Fifty Refugees: The Lives of Refugees in Malaysia

The 50th Anniversary of Merdeka is coming up in a few days time. In commemoration of this, and of the struggles of refugees in Malaysia, a friend of mine worked a project to document their experiences of displacement, detention, and exile. Do read their stories, and tell others about this website so that [...]

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Differentiating Fantasy from Reality (or, Getting Tested)

In one of my psychology classes at university, I learned that our brains are easily fooled into believing that what we see is real. When we watch television, our bodies respond to what we passively observe as if we are actually experiencing the events. Our brains think that the flickering images are really [...]

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Desperation

In the past couple of days, I have felt desperate. It is a truly awful feeling. When I am ‘high’, which, thankfully, has been the norm for the past few weeks, its difficult to imagine how horrible it feels to be desperate.
Henry David Thoreau wrote “the mass of men lead lives of [...]

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