by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 27, 2007 | 2007, Articles, Emigration, Life Issues, Relationships
I do not relocate well. I was all at sea when I first moved from Penang to Singapore to do my university studies. I was depressed, unable to focus and ended up doing poorly in my first year. I didn’t feel better till my second year. I completed my dental degree...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 9, 2007 | 2007, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
We met for tea on the second day of the Lunar New Year. I had known both of them for more than forty years. Faces more lined, hair more gray, but in so many ways we were the same boys who knew each other in primary (elementary) school. But here we were in our...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 20, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
With so many people flying I will assume that most readers of this column will be familiar with the symptoms of jet lag. Essentially your body clock is out of sync with where you are at present and so you get hungry and sleepy at all the wrong times. (Of course this...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 22, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
Did you know that: *Men and women who felt the most loved and supported had substantially less blockage in their coronary arteries. *Men and women with heart disease who were single and lacked confidants were three times as likely to have died after five years....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 15, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
Ah, look at all the lonely people Ah, look at all the lonely people Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been Lives in a dream Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for? All the lonely people...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 1, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Life Issues, Media, Movies & Television, Relationships
“Don’t want to be an American idiot. One nation controlled by the media. Information age of hysteria. It’s going out to idiot America. Welcome to a new kind of tension. All across the idiot nation Everything isn’t meant to be ok. Television...
