Growing in a traditional Asian environment, you are expected to pursue medicine, pharmacy or engineering.

When I was first taught Biology in high school, I really enjoyed it! I told myself that I wanted to work in the World Health's Organisation (WHO) when I grew up. Yet, I knew from the very beginning, medicine was not something I was interested in. I wanted to do 'behind the scenes' science, but I had no idea what subject to pursue in university. My parents did not go to university, and being the eldest daughter, it was up to me and my mother (bless her for putting so much effort into my education) to muddle our way through.

I was introduced to Biomedical Science by my teacher eventually (which was what I read for my undergraduate degree) and loved the broad range of subjects under it. I gradually found myself drawn towards pharmacology and later down the line, neuroscience.

I found the brain fascinating! I loved learning about the different neurotransmitters, how neurones communicate and the pathways that go wrong in the brain in certain CNS diseases. I never turned back since discovering that passion.