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Welcome to The Unique Classroom™. Author, editor, lecturer and moviemaker Catherine Khoo has more than 14 years of experience in media. She shattered the traditional Japanese male enclave when she became the only woman editor-in-chief of two Japan-based magazines published in Singapore, a position she held for seven years.

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That’s Life Chapter 3

August 11, 2011: Know what happened last weekend? I was rummaging through my house’s library …. A quaint one tucked under the staircase where you have to bend your head to squeeze into the furthest corner, and lo and behold, 20 volumes of TIME Life books on history which Daddy bought for me way back when I was in Primary Four. Yes, some forty odd years ago ….. and it brought back memories …..

That’s Life Chapter 2

July 25, 2011: I come from a Catholic family, and go to church every Sunday morning. So when it was time for me to enter primary one, Daddy decided to put me to Kellock Convent. The old Kellock Convent was on the premises of St Bernadette Church in Zion Road, an imposing two-storey white-washed building.

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What Inspires You to Write?

July 29, 2011: To date, I have close to 15 volumes of unpublished prose and poetry under my wing. Most of these volumes have been read by friends and colleagues, but have never seen the light of a publishing contract or a copyeditor’s peering eyes. They have always been a personal collection, all stacked away in the confines of the sanctuary I once called my bedroom.

CLIMBING TO THE TOP

July 15, 2011: The search for the region’s best young authors and digital storytellers is on. We’ve received calls from everywhere, emails from as far as Indonesia and Cambodia, and believe us when we say we are both thrilled and overwhelmed with the amount of response we are receiving for the Young Author Awards and the DigiTales Awards.

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As founder of Singapore’s first boutique publisher of imprints for under 18s by under 18s, Catherine believes that life is about experiences that we gain from experimenting with life’s variety of challenges.

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