by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 11, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
He said he had lost his daughter seven months ago. She was two and had died in an accident. The rest of us in our small group were parents. It was easy to empathise. We wept with him. We were all at a Christian publishing conference. Participants had come from various...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 21, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
“You mean you came all this way just to see us?” I was asked this twice the past few days. We had made a lightning trip to Petaling Jaya to see some friends. There was a family undergoing a major transition. Another friend had a wife with stage four cancer. One was in...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 16, 2010 | 2010, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
How many good conversations have you had this week? Apparently “happier people have more meaningful conversations (Melinda Wenner Moyer, “Skip the Small Talk,” Scientific American Mind, July/August 2010,12).” In a study conducted at the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 31, 2010 | 2010, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
Just came back from a three week trip to the Pacific North West — Vancouver and Seattle, with a side trip to Calgary. We made a similar trip last year. I can summarise this trip in two words — work, and friends. Work, well, the volume of work this time was...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 6, 2010 | 2010, Articles, Christian Living, Life Issues, Relationships, Spiritual Friendship
“You have 500 friends on Facebook. How many friends do you have?” If it sounds like a trick question, the joke is on us. We live in an age where we talk a lot about friendship but experience little real friendship. As William Deresiewicz observes: Already...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 8, 2010 | 2010, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
Thank you, all of you who sent in birthday wishes for my birthday. I am truly blessed. One birthday note was particularly special. It read: A Friend loves at all times . . . That’s what you are to us . . . Happy Birthday and welcome to the senior (sic) club . ....
