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Talk on Depression and Suicide in Penang, Malaysia

By Vincent Wong on Friday, July 17th, 2015 | No Comments

I will be giving a talk on “ Understanding Depressive illness and Suicide “ in Penang, Malaysia. One of the guest speaker will be Mdm Irene Tan who has written a book entitled “ My Battle with Depression”. Click here for the talk

It is better to light a candle

By Vincent Wong on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 | No Comments

During my college days, I came across this monthly newsletter by an organization called The Christophers. The newsletters were entitled Christophers News Notes. Indeed I have learned a great deal from all their small brochure-like news notes. I still remember one of the news notes entitled ” Saying it with love” . And the motto […]

A Beautiful Mind

By Vincent Wong on Monday, June 22nd, 2015 | 1 Comment

Here is a section from the movie “ A Beautiful Mind” . A story about the life of Professor John Nash, a famous Mathematician, who battled Schizophrenia and later won the Nobel Prize for Economic Science in 1994. Personally, i find the following section from the movie very meaningful and touching. Excerpt […]