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Real Life, Real People

The unwilling, unlikely leader

At the age of 20, I became one of the youngest leaders in Singapore nominated to sit on the Local Church Executive Committee (LCEC), theĀ decision-making board that governs each Methodist church. I...

Real Life, Real People

The credit analyst who left everything behind for an unpaid internship in Cambodia

When I was younger in the faith, I used to hateĀ the idea of working in the church office. ThatĀ was my only concept of what full-time ministry could look like.Ā I had the perception that it would...

Do Good

A complaint about Singapore’s complaint culture

We’re addicted to outrage. PSLEsĀ roll around. We’re outraged by the emphasis placed on one exam. We’re outraged by the lengths some people will go to to give their kids an...

Real Life, Real People

Hooked on drugs and paralysed, I should have died

I started taking drugs in the 1990s. I went in prison, came out, went in, came out. Every time I was in prison, I was desperate to change. To quit drugs.Ā  But each time I came out, within a few...

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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...

Christmas

This Christmas, stop to appreciate those who work while you celebrate

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.Ā An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were...

Workplace

Should I quit my job?

Should you stay or should you go? Heaven knows. Yes you should! Right now! Obviously, you wouldn’t accept that as an answer. Not from me anyway ā€“ someone who hardly knows you. I struggled...

Life & Death

The art of dying

Iā€™ve sat through too many funerals this year. I remember the white sheets, the flowers, the smell of groundnuts. Some of the deceased lived full lives. More than half were young. Invariably, a...