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Why Senior Doctors and Healthcare Administrators Should Follow Popular Doctor Meme Pages

If administrators think meme pages are purely a bunch of silly posts by “shit-stirrers”, think again.

11 min readMar 9, 2022

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Why Senior Doctors and Healthcare Administrators Should Follow Popular Doctor Meme Pages

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“Be More Resilient” Is The Worst Kind of Gaslighting Out There

I was sitting at my desk listening to a ministerial statement by Chan Chun Sing, as he presented how the horrific event on 19 July at River…

5 min readJul 30, 2021

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Can Women Actually Have Pain-Free Births Without An Epidural?

Hypnobirthing seems to be the answer to having pain-free births, and even allowing women to experience joy in the birthing process.

7 min readFeb 9, 2023

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Can Women Actually Have Pain-Free Births Without An Epidural?

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A Birth That Healed: Gabriel’s Birth Story

“The premise that birthing, by nature, had to be a painful ordeal was totally unacceptable to me. I could not believe that a God who had…

6 min readOct 25, 2022

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A photo of me and Gabriel, just two hours after birth.

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Dear Son, Your Father’s Absence Is Not for a Lack of Love

“It is in those fleeting moments of rejection, that my heart mourns for what could have been a beautiful father-son relationship, if not…

7 min readFeb 17, 2022

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Dear Son, Your Father’s Absence Is Not for a Lack of Love

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From Educators to Plant-repreneurs: Why forgo a stable $6000 monthly salary to run a plant nursery?

“It is time to put myself first, for real, this time” — Avie Mercado, co-founder of Plants Ate My Money.

8 min readFeb 7, 2022

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Heintjie Santos and Avie Mercado, Founders of Plants Ate My Money

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What Nobody Tells You About Love In Marriage

I will love you and honour you all the days of my life.

5 min readAug 18, 2021

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What Nobody Tells You About Love In Marriage

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Are You Racist or Just Culturally Insensitive?

Diving into semantics and paving the way forward.

6 min readJun 21, 2021

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Are You Racist or Just Culturally Insensitive?

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Cut The Crap: Let’s Stick With Covid-19 Chinese Wedding Practices Even After The Pandemic

Let Weddings Be What They Really Are: A Union Between Two People, Not A DisplayTo Be Shown Off.

6 min readJun 1, 2021

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Cut The Crap: Let’s Stick With Covid-19 Chinese Wedding Practices Even After The Pandemic

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Why Access To Mental Health Services Should Be A Basic Right

It is even more pertinent now than ever to make mental health a priority

7 min readMay 27, 2021

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Why Access To Mental Health Services Should Be A Basic Right

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Victoria-Marie

Victoria-Marie

Linguist. Writer. Mum. Currently navigating life with intense sleep deprivation, and learning how to still do what I love - teaching and parenting.

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