| About Andrew Yip |
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File: July 2007
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Yip [left of photo] is a psychologist and educationist. He was educated
in Edinburgh, Malaysia, Singapore and in Pennsylvania. Holder of a
Master Degree in Education and an Honour Degree, and a specialist
in Advanced Psychology, Counselling and Guidance, Geography, and Economics,
he had held various academic and professional appointments. He had
worked as a psychologist in a Scottish clinic, head of guidance and
counselling department, and a director of various educational institutions.
A former Chief Education Officer of the Singapore Armed Forces, he
launched the National Education and Leadership Training Programme
for officers and men in the armed forces in 1966. Besides poetry, Andrew Yip has written a masterpiece of prose with his book 'Chinatown, Different Exposures', |
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published by Fashion21 (Publications
Division) under the pen name of 'Andre W. Keye'. Excerpt from the book (page 85): A mother's love - people tend to take this for granted. In the hustle and bustle of modern living with one's senses being bombarded by alluring sounds from popular music and songs, noises from all directions and sources, and the sights and sounds of all sorts of fads and fetishes of modern culture, the simple gesture and expression of love and kindness is often unnoticed and easily forgotten. If tears were indelible ink in a mother's eyes, her face would have been completely stained and smeared for life as she struggled through the twists and turns of life and the heartaches and broken dreams of raising a family. |
More of Andrew Yip's poetry in singaporephotopoetry.blogspot.com