I know, negative people must go, but easier said than done and in Kabul, you need someone more than anyone.
I can't believe I told you I sobbed all morning and you did nothing about it. I can't believe you didn't tell the boys you should all take me out because I am a girl, and I am alone in Afghanistan for Christmas. I can't believe I had believed that we were going to an Eve dinner tonight. I can't believe I spent my entire night thinking what to wear to the dinner so that I would look like a million dollars in your eyes. I can't believe I had imagined myself walking up to the restaurant and kissing you on your cheek and make the other boys envy. I can't believe I had raced to the mini-market to buy you a shower curtain because yours was falling apart. I can't believe I was so concerned for your well-being that I bought 2 cartons of 24 individually-wrapped muffins and chocolate cakes so that you wouldn't go hungry in your room.
I can't believe I am not strong to rid you. Negative people must go. You must go.
Angel Lam
- Angel Lam
- Singapore
- Angel holds a degree in Communication from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia with specializations in Journalism and Psychology. She entered the United Nations system as the Communications Associate of the Malaysia country office, where she formulated and implemented media strategies on international development issues relating to integrity and transparency, democratic governance, environment, HIV/AIDS, poverty reduction and South-South cooperation, as well as gender issues and the Millennium Development Goals. Angel also worked on several development projects on Afghanistan, particularly in reviving its dried fruits industry through modern agro-processing methodologies, and in encouraging foreign direct investment to the reconstruction of Afghanistan, for which she championed while at the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency, the investment arm of the Government of Afghanistan. She is currently a recipient of the Lee Kuan Yew Postgaduate Scholarship at the LKY School of Public Policy, the political science arm of the National University of Singapore, where her work and research in international development and poverty alleviation continues.