Posted in Colin's Blog, FOOD, CHINA, SINGAPORE, FAMILY on March 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Just some snaps from this year’s Chinese New Year makan!
On the first day, we had a small cookout at our place in Brooklyn with some old friends and some new ones. In honour of the Year of the Pig, the menu was a Trio of Ter: tau yew bak (belly pork, eggs and soya bean […]
Posted in Colin's Blog, NEW YORK, SINGAPORE, FAMILY on February 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Singapore is once again wringing its hands over our low fertility rates. This brought to mind an old column I wrote in 2004 about the Romancing Singapore Campaign:
15 February 2004
Can We Really Put The Swing Back Into Singapore?
by Colin Goh in New York
Valentine’s Day may be over but the Romancing Singapore Campaign will last the […]
Posted in EDUCATION, Yen Yen's blog, NEW YORK, SINGAPORE, FAMILY on February 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I have always been disturbed by the dominance of English in Singapore.
A big part of this comes from my own experience.
My grandma for instance, is very quiet at our family dinner tables because often, the younger generation goes about speaking in English. There is no deliberate attempt to leave her out of the conversation, but […]
Posted in Colin's Blog, FOOD, NEW YORK, SINGAPORE, FAMILY on February 10th, 2007 No Comments »
The following piece was published in the Sunday Times on 11 February 2007. Thanks to all my friends who contributed their comfort foods. The title is a play on Ruth Reichl’s “Comfort Me With Apples”. Apples? Gimme a burger anytime!
Sunday Times 11 February 2007
Comfort Me with Burgers
by Colin Goh
Next Sunday will mark […]
Posted in Colin's Blog, NEW YORK, SINGAPORE, FAMILY on January 27th, 2007 No Comments »
A recent article in the New York Times got me thinking about my grandfather, who passed away when I was seven.
The article, some of you may be dismayed to learn, was about urinals, specifically, that more and more people are installing urinals in their homes, and designer ones at that (check out the pix above)! […]
Posted in Colin's Blog, SINGAPORE, FAMILY on January 9th, 2007 No Comments »
My cousin Bryan is the genius in the Goh family. I’d like to think he’s the Mycroft Holmes to my Sherlock Holmes.
Crib sheet for non-geeks: Mycroft is Sherlock’s older, smarter brother. In ‘The Bruce-Partington Plans’, Holmes describes Mycroft thusly:
“The conclusions of every department are passed to him, and he is the central exchange, the […]
Posted in Colin's Blog, FOOD, NEW YORK, SINGAPORE, FAMILY on January 29th, 2006 1 Comment »
This piece was published in the Sunday Times on 29 January 2006.
Sunday Times 29 Jan 2006
Spending CNY in NYC
by Colin Goh
We Chinese believe the number 8 is lucky, which has made me somewhat confused about how I should feel about this being the 8th straight year in a row the Wife and I have not […]
Posted in FOOD, SINGAPORE, FAMILY on January 18th, 2004 2 Comments »
This piece was published in the Straits Times on 18 January 2004:
18 January 2004
Distant Reflections on Reunion
by Colin Goh in New York
If there’s one piece of Chinese poetry we English-ed folks can recite, it’s Li Bai’s “Jing Ye Shi” (Quiet Night Thoughts), mainly because we were forced to memorize it in school. Yes, it’s the […]
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