by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 25, 2013 | 2013, Articles, Life Issues, Media, Movies & Television, Work & Vocation
I am not surprised that the movie, The Three Idiots is the highest grossing movie in India and the highest grossing Indian movie internationally (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots). Bernice saw it a year ago and highly recommended it but busyness and the fact...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 19, 2013 | 2013, Articles, Life Issues, Media, Movies & Television, Work & Vocation
We watched The Three Idiots last Sunday (June 16, 2013), Father’s Day. We were at our church camp and our usual practice is to view one movie together and comment on what we learned from it. In a nutshell, The Three Idiots is, in spirit, an Indian version of The Dead...
by Bernice Lee | Jun 12, 2013 | 2013, Articles, Church, Community, God, God's Grace
The past two weeks have been pretty challenging ones. Dad was discovered to have a life-threateningly low heart rate of 36 when we took him in for his regular appointment with his geriatrician. She insisted on warding him immediately. That night, his heart rate...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 5, 2013 | 2013, Articles, Christian Living, Mentoring
I knew I risked exhaustion. But I decided to do it anyway. At a recent retreat for Singaporean Methodist Youth Workers, I offered to meet with as many of the participants one-on-one who wanted to, with whatever time I had between my talks. This usually meant before or...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 29, 2013 | 2013, Articles, God, God's Grace
The lorry behind me kept flashing its lights. It had been behind me for a while but it had not stopped flashing its headlamps. I was alone, driving to Senai, Malaysia to speak at a retreat for youth workers. It was a lonely stretch of highway and the lorry on my tail...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 22, 2013 | 2013, Articles, Governance, Hope, Life Issues, World Issues
I hate to lose. Which is why I will never forget the Dental Inter-Year tug-of-war finals of 1974. We were Year 1s. We defeated the Year 4s in a tough semi-final (there were only four teams). Then came the final with the Year 3s. We were equally matched but they had...
