An Essential Guide to Singlish - New Expanded Edition

This is an up-graded version of the original Essential Guide to Singlish first published in 2003. Over 30,000 copies have been snapped up by Singaporeans, expats and tourists. The book takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to this fascinating subject and is given a wonderfully humourous dimension by award-winning Straits Times cartoonist, Miel. List of chapter headings Foreword Introduction Singlish A-Z Greetings and Civilities Small Talk Shopping How to Bargain Getting Around Eating O...

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Fistful of Colours

Suwen faces molestation and betrayal, which drives her to paint a controversial picture, and to leave Singapore for the small Malaysian town where her dream of becoming an artist first took root. Nica defies her father in pursuing art rather than medicine. In her quest to be her own person, she chooses to live with her companion, and expresses herself through her paintings and sketches. Janice seeks a destiny rooted in Singapore, and in doing so, rejects her father's firmly held belie...

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Sifu

Death was an old companion for him. He grew up in uncertain and violent times. Even with the return of the British after the Japanese Occupation, a peaceful life was still non-existent in suffering an uprooting from his home to barbed-wire New Village as a government's strategy to contain a Communist insurgency. Having watched his father's cold-blooded murder as ordered by an over-zealous British army officer, he knew he had to survive in order to seek vengeance. Young as he was, he al...

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