Girls, don’t forget your pearlsAnd all of your horsesAs you make your way across the pondGirls, don’t forget your curlsAnd all of your corsetsMemorize them in a little song Boys, don’t forget your toysAnd take all of your moneyIf you find you’re in a foreign landBoys, don’t make too much noiseAnd don’t try to be…
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.
Hymn
If to distant lands I scatterIf I sail to farthest seasWould you find and firm and gather ’til I only dwell in Thee?If I flee from greenest pasturesWould you leave to look for me?Forfeit glory to come after‘Til I only dwell in Thee If my heart has one ambitionIf my soul one goal to seekThis…
C.S Lewis Song
If I find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfy I can only conclude that I was not made for here If the flesh that I fight is at best Only light and momentary Then of course I’ll feel nude when to Where I’m destined I’m compared We are not long here Our…
Closer than You Know
I feel strangely calm tonight. I know very well that the world is an unfair place. Things may not work out. I may lose my life. But I’d be on the right side of history. At least I tried to do something about it. That I did the right thing.
The ‘In-Between’ Artist – Frida Kahlo’s Unspoken Relevance in Today’s Multiculturalism
“‘I never painted dreams. I paint my own reality.’
The Third Culture: Confessions of an (aspiring) academic from a War-Torn Country
Growing up understanding my privileges was quite strange. What do you mean by privileges you’d say – and I’d say the privilege to a Western, liberal education. Don’t get me started on why I put “Western” before “liberal education” – I don’t know, I’m still trying to find out.
Advice to my younger self
A woman can be fragile and strong at the same time. I never understood the applicability of this one advice my parents used to give me. I agree most of us are not ‘black and white’: a lot of us lie in the grey zone. But at times the advice of maintaining friendships or relationships…
12/12/20
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.”
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…
