Amidst the hectic revision, I'd like to set aside some time to blog about how deeply thankful I am for everything that's present right now in my life.
I'm thankful for the horrid friendship break that happened a long while ago. Without that, I wouldn't be more critical (in a good way) about my own friendships in the way I treat others, see the flaws in existing relationships and try to work on them, etc.
I'm thankful for my wierd gifted family. My siblings who keep me young with their angsty outbursts of teenhood experiences, love lost, found and bored-over, and critical questions of seemingly undogmatic circumstances. My parents, who shuttle between pasionate youth-kindled idealism and world-weariness. I know in some ways, they're still learning. I'm also thankful for the sacrifices they've made in bringing all of us up.
Heck, I'm even thankful for my grades. It's made me channel more energy and questioning about my motivations than I've ever done before.
I'm not satisfied, but I'm happy. And for now, I'll be contented with that. :)
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I'm glad the Arab world is finally opening up, in the sense that apart from its got so much culture and history to share, it's also generally been defined and construed by the western media. By default then, it delegates the voice to define itself to others and loses a sense of self-identity and along the way, a sense of self-respect. Little by little, in many industries, like Life Sciences, Business and the such, connections are being made with the outside world.
I once asked an Iranian girl at the Science musollah, since she's on an A*star scholarship doing her masters in NUS (and there are several in Science and Engineering) there has got to be a significant amount of research being done over in the Middle East, but so much is unknown and unseen in international journals (at least the few that I do check up for my projects). She said there is a lot of research being done over in her home country, but it just doesn't get its way into internationally recognised journals for some reason that she can't construe either.
But well, there are steps taken, and from there I hope the Middle East as a whole, with its wonderful insights into human identity, culture and diversity would be able to be shared with the world.
And I can finally be proud of a culture that's been isolated from me for so long.
I'm glad the Arab world is finally opening up, in the sense that apart from its got so much culture and history to share, it's also generally been defined and construed by the western media. By default then, it delegates the voice to define itself to others and loses a sense of self-identity and along the way, a sense of self-respect. Little by little, in many industries, like Life Sciences, Business and the such, connections are being made with the outside world.
I once asked an Iranian girl at the Science musollah, since she's on an A*star scholarship doing her masters in NUS (and there are several in Science and Engineering) there has got to be a significant amount of research being done over in the Middle East, but so much is unknown and unseen in international journals (at least the few that I do check up for my projects). She said there is a lot of research being done over in her home country, but it just doesn't get its way into internationally recognised journals for some reason that she can't construe either.
But well, there are steps taken, and from there I hope the Middle East as a whole, with its wonderful insights into human identity, culture and diversity would be able to be shared with the world.
And I can finally be proud of a culture that's been isolated from me for so long.
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