Sylvia Toh Paik Choo (; born 1946/1947) is a

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an newspaper columnist and humour writer.

Early life

Toh was born in Penang to a

Hokkien The Hokkien () variety of Chinese is a Southern Min language native to and originating from the Minnan region, where it is widely spoken in the south-eastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China. It is one of the national languages ...

-speaking family. She is the author of ''Eh Goondu!'' (1982) and ''Lagi Goondu!'' (1986), the first two books on

Singlish Singlish (a portmanteau of ''Singapore'' and ''English'') is an English-based creole language spoken in Singapore. Singlish arose out of a situation of prolonged language contact between speakers of many different languages in Singapore, inc ...

. She previously wrote for ''

The New Paper ''The New Paper'' is a Singaporean newspaper in tabloid form. It was originally published as a "noon paper", but since 2016 has been published daily as a freesheet in the morning from 7 a.m. onwards. History First launched on 26 July 1988, ...

'' before moving to fashion website Superadrianme.

Works

* ''Eh Goondu!'' (1982, Eastern Universities Press) * ''The Pick of Paik Choo'' (1982, Times Books International) * ''Friendship, Courtship, Hatred, Love'' (1983, Times Books International) * ''Lagi Goondu!'' (1986, Times Books International) * ''The Original Singapore Sling Book'' (1986, Landmark Books) * ''On the Buses'' (1987, Landmark Books) * ''The Hosomes!'' (1994, Singapore Courtesy Council) * ''The Complete Eh, Goondu!'' (2011, Marshall Cavendish Editions)

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* * 1940s births Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Singaporean people of Chinese descent Singaporean journalists Singaporean women journalists Women humorists 20th-century Singaporean women writers 20th-century Singaporean writers 21st-century Singaporean women writers People from Penang {{Singapore-writer-stub