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In the 1970s, Linda Sim applied to the Singapore Armed Forces to be a front-line soldier, but was told women could take up only clerical positions. The Singapore Police Force also turned her down as she was too petite.
Undeterred, the gutsy woman took up taekwondo and eventually earned a black belt. Then she heard her religious calling.
She ran a hospital in Zimbabwe for three years, and spent 17 years in England as a religious trainee and trainer before coming home in 2004.
She now works as a mission awareness coordinator at the Mount Alvernia Hospital and Assisi Hospice. On weekends, however, she swops her religious robes for a taekwondo dobok. continue reading
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