Audrey Chin
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Paddling
This week’s headlines haven’t been encouraging –
Chinese political appointments, White House firings, school shootings, old Russian spies fa
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AUDREY CHIN
Award winning Asian writer and reader of the Libra Mundi
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Audrey Chin
- Mar 11, 2018
- 3 min
On Self-Censorship, OB Markers and Beyond
Last week, I made a hole in a fence. Guess what? It was no_big_deal. I realized – we take fences too seriously
Audrey Chin
- May 5, 2014
- 1 min
What if your kid was too obedient?
Will insects fly into your mouth if your child is too obedient
Audrey Chin
- Mar 9, 2014
- 1 min
Poetry is the unexpected stranger …
I’m drunk with words. My nephew, the artist and poet, is visiting with his family. We’ve been indulging in artsy-fartsy conversation,...
Audrey Chin
- Feb 23, 2014
- 1 min
Reading in Myanmar: They were five
No pictures, just some words describing a scene while waiting for a flight in the domestic terminal at Yangon Airport. They were five ...
Audrey Chin
- Feb 22, 2014
- 3 min
Reading in Myanmar: Text and sub-text
I was reading in Myanmar. It was my time, my panel appearance at the Irrawaddy Literary Festival with Canadian literary prodigy Karen...
Audrey Chin
- Jan 22, 2014
- 1 min
More Missives from Katie and Zoong: Fathers Are Like Bird's Feathers
Believing in magic, we’d hide these found treasures between the pages of our text books, sprinkling bread crumbs over them to feed them....
Audrey Chin
- Jun 12, 2013
- 3 min
Dieting or writing – we still need to outwit our reptilian brains
Our writing-dieting selves like to think we’re all frontal lobe, all about visioning, reasoning, planning and problem solving. But hidden...
Audrey Chin
- Mar 4, 2013
- 3 min
A place in my heart – The Mekong southland
You can love a place before you see it. A place you continue to hold in your heart even after you know it, faults and all. That’s the...
Audrey Chin
- Feb 3, 2013
- 1 min
ODDZNNS is now SOMETIMES WORDS HELP
It’s February already and I haven’t thanked you all enough for your support of Oddznns – for dropping by and commenting, for...
Audrey Chin
- Jan 28, 2013
- 1 min
8D7N All Taiwan -What I really got out of it
What’s our’s The areca clad hills scrolling past the windows The marbled gorge The fertile land We can’t own it Nor even the hours ...
Audrey Chin
- Oct 4, 2012
- 1 min
Goodbye Moon:
Photo Credit: Sarah Monagle Well, the mid-Autumn festivities have come and gone. The moon’s shrinking ing again.As it goes away, I’d...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 30, 2012
- 4 min
Mid-Autumn: Why on this night?
Moonlight over Clementi Rail Bridge Finally, 15th day of the 8th moon – Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon a beautiful yellow orb. The moon...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 27, 2012
- 2 min
Awaiting Mid-Autumn: A Singapore politician’s lesson in moon watching
Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/camyluna 13th day of the 9th moon of the year of the water dragon.It’s raining again. Unless...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 26, 2012
- 1 min
Awaiting Mid-Autumn: When words fail, open the windows and breathe…
Full moon through stained glass Photo Credit: http://www.wilandra.com 12th day of the 8th moon in the year of the water dragon … and what...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 25, 2012
- 1 min
Awaiting Mid-Autumn: Moon in Clouds
11th day of the 8th moon in the year of the water dragon. Photo Credit: John Garozze http://www.jagwah.blogspot.com Tonight it was...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 24, 2012
- 1 min
Awaiting Mid-Autumn: The Best Season of Your Life
10th day of the 8th month of the dragon year – a busy buzzy sort of day running around delivering Mid-Autumn gifts to friends and...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 22, 2012
- 1 min
Awaiting Mid-Autumn – New Moon
8th day of the 8th moon of the year of the Dragon. We start with the verses of the most unaccomplished – mine. Photo Credit:...
Audrey Chin
- Aug 20, 2012
- 1 min
Between time and money
.I wrote a post the other day about how a diagnostic profiling tool called Emergenetics could help improve communications dramatically....
Audrey Chin
- Dec 31, 2011
- 1 min
Reconciliation
It’s the end of the old year. A time to throw away old grudges and forgotten grievances, a time to make room for what will come in the...
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