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Audrey Chin

Apr 12, 20141 min read

Immensely grateful to be a daughter of Singapore

It may be unfashionable but I’m shouting it out anyway – It’s good being a daughter of Singapore. It’s something to be immensely...

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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

Mar 3, 20143 min read

It’s Sunday: Tiger Moms and Cubs need rest too

On the 7th day HE rested. I need a rest. So does my kid. It’s been a little too much – the travels, the back-to-back meetings the week...

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Audrey Chin

Feb 24, 20142 min read

In Myanmar: Feeling vulnerable, being helped

Sometimes trips don’t start well My outbound plane to Myanmar left 15 minutes late. Then we circled for nearly an hour over fogged-in...

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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

Feb 19, 20141 min read

In Myanmar: Rock and wonder!

Words can’t describe this natural wonder seemingly balanced on a hair (Buddha’s apparently). The Golden Rock of Mon State – It’s a...

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Audrey Chin

Feb 15, 20141 min read

In Myanmar: Union Day among the Karen

I spent February 12, Myanmar’s Union Day, among the Karen. Union Day celebrates the signing of the Panglong Agreement between the...

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