About Me

I am a journalist-turned-author. I was formerly a senior editor with Singapore’s leading TV & Digital network, ChannelNewsAsia (CNA). I had a challenging but fulfilling 20-year career in journalism. I am now a full-time writer. My debut novel is The Pandemic Files. My second is The Sungei Road Gang.

FACT TO FICTION, JOURNALIST TO NOVELIST: MY WRITING JOURNEY

“Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.  ” Tim O’Brien

“Fiction reveals the truth that reality obscures.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

And this is what I aspire to do with my fiction. 

I love writing fiction. It frees me from constraints of only writing facts as a journalist. You can’t twist facts as a journalist. You can as an author of fiction. I can be as inventive and imaginative as I like. And the writing depends on how the creative juices flow. I am a journalist turned author now. I can be as creative as I want. I can play God the creator with my storylines. I can soar like an eagle with my imagination. I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Kill your own mother and get away with perfect murder – can you?  Of course you can, if you are writing fiction that is. You can even assassinate the US president or fall in love with a ghost.

But in real life? Hmm… I seriously doubt so – and that is a fact. And that is what separates fact from fiction. But even with fiction you have to stay anchored to reality and reveal the truth as best you can – as Emerson says. Otherwise it would not be credible. And as a writer, you won’t be true to yourself.

MY JOURNALISM DAYS

I was formerly a journalist with Channel NewsAsia (CNA) in a career spanning 20 years, starting off as a news reporter and leaving as a senior editor. I wrote and produced news stories and bulletins, current affairs stories and programs, documentaries and a stock market challenge reality TV show. I also won multiple journalism awards.

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