I knew I was going to have a full day today. I was pleasantly right. I had a meeting with an alumni of LKYSPP (NUS) who now works as a Research Analyst for RSIS (NTU). He was working for CAP in Kabul, Afghanistan. After the meeting, I went to Jurong Point for lunch - finally got to savour my long-missed Ban Mian!
After the lunch, I went to the LKYSPP in the new Bukit Timah Campus to formalise my registration and collect my new house keys. I told the Programme Manager that I wanted to buy a bedlinen set and asked if she knew the size of the mattresses they are providing us, so that I didn't have to go to the house just to measure the size. Since she didn't, I went to the house, by bus. Two buses.
The house is situated along Toh Tuck Road, where my brother used to live for 6 years. I once stayed with him there for a month in end-1994. The apartment is very good - my only complain is that the walk from the entrance to the unit is so far. That sends me puffing!
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.