Youth Division

When I first entered university, a classmate invited me to an SGM meeting. The members’ high spirits and vitality at that first Soka Family Day meeting inspired me, and I was eager to attend more such activities. I felt a lot of warmth when I went to Terengganu alone from Kuala Lumpur to pursue tertiary

I didn’t realise it back then; as I walked around the campus like a zombie, the others just helplessly witnessed my soul leaving its body gradually. Having just arrived from Malaysia to pursue my ballet dream at the New Zealand School of Dance (NZSD) in 2010, I severely lacked the confidence to the point of

I was born into a family practising Nichiren Buddhism. It was my mother’s conviction that Buddhism can help us overcome all problems that encouraged me. So even though I did not understand the meaning accurately I would chant for good academic results. But I was devastated when I failed several subjects in my first foundation