photo taken June 12 2005
Terence Chua (b. October 19 1970), full name Terence Chua Seng Leng (Chinese: 蔡成龍; pinyin: Cài Chénglóng) is a Deputy Registrar and Magistrate of the Singapore Subordinate Courts. A former criminal prosecutor, he is also known as a composer and performer of filk music.
Biography
Chua was born in Singapore and attended the Anglo-Chinese School from 1977 to 1988. He entered the Singapore Armed Forces to fulfill his National Service obligations, and served from December 1988 to June 1991. After three months of basic training, he was assigned to the 4th Singapore Armoured Brigade as a clerk, and was eventually discharged with the rank of Corporal. He served in the Reserves as a 81mm mortar operator from 1998 until he was taken off the Reserve list for medical reasons in 2001.
In September 1991, he began reading Law at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, graduating in June 1994 with an LL.B. (Hons), 2nd Class Honours, Upper Division. He returned to Singapore and attended the National University of Singapore from 1994 to 1995 as part of the first class to graduate from the Graduate Diploma in Singapore Law (Dip. Sing. Law) program. He then passed the Board of Legal Education's Practice Law Course for admittance to the Singapore Bar.
In December 1995, he joined the Singapore Legal Service, the legal branch of the Singapore civil service, and was gazetted as a Deputy Public Prosecutor in the Attorney-General's Chambers. In August 1999, he was appointed as a Deputy Registrar and Magistrate of the Subordinate Courts. He was on the Subordinate Courts bench until July 2003, when he took leave from his position to enroll at the University of Georgia at Athens in the United States, becoming a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of History with research interests in the American Civil War, military history, cultural history and legal history.
He was eventually awarded a Master of Arts in American History in May 2005. The title of his Master's thesis is "Messing with the Mouse": Copyright, Parody and the Countercultural Wars in Walt Disney v. The Air Pirates. He returned to Singapore to resume working at the Subordinate Courts in July 2005.
Interests
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A lifelong comic book and science-fiction fan, he is involved in science fiction fandom, starting as a charter member of the now-defunct Science Fiction Association of Singapore in 1989, where he was Features Editor of the association magazine, Tesseract. While in London, he joined the Star Trek fan club Starfleet Command, and founded the first Singapore Star Trek club in 1992, serving as its president until leaving the club in 1994.
In 1999, he attended his first World Science-Fiction Convention in Melbourne and began to compose and perform filk music. He has been nominated several times for Pegasus Awards for his songs and regularly attends and participates in various panels and filk concerts at filk conventions and Worldcons, at which he also speaks about comic books and H.P. Lovecraft.
He is also a fan of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Among other television series he watches and highly recommends are Farscape, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, Firefly and currently running, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica and Justice League Unlimited.
Chua is a published author, having written a now out-of-print collection of science-fiction short stories titled, The Nightmare Factory (Singapore: Landmark Books, 1991, ISBN 9813002468). He is a supporter of the English football club Arsenal F.C., and the American baseball team, the Boston Red Sox.
In 2005, he was the Overseas Guest of Honour at Dixseption (February 4-February 6), the 17th United Kingdom filk convention in Southsea, and the Guest of Honor at Consonance (March 4-March 6), the 16th Bay Area Filk Convention in Milpitas, California.
Wikipedia
Chua joined Wikipedia on April 14 2004 and was made an administrator on April 27 2005 (thanks to all those who voted in support!). His most watched areas on Wikipedia include Doctor Who and time travel. He also contributed to pages on the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth controversy.
Contributions
Wikipedia pages he has created or heavily contributed to include:
Doctor Who (featured article), Bad Wolf references in Doctor Who, Doctor Who Confidential, Eighth Doctor Adventures, Eye of Harmony, Fictional websites in Doctor Who, Gallifrey, History of Doctor Who, Mary Tamm, Matrix, Nicholas Courtney, Scream of the Shalka, TARDIS, Time War, United Nations Intelligence Taskforce
See also: Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Doctor Who, Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who, Template:Doctorwho-stub, Template:Doctorwhoproject
Template:Doctorwhocharacter, The Doctor, Abslom Daak, Beep the Meep, Black Guardian, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Captain Mike Yates, Chang Lee, Count Grendel, Davros, Henry van Statten, Iris Wildthyme, Jackie Tyler, Jagrafess, Mickey Smith, Miranda, Muriel Frost, Omega, Pete Tyler, Rassilon, Sergeant Benton, Shayde, The Editor, The Other
Ace, Adam Mitchell, Adric, Ben Jackson, C'rizz, Charley Pollard, Compassion, Destrii, Dodo Chaplet, Erimem, Evelyn Smythe, Fey Truscott-Sade, Fitz Kreiner, Frobisher, Grace Holloway, Gus Goodman, Hex, Izzy Sinclair, Jack Harkness, Jamie McCrimmon, Jo Grant, John and Gillian, K-9, Kamelion, Katarina, Kroton, Leela, Liz Shaw, Melanie Bush, Nyssa of Traken, Olla, Peri Brown, Polly, Rose Tyler, Sara Kingdom, Sarah Jane Smith, Sharon, Sir Justin, Steven Taylor, Tegan Jovanka, Vicki, Victoria Waterfield, Vislor Turlough, Zoe Heriot
Template:Doctorwhorace, Auton, Cyberman, Dalek (featured article), Dalek Empire, Dalek variants, Draconian, Ice Warrior, Movellan, Reaper, Sea Devil, Silurian, Slitheen, Time Lord, Vortisaur
Template:Doctorwhobox, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Evil of the Daleks, The Tomb of the Cybermen, Season 6B, Spearhead from Space, Doctor Who and the Silurians, Inferno, Terror of the Autons, The Dæmons, Day of the Daleks, The Curse of Peladon, The Three Doctors, Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks, The Ark in Space, The Masque of Mandragora, Mawdryn Undead, Terminus, Enlightenment, The Five Doctors, The Two Doctors, Remembrance of the Daleks, The Curse of Fenric, Doctor Who (Enemy Within), Rose, The End of the World, The Unquiet Dead, Aliens of London, World War Three, Dalek, The Long Game, Father's Day, The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Boom Town, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways
Others
Air Pirates, Anglo-Chinese School, Anglo-Chinese School Old Boys' Association, Avengers, Bucky, Captain America, Dan O'Neill, Ellery Queen, Global Frequency, Iron Fist, Iron Man, Predestination paradox, Sapphire & Steel, Senate floor speech of March 27, 1986 - John Kerry, Quatermass and the Pit, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, The Sandbaggers, War Machine
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External links
- Khaosworks.org - his web site.
- strangled warblings of the apocalypse - his songs, including MP3 recordings.
- an icepick through the keyhole - his web journal.
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