COVID-19

From the first outbreaks to today’s surge in cases, a frontliner shares her story

Beatrice Phoon has worked as a nurse for the last 5 years, but she has experienced some of the most trying times over the last 2 years due to her role on the frontline. Reflecting on how she finds...

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...

Money Matters

Save or invest? 3 young adults take on financial management

Managing money as a student and managing finances as a young working adult can be two completely different ball games. But it is something we all have to contend with as we go through #adulting....

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...

Workplace

3 lessons that God revealed to me through teaching

I recently completed a relief teaching stint, and although I’ve been giving tuition for most of my life, this experience was totally different.  Not only was I teaching and preparing lessons...

Workplace

5 types of workers returning to office (and things to look out for!)

Most of us have begun returning to office in the past few weeks after what seems like an eternity of working from home (I know of friends who’ve actually been working from home since April of...

Workplace

What I’ve learnt from the best teacher in the world

You’ve probably heard before that teaching is a profession that transforms the next generation. But few like me would have the privilege of seeing how teaching transforms the teacher. I am married...

Workplace

Exhausted yet excited: Why I’m looking forward to working in office again

Like many, I was thrilled at the prospect of being able to work from home (WFH) when the pandemic first hit. WFH felt like the ultimate fulfilment of my work-life balance dream for reasons like...