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AUDREY CHIN
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Audrey Chin
Jul 4, 20166 min read
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
Sep 3, 20131 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Jul 27, 20133 min read
3.5 lost days and 12 surprising discoveries
The best made holiday plans can be upset. Weather, short-staffed inn-keepers and unforeseen road closures can conspire to turn an...
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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
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
Dec 21, 20123 min read
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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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
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
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 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
Nov 6, 20111 min read
Flash of Lightning
Like any other big city, you can’t ever find a taxi at rush-hour in my city. And of course the buses don’t move when there’s gridlock....
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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
Aug 7, 20111 min read
The Curious Arts of Animals
It’s taken me almost a lifetime to learn to sit and be with myself, to be aware of my now and to let go. Animals, they do it naturally...
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Audrey Chin
Aug 7, 20116 min read
Looking Death in the Face
With each birthday, death becomes more forward. Good face days become fewer and farther apart. Death begins to make her presence felt...
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