My Books
Over the course of thirty-six years in the oil and gas industry, I have carried stories—some written in safety reports, others etched in memory. I have stood at worksites where lives were lost, walked through investigations, and spoken aloud the lessons carved from tragedy. These experiences became the foundation of my non-fiction work, where I write not only about systems and compliance, but about people—their families, their futures, and the fragile thread that binds them to life and work.
Yet alongside the discipline of safety lives another fire: the pull of fiction. I am drawn to the shadows of social struggle, to the fractures within family life, and to the whispers of horror that slip in where the ordinary world begins to feel unfamiliar. These tales are my way of holding a mirror to the unspoken—grief, secrecy, memory, and the darker currents that run beneath our days.
Between fact and fiction, my books carry a single thread: a belief that stories matter. They can save lives, and they can unsettle us into seeing the world differently.
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Book 1
Personal Safety
A brief summary of my Non-Fictional works:
- Safety Discipleship: A Culture Beyond Compliance:
When the difference between going home and not coming home can be a single step, safety can’t live on a checklist.Read More - Safety Discipleship: Handbook for Supervisors:
When the difference between getting home and not getting home can be one rushed step, safety cannot live on a checklist.
Read More - Safety Discipleship: Handbook for Workers:
Your dreams don’t clock out when you start your shift. This handbook helps you protect them—by turning safety from a box to tick into a daily commitment that brings you home, every single time.Read More
If you’re here for safety, expect clear tools and straight talk. If you’re here for stories, expect tension, twists, and characters who feel uncomfortably close to real life. Either way, welcome.
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Safety Discipleship: A Culture Beyond Compliance
When the difference between going home and not coming home can be a single step, safety can’t live on a checklist. Safety Discipleship turns compliance into conviction—so crews protect their dreams and each other every single shift.
Safety Discipleship is a practical field guide for high-hazard work that puts people—workers, supervisors, and families—at the centre of safety. Instead of box-ticking, it forges a culture where life-saving actions are learned, owned, and lived. The book starts with why: workers’ real goals (paying debts, educating kids, building a future) and the hard truth that one shortcut can shatter those dreams. It exposes the limits of compliance-only programs and shows how global disasters often hide in plain sight behind perfect audit scores. Then it hands you a blueprint to change that.
What readers will learn
- A simple, repeatable safety creed built on Life-Saving Rules and Actions that prevent fatalities, not just first-aid cases.
- The four daily killers to focus on: Working Around Mobile Equipment (WAME), Line of Fire, Working at Heights, and Energy Isolation—with start-work checks you can run in minutes.
- STAR (Stop, Think, Act, Review): a last-minute risk tool that surfaces fatigue, distraction, overconfidence, and other performance-influencing factors before they bite.
- How to dismantle complacency with drills, near-miss storytelling, buddy verification, and real leadership presence on the ground.
- Leadership’s mandate to verify and validate safeguards (not just “see paperwork”), build psychological safety, and align site KPIs with human outcomes.
Who this book is for
- Frontline workers and supervisors who want practical tools that actually fit the job.
- HSE professionals tired of “paper safety” who are ready to hard-wire lifesaving habits.
- Leaders who believe zero harm is possible only when people’s personal goals and company goals pull in the same direction.
Why it matters now
Because families are waiting at home. Safety Discipleship shows how to turn rules into muscle memory and meetings into moments that save lives—so everyone returns to pursue the dreams that brought them to work in the first place.
Short summary (use on cards, emails, or product pages)
Safety Discipleship is a no-nonsense playbook that moves teams beyond compliance to a living culture of care. It connects workers’ personal goals with four core Life-Saving Rules, the STAR risk tool, and leadership behaviours that verify safeguards in real work—not just on audit day. The result is fewer life-altering injuries, stronger trust, and a site where people guard each other’s dreams as fiercely as their own.
Suggested calls-to-action
- Read the first chapter and run tomorrow’s pre-task using the STAR card.
- Download the one-page “Four Life-Saving Rules” start-work checklist for your crew.
