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How-tos & Handles

Help, I’m a blur sotong: 4 ways to choose your next place of education

Whether you’re receiving your A-Level results or your polytechnic diploma, it’s a nerve-wracking time. After all, you’re going to be starting a new chapter in your life. But the...

Studies & NS

Stressed by exams: Facing my fears of not doing well enough

Some of us who are sitting for the O-Levels and A-Levels may experience that constant anxiety of being pushed down by the bell curve and the dread of not living up to expectations when faced with a...

Discipleship

Spending 30 days writing letters to God changed me

Before starting polytechnic, I was going through a season of isolation from Him. Worse still, I felt entirely responsible for drifting away. I knew I had to do something to go back to God, but I...

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...

Real Life, Real People

Believing I was a good-for-nothing, I had given up on my future

Growing up, the only thing I remember about school is constantly being scolded and punished by my parents and teachers because I just didn’t get it. Why do angles in a triangle amount to 180°?...

Studies & NS

Grades don’t define your future

The year is 2004. We’re seated in the school hall, and I’ve just received my PSLE score from Mrs Siti. Is 199 a good number?  I look up from the laminated sheet of paper to the sight of...

Mental Health

A letter to you, the student overwhelmed by life

I found out about you because someone forwarded to me the news about your “unnatural death”. The time the police were called was listed as 6.50am on Monday, June 8. I wondered about that. I...

Studies & NS

Bullied then homeschooled: How God made a way for me to enter polytechnic

I am an unusual Singaporean – a homeschooled student. I was homeschooled due to bad experiences in Secondary One. I couldn’t take the bullying and I was a very sensitive person in the past....

Dating

Wait, is this love?

“What is love?” I have frequently thought to myself.  Having watched one too many Korean dramas, I allowed their portrayal of love to define what love meant for me. I recall vividly the Korean...