In Chinese, the word crisis “危机” is interpreted as both dangers and opportunities going hand-in-hand. …

One of the most interesting jobs as a young man trying to learn my ropes in early part of my career was in Suzhou City, working on the project between the China and Singapore governments. Even though I was “recruited” initially to help in marketing the industrial park, but I…

5:46am, 17 January 1995. I will never forget this time, a frozen time stamp that had lingered in my mind until today. For many Singaporeans, it is unimaginable to experience an earthquake, not to even mention one that is more than 7 on the Richter Scale. For those who were…

It is easy to write good stories, but extremely difficult to put words to describe a bad experience, especially when one is being cheated. Since the intent of this blog is for me to share factual incidents that happened to me, I thought it would be important to tell a…

One of the most adventurous things I had done in my life was to travel to China, my first ever trip by sea and not by air ! You might ask, how did you do that ? Did I travel from Singapore to China by ship ? LOL, perhaps so…

There were tons of stories by academia about Suzhou Industrial Park, a joint-partnership project undertaken by the China and Singapore governments since 1994, supported by top leaders of both countries. However, most articles on this project had been told from researchers and interviewers, but not many stories were told as…

It has always been a desire for me to share all the experiences as a humble Singaporean who is born in this tiny island city on the equator, being multicultural and multiracial, about how we see Asia in Asia. There is so much mystic about Asia, and having lived, travelled…