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...most recognizable in women's dress, but in person he's closer to the Singaporean everyman persona. Dressed in a tan golf shirt and black khakis, he could be a systems analyst on his tea break; only his designer Dolce & Gabbana glasses hint that, unlike much of his core audience, he doesn't go home to a housing block at night. There's little evident ego, and when Neo finds out his interviewer has seen I Not Stupid, he begins firing questions: Was it good? Too local? In the next room, a television is showing the Academy Awards broadcast...
...Though I Not Stupid trips over its many messages and flirts with melodrama, it has an unerring sense of place. Neo's true inspiration was to present Terry's overbearing, white-wearing, all-controlling mother (Selena Tan) as an allegory for Singapore's famous Nanny State. Just as Terry's mother wants to run her kids' lives, Neo says, the Singaporean government has been slow to let its own children grow up. The buzz that Neo's adroit criticism has produced shows that it may be time for the government to give the kids the keys...
...Literature Sharmila Sen has commented that books by Indian authors get placed on Literature shelves rather than in Fiction sections. Desirable Daughters has been coached to play this role. The saris on the cover seek to entice those readers seeking a little spice. The requisite quote from Amy Tan, the goddess of the Asian-American immigrant experience, leaps off the back cover to suggest a more predictable tale. Just above that, the brief description of the book as “a stirring novel of three women, two continents, and a perilous journey from the old world...
...interview with The Crimson last Feburary, Michael K. Tan ’01, co-chair of BGLTSA in 1999, said BOND failed to take seriously the fact that “normal differences” are part of people’s identities...
...Taiwan, a new member of the World Trade Organization, is less interested in the march of technology and more interested in demonstrating it can control its rampant piracy problems. If Tan is arrested in Taiwan, he could face up to seven years in prison. Tan won't say if he has plans to relaunch Movie88 in another country. But even if he doesn't, you can bet somebody else has already got the idea...