2009 Publications

For the year 2009, there are two novels waiting to be published.

We Are Who We Are consists of seven stories interviewed from the marginalized community. Each story has its own unique “come into being” situation where many of us would just shrug the shoulders and take it as “one of the usual stories.”

If only we take the trouble to find out more, we will definitely learn more about compassion among fellow brothers and sisters. They have not asked for sympathy but understanding and the respect they are entitled to, to live their lives without judgmental attitude.


1. Tears Of Love

It is about a girl in her late teen was infected by her HIV husband. In her mid-forties today, she went through tough times with excruciating pain physically and emotionally. It is a heart-wrenching true story that could bring tears to her story told. Living her life in recluse, she has found solace with God for strength and the courage to accept what has become of her.


2. My Virginity-My Life

Her whole life was in turmoil when she realized that her boyfriend had cheated her of her virginity. Raised from a conservative family and her academic performance deteriorated, she left her Form Six for the city to look for a job. When financial constraints prevailed, she went for the alternative – to trade her young flesh for survival.


3. The Pricky-Dicky Talk

Having a chance to talk to the gays is an experience to look into the life they have been living. How they have come to accept their emotional changes are most intriguing. They have no bones to pick with anyone but to live and accept the life they are born with. Their courage to “open up” rather than to be hypocritical about it has earned my respect. The interview is filled with laughter and sexual innuendoes.


4. The Cry Of A Silent Voice

In the seventies, she was suddenly faced with an unexpected turn in her life. With a son and being the eldest in the family, the sudden demised of her spouse had led her to sell her body. After three decades in the sex trade she had to hang up her boots for good. Living a moderate life from the savings she has, she could still depend on herself. In her fifties now, she is a proud grandmother. Just like anyone else, she has her painful past too but of a different kind.



5. The Hanging Guavas Of The Loin

Male sex workers are not easily deciphered unlike their counterparts. They have their connections with those who want to be physically connected for sexual connection over the agreed connecting fees. The modus operandi is suspenseful and the risks they take could cost them their lives. How a younger man is able to perform sexually with an older woman has nothing to do with age and looks in such trade. To them it is in the state of the mind and their pride in such profession they have chosen. How he could make her feel wanted and satisfied within the four walls is up to the readers to find out in this chapter of the book.


6. In A Brave New World

Lesbianism is far more acceptable than man-to-man relationship we may think. It is untrue. Both these groups suffer the same fate in our judgmental society – to be despised, names calling and the worst of all ostracism. Why? Is it because they are different from the “normal” people? Are they not the children of the Almighty? The fact to the matter is that they did not ask to be born in that way. People who think of their “superiority” because they are “normal” over them, I guess they have to think harder. Having met and talked to this loving couple has brought a new understanding about “she and her” relationship. They have adopted a child (legally) and live a happy life. It is all about chemistry that works in a wondrous way.


7. The Feminine Touch

Transgender too has the societal right to live his life by dressing, acting and talking like a female. The spiteful comments and intimidating stares have become a way of life to them. They cry too for being born different and how they are subjugated by the cruel society is the difficult battle they have to fight for themselves. Employment opportunity is practically zero and what about their survival? What is their alternative then? This chapter is written with a tinge of anger after listening to their plights as a human being. Ostracizing them is one thing but to treat them like thrash is just too much!


Author’s Note

After compiling each story, it took me quite a while to digest what has come from the horse’s mouth. It really hurts! It is not that I am more compassionate or more understanding but as a person like anyone else. The difference is that I have spoken to them and took the interest to know them better because we are sharing the same small world.



My interest is in writing but it may not be yours. So, We Are Who We Are should be a good read to take a peek into the world of the marginalized community.

The excerpts from each story compiled from the interviews will be published and your thought about the contents will be most welcome.


The second novel is a fictional story entitled City Mongoose is about a retired man who had finally found time to indulge in his hobby – bird watching. From his binoculars he saw a travelling bag been flung near to where his motor-cycle was parked among the bushes. It was a bag filled with ill-gotten gains!

2007 Publications

Waltz Of The Mouse Deer was first published in 2007. It was a script written for movie but could not materialise in 1997. The whole script was re-written into a novel instead.

The story is about a man whose character was fictionally created to be the ruthless one.

As a young boy, he was sexually abused, and as a young man, he lost his father in the hands of the communists.

The atrocities during the Japanese Occupation were vivid in his mind, and the threat of the communists after the surrender of the Japanese Imperial Army paved a way for him to join the Commondo Unit to fight for his country

The story is about the assassination attempt on the Prime Minister of Malaysia. A high profile and suspenseful thriller with a Hollywood touch. The whole story revolves around the scheming and betrayal of what the human minds can perceive of.

Drugs, mind games, revenge, sexual innuendoes and assassination attempt are the plots to create the whole story.

The storyline is laced with passion, brotherhood and greed.

The ambush by the communits was the turning point in his life. He was lsited as Missing In Action, but was rescued by the Akran tribe.

He felt unloved and abandoned by his own country, and he emerged with hatred and was burning with vengence. The dreaded name, Lieutenant Lim Tua Tha a.k.a. Scarred Face was common to the different fraternity of criminals, but to the military and the police, he was known as the Shadow Man.

Major Mahmud, his retired commanding officer and mentor was assigned to stop Scarred Face whom he treated him like his son before the fateful ambush by the communists. Is Major Mahmud able to stop him from assasinating the Prime Minister?

Whatever, it is coined with a twist to enable the author to express his thoughts between hatred and patriotism and to enforce with reality and surrealism.

There were discordance in the way certain paragraphs described the events. Some were salacious and some gory could be offending to the readers.

The beauty of the story lies in the contents manipulated by the author to provoke the imagination of the readers for the pleasure of reading.

Waltz Of The Mouse Deer is the catalyst to get to Scarred Face, a deceptive trail effectively adopted from the mouse deer during their mating season. And those who are close to the assasin would know how.

Human ingenuity is both bondage and release depending on how it is going to be used. In this case it is neither but...

Will Scarred Face triumph?

Will the country be thrown into a civil turmoil?

Will anarchy reign supreme?

The answer lies in this chillingly spellbinding story of betrayal and redemptation.

Untamed Libido is a non-fictional tales of dangerous liasons and forbidden affairs. It was also published in 2007.

There are 30 tart and tantalising affairs exploring the realities of secret philandering and a multitude of perspectives on what motivates adulterous relationships.

The approach to this taboo subject is intoxicating with intricacies of Adultery, Opportunity and Swapping. The stories relate to the different sexual encounters and the nature of its origin to capture those surreptitious encounters that are repeatedly indulged year in and year out.

This book will be a good read for the younger generation. It helps to create awareness not to be ensnared into the deceitful path that had been trodden on by their peers.