One of my fondest memories of celebration is not my own. It was the day of the historic World Cup match between Germany and Brazil in 2014. I was on a Lufthansa plane and about to arrive in...
In my line of work, I often have to do financial assessments for clients. I look at their income and the breakdown of their expenditure like food, transport and household bills. So, a typical...
When the news reached my inbox, I felt angry. I replied the emails with my concerns, thinking that they would fall on deaf ears. “The senior leadership probably only cares about the reputation of...
Two days ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement to urge all overseas Singaporean students to return home, which caused many who are studying abroad to scramble for flights....
One thing I look forward to at the start of every year is writing in my new planner. It’s satisfying to fill out its blank pages with all my different plans and to-do lists – being able to...
On three separate occasions, I was approached by three different people with the challenge to serve in a hostel ministry that I had never heard of. I declined all three times, reasoning that it was a...
My calling to become a lawyer wasn’t about money, GCE A-Level grades or scholarship programmes. Having been verbally and emotionally abused for five years in school, and having suffered much...
I’m no valedictorian but I’ve got something to say anyway. I only graduated with a decent GPA, and I’m not even going to pursue as a career what I’ve studied for the last 3 years....
“If I had to set an ambitious goal to work towards, success to me would be having our project featured in the newspaper,” I told my Final Year Project (FYP) partner as we sat across each other 10...