``Roll Out the Champagne, Singapore!``: an exuberant celebration of the nation's 50th birthday
✍ Scribed by Lim, Catherine
- Publisher
- Marshall Cavendish International
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Singapore
- ISBN
- 9814561975
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
30 stories about ordinary Singaporeans at their best and worst, their joys and griefs and angers, their dreams fulfilled or lost. They are tales about the awesome human condition and the even more awesome human spirit, interweaved with the author's vignettes of her nearly 50 years in Singapore, such as how she came from Malaysia to live in Singapore and her run-in with then prime minister Goh Chok Tong. Stories include: The Quitter Who StayedA Sock on the Jaw, a Blow on the Solar PlexusThe Taximan ComethA Writer's Roller Coaster RideThe BKBC (bo kia bo chap) InterviewLittle Red DotA Good Man i.;Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 01 What Does Shakespeare Have to do with Singapore's 50th Birthday?; 02 The Quitter who Stayed; 03 Then and Now; 04 The Taximan Cometh; 05 A Writer's Roller-Coaster Ride; 06 A Sock on the Jaw, a Blow on the Solar Plexus; 07 What Irreverence!; 08 The BKBC Interview; 09 Surprise, Surprise!; 10 The Eureka Moment; 11 Little Red Dot; 12 A Good Man in Singapore; 13 Ozymandias; 14 'Elvis Presley Gave me a Winning 4-D Number!'; 15 Thanks but No Thanks, Censorship!; 16 Singapore's 80th Birthday; 17 The Sixth C; 18 Roll Out the Birthday Champagne!; 19 Images.
✦ Subjects
Electronic books