By Eunice Tan Everybody is tossing around the soccer ball, passing around quips and teasing jeers. I stand solitarily by the sidelines. It’s okay. I’m fine. They’re talking about the football competition last week. I have no idea what that’s about. Everything’s okay. I feel fine. There is an invisible wall […]
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By Alan Jambulatov Over the course of the last summer, my business continued to work and to thrive. After long deliberation, we decided on the name ToiJoy, meaning event—toi in Kazakh—and have started to garner a reputation ever since. Starting off with smaller orders, we completed them for prices greatly lower than the competition while […]
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By Zoe Kim What does a durian look like? What do they smell like? People ask these questions when I go back to the United States as I regale them the stories of different tropical fruits I eat in Singapore. One of the ones they are most intrigued by is durian. Most Singaporeans love durian, […]
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By Phoebe Lim Psychology, the young science, a largely controversial topic within the Christian community. Should we even bother discussing the science of human thinking and behaviour when we recognise every wrong and vile part of ourselves comes from sin and every righteous part of us comes from God? Why, pray tell, would this young […]
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By Micah Ford It was around this time last year that my dad, a high school teacher at QSI International School of Astana, realized the poor health condition of his mom in the small town of Angelica where she lived with her husband, a pastor. The thought of moving after 12 years overseas to help […]
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By Tiffany Chen Recently, Kiron Skinner, the director of policy planning at the State Department, categorized the dispute between China and the U.S. as a “clash of civilizations,” reviving the famous argument by Samuel. P. Huntington and hinting at the inevitability of the conflict. According to Skinner, the fight between these two great powers is […]
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By studybug Many of us face problems in life. Sometimes we may face it when attempting to make more friends, write a story, finish homework, deal with responsibilities, or like me, write an interesting article. They might be stress, frustration, procrastination, or a sudden inability to control our emotions. These problems tend to be caused […]
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