Workplace

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...

Workplace

Working from home or shirking from home?

It has been about 241 days since I’ve started working from home. I don’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...

Studies & NS

Teachers’ Day: Heartfelt tributes to those who moulded our minds

This Teachers’ Day, we’ve only gone and picked up the sweetest stories about your favourite ‘chers! From tough talks to terrific teaching, we’ve collated a little series of...

Real Life, Real People

What I learnt as a young teacher: The tender-hearted discipline master who made a difference

Pastor Low Kok Guan graduated from computer engineering, but made a switch to teaching after 7 years in the IT sector. In the 10 years that he taught in primary school, he had the privilege to serve...

Real Life, Real People

“This is more than just a job”: The preschool teacher who wants to give her kids the love she never had

“You cannot change your past, but you can change your future.” This was what my brother always used to tell me when I was young. As a kid, I grew up without my dad. Initially he went overseas...

Workplace

When my personality made me feel inferior

My department manager recently attended a DISC personality profile course, and wanted us to take the test too. Her aim was for us to learn about one another’s working style so that we can work...

Workplace

How God worked through my failures at work

“Agnes, please pay attention to your careless mistakes. You scored the lowest in our department audit.” These were the words my boss directed at me as she displayed slides of our January audit...

Work

Help, I’m a blur sotong: How to intern like a boss

To some, an internship might just be a compulsory module for school. To others, it may be something they took on to fluff up their CV. For me – a person who’s taken up four different...

Culture

Kkondae Intern: Can young and old people ever work together?

WARNING: SPOILERS ABOUND. If your former boss became your intern, how would you react? Based on the winning script from MBC’s 2018 drama scriptwriting contest, top-rated K-drama Kkondae Intern...