GPA Update

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Golden Point Award 2007 update

Finally, it seems like a load has slid off my back.

Yesterday, I handed in my GPA entry at the Arts House. 8 poems, a couple which i have reservations about submitting, and a couple which in my opinion, are good stuff which will rock the judges.

Actually, I wrote about a dozen poems for this competition, the theme of which is about my stay at a place called Bukit Merah... Initially, I had no intention of participating, but after I decided to, I felt I had to deliver something. Some weeks were bad, nothing was written, but in the end, there was a manuscript

After I had submitted my entry, I went to sit down by the Singapore River for a while. This river holds fond memories for me. The first competitive poem I wrote was about it, and it won a prize for me. How the skyline and the shores have changed. More skyscrapers, the waters very much cleaner, but maybe it has lost some of the raw energy and cavalier character of the past. I was thinking, just like my poetry too. evolved, mellowed, the craft improving, and at times, regressing too.

So that's it, all I need to do now is to wait till December, when the results are out. And it may well be another non-event again.