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Audrey Chin

Jan 30, 20136 min read

Is population growth a Ponzi scheme – my take

It’s a good question. A friend sent around this thinking point as a response to the population white paper released today. It’s the title...

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Audrey Chin

Jan 28, 20134 min read

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One-on-one with a Punggol Voter

There have been a slew of comments on why the Punggol by-elections turned out the way they did. I’m not going to add anything to the...

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Are you essentially Chinese? The 8D7N All Taiwan Test

Audrey Chin

Jan 21, 20134 min read

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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...

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Audrey Chin

Dec 29, 20122 min read

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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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Audrey Chin

Dec 22, 20123 min read

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The GALLUP Polls – A Closer Look

Photo Credit: http://www.marcpotts.blogspot.com I’ve been accused of being Pollyanna! All because I said yesterday that Singaporeans...

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The GALLUP Polls– Should Singaporeans Even Care?

Audrey Chin

Dec 21, 20123 min read

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The GALLUP Polls– Should Singaporeans Even Care?

THE GALLUP POLLS – SHOULD WE IN SINGAPORE CARE? Photo Credit: http://www.stanford.edu According to Gallup Singapore ranks as the least...

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A Singapore Thanksgiving – Should we be content with small blessings?

Audrey Chin

Nov 20, 20123 min read

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A Singapore Thanksgiving – Should we be content with small blessings?

Some say this with disdain. But what’s not to love about buses and train systems that more or less work, even if they’re stuffed to the...

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A Singapore Thanksgiving – The Monday before

Audrey Chin

Nov 19, 20122 min read

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A Singapore Thanksgiving – The Monday before

It’s a boat person’s festival that’s why… When we lived in the US, it was a public holiday, an opportunity for far flung too busy friends...

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Why I haven’t been posting OR What I’ve learnt about priorities

Audrey Chin

Nov 18, 20122 min read

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Why I haven’t been posting OR What I’ve learnt about priorities

It’s been almost a month since I last posted. I’ve no excuses. I just collapsed under all the multi-tasking I’ve been trying to do. It...

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Towards to a kinder gentler Singapore OR What I learnt today practicing graciousness, compassion and

Audrey Chin

Oct 21, 20125 min read

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Towards to a kinder gentler Singapore OR What I learnt today practicing graciousness, compassion and

I’ve been thrilled to pieces by Minister of State Lawrence Wong’s comment at the country’s first National Kindness Conference, that a...

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What the maids and foreign workers get up to AND why I’m not appalled

Audrey Chin

Oct 5, 20125 min read

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What the maids and foreign workers get up to AND why I’m not appalled

Photo Credit: Jeremy Brooks, whirljack.net I’ve been mooning about quite abit in our neighbourhood park recently.There was the mid-Autumn...

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Audrey Chin

Sep 22, 20122 min read

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Mooncakes – A better way to do it?

Photo Credit: http://www.chinatownconnections.com Today is the 8th day of the 8th moon of the lunar calendar; seven more days to the...

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5 Reasons why I left America OR What matters most to me about Singapore

Audrey Chin

Sep 15, 20124 min read

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5 Reasons why I left America OR What matters most to me about Singapore

Photo Credit: Talking Pieces http://www.circle-space.org I’ve been waiting and waiting for that invitation. But, it hasn’t come. Yet. I...

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Audrey Chin

Sep 12, 20128 min read

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September 11: 3 different perspectives

FROM SINGAPORE: On September 11, I was twelve time zones away from New York, watching the NYSE on my Bloomberg screen in the study....

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Audrey Chin

Sep 8, 20123 min read

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I am my own homeland

I went out for lunch with two old colleagues – one I’d kept in touch with recently, the other I hadn’t met for years. They were retired...

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Audrey Chin

Aug 16, 20121 min read

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Bereft

Have you ever experienced that same feeling of empathy and dread? Share it. Leave a comment. Home alone The morning is frisky with dogs ...

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Audrey Chin

Aug 4, 20126 min read

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Elegy – July 4th in Alaska

We went to Alaska for the summer. It’s beautiful country. For someone from Singapore, too big to grasp. We had time, so much time. And...

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Audrey Chin

Mar 27, 20123 min read

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Am I Really Doing the Best I Can?

Our Singapore morning paper is reporting that a whole lot of people are having sex on the side, sex for money, sex for grades....

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Audrey Chin

Dec 15, 20111 min read

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Advent: Do miracles happen?

I spent the second week of Advent on a silent retreat in Chiangmai contemplating the mystery of God In the poem below, I’ve tried to...

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Audrey Chin

Nov 12, 20111 min read

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Resistance

I had a nightmare about pacmen shooting at me; they were shouting – Resistance is futile! resistance is futile. Clearly the product of...

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