If This is What it Takes

If This is What it Takes

My last visit to emergency was three months ago this day.  I gasped for air while my entire body went numb.  For the first time, the doctor said there was nothing he could do.  It was hopeless, hearing those words from the head of Intensive Care, but going home was at...
Dear Ricky

Dear Ricky

Dear Ricky, Oftentimes, I see you in my wake, lying in bed with eyes still open following midnight.  The rhythm of your heart accelerates to the point of gasping for air.  It haunts you when no one’s there.  Loneliness is your destined companion and yet you continue...
The One Thing Worth Fighting For

The One Thing Worth Fighting For

I watched a movie called Before I Disappear, about a suicidal man cajoled into looking after his niece.  Their adventure through the streets of Manhattan eventually forces him to re-evaluate his despairing reality.  He also lost his girlfriend recently and tries...
This is My Life: Finding Lovely amid Darkness

This is My Life: Finding Lovely amid Darkness

Ever since I came into the world, I had a fascination towards the female gender.  Mother said that as a baby, I smiled at all the pretty nurses whenever they gave my shots.  It scared their skirts off!  I never believed in cooties as I saw something in girls that I...
An Open Letter to Husbands

An Open Letter to Husbands

Dear Husbands, I’ve always been envious, how you have someone to cherish for a lifetime.  I was already planning my wedding as a six year old boy.  Circumstances were never in my favour when it came to romance.  However, I’m fortunate that I caught a glimpse of what...
The Dichotomy of Life & Death

The Dichotomy of Life & Death

As a fundamental Baptist, I know salvation happens in a blink of an eye and that it isn’t a process.  It requires neither the repentance of sin, nor a type of work for earning, while faith is all that one must have to inherit the kingdom of heaven.  Once you believe,...
50 Shades of Women’s Liberation

50 Shades of Women’s Liberation

It always saddens me, how the female gender is so overly sexualized.  I’m all for liberation.  Questioning it would be the equivalent of questioning human rights.  However, and unfortunately, the definition of liberty has been completely skewed and perverted in this...
My Tragic Character Flaw

My Tragic Character Flaw

Getting a broken heart for real would mean that I was finally loved for real.  I’ve never had a broken heart. When it comes to romance, I’ve encountered mainly four types of women: The Blocker: so afraid of giving the wrong idea that she suppresses her emotions, even...
This is My Life: What Sacrifice Means

This is My Life: What Sacrifice Means

While Mom had me inside her tummy, Grandma was already on the verge of losing her speech.  Though mother constantly looked for food items to help regain her ever growing raspy voice, it was to a point where she could hardly be understood.  Our family suspected it had...
My Hopeful Romance

My Hopeful Romance

You know how people always say that pregnant women glow?  I awoke on Wednesday morning to a dreamlike fairytale.  While the expecting technician drew my blood, her eyes shone in my gaze.  I felt almost no pain at all, seeing her pretty face.  I realized that radiance...