Finding Purpose

Finding Purpose

After my A-Levels, my dreams were dashed and I couldn’t see the road ahead

Coming from a single-parent family and struggling with insecurity, I always felt alone and had many anxieties. I often sought for safety in the wrong places. I also often felt lost because I relied a...

Finding Purpose

What I learnt from trying to leave my first job (during the pandemic)

Barely 1.5 years into my first job out of university, I started having a nagging sense that I had to question my career path and rethink my job. It wasn’t until a year later, in the midst of a...

Workplace

Why we chose to teach in faith-based preschools

In recent years, church-based preschools have been facing an uphill challenge to survive. Changes in the early childhood education industry in recent years already heralded an end-of-the-road...

Finding Purpose

How does one end up swapping a law school scholarship for a degree in social sciences?

Studying law had been my dream for as long as I can remember.  I had always been fascinated by the job like having to pore over the facts and getting to craft and pick apart arguments (no doubt...

Missions

What brings you joy? One man’s search for more than the 5-minute life

Samuel Nee was 28 when he saw his life play out in five minutes. He and his wife, Marianne, were recently married. They had no kids, no house, no car and no loans. With no liabilities to tie him...

Culture

Just in time for the Olympics: The story behind a manga about failure and faith

When Manga Messiah came out in 2006, it proved to be a refreshing take on the gospel using the Japanese pop-culture medium of manga.  Fast forward 15 years later, and a brand new manga is making...

Finding Purpose

“Give me one more chance to fit in,” she pleaded: How one girl found a sense of belonging

Jemma* remembers the first time she felt different. It was in Primary 1, when students were supposed to get ready for their Mother Tongue classes. All the students studying Malay got up to go to...

Work

I quit my job in the midst of the pandemic

Late last year, I left my teaching job of 15 years – a job that gave me security, despite the constant struggle of balancing work and family. I had been feeling drained and discouraged for the past...

Workplace

A look into The Glasshouse: Barista boss Josh Liew’s recipe for success

If you’re a coffee lover, then the name The Glasshouse might not be unfamiliar to you. Having started out in a pop-up cargo container in CHIJMES three years ago, the popular coffee bar has since...