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AUDREY CHIN
Award winning Asian writer and reader of the Libra Mundi
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Audrey Chin
Sep 21, 20154 min read
Birthday dinner in the dark
Dining in the dark and another door of perception opened
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Audrey Chin
Dec 9, 20142 min read
So Grateful – This Reviewer Really Got It!
As the Heart Bones Break: So grateful this reviewer got it!
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Audrey Chin
Feb 9, 20145 min read
6 Mekong Dishers I'll Miss
Every 16th day of the Lunar New Year, Heart Guy and I travel to his family home in the Mekong Delta to commemorate his mother’s death and...
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Audrey Chin
Dec 17, 20131 min read
Talking about Heart Bones on National Critics Choice
Here’s National Critics Choice’s video of the book chat about As the Heart Bones Break at Select Books https://oddznns.wordpress.com/2013...
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Audrey Chin
Sep 21, 20134 min read
Does your writing transcend culture?
I thought I was a global person but it turns out I’m not … My novel As the Heart Bones Break is making its debut globally at Singapore...
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Audrey Chin
Sep 17, 20135 min read
Yunnan Ham from a Grandmother Room
To find out more about what we ate in Yunnan, including my encounter with a 40 year old mother of all hams, read the article here: A myth...
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Audrey Chin
Sep 13, 20136 min read
Writers I read: Writing in English, essentially Vietnamese
Nguyen Trong Hien is the author of Village Teacher, a novel which offers a refreshing look at a Vietnam rarely featured in English...
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Audrey Chin
Aug 17, 20134 min read
Dalat – A special place in my heart
I am a sucker for romance and Dalat is a romantic, if kitschy, city. It’s main lake, Ho Xuan Huong, is named after Vietnam’s most famous...
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Audrey Chin
Jul 22, 20136 min read
A different lunch on the Mekong River
Before going off to Australia, Heart Guy and I were in Vietnam. On an afternoon, we had lunch with some of the Mekong Delta kids we...
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Audrey Chin
May 25, 20132 min read
What’s in a title? Your opinion please…
What’s in a title? A title can make or break a book. Imagine if The Great Gatsby was actually published under it’s original title...
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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
Mar 1, 20133 min read
The Pope is gone, my mother-in-law is dead, but life goes on…
This week Pope Benedict 16th steps down, the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years. At the University of Tubingen in Germany, the...
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Audrey Chin
Feb 17, 20133 min read
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,...
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Audrey Chin
Dec 13, 20125 min read
Writers I Read: If You’re a Vietnamese Woman in Singapore then You Must Be…
Monique Truong – An award winning American writer and you’re discovering something new about how an American woman of Vietnamese descent...
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Audrey Chin
Nov 22, 20122 min read
A Singapore Thanksgiving Menu
We don’t eat turkey … PHoto Credit: http://www.chubbyhubby.net Not because we’re vegetarians unfortunately. Unfortunately just because I...
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Audrey Chin
Nov 19, 20122 min read
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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Audrey Chin
Sep 15, 20124 min read
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
Jan 1, 20122 min read
If Dogs Can Say Grace…
Photocredit: dogsintouch.com My father has decided to say Grace after 50 years of not doing so. The reason he’s started again is a video...
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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
Nov 12, 20111 min read
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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