Wakkanai is the northernmost city in Japan on the island of Hokkaido. I had the pleasure of visiting Wakkanai and have stood at the tip of Cape Soya. How can I describe Wakkanai in 2 words? – Blown away. I was just blown away both figuratively and physically by the wildness and beauty of Wakkanai. …
My beloved mother finally passed away in July 2024. Finally?! What a strange word to use. I use this word because she had so many “close brushes with death” since May 2022. My mother had so many emergencies and close calls, and we’d said our goodbyes too many times. Yet every time she pulled through …
“Blood” … the red liquid that circulates in our bodies and spills out crimson red when we cut ourselves. “Bloody” …. the adjective of blood. It also happens to be my most favourite punctuation and exclamation, much to the chagrin of my sister. (I can almost hear her – “will you stop using that word!”). …
Then God said [to Abraham] “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about” Genesis 22: 2 This is one story that I have much trouble with. Why would God …
2023 has whizzed by. In a flash, the year has come and gone. What was 2023 like for you? What were your highs and lows? For me, if I could describe 2023 in one word, it’s unrelenting. For me, 2023 was a year of unrelenting challenges. There were so many upheavals personally. And towards the …
Recently there was an amusing story of a man who gate crashed two wedding dinners posing as a wedding singer, a friend of the bride’s family, and when he was found out and asked to leave, he had the audacity to enter a neighbouring wedding dinner, he was again caught out and asked to leave. …
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Today, 16th September, we celebrate Malaysia Day. On this day, in 1963, Malaysia was birthed as a nation. In Exodus, there is another story of birth of a nation, the nation of Israel[1]. And like every story of beginnings, it begins with the birth of its great leader, Prophet Moses. As I was reading Exodus …
July is cord blood awareness month. Cord blood is nutrient-rich blood which flows from a pregnant mother’s placenta to her baby via the umbilical cord[1]. The umbilical cord is the lifeline between mother and child. Ironically, this July my mother had another close shave with death. Early one morning, my mother complained that she wasn’t …
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“Please like and subscribe.” This is the ubiquitous catch-phrase found in every YouTube video. Then there is the tongue in cheek response by stand-up comic Jocelyn Chia when she said “Honestly, if Interpol did something about this request and things escalated, can you imagine how famous it is going to make me?”[1] Why is it …
A friend (who kept chickens as pets) told me a profound observation: “If a chicken starts to look towards the skies, it’s a sign that the chicken is going to die.” He was speaking about a condition called wry necks or stargazing chicken which is a disease.[1] I was also reading John 17 at that …
