China

By the end of my second semester at NTU in Singapore, my mind was made up. I was going to China. I had dropped out of my mechanical engineering degree at Strathclyde, turned down the graduation ceremony, and was already responding to job adverts on a website called echinacities.com. My father was exasperated. His cousin… Read more

I had just finished an exchange year in Singapore as part of my University of Strathclyde Engineering course. It was March 2013 when I was to fly out to Guangzhou and then on to Shanghai. Shanghai had been romanticized in Looper and Guangzhou was the manufacturing hub of China. I was drawn less to Beijing… Read more

A very memorable year of my life was that of my 3rd university year in the city state of Singapore in Asia from August 2012 until around May 2013. To qualify for the year abroad at my home university you had to a certain grade average across your subjects. I remember at the end of… Read more