I am currently busy preparing for a journal article in addition to some other stuff which I am starting to believe to be unimportant. Well, anyway, here is a dose of reality from the Internet: 10 Fascinating Facts about Iraq Overlooked by the Media.
Is this relevant to what I do (for a living)? No, not at all. But, I would like to argue, it is much more important than what I do. This is about living people, not some l337 algorithm with some potential commercial application.
And somehow it reassures me that those additional stuff I do really does matter. (See it for yourself from here http://www1.nvpc.org.sg/sub_page.asp?pid=101&sid=265 and here http://www.migrantvoices.org/index.html)
(Edited on 5 March 2015)
The links above are broken now. What I did was volunteering for a non-profit organization called "Migrant Voices." The goal was to raise awareness about migrant worker issues as well as helping such workers make their life more well-rounded in Singapore, away from their homes.
Seeing ten ladies from Java, the island in which my hometown is located, working hard to make a better life here made me want to make my own life better. I stopped volunteering there and worked on to make a career switch to animation, a career that I am now enjoying every day.
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