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The Veil of Love and Terror
Andrew Yip
A ServiceWorld Publication
www.ServiceWorld.com.sg
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About the Author
The Author is a psychologist, administrator, housing developer and businessman.He was educated in Edinburgh, Malaysia, Singapore and in Pennsylvania, USA.Holder of a M.Ed., Dip. Ed-D in Education and Advanced Psychology and Bachelorof Arts Honours Degree, he held various top academic and professionalappointments. He has worked as a psychologist in a Scottish clinic and held topmanagement positions in various countries. An accomplished poet, Chinesecalligrapher, and author of many publications, he was well known in the art andliterary circles overseas, particularly in China where he spent his retirementyears.Andrew W.K. Yip began to write at an early age. In the 1950s, he joined thePoetry Circle in Singapore and immersed in Anglo-American modernist poetry,and writing poetry in both English and Chinese. His poetic corpus is nourished bythe belief that poetry constitutes “a quiet motivating force in the modern age”. In1964, he travelled to the USA and UK on a UNESCO Fellowship where he becameimmersed in psychological studies, psychotherapy and guidance techniques. Hereturned to Singapore to launch various programmes related to guidance andcounseling, psychological testing and social rehabilitation. As editor of a numberof publications, he also launched various newspapers in the ASEAN region. Yipstopped writing when he joined the private sector as a housing developer, butresumed writing poetry and books in English and Chinese in the 1980s undervarious pen-names, including “Andre W. Keye”, and “Zhou Tian, ” after he startedwork in China’s Translation Bureau in Guangdong. Son of a world famousphotographer, Yip Cheong-Fun, who was elected by New York as the 'OutstandingPhotographer of the Century' in 1980, he has written many poems to depict theartistic images created by his late father, both in Chinese and English, includingthe photograph entitled 'Teach Me' featured above. An anthology of his poems,entitled 'A poetic vision - the photography of Yip Cheong-Fun', was published inmid-2009 by ServiceWorld Centre and distributed overseas.
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About the Book
This book is a fictional account of life with its focus on love and terrorism. The authorexposes the power of unbridled passion, the destructiveness of mental aberrations andthe weakness in human nature. This is done in an entertaining way through the eyes of a handsome super hero. He shows you why beautiful women love him and how hehandles the four women in his life; in the process, he reveals their weakness andstrength, their passion and vulnerability. Sometimes, he eludes them by pretending tobe poor, or less intelligent, awkward or even eccentric. Sometimes, he hides behind aveil of secrecy, contactable only through Internet emails. But always when there istrouble, he rises to the occasion as a top-notch secret agent with super powers thatcould pulverize even tough killers and deadly terrorists.The book contains numerous real life anecdotes with intimate reflections on them, anda plethora of revelations of facts about people and places in Singapore. Much of thedrama happens elsewhere. Some of the action took the hero to Paris, Macau, HongKong, Kuala Lumpur and cities in China like Guangzhou and Dongguan. The storiesthat unfold are based on actual happenings in these faraway places. Behind thepassions of raw sex, the intimacy and beauty of true love, the intrigues and violenceof terrorism, and the dark pit of death, despair, disillusionment and miseries, there aresharp observations of injustice and iniquities in our midst and the stability andweakness in family and social relationships, and of dangers facing the world. It givesan insight into the intricacies of human nature, and the complexity of humanorganizations and their control.Above all, it gives us some insight into the unfathomable human mind, and itsawesome power, in its normal or abnormal state, through the trained eyes of aprofessional psychologist.All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons,living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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