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Discover the world through lenses. I spent 12 years as an independent advisor/consultant to companies and ultra-high net worth individuals locally and overseas.

My projects involved mainly business analysis, corporate structuring/restructuring, corporate finances, turnaround, and change management. Backed by BSc in Building Management (National University of Singapore), MBA, and a Master of Risk Management (both from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia), I bring with me multi-faceted experience to the project. During my work, I often left behind indel

ible impressions in the hearts of friends made in places like Australia, Brazil, China, Dubai, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand. Due to my unusual and unexpected style, I am often described intimately as “Maverick”, “Prima Dona” and “Rebel”, which is a testament of the respect I earned them. My international exposures also enable me to understand taxes, regulatory, and political risks when dealing with cross-border cases. Armed with this wealth of experience and driven by strong ethics, straight talking mannerism, and desire to serve, I have decided to ‘retire’ from the corporate world and devote myself to public speaking and my teenage passion, photography. With you, I will ponder the imponderables. Are you ready to work with me?

20/06/2026

Caught in Bishan Park during the golden hour, this photograph offers a serene, almost fable-like tableau: two pond sliders bask on a sun-warmed rock, the right slider’s neck craned upward as it observes a butterfly drifting past, while the left one enjoys the warmth of the sun. The low sun, striking from the upper left, casts a dramatic side-backlight that gilds the ridged contours of their shells, etches the rock's rough texture, and sets the insect's wings aglow.
Yet this scene leans more toward idealised digital art than documentary nature photography: I inserted the butterfly deliberately, to weave a narrative. The right slider’s upward stretch toward that fleeting speck reads as pure curiosity, a quiet innocence and fascination. I wanted to contrast the ephemeral where a butterfly's brief days with the enduring, the red-eared sliders' decades-long existence. But disparity in time does not alter parity in spirit; both, in their own way, live utterly free. And the warm sunlight that washes over them all carries its own quiet truth: it bestows its radiance without prejudice, offering its impartial warmth to the transient and the timeless alike.

19/06/2026

On the morning of 7 June 2026, true to my philosophical and contemplative nature, I captured this scene at Lake Tōya in Hokkaido, Japan. My heart brimmed with awe at the Almighty’s creation as I took the shot.
The interplay between the dark, brooding clouds and the breaking light creates a chiaroscuro effect that recalls classical painting. The bird, illuminated in flight, becomes a luminous anchor, drawing the eye upward and balancing the composition against the vast landscape below.
With this work, I invite viewers to reflect on the tension between darkness and illumination, while surrendering to the romantic mood of the scene.

18/06/2026

On the fifth of June 2026, this frame came into being within the quiet geometry of Hokkaido’s Arte Piazza.
Here, my eye surrendered to fine-art minimalism, a language spoken through graphic forms, mirroring symmetries, and the tender collision of permanence with transience: unyielding architecture set against the brief, breathing silhouette of a human. The open squares and the surrounding landscape create breathing room that reinforces minimalism.
Rugged textures carve themselves into the smooth skin of flat grass, a stark tactile duet that echoes the soul of modernist formalist photography. A lone figure drifts away, untethered from explanation, trailing a hushed story of thresholds, of leaving, of passages held open just a breath longer.
I wanted no drama, only a suspended stillness, an invitation to slow seeing and silent reverie, transforming a public space into an abstract landscape heavy with feeling. I invite my viewers to look through the sculpture toward the path, which suggests transition and journey.

17/06/2026

It wasn’t until yesterday, the 16th of June 2026, that I finally had the pleasure of placing an autographed copy of “Lake Toba – The Sumatran Alps” into the hands of my deeply esteemed sponsor, Ray Rajagopal, Managing Director of Asia Excel. Our schedules, both equally relentless, had kept us from crossing paths until then.
When I first approached Asia Excel to seek sponsorship, their answer came without a flicker of hesitation. No “I think,” no “but”, simply an immediate, wholehearted yes, generously underwriting the entire printing cost of the limited run of a thousand copies. I am profoundly grateful for that unstinting generosity, and for their genuine willingness to stand beside me as a partner in championing Caldera Toba as a destination.
Note: Asia Excel is an established retailer of household electrical appliances and sanitary ware in IMM. They carry popular brands such as Ariston, Electrolux, Fujioh, Toshiba, and Midea ………

