“What is Your Relationship to the Patient?” It’s 4:30am right now. It’s been 17 hours since you were wheeled into the A&E and 11 hours since your surgery – yet, you are still unconscious. I’ve been worried sick. You deserve the best treatment and this is not the place to receive it. I want you […]
Benjamin Frankin once wrote “in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”. While many may still find death to be a morbid topic to be thinking about, planning ahead has its advantages – it gives one the peace of mind that things will be settled in the way you […]
“I am not your enemy. I love you.” I stood in silence, in guilt. I realised that the person I love most was the person I had respected least. It had been a stressful week and I had been short tempered. Being short tempered was an understatement. I was in fight mode. It was then […]
An Introduction While the LGBTQ+ community continues to push for equal rights in many areas, it’s going to take a long while before marriage between 2 people of the same gender is recognised. Due to this, there are some additional points for same-sex/non-traditional families to take note of (as compared to our straight friends) when […]
Recently, I came across on Facebook a few high-profile gay weddings/engagements celebration held in Singapore. It is heartening to see these happy couples from the queer community are getting acceptance from their family, holding these ceremonies to affirm their love for each other – even though gay marriages are not recognized in Singapore. I, for […]
In part 1 of our LGBTQ+ series, we looked at how single LGBTQ+ could purchase a home of their own in Singapore. When we look at general marketing of properties here, the advertisements are almost always targeted at families and (heterosexual) couples. Government grants and initiatives are in favour of married couples, offering them various […]
So you are young and think that 35 is way too long of a wait to break free from your family and have your own place. And you think that rental is a waste of money anyway – why pay rent if you can buy your own place. Or you have been living in HDB […]
‘Family’. Yes for the longest time, the idea of public housing and family building goes hand-in-hand. Our founding father, the late Lee Kuan Yew has a vision to build a nation of home-owning society. To his success, over 80% of Singaporeans were living in an HDB by the 1980s. All of us who grew up […]
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