Dan Writes

That tipsy state of midnight sorrow will not drag the rabbit out of its hole. And head buried in burrows of worry, neither will you find your lost dollar. The periwinkle flower once blossoming strong in your palm, shredded into petals of worry as you stuff it fisted in your pocket. Last week, a hole broke, dropped pennies for unnamed tramps. Toast and coffee were all you could afford, cowering in a kopitiam amid this towering city. Yet guilt has no place in one's life - once you chastened my beaten mood. I reach out with the long probe of a finger, lift your chin to indulge the flame of the setting sun as it bows beyond the world's line of riches.

Commissioned by Evans of  Togoparts.com : an opinion piece on the traditional bicycle vs its electric counterparts. All Things Bicycle and Its E-Counterparts Traditionally, most of us have known the ordinary bicycle and owned one ourselves. That de facto mode of short-distance transport and exercise, or long distance round-the-sunny-island marathons. Of course, we would probably be familiar with our own bikes: the height of our seats, the smoothness or stiffness with which the gears and chain turn, the force we need to pedal and amount of brake force needed for turning a corner safely. One pictures a family outing out at Punggol Waterway on a fleet of – bicycles. The regular exercise an old man takes is his daily evening bike ride out on his old Wheeler mountain bike to catch the sunset along the waterway. On the one hand, traditional bikes represent artefacts from centuries bygone, constructed for getting around. They have endured through time, from the vintage bike...

Alythea of AFON Pte Ltd , a Cloud/ERP management company, recently requested me to write up a long form blog post on the benefits of using technology (particularly Cloud) to help companies build business resilience. In today's globalized world, it is even more important for companies to catch up with the times in the use of technology. Info-systems are now centralized via Cloud, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is all the rage nowadays. Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)s are still somewhat lagging in their embrace of these technologies. Keeping this in mind, I wrote this article with the following three sub-points: Title: Technology Trends That Help You Build Business Resilience In his Singapore Budget 2017 speech, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat spoke of changing tides around the world. This has resulted in an uncertain environment for businesses, particularly Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs). One reason for this turbulence is that technology is advancing rapidly, ...

Danny aka Mr Wood Varnish, Interior Designer http://www.mrwoodvarnish.com/ Right after the project that Gary asked me to do, his pal Danny approached me asking if I would help shape the articles on his blog to perfection. Danny is an interior designer who has set up a blog to introduce and advertise his interior designing services to clients. I agreed to do the project at $40 per article - they were quite short but rather in need of rewriting as they were spattered with grammar errors. What makes a blog entry an effective one, particularly if its purpose is to introduce the services of a business? One main criterion is the article's  brevity  - it's ability to inform the reader with clear and succinct language in as few words as possible. Think of it as writing a summary: you would want to achieve the maximum info conveyed with minimal words. Businesses like Danny's are more focused on, well, doing business than language's perfection. They set up blogs a...

The Prelude: In November 2016, I was tasked by Gary to write up 10 articles for a website that will feature infostatistics and articles on Singapore. Gary, a real estate agent in his early thirties, had this dream about setting up this website promoting Singapore to potential real estate clients from Jakarta.  As such, I took on his ambition and helped him create the articles  – Article One:  "Understanding Singapore" Let’s begin by understanding the demographics in Singapore. This tiny island of  719.1 km²   is one of the world’s busiest port and an important gateway between the Western Countries and China. Singaporeans are bilingual- they are fluent in English and one other mother tongue language of their ethnic group or choice (usually Mandarin). Ethnicity Four major ethnic groups make up the ethnicity of Singapore. They are the Chinese, Malays, Indians and Eurasians. A minority number of other races add to the vibrant, melting-pot...