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AUDREY CHIN
Award winning Asian writer and reader of the Libra Mundi
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Audrey Chin
Mar 18, 20181 min read
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
Mar 11, 20183 min read
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
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Audrey Chin
May 5, 20141 min read
What if your kid was too obedient?
Will insects fly into your mouth if your child is too obedient
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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
Feb 23, 20141 min read
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 ...
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Audrey Chin
Feb 22, 20143 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Jan 22, 20141 min read
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....
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Audrey Chin
Jun 12, 20133 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Mar 4, 20133 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Feb 3, 20131 min read
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...
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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
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
Sep 22, 20121 min read
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:...
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Audrey Chin
Aug 20, 20121 min read
Between time and money
.I wrote a post the other day about how a diagnostic profiling tool called Emergenetics could help improve communications dramatically....
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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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