Cheryl is a proud Kuchingite living in Queensland, Australia. She spent her early childhood travelling between Malaysia and Australia, and as a result, her primary education was divided between schools in both countries and some periods of school-less homestudy. She attended Lodge International School in Kuching until her completion of the IGCSE Cambridge O Levels. Spurred by a lack of opportunity in Sarawak and Malaysia as a whole, she then went to Singapore under the ASEAN Pre-U Scholarship, and studied GCE A Levels in Victoria Junior College, where she met Christina. A Levels allowed her a chance to explore in more depth her long-held affection for English Literature, and she regards the whole JC experience, including her first time living away from parents, as invaluable in discovering her own interests and motivations. Following A Levels, she was accepted at the University of Queensland under the Bachelor of Arts, Medicine and Surgery double degree program.
She is currently finishing her second year of the Arts part of her degree, majoring in English Literature. She loves her major, dislikes the way current education systems discourage enthusiastic, self-motivated learning, and detests the persistent traditional Asian perception that the arts are inferior to sciences.
Christina is a Malaysian city girl currently residing in Melbourne, Australia. She enjoyed her primary school years in her home country, and remains in touch with most of her classmates. Thereafter, she spent the next six of her growing years in the neighbouring island of Singapore, completing the GCE O and A levels at Nanyang Girls’ High and Victoria Junior College respectively under the ASEAN Scholarship, which were, by far, the best times of her life. Those six years in another country cast confusion among her peers as they tried to figure out her real nationality. After college, her desire of studying hotel management was denied by her parents, which left her lost and confused. Subsequently, she chose to study the Bachelor of Arts degree in the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Suffering an initial disappointment of how ordinary university life was, she then transferred to the University of Melbourne to be reunited with her brother, which turned out to not be a better alternative than the former. These years have proven to be turbulent but has not worn her down as she still perseveres and remains inspired to love her journey in education.
She is currently pursuing a degree in Commerce and is about to enter her second year, majoring in Management and Marketing. She dislikes how commercialised educational institutions have become and how the objective of pursuing dollars over a well-educated, sensible, future generation has distorted the quality of education and massacred the independence and joy in the spirit of learning, in many.
cheryl
christina