16/06/2026

On a rain-soaked morning in 2022, somewhere in the quiet stretches of Bishan Park, I made this frame. I was just beginning to pick up where I had left off in 1996, uncertain, still, how to compose an image that would slip free of familiar photographic clichés.
In this composition, I reduced the world to its bare essentials: a single leaf, a lone droplet, and the quiet duet of light and shadow, clearing away all distraction. I turned to a dramatic chiaroscuro, where stark contrasts between illumination and darkness carve out form and magnify texture. The close-up isolates that one leaf in the foreground, inviting the eye to wander along its veins and linger over the intricacy of its surface. A shallow depth of field dissolves the background into an abyss of black, paring the scene down to a minimalist stage on which the subject breathes. The droplet, catching the light, becomes a tender point of brilliance, a luminous accent that punctuates an otherwise subdued tonal range.
What I wanted to evoke is a mood both quiet and meditative, deeply intimate. The play of light and shadow whispers of fragility and impermanence, while the droplet suspends a fleeting moment of life, weightless in time. The darkness embracing the leaf shapes a sense of solitude, almost of reverence, as though the viewer is being asked to contemplate the leaf as a symbol of nature’s delicate equilibrium. Emotionally, the image reaches toward stillness and introspection—an invitation to pause, to breathe, and to see.

15/06/2026

Discovered while sifting through forgotten files during a quiet session of hard-disk housekeeping, this raw frame dates to 13 October 2022. In the composition, I turn to a monochrome close-up, high in contrast, rich in texture to bring an intergenerational touch to the fore. Selective framing, a shallow depth of field, and careful tonal contrast work together to summon a mood of intimacy and quiet dignity. Stripping away colour allows shape, line, and texture to carry the emotional register, cultivating an atmosphere both sombre and tender, steeped in reverence. The gentle hold reads at once as care, support, and remembrance; a single gesture quietly shoulders an immense emotional weight.

13/06/2026

On a rain-softened morning of June 7th, 2026, just outside a café near Lake Toya, Hokkaido, I captured a frame, actually two. And I chose not to stitch them into the expected panorama but to let them live as a whimsical duet. One frame sits atop the other, a playful diptych born of symmetry and repetition: two red shelters, each holding a goat at its heart: Hana in one, Yuki in the other, like living figurines placed inside matching storybook chapels. The horizon is drawn deliberately low, giving the sky room to sigh over softly breathing hills, while the scene unfolds in layers, as a fable might: grass and tiny red houses in the foreground, and tree-cloaked hills smudging gently into the background. The framing leans slightly formal, treating each goat and shelter as a sculptural secret rather than a documentary note, and the mood settles into something still and hushed, a pastoral still life set beneath a dark sky.

Clean lines, an uncluttered field, and the calm poise of the animals give the image a quiet, contemplative grace, wrapped in soft light and a gentle tug of nostalgia. The nameplates on the shelters add a wink of intimacy and a thread of tender humour, inviting the eye to linger and the mind to muse on the quiet bond between humans and their hoofed companions. In the end, the whole scene feels both reverent and ever so slightly uncanny, a whimsical reverie that stirs affection and curiosity in equal measure.

12/06/2026

June 6, 2026, Japan, Hokkaido Niseko, outside Milk Kobo’s Café.
Rain had just softened the afternoon. After lunch, I noticed how the café’s damp lawn might hold a mood that is dark, quiet, composed. I handed my camera to a friend and asked him to press the shutter on me.
The result leans toward the minimalist: one figure, stark against the land. The sky’s empty expanse balances the thick foliage below. A straightforward frame, but the tonal depth, the greys bleeding into near-black, owes something to mid-century humanist photography.
I wear my darkened glasses. My hands stay buried in my jacket pockets. Guarded, yes. The rain clouds overhead press down like a held breath, hinting at something existential.
Without colour, the image tightens its emotional grip. What remains is quiet resilience.

11/06/2026

Took this in my Shanghai hotel room with my mobile.

09/06/2026

Took this at Lake Toya Hokkaido. Post processing using my mobile.

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