Today, I attended to my hobby, the one which will make Fenja cringe: "karaoke". I met up with my teenage cousin (needless to say she is my younger cousin) and her sister's friend in Red Box in Gurney Plaza, Penang.
I say my usual songs: Sometimes (go Britney go), Uptown Girl (only the original Westlife version), etc. I also sang my not-so-usual song: You're Beautiful (watch James Blunt undress and "suicide by drowning")! It was then that my cousin told me my sis likes that song! I do too! It reminds me so much of Afghanistan because I listened to that song a lot (repeat mode) when I first moved to Kabul.
We didn't sing too many Chinese songs. As soon as I got home, I made an appointment with Zu and Sumi to a karaoke session in Red Box when I'm next in KL! Zu bought a karaoke machine in Kabul for Roshan Village! Crazy or what!
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.