Colin Goh and Woo Yen Yen

The following was published in the Sunday Times on 29 June 2008:
Much ado about how much
by Colin Goh
We Singaporeans like to say that we greet each other with “Have you eaten?”, whether in Malay, Mandarin or Chinese dialects. It tells others what kind of people we are, namely, food lovers.
But I have to say […]

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The following was published in the Sunday Times on 15 June 2008:

Chicken and Duck Talking
by Colin Goh
One sweltering evening last week, the Wife and I were watching TV when the doorbell rang. Opening the door, we were surprised to see a short Hispanic man with craggy features that made him look like he’d been […]

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The following was published in the Sunday Times on 1 June 2008, with the mention of TalkingCock.com omitted:

Wanted and Unwanted
by Colin Goh
The Wife and I zipped into Singapore last week for a very short business trip, and we were surprised to find that a little bit of New York had preceded us.
The bit was a […]

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The following was published in the Sunday Times on 18 May 2008:
Feeling Singaporean in a Chinese Restaurant
by Colin Goh in New York
Growing up in a half-Peranakan household that spoke mostly English and just as much Malay as Hokkien or Teochew, and being educated in a mission school (then) famed for churning out bananas, I never […]

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The following was published in the Sunday Times on 4 May 2008:
A Comic Recollection
by Colin Goh
Two weeks ago, I trudged across midtown Manhattan to meet some folks concerning a future project.  (Sorry, can’t reveal details yet.) Their designated meeting place was the Jacob Javits Convention Centre, which, in some ways, represents the convergence of two […]

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The following was published in the Sunday Times on 20 April 2008:
Swearing? Who Gives a Bleep?
by Colin Goh
By now, many of you must have seen that YouTube clip of a man’s cellphone recording of his altercation with a taxi driver.  Apparently, things were ignited when the cabbie, asked to move his vehicle, responded with the […]

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The following was published in the Sunday Times on 6 April 2007:
The Slippery Slope between Prodigy and Tragedy
by Colin Goh
It’s terrible, but when I read about how Sufia Yusof, the mathematics prodigy who was admitted to Oxford at the age of 13, had been found prostituting herself in London, the first thing that popped into […]

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The following was published in the Sunday Times on 23 March 2008:
Sunday Times 23 March 2008
It’s Easy to be Sleazy
by Colin Goh
Sometimes the political coverage here in America’s newspapers can make FHM look like my old church bulletin.
Just over the past few years, I’ve read, inter alia, about how New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey confessed […]

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The following was published in the Sunday Times on 9 March 2008:
Sunday Times 9 March 2008
Finding My Own Voice
by Colin Goh
There’s an article from Salon.com that’s making the rounds, about whether Barack Obama’s baritone voice gives him an edge over Hillary Clinton, who has occasionally been dubbed “Shrillary”, especially when she gets excited.
If that’s […]

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The following was published in the Sunday Times on 24 February 2008:
Sunday Times 24 February 2008
I May Have to Take the Cake
by Colin Goh in New York
A friend recently emailed me to ask, “Eh, is the US economy really that bad, ha? Should we be worried, not?”
My response was: you ask me, I […]

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