A Thousand Cuts for an Eternity of Happiness

“Amber … please step away from the window. There’s nothing interesting to see.”

“Huh, nothing to see?”

Amber gave a rueful smile and tore her eyes away from the grassy fields and towards her cross aunt. She replayed the beautiful trees swaying in the wind and the sunlight that danced off the clear blue water, which in her mind were bordering long weedy reeds. All this beauty was ruined by the white border of the window, and now her aunt. Constricting and trapping the freedom and splendour.

Expectation of Asian Families

“I got 97% for my maths.”

“What!!! Your sister got 99% for her maths when she was in your grade. Even when I was your age I was the top of the school”…and by now you would have shut down and started nodding dumbly at whatever your family is saying. Many of you might have encountered this, and if you would, I would happily, "stress" over the expectations of Asian families. 

The Disney Effect

Who can forget the first few opening bars of the basis of our childhood? We will remember the brave characters that taught us so much. Disney influenced us from a young age and many aspects of Disney could be seen with us today. I would like to call it, the Disney effect.