Mathusa Selvaratnam

Blogger | Life Coach | Traveller | Educator

  • 3 Continents visited
  • 26 Countries visited
  • 26 k Miles traveled
  • 678 Days traveling
  • 149 Planes boarded

About Me

My name is Mathu and I am many things squished into one entity. During my time as a student, I have been travelling around the world. Since graduating, I continue to travel and blog whilst also pursuing a career in Corporate Technology. My personal brand UndercoverChick has grown over the years as a space to help people with travel, mindset transformation and achieving goals. I am a big dreamer and a go getter and I want people to join me on this venture of personal growth.

The Sakthi Eelam Charity, the 'Tethani Time' Podcast and my recent joint initiative 'Brown Babes in STEM' are projects that I have put my heart and soul into. These ventures allowed me to connect with the community, offer remarkable opportunities and meet a spectrum of incredible individuals.

As a result of my wanderlust, I have been travelling from country to country, embraced many cultures to discover the beauty each country has to offer. I rarely stay in one place and I always have an urge to hop onto the next plane and seek new adventures...hence me being self-proclaimed 'Queen of Jet Lags'. There are still many parts of the globe that I have yet to gallivant and I hope to share my experiences with you.

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Do it for yourself. Exactly 3 months ago I was at Singapore Changi airport and whilst waiting to board the plane to come back home, I felt this sudden urge of motivation. Clarity about what I wanted in life. Whenever that happens I need pen an paper which I didn’t have at that point so iPhone notes to the rescue. I wrote down 5 goals, set a review deadline. When you swipe right you can see it says 14th March, 2.42 pm. 3 months later I’ve achieved them. I launched the website exactly on the 1st June. It was a review date anyway but I wanted to get it done. I’ve crossed out 2 of the goals because they’re slightly larger goals and a work in progress. I’ll let you know when I achieve them. At that point I didn’t know I was going to meet a fabulous girl from Canada (@saangavii )and kick off Brown Babes In STEM, I didn’t know Covid would bring everything to standstill, I didn’t know I’d work from home for months, I didn’t know I was going to start a podcast with @ahartisha . I didn’t know that I was not going to move to Dubai in April. But hey what I knew is, what I wanted. I want to say to you whatever life throws at you, be clear about what you want. Write it down, think about it, work for it, get it. It will come to you. I promise. 🙌✨
Would’ve thought a pandemic might teach us some valuable lessons about life and things that matter but I was too optimistic. It overwhelms and saddens me to think about the fact that humans are stupid enough to discriminate each other based on one factor - skin colour. #blackouttuesday
#BrownBabesInSTEM First Ever Virtual Networking Event! . . Our mission is to establish an international platform to highlight Brown Boss Babes in the world of STEM to connect, collaborate and create a community. Sangavi and I are super thrilled to have hosted this event and meet such diverse and intelligent women from various backgrounds! We had 30+ boss babes joining in from 7 different countries and time zones (Australia, Singapore, Sweden, Austria, England, Philippines, and Canada)! Not only did everyone share about themselves and their passions, we had an open discussion where everyone started sharing career opportunities and free resources to uplift one another. A BIG thank you to everyone who attended, it tickles our heart to see all your smiling faces. We are excited to have you embark on the #BrownBabesInSTEM journey with us!
Before Lockdown vs During Lockdown 😂😭
Swipe right to read! Has anyone ever inspired you like this? Share your stories with me in the comments. ☺️ To inspire, you need to be inspired. I was only 16 but I was hugely inspired by your words thank you @actionjacksonlive !
Some people let life push them around; others get angry and push back against their boss or their loved ones. But some people learn a lesson from it, and in fact welcome life pushing them around because it means they need to learn something. - Robert T. Kiyosaki I’m type 3. Whenever life pushes me around, I learn a lesson but my life was moving so fast so I never stopped to realise how strong and capable I am. This is one thing I learnt during lockdown about myself. I reflected. I guess the irony is life is once again pushing us all around and threw a pandemic at us and I did what I usually do. Learn my lesson. What did you realise this lockdown? Any deep thoughts? Any realisations?
Work hard but live a lot. Between May - October I usually go live my ultimatum of dreams. I normally am just out and about exploring the world, meeting my loved ones and living life. Now Instagram keeps sending me ‘1 year ago’ today moments and I’m realising how good I actually was at the living my life part. 😂 I embraced every moment. No minute was wasted.
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. 🚪💫 You still with me? I’m excited to host the first ever virtual #BrownBabesInSTEM Networking event with @saangavii on the 30th May! There’s no catch, it’s completely free! Send us an e-mail to register your interest. 22nd + 29th May new #TethaniTime podcast episodes released 1st June - undercoverchick.com Relaunch live release
Today it makes me proud to see so many young diaspora Tamils informing the people around them about what happened to our people back home. Seeking answers. Seeking justice. This month is a particularly difficult month for the Tamil community. Remembering our brothers and sisters we lost in the brutal blood filled final days of the civil war. What makes me even prouder is that as a community we have come so far. There’s Artists, Athletes, Entrepreneurs, Doctors, Scientists, Engineers, Singers, Dancers, Politicians among us and the list goes on. We are everywhere, contributing to the world in a positive way. You may think ok but all communities have people with academics and skills right? Of course. We also have criminals. The point is many of us have not limited ourselves given our background, we didn’t get knocked down by the hate we grew up with. Including the ‘blick’ Tamil kid comments in school or racism. Many of us came from low income families, are the first of our families to attain degrees. Our parents fled their homeland with absolutely nothing. If you get sent to Japan now and were told to learn Japanese whilst raising kids imagine how you’d feel? Yep that was the reality for our European Tamil parents. Many of them are overqualified to be doing the jobs that they do now but they made it their priority to give us this future. They built this future for us. We have not had it easy as a community. Yet we seem to progress with no limits. We continue to grow and reaching new heights. I like to practice affirmations - so today I am grateful for every single young Tamil diaspora killing it out here. I am grateful for the opportunities that were given to us. I am grateful for these countries that accepted our parents onto their land and now we give back and contribute to the economy via our skills. If you are reading this and can relate then give yourself a pat on the back. 👏👏👏We should be proud of ourselves. We will continue to grow as a community and not long before more of us are out there building a sustainable future and solutions for the people back home. We remember. We will not forget. 📷: @shanju.b Make up: @tanz1na