“Yes, daddy is not considered a good man, but he is willing to change,”says Shen You Cheng. His daughter, En Qi, is his“little teacher.” She not only urges him to learn sign language...
People |
On 26 and 27 October 2013, Tzu Chi volunteers took up their places on each side of the stage tagged A and B. With 504 actors on each side of the stage...
Miscellaneous |
In life, there are many different combinations of factors that give rise to happiness. What makes up the sum total of your happiness? Pre and post cancer...
People |
Taking to heart the sense of urgency that Master Cheng Yen so often speaks of, Zhou Chun Hua does not allow herself to slacken for even a moment...
People |
Lin Jin Yan is a nursing coordinator of TIMA and also a sign language facilitator for TIMA members. Watching her singing and confidently using the accompanying sign language on stage as she knelt down and stood up...
People |
Whenever she heard Master Cheng Yan say that “time is running out”, Zhuang Mei Hui would hang her head feeling ashamed, because she had put off what was important for too long. Having known of Tzu Chi for 12 years...
People |
For over ten years, Su Xiu Zhen had experienced a rollercoaster of emotions in her life due to an unhappy marriage. Despite the suffering in her heart, she did not confide in others; she did not know where to start...
People |
When it comes to following a vegetarian diet, thirteen year old Fang Qiao is her mother Fang Yu Lan’s best buddy. Though of a tender age, Fang Qiao will not hesitate to do what is right; she has gotten over her habit of not touching greens...
People |
Shen Shui Xian’s busy life used to revolve around a small food stall. With little education, Shui Xian had a ready tongue and a fierce manner picked up from spending her early years at the markets with her mother. More than half a century later...
People |
If he had not participated in the “Dharma as Water” study sessions and learned about the teachings in the Water Repentance Text, Joo Yeow Sing would not have been able to be so forgiving for the unfathomable injury inflicted on him. At the combined...
People |
The scene of a dignified procession of volunteers taking part in the bowing pilgrimage solemnly was a fitting symbolism of the efforts that Tzu Chi had put in over the last twenty years in Singapore. On 6 October 2013...
Miscellaneous |
When her youngest daughter was born saddled with illness, just like her first child who had passed away, Cao Su Hua was thunderstruck and wondered, “What bad karma have I forged in the past?”...
People |
With the Mid-Autumn Festival coming up, volunteers from Tzu Chi Singapore shared the idea of celebrating the festival by encouraging vegetarianism to protect the environment. Care recipients were invited to collect...
Charity, Env. Protection |
Is technology a tool to transmit love or an obstruction to communication? During the “Advanced Technology vs the Parent-child Relationship” talk on 30 August 2013, school Head of Department (HOD), Li Wen Yi and...
Education |
During the teenagers’ class on 28 August 2013, 92 young teens presented a segment from the “Dharma as Water” stage adaptation on the four evil karmas of speech - abusive language, lying, flattery and gossip, to their parents...
Education, Miscellaneous |
“Have you gone vegetarian?” In convincing our friends and relatives to become vegetarian, it is never easy even when we can do so face-to-face. For Sister Chen Sai Zhen...
People |
8 August 2013 was Vesak Day, a public holiday, and also the annual Singapore Tzu Ching Leadership Camp. On this day, a total of 89 Tzu Chings, Tzu Chi seniors and parent instructors...
Education |
Just as there is only one planet Earth and one Master Cheng Yen, in our one lifetime, we have only one chance to make the best of it. On 4 August during the half day training camp attended by commissioners and Faith Corps members, Madam Hung Su-chen...
Miscellaneous |
