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running around schools

17/7/2012

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off to give a talk at rj to the humanz kids - excited! i gave a smaller talk to the acs(i) humanz kids on monday, but (a) that was a smaller group (just a class, compared to 4-5 classes(?) today), i.e. more intimate / less intimidating (b) i had bright-eyed bushy-tailed jerrold yam to accompany me, so i could outsource the tougher questions to him when my brain was drawing blanks.  

this is only my 3rd "public speaking" session, so i have established this pseudo routine where i will ramble incoherently, and every now and then realise that what i am saying relates to a poem, so i'll read it, and randomly ramble on from there. and answer difficult questions obtusely, with marginally related poetry. hopefully this suffices to entertain. 
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book launch at the arts house!

5/7/2012

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the arts house is being kind enough to host my book launch on thu, 12 jul 2012 at 730pm.

as to why there is a dude with two guns on the left, they demanded an image of an ip, so i gave them my grandfather.

here's the clicky thing and info.

"SONNETS FROM THE SINGLISH by Joshua Ip is a collection of 44 poems on love, language and other funny stuff, loosely translated from Singlish, the English-based creole colloquially spoken in Singapore. This is Joshua Ip’s debut collection of poetry. 

This culture event is being held on Thursday, 12th Jul 2012 at 1 OLD PARLIAMENT LANE, SINGAPORE 179429 by The Arts House." 


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sonnets from the singlish - origins

4/7/2012

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why a book of poetry, and where on earth did it come from? there were kind of three elements that made it happen.
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so i always wanted to grow up to be a writer. in the same sense that kids want to grow up to be astronauts and presidents and beauty queens.

but last year, i realised that i was reaching one of those arbitrary milestones (age 30) after which it would be increasingly difficult to claim that i had not "grown up" yet. so i decided it was about time i became a writer. 

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every two years, this competition called golden point awards comes along for new singapore writers. every two years, i faithfully get all fired up about writing for a week or so, dash out a few half-assed pieces and submit.

except this year i managed to squeak into second place. the money was nice. i was inspired to write more.


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  • art
    • poetry >
      • sonnets from the singlish
      • making love with scrabble tiles
      • footnotes on falling
      • SingPoWriMo
      • A Luxury We Cannot Afford
      • Unfree Verse
      • Twin Cities
      • call and response
      • 11x9
      • Farquhar
      • To Let the Light In
      • translations to the tanglish
      • Ipster Cafe @ The Middle Ground
    • graphic novel
    • music >
      • musicals
      • lyrics
      • a capella
    • prose
    • where to buy
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