by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 14, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Christian Living, Life Issues, Rest & Busyness, Work & Vocation
Recently the WHO officially recognised “workplace burnout” as a workplace phenomenon. Defined as a state of “vital exhaustion…burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed…”. Many of us shake our...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 7, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
Eric passed away in the early hours of May 27, 2019. He was supposed to have passed away five years earlier. Eric, cousin of Michael, Bernice’s first husband, had been fighting renal failure for a long time. Five years ago, he refused to start receiving dialysis....
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 10, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Community, Relationships, Soo-Inn Tan
Photo credits: Adelene C A few evenings ago, Bernice and I attended the 88th birthday bash of her fourth aunt. The theme of the evening was Peranakan. Peranakans are an ethnic group descended from Chinese settlers from the southern provinces who came to the Malay...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 3, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Growing Old, Soo-Inn Tan
A common friend told me that J had started dialysis and that he didn’t look too well. I visited him on Wednesday and was a little ashamed that it took a health crisis for me to make the time to go see him. We were friends who had grown up together in Penang. I have...
by Kara Martin | Mar 22, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Kara Martin, Talks & Seminars, Work & Vocation, Young Adult Ministry
Seven women are gathered in the boardroom, looking at me with expectation. Each of them has been working, mostly alone, on projects that have absorbed their thoughts, actions, and lives for as long as 12 years. Over the next ten months, we are going to work together...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 8, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Authors, Growing Old, Soo-Inn Tan
I have a confession to make. When I am out with Bernice, and I see an old couple, I will hum the first few lines of the Beatle’s number, “When I’m 64”. It was my cheeky way of saying “Watch out, old folks ahead”. Well, I turned 64 yesterday (5 March). “When...