- Invite me for a 60-minute briefing: “From Paper Safety to Safety Discipleship.”
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Safety Discipleship: Handbook for Supervisors
When the difference between getting home and not getting home can be one rushed step, safety cannot live on a checklist. This handbook turns compliance into conviction—so supervisors protect people, livelihoods, and dreams every single shift.
Safety Discipleship: Handbook for Supervisors is a field-ready playbook that equips front-line leaders to prevent life-altering injuries and fatalities where it matters most—on the job, in real time. Built around the supervisor’s unique influence, it shows how to lead by example, turn personal goals into safety ownership, and transform briefings from routine to life-saving. Instead of “paper safety,” you’ll practice habits that verify, validate, and sustain the safeguards that actually keep crews alive.
What readers will learn
- The four pillars of high-trust supervision—create clarity, inspire and motivate, set standards, promote innovation—and how to use them in daily engagements.
- The Life-Saving Rules & Actions that stop the biggest killers: Energy Isolation, Working at Heights, Line of Fire, and Working Around Mobile Equipment (WAME).
- How to run Life-Saving Briefings and Start-Work Checks that move beyond “tick-and-go” to real verification and validation of safeguards.
- Using STAR (Stop, Think, Act, Review) as a reflex during changing conditions and error-prone moments.
- Detecting and defeating complacency; coaching in the moment; turning near-misses into learning, not luck.
- A practical toolkit—JSA, AARs, targeted learning observations, layered engagement meetings—to build capacity and keep teams “switched on.”
Who this book is for
- Supervisors and foremen who want simple, repeatable ways to lead safe, productive work.
- HSE professionals ready to move beyond audits into habits that change outcomes.
- Managers who believe zero serious harm is only possible when safety connects to workers’ personal goals.
Why readers will want to learn more
Because families are waiting at home. This handbook shows how to make safety personal, embed it in routines, and coach people toward the behaviours that save lives—without slowing the job. It’s practical, human, and proven where risk is real.
Short summary
A no-nonsense supervisor’s guide to move teams beyond compliance into a living culture of care. With clear leadership pillars, four Life-Saving Rules & Actions, STAR, and a daily engagement toolkit (JSA, AARs, verify/validate), it helps leaders prevent the incidents that change lives—and send every worker home to the dreams they’re working for.
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Safety Discipleship: Handbook for Workers
Your dreams don’t clock out when you start your shift. This handbook helps you protect them—by turning safety from a box to tick into a daily commitment that brings you home, every single time.
Safety Discipleship: Handbook for Workers is a straight-talking guide that makes safety personal. It starts with what truly drives you—family, security, a future you’re building—and shows how one rushed step can derail it all. Then it gives you practical ways to align daily actions with those dreams, moving from compliance to commitment so safety becomes second nature, not a lecture.
You’ll learn how to spot and defeat complacency and shortcuts before they cost you, and how to use simple tools that actually fit real work: Life-Saving Rules & Actions for the biggest killers (Working Around Mobile Equipment, Line of Fire, Working at Heights, Energy Isolation), the STAR reflex (Stop, Think, Act, Review), and two-way engagement with supervisors that verifies and validates safeguards—not just on paper, but at the job site.
Beyond the shift, the handbook builds long-term capacity: recognizing performance-influencing factors like fatigue and distraction, running effective After-Action Reviews, and developing the confidence to speak up and solve problems together. It’s practical, human, and focused on one outcome—that you return home safe to pursue the life you’re working for.
What readers will learn
- How to connect personal goals with daily safety choices so motivation stays high when pressure rises.
- The four core Life-Saving Rules & Actions and when they apply to your job.
- A simple STAR check you can run before starting work or when conditions change.
- How to recognize performance-influencing factors—fatigue, stress, distractions—and adjust before errors happen.
- Two-way engagement with supervisors: verify and validate safeguards, speak up, and learn from near misses through quick AARs.
Why followers will want to learn more
Because this isn’t theory—it’s a practical path to protecting the people and plans that matter most. If a five-minute briefing and a one-page checklist can keep you alive and employed for the long haul, that’s worth your time today.
