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Ah kua or Aqua?

Started by Shana A, September 07, 2010, 08:16:03 AM

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Shana A

September 07, 2010, 08:16:03 AM
Ah kua or Aqua?
Tue, Sep 07, 2010
The New Paper
By Charlene Chua

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Showbiz/Story/A1Story20100907-236077.html

THE Ah Kua Show? Oh, you mean the Aqua Show.

That's what people who attended The New York International Fringe Festival three weeks ago probably thought they heard.

The Ah Kua Show is really a first-person, three-act play by local transgendered woman Leona Lo.

It was the only Singapore offering at the event in New York.

In the local context, Ah Kua is a derogatory Hokkien term for a transsexual or ->-bleeped-<-.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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