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Eye On The World
Eye on the World is the third and concluding volume of Tan Kok Seng’s autobiography, where he and his young family go to bustling Hong Kong. He writes with endearing honesty about a place that seems a lot like home, yet is vastly different in many ways, and this affectionate sense of observation is carried through a round-the-world trip he embarks on. Told from the perspective of a Singaporean everyman, Kok Seng’s stories and reflections about the world are told in charmingly simple prose, enriched by his penchant for looking at the people and things around him with eyes wide open.
Son of Singapore
A publishing sensation in the 1970s and 1980s, Son of Singapore traces the extraordinary upbringing of an Everyman. As a Teochew farm boy coming of age during the Japanese Occupation, Tan Kok Seng enters the “university of the world” at only 15, becoming a coolie at the Orchard Road market. On his rounds to the homes of the “Red Hairs”, he befriends a group of Chinese dialect-speaking Caucasians who inspire him to improve himself beyond his humble roots. Set against Singapore’s push towards self-governance, Tan’s engaging autobiography reflects the pioneering spirit of the times. Written in deceptively simple prose, notable for its English transliteration of Teochew adages, Son of Singapore sensitively captures fast-disappearing places, people and everyday ways of living.
Man of Malaysia
In this revealing sequel to his bestselling autobiography Son of Singapore, Tan Kok Seng finds himself in Malaysia as a British diplomat’s chauffeur. While driving luminaries like author Han Suyin around, Tan falls in love with Heung, a servant girl with dark brown eyes. Despite parental objections, they marry and have a child in secret. When he is laid off, Tan’s comfortable life suddenly collapses. To support his family, he must take on a variety of jobs, including working as a soap salesman, egg seller and extra on a William Holden film, manoeuvring through unethical bosses, corrupt policemen and violent villagers. As much a timeless account of an enterprising spirit as a travelogue through 1960s Southeast Asia, Man of Malaysia entertains and inspires while telling of a life fully lived.
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Computing and Combinatorics
The refereed proceedings of the 11th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2005, held in Kunming, China in August 2005. The 96 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 353 submissions. The papers cover most aspects of theoretical computer science and combinatorics related to computing and are organized in topical sections on bioinformatics, networks, string algorithms, scheduling, complexity, steiner trees, graph drawing and layout design, quantum computing, randomized algorithms, geometry, codes, finance, facility location, graph theory, graph algorithms.
Passport Singapore
Passport Singapore is a comprehensive guide to understanding Singapore's people, culture, etiquette, and communication styles. Business people and non-business travelers will learn how to avoid cultural faux pas and begin to understand a Singapore's values and belief systems. Illustrated.
Time To Turn Around
This book, Time to Turn Around, will comfort the depressed, give hope to those who are about to give up and open doors for those who are searching for a way out. Esther poignantly unravels her traumatic life experiences, supernatural encounters and incredible episodes of many near death escapades in this thrilling book. Readers will be enthralled, motivated, refreshed as well as blessed. --- Compelling ... comforting ... captivating. Highly recommended reading! Read this book and be inspired – TAN KOK SENG I spotted this book and could not stop reading it. Interesting! Marvellous! I am inspired and blessed – ESTHER BUCHAND (Scotland) This is a great book! – PASTOR STEPHEN LEE This book is intriguing! Fascinating! I am awe-struck! – MARY WONG Inspiring, encouraging and timely to strengthen the weak and open a way out for others. You will be refreshed – EMMA SAW Captivating … encouraging. Read it. You can learn to overcome, and find a way out of your own dangerous situation – PASTOR JULIE