Short summary
A no-nonsense worker’s guide that turns safety into a personal commitment. With four Life-Saving Rules & Actions, the STAR reflex, and everyday tools for real-time verification, two-way engagement, and AARs, it helps you beat complacency, manage fatigue and distractions, and get home to the dreams you’re working for.
Book 2
Fiction
A brief summary of my fictional works:
- Underneath (psychological thriller / domestic noir):
A celebrated lawyer is murdered at a family birthday, and SIO Deborah Lin’s hunt peels back sixteen years of buried betrayals and a convenient “fall guy” to expose the truth lurking beneath respectability.
Read More - Clarice (horror-mystery):
Mid-2000s Singapore—a pregnant newlywed’s new home in Ubi awakens old village horrors; a palm reader and shaman race a jealous stalker and a hungry spirit.
Read More - Sick — a 1970s Singapore crime thriller:
Singapore, 1972. A drug kingpin turns up in the river, a fallen cop is butchered behind a Sembawang bar, and a single word carved into flesh points to a killer who confuses justice with judgment.
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Underneath — a Singapore crime and psychological thriller
At 2:04 a.m., SIO Deborah Lin is called to a quiet bungalow where a birthday cake sits half-eaten, a ribboned kitchen knife glints under downlights, and a high-profile lawyer lies stabbed to death. A teenage son is found bound and blood-spattered; a girl watches, unreadable. The scene is immaculate—except for the secrets it’s hiding.
Underneath peels back the polished surfaces of family, law, and power in modern Singapore. Through shifting lenses—a relentless investigator, an ambitious attorney on a capital case, and a mother who senses something off in her eerily watchful child—the novel braids domestic unease, legal brinkmanship, and a meticulous police procedural into one tightening coil. What begins with a homicide framed by a birthday celebration spirals into questions of motive, memory, and the dangerous comfort of silence.
The story moves from midnight corridors of the State Courts to sunlit East Coast afternoons where two siblings share an uncanny bond—one a burst of joy, the other a calm that borders on unsettling. As a celebrated prosecutor circles a widowed father accused in a historic drug bust, and as a new partner at a blue-chip firm tastes fame, reputations become currency and truth becomes negotiable. Every character has something to lose. Every choice presses on a fault line. And in the spaces where no one is looking, something cold—and very patient—waits.
Why readers will want to learn more
- Layered tension: domestic dread meets legal chess and forensic detail—each thread amplifies the others.
- A living Singapore: estates at dawn, State Courts rhythms, East Coast hush—local texture with universal stakes.
- Unforgettable dynamics: a mother’s intuition, a sibling connection that “switches on” only with one child, and a prosecutor-defence face-off where every word is a blade.
- Truth vs reputation: how far we’ll go to protect a name—and what we bury when no one’s watching.
Short summary
A prominent lawyer is murdered during his son’s birthday, a crime scene as carefully staged as a confession. While SIO Deborah Lin hunts for what the room refuses to say, a newly minted law-firm partner takes on a death-penalty case that tangles him with an undefeated prosecutor—and a disappearing trail of evidence. At home, a brilliant mother keeps noticing the same unsettling thing: her baby daughter rarely reacts to anyone… except her brother. Underneath threads these lives into a single question: when appearances are perfect, what truth is trying to be heard—and who pays the price for ignoring it?
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Clarice — a Singapore horror-mystery
A pregnant couple moves into a quiet bungalow at Ubi Reserves, where old kampong beliefs linger just beyond the cul-de-sac. A palm reader senses a rising disturbance; a village shaman feels the ground shift. When an obsessive former classmate re-enters Clarice’s life and an alumni reunion takes a turn at sea, the past begins to hunt the present.
