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.
Category: Personal Thoughts
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…
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.
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…
Why We Are Already Tough
personal thoughts on mental health
When I Can’t Speak
my tongue is tied but my hands are free