How-tos & Handles

Help, Iā€™m a blur sotong: How to job hunt like a boss

As a fresh graduate who has been job hunting for two months now, unemployment can feel intensely intimidating. It has been a uniquely challenging phase in life where Iā€™ve had to focus on my...

Real Life, Real People

How one lawyer found freedom from being obsessed with success

Handling billion-dollar transactions as a young lawyer. Becoming partner at her law firm within four and a half years of practice. Making the list of Singaporeā€™s top 20 promising legal luminaries...

University

Struggling in university, my dream to become a psychologist was fading away

I am not the brightest student. Trust me, I really do study. But more often than not, my results donā€™t translate. During exam season, I make sure that I spend as much time as possible burying my...

COVID-19

When COVID-19 disrupted my life

ā€œThe staffroom has been asking after you! How have you been in such messed up times?ā€ That was what my ex-colleague recently asked me, out of concern at my seeming lack of a career. For around...

Finding Purpose

ā€œBeyond my wildest dreamsā€: Taking small steps towards my calling in mental health

In February, I resigned from my job as an instructor with a local university, setting my heart to embark on an amazing journey of adventure with God. The plan? Start a social enterprise to offer...

Discipleship

Vacation deprived? Nowā€™s a good time to unpack our wanderlust

Spend any amount of time with friends in conversation or on social media, and one topicā€™s bound to come up: travel. You can see it in the #throwback posts and pictures of exotic locales. You...

Workplace

From fear to faith: My journey of serving in a COVID-19 ICU

It was about a week before the first COVID-19 case in Singapore, when my nurse manager assigned me to be part of the COVID-19 ICU nursing team in Singapore General Hospital. It was the first such...

Real Life, Real People

Diagnosed with Gravesā€™ disease at 15, all I wanted to do was die

I had always thought I was a failure and a mistake. Diagnosed with Gravesā€™ disease at the age of 15, I started hating life when I had to take medicine and go for blood tests regularly, unlike my...

Workplace

Working from home or shirking from home?

It has been about 241 days since Iā€™ve started working from home. I donā€™t know about you, but I started off pretty determined and motivated. I would wake up at 8am and be fresh and ready for work...