Clarice braids police-procedural tension with kampong folklore and psychological dread. Set in mid-2000s Singapore, the story opens with a chilling prologue from old Jalan Ubi, then follows Clarice and John—newlyweds expecting their first child—as they settle into an upscale estate built beside an older village. Across town, Sakhtivel, a palmist, reads signs he wishes he hadn’t, while haji shamsul, a respected handler of spirit disturbances, warns of a “crowned” power awakening. Orbiting them is Weiyang, an alumnus with a delusional fixation on Clarice who reads coincidence as destiny. When the class reunion becomes a cruise into open waters, the lines between fate, obsession, and the unseen snap taut.
Why readers will want to learn more
- Singapore, alive and uneasy: reserves bungalows, state courts, kampong lanes, and a village market you can hear and smell—local texture with universal stakes.
- Layered perspectives: a vulnerable mother, a level-headed husband, a weary palmist, a battle-hardened shaman, and a man convinced that “love” justifies anything.
- Slow-burn dread, real-world consequences: reputation vs truth, modernity vs tradition, personal safety vs curiosity—the choices here cost.
- Clean, cinematic set-pieces: a village swing at dawn; a reunion that sails into deeper water; domestic moments where something isn’t quite right.
Short summary
After moving into Ubi Reserves, Clarice begins to notice small, unsettling signals as an old kampong’s unfinished business stirs to life. a palmist and a shaman read converging signs, while an obsessed classmate closes in during a high-stakes reunion at sea. Clarice is a tightly wound Singapore horror-mystery about motherhood, obsession, and the price of ignoring what the past is trying to warn us about.
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Sick — a 1970s Singapore crime thriller
Singapore, 1972. A drug kingpin turns up in the river, a fallen cop is butchered behind a Sembawang bar, and a single word carved into flesh points to a killer who confuses justice with judgment. Inspector Daniel Loh is pulled from undercover work to hunt a murderer who knows exactly where the system is weakest.
Sick is a gritty, propulsive thriller that cuts through the underbelly of 1970s Singapore—gambling dens in Geylang, the midnight hush of the State Courts, and a coastal bar where secrets outlast the ice in your glass. The case ignites with a river homicide and escalates when a disgraced narcotics officer—once the IO on that kingpin’s trial—dies in an alley behind Madam Suzy’s. The bodies share a signature: surgical precision first, then fury, and a message literally carved into the skin.
On the law’s side: Inspector Daniel Loh, veteran DSP Khalid, and a rookie who’s smarter than he looks. In the shadows: Nine Fingers, a triad Dragon Head who somehow walks out on bail, and Stephanie Sim, the iron-willed CNB director whose strategy may be as dangerous as the syndicates she fights. Threaded through the manhunt is Peter Han, a dignified businessman driving to a secluded rehab in Mersing to visit his son—a boy broken by dirty heroin and the people who profit from it. Every chapter tightens the knot between corruption, vengeance, and the fathers who can’t stop asking if they could have saved their children sooner.
Why readers will want to learn more
- A living period world: humid alleys, taped-up windows, and backroom oaths—1972 Singapore rendered with procedural detail and local texture.
- A killer’s calling card: a scalpel-clean first strike, then overkill—and a single engraved word that reframes motive.
- Power and compromise: a cop’s “golden ticket” to KL, a bail that shouldn’t have happened, and files that go missing at exactly the wrong moment.
- Heart beneath the grit: a father at a fortified rehab gate—Illness to Wellness—wondering whether love can outpace shame.
Short summary
When a heroin baron is found in the Singapore River and, days later, a former narcotics officer is slashed to death behind Madam Suzy’s, CID taps Inspector Daniel Loh to lead a case that links triads, a manipulated bail, and a carved word—DIRTY—left on a victim’s forehead. As Loh, DSP Khalid, and their rookie trace scalpels, syndicates, and old court “mistakes,” a parallel story follows businessman Peter Han, whose son battles addiction inside a private rehab across the border. Sick braids a relentless police hunt with a father’s reckoning, asking who gets to define justice when the system itself is stained.
Book 3
It’s A Matter Of Faith
A brief summary of my fictional works:
- God And His Purpose:
This devotional explores the profound purpose behind God’s creation of the world. Through daily reflections, we’ll delve into the beauty and meaning embedded in every aspect of His design, fostering a deeper understanding of our role within His grand narrative.
