Audrey Chin
The words are back!
From the winning entry for the Asian Women Writers Festival Short StoryCompetition... It takes 38,000 mgs of ibuprofen to kill yourself.
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AUDREY CHIN
Award winning Asian writer and reader of the Libra Mundi
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Audrey Chin
Apr 18, 20141 min read
Greater love than this …
It’s Easter this weekend. This weekend I’m celebrating love. It began on the Thursday evening with a remembrance that true leadership...
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Audrey Chin
Mar 9, 20141 min read
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,...
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Audrey Chin
May 30, 20134 min read
Why pray for the dying?
Have I prayed in vain? Wai’s funeral was yesterday, Ish’s more than a year ago now. Kwan is in a deep coma. There’s very little chance...
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Audrey Chin
Apr 8, 20132 min read
The Difference between Religion and Spirit – A look through Burmese Lenses
Someone told me yesterday I was getting too religious and hence difficult to get along with. That certainly caused me to go look in the...
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Audrey Chin
Jan 28, 20131 min read
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 ...
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Audrey Chin
Dec 26, 20122 min read
How to Sing Singapore better – Let in the Pinoys!
Photo Credit: http://www.etsy.com WE DIDN’T INVITE THEM I’ve heard them practicing in the park from my study. I’ve passed them on my...
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Audrey Chin
Dec 15, 20122 min read
What Happens when You don't Talk for 7 Days?
SILENCE! Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com Dani Batz’s photostream I’ve just returned from my 3rd retreat. When I first started...
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Audrey Chin
Oct 4, 20121 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Sep 30, 20124 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Sep 27, 20122 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Sep 26, 20121 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Sep 25, 20121 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Sep 24, 20121 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Aug 4, 20126 min read
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
Dec 31, 20111 min read
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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Audrey Chin
Dec 15, 20111 min read
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
Oct 15, 20111 min read
Xinjiang before the guns
In Xinjiang, the water tables are buried deep. The winters are cold, the summers burning – a geography perfect for forcing fragrant...
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Audrey Chin
Oct 11, 20111 min read
Hunger
We do this and we do that. We go here and we go there. But we’re never satisfied. What will give us rest?
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Audrey Chin
Oct 11, 20111 min read
A Mystery
Sometimes it feels like we’re spooning up the East Ocean – we have hope, but still it feels impossible, and sometimes, we're overwhelmed..
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