This problem has cropped up more often then not in the past 2 years of my life. It’s about the prejudice Singapore has about scholars. Ever since I was awarded the ministry’s scholarship 3 years ago, people have come to see me in a different light, some good, mostly bad.
It has been with me [...]
Our predeparture programmes formally ended yesterday with our lifeskills session at RGS. The programme was done up mainly to get us ready for life overseas, and as they always say, “to prepare us as the ambassadors of Singapore” when we study overseas.
The first 2 days of the programme was mainly made up of talks and [...]
The EMS, TSO, TSL scholars were all hurled onto the beautiful island of Pulau Ubin for a quick 3-day Outward Bound School programme.
We were put into out various watches, and I ended up in Tock Seng ‘Cow’. Along with me were my fellow overseas scholars: Zhengyi, Yanfen, Klement, Suzhen, Fauziah(Fuzzy), Caroline(Carol), John, Dian, LiangSi, [...]
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