Growing up, I competed for Singapore in gymnastics (tore my ACL), loved asking lots of questions (very curious human) and ended up with a journalism scholarship, leading me to study comparative literature at New York University in NYC and Paris before taking on an MSc in investigative journalism at Columbia University.
I worked first as an investigative reporter and Fellow with The New York World - accountability journalism published by Columbia - then helped cover the homestretch of the 2012 US Presidential Election with The Straits Times' US Bureau. I later shuttled between Singapore and Hong Kong, where I was based for The New Paper and then The Business Times, Singapore's only financial newspaper. Reporting has also brought me to other parts of the world such as Guinea (West Africa) and North Korea. I covered a broad array of beats and news issues, including disasters, and these helped pave the way to graduate medical school. Iβm especially interested in global health, disaster and humanitarian work, acute care, trauma, medical education and humanities, as well as healthcare services and systems.
Somewhere between my liberal arts undergraduate years and foray into medicine, I picked up rock climbing. It's a great way to explore the gorgeous natural landscapes of our Earth and learn about the human body and mind, how they can work together to produce beautiful - sometimes seemingly impossible - movements to scale incredible cliff faces.
This site and its links archive some of my adventures, writing and photography, both published and personal.
