Archive for the 'Society' Category

Dec 31 2010

True story: drug pusher turns to God

Recently I watched on the telly a very touching interview about a family. This time I did not shed any tears because this story had a beautiful ending. The interview began with the young man sharing how, as a child, he stumbled upon pornography in his friend’s house. His curiosity led him to dwell into [...]

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Nov 21 2010

Internet addiction?

Exactly a year ago – before I got on to the internet and got myself a Facebook account – I used to bemoan the inordinate amount of time my husband Phillip spent on the internet. I couldn’t understand how he could spend a few hours staring on the computer screen some evenings so much so that [...]

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Oct 25 2010

Answered prayer for a good neighbour

I’m simply amazed how God answers our prayers. It was at the Ladies Ministry meeting almost 2 weeks ago in our church that I made this simple request: “Please pray for a good neighbour for me.” Staying in a linked terrace house in a housing estate, having good neighbours is absolutely essential to peaceable and [...]

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Oct 16 2010

Interesting new neighbours, interesting names

Published by Francesca Kang under Friendship,Society

One evening, about a week ago, as I was watering my plants in my garden, I managed to strike up a conversation with our new neighbours. This elderly couple live 2 doors away from our house along the same row of our housing block. They had moved in some two weeks ago with their two [...]

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Oct 12 2010

In defence of Facebook

A few days ago I read the news that one friend stabbed another over some comments on Facebook. It seemed that Facebook was to be blamed from the way the report was written. To me this is really unfair, sad and scary. Something must have gone terribly wrong. I’ve also heard of someone’s Facebook account being [...]

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