Read More - God’s Plan for Salvation:
This meditation explores the profound truth that salvation is not an afterthought in God’s grand design, but rather the very cornerstone of His eternal plan. From eternity past, in perfect wisdom and boundless love, God purposed to redeem a people for Himself through the sacrificial work of His Son, Jesus Christ.
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Day 1: The Dawn of Creation
Genesis 1:1-5
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Reflection: Consider the immensity of God’s initial act. What does the creation of light symbolize to you?
Day 2: The Sky and the Sea
Genesis 1:6-8
And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate water from water.” And God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
Reflection: Reflect on the order and structure God established. How does this order reflect His divine nature?
Day 3: Land, Seas, and Vegetation
Genesis 1:9-13
And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
Reflection: Ponder the abundance and diversity of life God created. How does the natural world reveal His creativity and provision?
Day 4: Sun, Moon, and Stars
Genesis 1:14-19
And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night—and he also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
Reflection: Contemplate the purpose of the heavenly bodies. How do they guide and illuminate our lives, both literally and metaphorically?
Day 5: Birds and Sea Creatures
Genesis 1:20-23
And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
Reflection: Consider the diversity of life in the sea and sky. How do these creatures reflect God’s boundless creativity and care?
Day 6: Land Animals and Humanity
Genesis 1:24-31
And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the
sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Reflection: Reflect on humanity’s unique role as image-bearers of God. What does it mean to exercise dominion over creation responsibly?
Day 7: Rest and Sanctification
Genesis 2:1-3
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
Reflection: Consider the significance of God’s rest. How does Sabbath rest reflect His divine pattern for humanity?
This devotional journey through the creation account reveals God’s intentionality, power, and love. As we meditate on these truths, may we grow in awe of our Creator and deepen our understanding of His purpose for our lives and the world around us.
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Salvation: God’s Eternal Plan
Far from being a mere reaction to humanity’s fall, salvation stands as a testament to God’s sovereign initiative and unwavering commitment to His creation. Before the foundations of the world were laid, God foresaw our brokenness and, in His infinite grace, ordained a plan of redemption. As Romans 8:29-30 reminds us, “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.” This passage highlights the golden chain of salvation, revealing God’s comprehensive plan from foreknowledge to glorification.
The Cross: Centerpiece of God’s Purpose
The cross of Christ is not an accident of history, but the divinely ordained focal point of God’s redemptive work. It is the place where divine justice and boundless love meet, where sin is judged and mercy triumphs. Consider the prophetic words of Isaiah 53:4-6: “Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” The cross demonstrates God’s unwavering commitment to dealing with sin and reconciling humanity to Himself.
Psalm 22:16-18 poignantly depicts the suffering of Christ: “Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce my hands and my feet. All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.” These words, written centuries before the crucifixion, foreshadow the agonizing reality of Christ’s sacrifice.
Echoes of Redemption: Genesis to Jeremiah
The promise of salvation resonates throughout Scripture, from the early whisper in Genesis 3:15 – “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel” – to the profound covenant renewal prophesied in Jeremiah 31:33: *”This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
Doctrines of Grace: Faith in Christ Alone
Our salvation rests entirely on God’s grace, received through faith in Jesus Christ alone. It is not earned, deserved, or attained through human effort. It is a free gift, offered to all who believe. Through Christ’s atoning sacrifice, we are forgiven, reconciled, and adopted into God’s family. Salvation is sola gratia, sola fide, solus Christus – by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. As we meditate on God’s great plan of salvation, may our hearts be filled with gratitude, worship, and a renewed commitment to living lives that honor Him.
Summary
In essence, we’ve journeyed through the concept of salvation as God’s eternal plan, not a reaction to human failings, but a deliberate act of love and wisdom. We reflected on the centrality of the cross, examined key scriptural references, and affirmed the foundational doctrines of grace, faith, and Christ alone. This understanding deepens our appreciation for God’s profound love and His unwavering commitment to our redemption.