Dan Writes

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...

The article below was published by the Singapore American Newspaper (SAN) in its  April 2013 issue Concerning the end of an era, it speaks nostalgically about the closure of our beloved, former Telok Ayer Performing Arts Centre that was home to more than 20 (performing) arts group. (SAN April 2013 issue, page 24). The End of An Era Amid the commercial heart of Tanjong Pagar, a busy business district, there sits a low, squat building called Telok Ayer Performing Arts Centre. Dwarfed by fierce sentinel buildings of commerce around, TAPAC, as the artsy folks affectionately christened it for brevity, houses over twenty arts groups. TAPAC has been mother to groups like The Necessary Stage, Teater Ekamatra and many more for twenty something years. Most significantly to myself; the Singapore's Writers' Centre, Word Forward. There. It was there I grew and matured as a poet, raised from the rubble of adolescence by passing writers and poets by Savind...