Money Matters

Is it wrong to want the good life?

Looking at the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. “There is still one thing you haven’t done,” he told him. “Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will...

Real Life, Real People

I wasted 22 years in bondage to Heroin and Ice

From Primary 1 to Primary 6, I failed everything. I failed my PSLE, so I dropped out of school. I started smoking cigarettes, sniffing glue and got involved in a secret society. In 1988, I got...

Workplace

The appraisal to end all appraisals

Ahh, appraisal season. Doesn’t matter which end you’re on – whether you’re appraiser or appraisee – there’s one thing we can all agree on: We’re all happy when...

Post-secondary

The road less travelled, winding through death, betrayal and ITE

“Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last...

Finding Purpose

I’m learning to tell the greatest story of all

There’s nothing quite like being a journalist: The thrills of being the first to know, the adrenaline rush of getting an insider scoop, and the best part of all, hearing stories and re-telling them...

Finding Purpose

The year I said yes to Jesus

This story runs backwards. Stay with me. APRIL 19, 2016. In the middle of Changi Airport, where I was bound for Boracay on my ad agency’s annual holiday, I stared at a Whatsapp message on my...

Finding Purpose

Why I walked away from my dream career

My friend Desiree (not her real name) is a been-there, done-that kind of person. Fearless. Confident. A go-getter. She loves to tell me stories about her life and I love hearing them; it’s like...

Finding Purpose

If you cannot feed a hundred people, just feed one

I saw myself on stage, standing in front of hundreds, maybe thousands of people. I never told anyone, but I wanted to do big things for Jesus and I thought I knew what that looked like. I could see...

Discipleship

All who are thirsty

Everyone thirsts. It is that deep, raw, sometimes torturous feeling of being parched; a pain so central to the human experience that no man is excused from it. It has become so commonplace that I’m...