I never thought I'd be given another nickname. I've lived with "Lammie" for most part of my school life and beyond. Even up till now, parents of my school friends call me that. Lammie is cool (and so am I). But in my family, my Mother likes to think that I'm her "Little Flower", though I remember while I was growing up, I signed off my books with "Little Snake". People can be so disillusioned sometimes. Flower. Snake. Big deal.
Then I came to Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, I'm called "Sudut" by my Malaysian peers there. When they email, when they send texts, heck even when they talk about me in front of me (or behind my back), they call me "Sudut". I once pointed out a typo to one of them mass-mailed us and who wrote "Dear Angle". Since then "Sudut" got stuck. Nicely. Truth is, I love being called Sudut. To my friends I left behind in Kabul, thanks. For Sudut and for everything else.
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.