By 1972, Singapore had identified aerospace maintenance as a growth industry. In my company, almost all the licensed engineers were foreigners…
Category: True Stories
Based on real-life stories
The Interview
After it became clear that I would not be able to further my studies in high school, I applied for…
The Youngest MRO Engineer
After my ten years in school in 1971, my family financial situation did not allow me to continue with high school. But I…
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Unhappily ever after…
When I was an executive, an office colleague - a lawyer - retorted she was so busy with work and family…
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Silver Earrings and Tattoos
I was a supervisor in the aerospace workshop when a tough ex-con, who worked in the hanger, approached me for help.…
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KYM and SUE
KYM During the 1980s, I managed an aerospace engineering division in Singapore. Kym had been part of the pioneer batch of…
Turkey Shoot…based on a true story
in 1999, I was contracted to install security equipment for a large American gas supplier in Aceh Province, Indonesia. Apparently, the GAM guerrillas,…
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A Shrewd Businessman
Once, when out of work, I toiled as a labourer and hawked in flea markets. Coming from the corporate world, a…
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BE NICE
It is so difficult to be nice… A true incident about a decade ago triggered the above… First month in…
GOD Can Wait!
As some of you might know from my poem My Son, I view children as Gifts from God and we…
