Audrey Chin
Miming Climaxes? Playing at Rape? We're All Implicated
I confess. I too decried those activities of those university students. How could they even think it was okay?
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AUDREY CHIN
Award winning Asian writer and reader of the Libra Mundi
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Audrey Chin
- Apr 12, 2014
- 1 min
Immensely grateful to be a daughter of Singapore
It may be unfashionable but I’m shouting it out anyway – It’s good being a daughter of Singapore. It’s something to be immensely...
Audrey Chin
- Jan 18, 2014
- 1 min
Stepping out of the box
I’m stepping out of the box. The last three nights I’ve had nightmares. They were all related to one of my two WIPS’s – the one about a...
Audrey Chin
- Nov 16, 2013
- 4 min
Writers I read: A Singaporean Identity – Constance Singam, the epitome of true grit
For me, Constance Singam the Singapore feminist and civil society activist, is the epitome of true grit Brought up in a patriarchal South...
Audrey Chin
- Nov 10, 2013
- 2 min
A week both sweet and bitter
I’m exhausted from the week that was but thought I should check in with everyone just to let you know how everything’s been. It was seven...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 19, 2013
- 1 min
Mid Autumn Spotlight on Marina Bay Sands
Sarah Pannir’s spotlighting Marina Bay Sands today, the Mid-Autumn Festival I campaigned against this casino development. Since its...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 11, 2013
- 3 min
Syria… September 11… Why they matter to me
I live in Singapore, 7,800 kilometres away from Syria and 15,400 kilometres from New York City. I’m black haired and under five feet...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 3, 2013
- 1 min
Writers I Read: Trade the high-flying life for this …
We’re just back from remote Lugu Lake, Yunnan China where my friend Choo Wai Hong traded in her high-flying high-stress corporate...
Audrey Chin
- Aug 24, 2013
- 2 min
Effortless chic or cheap? Give up shopping and find out
Give up clothes-shopping for a year!!! That’s the challenge my fellow tribe-writers Kathleen Caron and Pamela Hodges are on. Following...
Audrey Chin
- Jun 24, 2013
- 3 min
Breathable air – A basic need I didn’t appreciate till last week
At 12 noon on Friday 21st June, the Pollutant Standard’s Index hit 401 in Singapore, the highest in Singapore’s history. The PSI, which...
Audrey Chin
- May 13, 2013
- 3 min
Where has your muse taken you?
No dear reader … it wasn’t me, it was my muse. First the spoiler – this coming of age tale of a Chinatown girl’s affair with her...
Audrey Chin
- Apr 12, 2013
- 7 min
Writers I Read: Stephanie Ye and the 'glocal' influences in her writing
We’ve moved on to Stage 2 of the Singapore Conversation. We’re talking about specific issues regarding Singapore identity and culture...
Audrey Chin
- Mar 10, 2013
- 3 min
Singapore budget 2013 – Be careful what you wish for, you have to live with it
Singapore’s 2013 budget certainly tries to give Singaporeans what they’ve been clamoring for: Stricter limits on foreign labour, carrots...
Audrey Chin
- Feb 21, 2013
- 2 min
Looking forward to the high-speed train to KL and then to Ipoh!
The buzz surrounding the proposed high-speed train from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, capital of neighbouring Malaysia has been mostly...
Audrey Chin
- Feb 17, 2013
- 3 min
Anticipating Myanmar –The “before” post
It’s been a long time since I’ve been so excited about a trip. The last time I experienced this degree of anticipation was 20 years ago,...
Audrey Chin
- Feb 12, 2013
- 3 min
A popiah recipe for a truly Singapore New Year Re-Union Dinner
February 10th – it’s New Year again! Popiah wrapping fronted by lettuce, filling, and everything else This is the New Year my family...
Audrey Chin
- Feb 8, 2013
- 5 min
White paper – Its not about 6.9 million, it’s about hearts
It’s about hearts The debate about the Population White Paper has unsettled me It’s the week before the Lunar New Year. Normally, this...
Audrey Chin
- Jan 21, 2013
- 4 min
Are you essentially Chinese? The 8D7N All Taiwan Test
Banana at close quarters Apparently not, according to Mrs. L. Not even after an 8D7N All Taiwan All Mandarin immersion into Chinese...
Audrey Chin
- Jan 13, 2013
- 4 min
Three Things Those Foreign College Students Can Give Us
IT MAKES YOUR BLOOD BOIL DOESN’T IT? The number of university spaces we’re giving to foreign students from South East Asia? The fact...
Audrey Chin
- Dec 29, 2012
- 2 min
She Died in Singapore. Guns Didn’t Kill Her
6 MEN ON A BUS DID IT. WITH WHAT THEY HAD BETWEEN THEIR LEGS. WITH AN IRON BAR THAT DESTROYED HER INSIDES. She was a 23 year old Indian...
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