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Finding Joy

Finally picking up ballet, once a childhood dream, in my thirties

Going on pointe - gives that great sense of accomplishment because it took the writer years of practice to get there.

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From nurse to frontline paramedic: How her inspiring journey is now possible with the Work-Study Diploma

With SCDF's Work-Study Diploma in Paramedicine, you can experience a career on the frontline and impact lives like Sergeant (SGT) Stephanie Goh.

Finding Joy

Stuck in traffic, a spontaneous call keeps love alive

Maybe joy isn’t in what we say during those calls. Maybe it’s simply in the act of making the call, the writer says about her phone conversations with her grandmother in Penang.

Finding Joy

Letting go when your son starts a new life abroad

The start of a new season both in nature, and the writer's life, as her son enters university.

Life Experience: Reinvent yourself in your 50s with a modelling course and career guidance workshop

Writer Stephanie Yeo (centre) practises catwalking while taking off her jacket during Platinum Angels Management's modeling atelier course for women over 50. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH

‘Adulting 101’: Canadian uni offers classes for Gen Zs to learn basic life skills

Swathes of Gen Z-ers are enrolling in ‘Adulting 101’ - a course designed to teach students day-to-day life skills.

I signed up for the T100 Triathlon to earn bragging rights, but learnt life lessons instead

Spectators photographing the participants during the women's T100 Triathlon, held at Singapore's Marina Bay District on April 5, 2025.

Why people do things that are unpleasantly hard

Runners at the Tokyo Marathon 2025 on March 2. What compels someone to do something that regularly makes him miserable, ponders this writer, whose own chosen form of misery is writing.

Let’s Talk About Death: My hearse is a ‘sports car’

Freelance educator Kethlyn Gayatiri and her mother Madam Irene Koh look into alternative funeral arrangements.

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