What Will I Be When I Grow Up?
For as long as we can remember, we have been told that it is better to be a doctor, engineer or lawyer when we grow up. We want to inspire students and parents to think holistically, beyond the social constructs instilled in their minds.
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Failing Her Way to a Scholarship, Then to Dementia Care (opens the original)
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A missed scholarship. A second attempt. That same "fail, fail again, fail better" grit carried Chia Yi from rural Pahang to speech-language therapy, and now shapes how she helps families with dementia find comfort, dignity, and care partnership. More resources about dementia and Alzheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation Malaysia: https://www.adfm.org.my/ Alzheimer’s Disease International: https://www.alzint.org/ Malaysian Association of Speech-Language and Hearing: https://mash.org.my/ Teepa S
The Banker Who Bet on Curiosity Instead of Certainty (opens the original)
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Trusting the unknown takes courage. A secure job, a growing sense of unease, a decision to start over – that’s Maha Subramaniam’s journey from central banking to building Schola, now reaching 750,000 students across Malaysia! Sometimes, the leap IS the plan.
Measured in Grams, Built by Grit: A Clinical Dietitian's Journey (opens the original)
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Ballet discipline, a crashed laptop days before her thesis defense, homesickness abroad. Clinical dietitian and baker Loo Yee Wong shares how she turned every setback into fuel, and why she believes resilience, like dough, just needs time and pressure to rise.
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