very rough and strict with their religious...

Family

5 biblical truths that help me parent my children effectively today

I became a father in 2022 and recently welcomed my second-born just three months ago. After two years of being accosted by Instagram’s algorithm on the latest tip on how to parent my child more...

Movies & TV

How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies: There’s no comparison in love

*MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD* How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies topped Singapore box office last weekend. Popularly known as a tear-jerking show, the Thai movie has gained much traction on social...

Discipleship

Struggling with self-worth all my life, I found acceptance in Jesus

Why do You want me? This was a question that I always asked God. His answer to that question, though, was always the same: “Because I love you.” Self-worth has always been something that I...

Outreach

I once thought my parents could never be saved. Ten years later, I baptised them together

As a primary school kid, I enjoyed browsing toy stores. But my mum’s response was always, “Time to go already. Daddy and mummy no money. Maybe next time we’ll buy for you,...

Mental Health

I can do it with a broken heart: Do we tend to bypass difficult emotions?

While she was on tour last year, news broke that Taylor Swift’s six-year relationship with Joe Alwyn had ended. At her first show after the news, Swift was professional, happy, and more or less put...