Miranda P Yeoh – författare

What is it like to be born into an extended Peranakan family that has seen better days? Besides poverty, there's strife when some don't pull together. However, I had a wise Grandma, Dad, and Aunt. Reading transported me into a world of joy, and soon I loved learning for its own sake. The Scriptures challenged me to seek the kingdom of heaven when I was at university. Why should I teach in Selangor rather than my beloved hometown, Penang? Could I rely on God? On several occasions, I realized that God blessed me just on time! I tried to influence my students to be intrinsically motivated. I tried to nurture a passion for knowledge. Besides teaching, I researched to facilitate the learning of my students. How could I manage caring for an aging aunt, but by God's mercy? How would I cope with my health issues, uncertain if healing would come? Would all the events, and my responses to them, show that I worship an all-powerful, merciful God in whom I can trust?

What is it like to be an ethnic minority born into an extended Peranakan family that has seen better days? What opportunities would the author have? In this first book of the series, "e;Are We Born to Serve? An Ethnic Minority Learns and Grows,"e; Miranda P. Yeoh shares her story of resiliency and dedication to God, science, learning, and honoring her family values.In her formative years in Penang, Miranda lived with her extended family. Family tensions were the norm, and she learned to accept relationships that did not bring happiness. Her responsible father encourages her early learning with his library of Classics Illustrated. Growing up in this densely populated, multi-cultural melting pot of the Asia-Pacific, Miranda has a keen sense of her ancestry and culture. She realizes that learning to cook, sew, and garden from her knowledgeable Grandma was necessary to prepare her for a fruitful life of serving others. Miranda converts to Christianity despite her original Chinese religion and being a godchild of the Taoist deity of culture, literature, and learning. Spiritual exercises provide guidance, while the secular knowledge from the Psychology and Biochemistry courses impacted her understanding of relationships and mental and physical health.The author discusses the challenges of her growing-up years and her struggle for an opportunity for higher education. She shares her Peranakan culture and its fusion food. It will provide readers with an understanding of the history of Penang (Malaysia) and why it has become a Food Paradise. The author hopes the details, context, and illustrations will allow readers (including minorities, educators, Christians, and those interested in Penang and its fusion food, Peranakan culture) to connect with and find her story, lessons, and experiences overcoming issues as an ethnic minority pertinent to their lives. Get the book!

What is it like for an ethnic minority to teach in a school with predominantly male students from the largest ethnic group in the country? Would the students with privileges have a sense of entitlement? How does it affect their motivation to learn and education outcomes? The author explores the theme of Narcissism in her community. Readers see the author serving passionately, trying to inspire students, and struggling with her weaknesses amidst work duties, family responsibilities, church commitments, and self-improvement. With her focus on serving her students in school and college, would retirement also be a time to serve others? Would she be attracting selfish persons who desire service from others? Would she fall for their lies, gaslighting, and manipulation?      In the book "e;Are We Born to Serve? An Ethnic Minority Serves with Fervor,"e; the award-winning author discusses her life as a daughter, niece, educator, researcher, and Christian. She discusses her career experiences spanning 38 years of teaching, lecturing, research, and publishing. The book offers readers a close-up glimpse into the life and work of a dedicated and innovative educator and researcher. The author hopes that her experiences, illustrations, and context will allow readers, including minorities, educators, researchers, and Christians, to find her experiences overcoming issues as an ethnic minority valuable and pertinent to their lives. Her story continues beyond retirement, offering rich insights into post-career purpose, her contributions to the community, and the unexpected fruitfulness her efforts yielded. Get the book!

Biochemistry first entered my life as an academic discipline—pathways memorized, molecules traced, exams passed. Decades later, it returned as something far more intimate: a guide to healing.This book grows out of a life spent teaching, learning, and living with science. While lecturing in college, I used songs, rhythms, and musical mnemonics to help students understand complex processes such as glycolysis and the Krebs cycle. Over the years, life's challenges included seasons of caregiving, sleepless nights, chronic pain, failing vision, and burning nerves. Then an episode of unstable angina became a turning point in my own health. I turned back to those same principles—not for grades, but for recovery. Food is broken down into molecules. Those molecules become not only fuel but also the building blocks for repair and renewal. Healing is biochemistry, expressed in daily life.This is not a conventional textbook, nor is it a memoir alone. It invites readers to walk alongside me as I think through real health challenges—asking questions, weighing evidence, consulting healthcare professionals, learning from experience, and applying the principles of biochemistry to everyday decisions. It is a bridge between knowledge and experience, science and perseverance, the classroom and the kitchen.Drawing on biochemistry, biology, nutrition, and lived reflection, the book explores how nourishment, rest, movement, and kindness support the body's remarkable capacity to maintain balance and repair itself. Like leaves turning sunlight into sugars, and mitochondria transforming oxygen into energy, our bodies are active participants in healing.Set against the cultural and natural backdrop of Penang, these pages weave together health, culture, and purpose. If these reflections encourage readers to believe that renewal is possible at any age—and that health often begins with understanding, informed choices, and mindful living—then this book will have fulfilled its purpose.

Seven generations. Three original families. Six generations of an unbroken Christian heritage.In the early nineteenth century, missionary ships arrived on the shores of Penang carrying no weapons of conquest. Instead, they brought printing presses, freshly translated Scriptures, and a conviction that would alter the destiny of the Straits Settlements forever. Many of these early pioneers gave their health; some gave their lives. But the words they planted would outlive them all.When the printed Gospels pass quietly into the hands of three distinct Peranakan families, an extraordinary multi-generational tapestry begins to unfold. As these three family lines intertwine through seven founding couples, a shared crucible emerges. From the perilous, cholera-swept stilt walkways of the early waterfront to the terrifying silver waves of Japanese bombers in 1941, this growing community clings to its faith.As the world collapses around them during the brutal wartime occupation, they organize a daring escape to Balik Pulau. And then after WWII, choosing to remain in George Town through the long years of the Malayan Emergency, these ordinary families discover that faith is not merely a tradition to be inherited—it is a living anchor that binds them together.Richly grounded in meticulous historical research and populated by unforgettable characters, Across the Straits: The Cross and the Word is an epic historical saga of community, resilience, and the stubborn, quiet power of an unbroken heritage of faith.