Author: Jean Tay
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814785911
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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The Sisters Islands and Pulau Senang: two satellite islands off the coast of Singapore, small but rich in story. This volume brings together two remarkable plays by Jean Tay, Sisters and Senang, which explore these two islands through turbulent events in the 1960s. Sisters: The Untold Stories of the Sisters Islands blends a real-life murder with creation myth. The play alternates between two stories: one of Mina and Lina, the two sisters upon which the myth of the Sisters Islands is supposedly based; and the other of the shocking case in 1965 of Jenny Cheok, killed by her boyfriend Sunny Ang, which also involved her half-sister Irene. Senang covers the prison riots on Pulau Senang in 1963. The island was used for a bold experiment, led by Superintendent Daniel Dutton, an Irishman who believed he could reform the inmates through labour, and abolished the use of arms to police them. This is one man’s attempt to create a utopian penal colony, which tragically led to his violent end. “Jean Tay is one of the most gifted playwrights I have come across in years.” —Gaurav Kripalani, Artistic Director, Singapore Repertory Theatre
Author: Robert Yeo
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814757705
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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On 5 July 1981, Sir Stamford Raffles leaves his pedestal by the Singapore River and pays a visit to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew at the Istana. What follows is a wide-ranging discussion, both heated and humorous, that illustrates just how very human Singapore’s two most towering figures were. This conversation, along with the introduction of Munshi Abdullah (author of the Hikayat Abdullah), provides a fascinating backdrop for the investigation of historical authority and grand narratives.
Author: Lim Chor Pee
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814615498
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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On the cusp of independence, cultures collide in a bedroom in Singapore. As the Vietnam War rages on, the English-educated scholar Lee Hua Min—“the finest product of the University”—finds himself hopelessly disillusioned. Enter Wong Ching Mei, a Chinese-educated former nightclub singer seeking to enrol in Nanyang University. Mirroring the intense tussles between the English- and Chinese-speaking during Singapore’s formative years, Hua Min and Ching Mei trade ferocious barbs even as they are inexplicably drawn to each other. When Su-Ling, Hua Min’s ex-classmate, returns from London, Hua Min is torn between their advances and the extremely different worlds they inhabit. Humorous, witty and prescient, A White Rose At Midnight is a pithy portrait of a soul—and nation—divided. A White Rose At Midnight was first staged to critical acclaim by the Experimental Theatre Club in 1964. It was pioneer playwright Lim Chor Pee’s second and final play after the landmark Mimi Fan (1962). In 2014, Centre 42 mounted a partial dramatised reading of the play.
Author: Stephanie Street
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814845973
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Dragonflies is the story of a family fighting for survival in a hostile world, looking for somewhere to call home, and something that might look like hope. The year is 2021 and climate change is wreaking havoc across the globe. Donald Trump has been re-elected US President for a second term. Brexit is in full effect and causing chaos all over Europe. In the wake of escalating wars in the Middle East, famine in West Africa, and relentless terrorist attacks by radical extremists, the UK—and many nations around the world—has enforced a ban on all immigration. With the coastline around him and life as he knows it crumbling to dust, Leslie Chen is forced to abandon his home in England and move his family back to his birthplace, Singapore. Confronting a country that is a world apart from the one he knew as a child, he is now made to question the meaning of home. As the crises and conflicts escalate, one thing is certain, come hell or high water, and possibly both, he must protect his family. While dragonflies migrate halfway across the world, we, the human race, struggle to embrace our nomadic heritage, our need to move to greener pastures in order to survive. And as global warming, the resurgence of far-right politics and worldwide paranoia make us burn bridges and build walls between communities, families and individuals, we have to ask ourselves: Where do we go from here? Reader Reviews: “Compassionate, hopeful and exquisitely acted.” –Best of 2017, The Straits Times “Watching Dragonflies is like reading an issue of The Economist from cover to cover: it is chock-full of urgent issues from immigration to xenophobia to climate change. Excellent script, evocative staging, brilliantly played!” –The Business Times “A dynamic and fresh look on current affairs that aims to enrich, surprise and stimulate its audience. But overall, the message of Dragonflies is simple: build bridges, not walls.” –Pride Kindness “The play’s success lies in how realistic and possible it all is, and the genuine threats feel like they have the potential to seep into our own reality, with very real stakes for characters we’ve come to know and relate to, and evoking intense sympathy as we watch a family completely come apart, helpless in the face of circumstance.” –Bakchormeeboy “A gripping tale of displacement that is, at once, epic and intimate.” –Naeem Kapadia, Crystalwords “A play that ambitiously tackles multiple issues—from climate change to human migration, from racism and xenophobia to openness and generosity, from ambivalence to empathy, from impassioned implementation of laws and policies (when “I’m sorry” really doesn’t mean “I’m sorry”) to the touching gentle connection of human relationships across lines that traditionally do not cross—and somehow successfully stitches it all together into deep, stirring storytelling.” –Sticky Rice “Street's writing is effectual in capturing the pain brewed by grief, as well as the resignation in a person from a marginalised community.” –Buro247
