by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 8, 2018 | 2018, Aging, Articles, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose, Success
The most important book I have read in recent times is The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith. Smith’s thesis is this: if you spend your life chasing happiness you may get it but happiness is often short lived and ephemeral. But if you spend your life...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 6, 2017 | 2017, Aging, Articles, Family, Honoring Parents, Life Issues
When we boarded the plane for Penang to visit mum, I recalled my first time on a plane. Mum took me on a trip to Hong Kong end of 1969, just the two of us. I was 14, waiting to start grade 10 (Form 4). It was a reward of sorts for my performance in my LCE (grade 9...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 15, 2016 | 2016, Aging, Articles, Life Issues
I was already feeling kinda blue…what with the deaths of David Bowie and Alan Rickman. Felt even worse when I received the news today that JI Packer was afflicted by macular degeneration over Christmas and that he can no longer read or write. Age-Related...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 22, 2015 | 2015, Aging, Articles, Life Issues
A few weeks ago my eyes made a decision without consulting me. They decided that they would no longer be satisfied with large print Bibles. From now on they would only read giant print Bibles. I had no say in this decision. I have now purchased a number of giant print...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 30, 2015 | 2015, Aging, Articles, Christian Living, Life Issues, Obedience & Faithfulness
Recently I was at a gathering of alumni from Regent College and the Biblical Graduate School of Theology. Regent College alumni were asked to stand up on the basis of which decade they had graduated. The oldest batch were those who graduated from Regent in the ’70s...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 13, 2015 | 2015, Aging, Articles, Life Issues, Work & Vocation
It’s strange to be 60. It feels “old” in a way that 50 didn’t. Well, maybe not “old” but significant. Sixty feels like a significant milestone. As one of my sons reminded me, I am now closer to the day of my death than to the day of my birth. Of course I have been...
