If you only live to find a collective where you are truly accepted and where you truly belong you are in for a big disappointment. “No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
Author: Anna Tan (陈丽安)
Anna is a neuroscientist (by training) who is passionate about International Affairs. She describes herself as an East-West hybrid, well-versed with life as a third culture kid that was raised in South East Asia. Anna also enjoys museums, theatres and her morning coffees. She also likes her Kaya Toast and Mohinga (on separate occasions). She is currently based at King’s College London, at the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy. You can follow her on Twitter: @AnnaTanGTW.
1/12/2020
“As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: ‘With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight…
By merit through faith
As I sit this evening on my desk in my small apartment in London, I am thinking, how so many things about today makes it different from the other days I have experienced throughout this dreadful year. Today everything seems to be hanging by a thread. Will we move on for the better or for…
Maze
A poem for the season
14/10/2020
I believe in human rights. Humans are less straightforward.
British Foreign Policy re China: Short-sightedness or “pragmatism”?
COVID is an alarm saying economics actually depends on human rights, which British foreign policy to China fails to recognise in its so-called “pragmatism”which is more short-sighted than it is pragmatic.
Myanmar – Is Peace Only a Reverie?
Thant Myint-U offers an inside account of the twists and turns behind Myanmar’s troubled quest for peace.
Skin Care Routine
Take care of your skin during quarantine with these simple steps and inexpensive products.
International Women’s Day | Lessons Learnt As A Young (BAME) Career Woman
When I was studying hard sciences during my undergrad, I found it incredibly daunting as an Asian woman entering into a field where women of colour are still a rarity. Being raised in a very diverse, multinational academic environment back at home, where my peers and teachers in my international school were from across the…
Remarkable Women: An Afternoon with Tin Htar Swe OBE
(For the Series “Remarkable Women”) When I first met Tin Htar Swe (I call her Aunty Swe since it’s a Burmese thing to use honorifics for someone your senior), it was through a press conference on media freedom in Myanmar (Burma) earlier in the summer this year.
