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August 17, 2018
SIM YI SHIEN, who goes by YI SHIEN or SHIEN has lived in Singapore for most of her life. She went through a phase as a kid when she really wanted an English name or a name...
August 17, 2018
Marielle Lee has spent the better part of her life in Singapore, but has also lived in Johor Bahru, Malaysia for three years. She recently spent her summer working at an NGO...
August 16, 2018
Amanda is born and bred in Singapore. She was interested in this course because she realised that her knowledge of Southeast Asia was very scant despite living in Singapore...
August 16, 2018
This is Li Xin, more commonly known by her English name, Elesin. She grew up in Singapore where she has always been taught about the importance of racial harmony. However,...
August 16, 2018
Sarah Werner, an exchange student from Freiburg, Germany, born in Munich, the town where the Oktoberfest was invented and is – funnily enough - celebrated in late September,...
August 16, 2018
Loh Jia Tyan was born and raised in Singapore, but only recently adopted the name of Natasha in order to avoid mispronunciation of her name in Yale-NUS classes. She has spent...
August 16, 2018
Hello, I’m Chelsea! I’m a Junior majoring in Anthropology. There are many things I feel defines me that i would love for you to know, but i’m not quite sure how to introduce...

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