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Most people say that every Singaporean son goes into National Service (NS) a boy and comes out a man. Some say that NS is a void, and others still just shrug their tired shoulders and utter, as if it...
In primary school I was often teased and left out. I guess I was a late bloomer so I was more clueless than most of the other kids. I found it really hard to make friends and would usually be lost in...
I had a normal childhood growing up, I never had to worry about serious issues like finances or abuse. Life was mostly good. Unfortunately, I fell victim to bullying at the hands of my peers in...
“I brought my luggage to the exam hall, finished my paper, left early and cabbed down from NTU (Nanyang Technological University) to Changi Airport and flew out immediately. “People were...
Being the youngest, I always liked to follow my big sister around, having no problems letting her take charge. I never failed to have someone else lead me. It didn’t matter whether it was in school...
It was such a struggle having to sit for my online test and not refer to my notes that I had so painstakingly prepared for this occasion. I knew exactly where in my notes to get the precise answer. I...
Some of us who are sitting for the O-Levels and A-Levels may experience that constant anxiety of being pushed down by the bell curve and the dread of not living up to expectations when faced with a...
I am not the brightest student. Trust me, I really do study. But more often than not, my results don’t translate. During exam season, I make sure that I spend as much time as possible burying my...
Growing up on a steady diet of Hollywood coming-of-age stories whose protagonists are sometimes accused of changing for the worse, the elevation of constancy over change had been inculcated in me...