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Chapter 16: "Dawn of the Coolie" is online

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Check out the concluding episode of my vanity project “Nanyang a graphic novel.” Star-crossed lovers of epic shipwreck pledge their everlasting love. Read from the beginning at https://tanchoonhongcreative.blogspot.sg   

Island reverie...

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Say No to 6.9M Population White Paper

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Frog Talk At Sundown 19.8.13

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Performance Art: Watching Grass Grow

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Frog Under A Coconut Shell

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People have been kept in the dark but the internet is helping them come into the light. So those bent on keeping matters under wraps have introduced new measures to plug the leaks.

Controlling the Internet

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Happee and Larky are happy-go-lucky clouds that often watch over us and ponder the follies of mankind. Incidentally, Happee is a rain cloud, and he pees when pissed. Larky is happy as a lark.

$50,000 licensing scheme to muzzle the internet

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“Free My Internet” Rally

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Circle wagons! It’s time to defend the internet from the those who would control it for their own ends. Be at the “Free My Internet” Rally. Be seen, be heard, be there! Sat 8 June 2013 4.00 pm – 7.00 pm Hong Lim Park

There are times when you need more than a lawyer...

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These days you need more than a lawyer if you find yourself on the wrong side of the law. You need a psychiatrist. Someone like Dr Sigmund Froid. Dr Froid was born Simon Froid, but due to his admiration for the great Sigmund Freud, he decided to adopt Sigmund by deed poll. In fact Froid is an undeclared disciple of Freud, though his interpretion of the great meister’s theories are coloured, some say distorted, by his own early childhood experiences. Disclaimer: All characters, places and events appearing on this site are strictly the work of fiction. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Singapore National Conversation as Performance Art

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Nanyang The Movie – pre-visualization of chapter 1

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Watch the movie pre-visualization of Nanyang The Movie  based on a graphic novel by Tan Choon Hong. Prelude: To the south of China lies this vast and timeless land that the Chinese call Nanyang, or the Southern Ocean. The region encompasses all the waters and lands of southeast Asia, the Malay archipelago and beyond. Since ancient times the Chinese have sailed the seas of Nanyang in search of the vast riches that is the stuff of dreams. Many have become fabulously rich, others paid with their very lives. Through their enterprise great cities have sprung up linking peoples of many skins and tongues through their common desire to trade. It is in this romantic setting that my story unfolds. “Nanyang” tells of two brothers Seng and Hock who, separated during a shipwreck and after many twists and turns in their lives, eventually come face to face on opposites of the law. The outcome marks the turning point in their journey from boys to men. In telling this tale, I myself have e