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Singapore soldiers stationed at training camps in Thailand are often down with homesickness. When they step out into the exotic land of temples and bars, they experience the most stunning assault on their senses. In the serenity of a wat and the boisterousness of Songkran, an SAF army officer falls deeply in love with a Thai undergraduate. She seems to feel the same way until ...
An attractive female teacher refuses to accept the fact that her husband, a university lecturer, has strayed and gone for a plain and artless Thai girl. She puts the blame on black magic and seeks help from her Thai student Marut to break the spell ... Former journalist Lawrence has often heard that men check in their brains and forget to claim them when they fly to the Land of Smiles. He doesn’t realise how true that is until he discovers an unbelievable way to make a living ... It is the year 1994. Walter travels to Mae Sai, the northernmost town in Thailand. Beyond the gates and the bridge, is another world; a chaotic town that makes its own laws amid gambling stalls, cheap Chinese goods, drugs and animal parts. In the midst of all this repugnance, Walters discovers beauty and love. But he soon learns that the situation at border towns under the influence of opium warlord Khun Sa is often volatile. Acting fast, sometimes against one’s will, may make a difference between life and death ... These and many other stories by Singaporean writer Chan Joon Yee are compiled under a collection entitled Spellbound in Chiangmai. Let this book take you on a sobering journey through a land of fair complexion, silken tresses, melodious voices and gentle hands that can bind the unsuspecting under a spell. |
Available locally at Kinokuniya and Times bookshops.
And the dentist is not the most frightening person in the clinic. Meet the loud, demanding and everything-also-complain Alamak patient.
Dental Phobia is the first tongue-in-cheek dental patient education book in the world written in English/Singlish/Chinese.
Informative but never completely serious, Dental Phobia is a book that will tickle you into understanding the many problems encountered while working on one of the most difficult parts of the body -- the mouth.
Come laugh at these crass, arrogant and self-centered Alamak people and also the downtrodden and silently suffering Dr Poo Tee Wan.
When you’re through with Dental Phobia, you’ll realise that Dentistry is never a stress-free profession.
Disclaimer: Author Chan Joon Yee shares his dental knowledge purely in the capacity of a creative writer.
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The Straits Times
1993
Enigmatic Beryl Tham slams into his life. So real yet so unreal, so cynical yet so romantic, so sad yet so beautiful, she seemed like an uncompleted story from a previous life, begging for a second chance.
Using every ounce of his literary skill, Ted desperately tries to steer this story from its tragic end.
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Worlds Apart was first published in 1991. It is Chan Joon Yee's first novel which tells the tortuous love story between a Singaporean medical student and factory girl. An e-book for Worlds Apart will soon be launched. Watch out for it later in 2013. If response is good, we will print a new edition.
"An absorbing novel on romance, life, melodrama and fate. The book retains a truly homely, boy-next-door feel to it, creating a sense of deja vu for the reader. The beauty of Worlds Apart lies in its simplicity of style and uncluttered descriptions of its protagonists and their situations"
"... and the author's sketch of their characters is particularly strong. It is the hope of most writers to capture the nuances of the Everyman. Worlds Apart has some commendable elements and succeeds best in its bald statements of some typical Singaporean values."
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In 1964
She was the daughter of a wealthy rice merchant. He was an orphan, a writer who penned stories told to coolies at Boat Quay. Everything was going against them, but they were in love. And till an untimely death did they part. A tragic end.
29-year-old author Ted Wong was a publishing phenomenon, prospering from writing by churning out literary trash. Then an accident occurs...
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