Author: Wonbin Hong
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1394182422
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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In-depth and practical coverage of design considerations for 5G antennas In Microwave and Millimeter-wave Antenna Design for 5G Smartphone Applications, two distinguished researchers deliver a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to antenna design methodologies. The book covers approaches ranging from sub-6GHz microwave to the millimeter-wave spectrum, explaining how microwave and millimeter-wave 5G antennas coexist and function, both independently and collaboratively. The book offers coverage of key considerations for designing millimeter-wave 5G antennas within space-constrained mobile devices, as well as practical concerns, like cost, fabrication yield, and heat dissipation. Readers will also find explorations of the likely future directions of 5G antenna evolution, as well as: A thorough introduction to basic concepts in 5G FR1 Band mobile antenna design, including discussions of antenna placement, element design, and topologies Comprehensive explorations of antenna feeding mechanisms and impedance matching, including chassis considerations and effects Practical discussions of frequency tunable millimeter-wave 5G antenna-in-package Fulsome treatments of compact millimeter-wave 5G antenna solutions and millimeter-wave antenna-on-display technologies for 5G mobile devices Perfect for antenna, microwave, communications, and radio-frequency engineers, Microwave and Millimeter-wave Antenna Design for 5G Smartphone Applications will also benefit graduate students, policymakers, regulators, and researchers with an interest in communications and antennas.
Author: Yi-Bing Lin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030004104
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on IoT as a service, IoTaaS 2017, held in Taichung, Taiwan, in September 2017. The 46 full papers were carefully selected from 65 submissions. The papers deal with the “Everything as a Service” deployment paradigm which enables the easy adoption of IoT based services and applications by end-users, and forces providers of smart objects and middleware platforms to architect their solutions accordingly. The three special sessions organized were Wearable Technology and Applications (WTAA), Building Smart Machine Applications (BSMA), and Security and Privacy in Internet of Things, Services and People (SP-IoTSP). The WTAA special session aimed to address the challenges of maintaining high efficiency of WTAA in terms of high recognition rate, energy consumption, computational costs and so forth. The BSMA special session aimed to explore how to construct smart machines architecture for the industry under the background of IoT and big data. The SP-IoTSP special session aimed to investigate recent research and future directions for IoTSP security and privacy.
Author: Sanjay C Kuttan
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1543766773
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Where Fires Rage is an anthology that reflects his consciousness of the world. As a privileged witness to both the brutality and beauty that surrounds us, he has sought to grapple with this paradox of human existence through these poems. They are an honest and emotional record of his reactions.
Author: Sanjay C Kuttan
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1543766404
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 91
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This is me, my dance with life through poetry, haiku, and words; hoping to resonate with other hearts when read. I hope my dance form and rhythm resonates. I hope you will find something in this anthology of pseudohaiku that moves you and makes you smile, or tear, or get motivated to do something more to create, propagate even establish love in your world, for our world. We sigh in one breath and enter the world with our first one breath and depart with our last one breath. In between we are awestruck with the wonders of nature, gasping in one breath and equally so when witnessing its destruction. Such significance associated with one breath, that may be seventeen syllables can be read in one breath and the reader’s or listener’s soul moved just a little.
Author: Desmond Sim
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9810756925
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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In veteran playwright Desmond Sim’s first collection for students, food and family ground seven heartwarming plays as sons and daughters, fathers and grandmothers fight, heal and find love in the kitchen and around the dining table. This collection includes Drunken Prawns, winner of the first Hewlett Packard/Action Theatre Ten-Minute Play Contest, and other critically acclaimed plays such as Teochew Porridge and The Durian Man and His Daughters, with a foreword by Dr. K.K. Seet.
Author: Der-Jiunn Deng
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030529886
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Wireless Internet, WiCON 2019, held in TaiChung, Taiwan, in November 2019. The 39 full papers were selected from 79 submissions and are grouped into the following topics: Ad hoc and sensor network, artificial intelligence, security and blockchain, internet of things, wireless internet, services and applications.
