Sylvia Frances Chan Biography

About the Poetess

SYLVIA FRANCES CHAN, Dutch Poetess

HER BIOGRAPHY:

Sylvia Frances Chan, born in Jakarta on 22 November, Indonesia studied the English Language-and-Literature at the Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia. She talks in several languages, her mother tongue is Dutch, then she speaks Indonesian, English, German, French, Malay, and the Jakarta Dialect.

About her Languages:
She understands almost all dialects in The Netherlands, and there are 11 or more dialects. Also the Liemers dialect and closest to the Liemers, the German border dialect is also called the Liemers, but with a German accent. That from the Dutch Liemers is with a Dutch accent. From all Dutch dialects, that of Friesland and Limburg, she knows as best.

About her State of being:
She is a lecturer for students through iPhone and an evangelist on Websites, and through iPhone, but never in churches. She loves her private time being alone with her Art, Work, and Study.

For both, she has graduated. But she loves traveling too, all over the Globe.
Everyone writes the word TRAVELLING with two l, but she prefers to write it with ONE letter l

Some humorous stories from her experience in the USA: They say: you are a certified evangelist (one with a certificate) . She was surprised that the Americans put stress on the name 'certificated' or 'certified'. Just an observation, that´s all.
The North Americans are very nice, they all greeted her every day with Have A Nice Day. Every time the same greetings when she left a restaurant, a shopping mall, or other department stores

Being Grateful:
She is still grateful to her late beloved Mum that her Mum was the one who pushed her in getting that certificate. Her Mum was an autodidact- evangelist, but one who truly believes in Jesus/God. Through her beloved Mum, she learned how to live closest to God. When her Mum died, she had no regrets, since every single wish her Mum had asked, she had done all, as a grateful daughter. They were quite busy times for her since her Mum resided in Indonesia and she herself in the Netherlands, a 13 or 14 hours flight one way to Indonesia

When she came to settle in the NL, first in Leyden, Haarlem, and then she moved to the lovely town of D., where the sunshine and the sun rays are the longest in all four seasons throughout the year, and of all other provinces in the NL, but the winters are oftentimes the coldest, but dry weather, not as moist as in Leyden or Haarlem, two towns near the Noordzee (the North Sea) . Of course, they are moist because the North Sea (water) is their border.

Her Other Activities:
Besides poetry she also writes prose-poetry, story poems, narrations, and essays, she paints, draws, plays chess, does car-racing (Dallas, USA, and Zandvoort, Nederland) , Big balloons (San Diego) , walkings, plays tennis in Annual Competitions Mondially, skiing (Serfaus, Nauders, S.) , classical music, pop, R&B, reading.

She had many painting exhibitions in and over the country.

At the age of 15, she had her first group paintings-expositions and was the youngest exposed in the Balai Budaya of Jakarta, Indonesia. She won several first prizes at the age of 11 and 12 years.
With her cartoons plus text-story and with her pen drawings, she was the headline of the JavaBode Youth Section and with her three essays in the Indonesian Observer Youth section too. In Chess-competitions too, there were no prizes for girls.
The Org. knew that girls would never win, but she won and she accepted that first prize, though, for a boy, she thought she was the winner, the champion amongst boys and girls. Of course, she accepted that prize in fact for a boy. The Org. Committee announced that they had not a prize for a girl.

Now this: she won the first prize too in a golf tournament, but this time she got the most beautiful and expensive prize. Different than with a tennis tournament, the golf tournament for amateurs was for both sexes together. She won from a male player, she got the trophy and he became the runner-up.

She won a car racing for amateurs in Dallas, Texas (USA) . In tennis competitions, she won many first prizes in the lady's single and ladies' double. Her tennis team was constantly in the Top Ranking. Many champion cups filled her cupboard at her home. She won the mix too. A best friend said that IF she did not go to the university, she had won several Grand Slam tournaments like Wimbledon, Australian Open, or Roland Garros, and....she would have become a true professional and she would be traveling all over the world and her life would be entirely different.

Now about her creating poetry. When she is creating, she does do that with a kind of humming a tune and that's why there is always a smooth flow in almost all her poems.

TUESDAY 2-2-2022

On marketing are already Emeralds Green, a Poem Book by Xlibris. Press, UK.
and Who's Who in Poetry International (Vol II)
an Anthology by Judy Lynn, Cal. The USA.
Lecturer, poetess, prose-poems, story-poems, narrations, essay writer, critic,
paintress (impressionism) , designer of online cards, cartoonist, and quotations.

Poems published on websites such as SpillWords, Kalaage, The Literary Yard, Facebook, Poemhunter, Hello Poetry, Allpoetry, Poetry.Com (editor Judy Lynn) , and MyPoeticSide. Sylvia Frances Chan has an Art Page on Facebook.com.
Annual Reunion Trisakti University in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she declamates her own poems. She graduated in the Engl. Language-and-Literature.
Born In Jakarta, Indonesia, she resides now in the Netherlands,
where she enjoys walking, breathing the free air, and creating poems under the deep blue sky as free as the flying gulls around her….She is oft to find in the two cities of JAKARTA, Indonesia, and AMSTERDAM, Nederland

Dear Respected Master Poet Kumarmani Mahakul Sir conferred a title of honour to Sylvia Frances Chan as ' Wonder Jasmin'.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING

A.D.TUESDAY 2-2-2022 A PALINDROME DATE and 221122 is also A PALINDROME DATE