And despite being a 12-year-old, I self-studied Assembly Language coding for chipset 6502 and 8086.

When I reached higher secondary, I was recommended to be the school's Computer Club student chairman, but I declined, because I preferred to spend more time researching than social activities.

Nevertheless, I took part in the National Programming Contest and got 2nd place. (That was a close fight and I lose because during the 'live' interview, I was tongue-tight in front of a packed studio. I can't answer why I used Assembly to implement "Direct Read-Write" to-and-fro the floppy disk where my project's database was stored. My teacher after that comforted me and told me, "So simple, just say speed... Your app is much faster than using PC DOS.")

Life went on smoothly and I went to college and studied Math and "Information Technology". But I dropped out after first year and started my software business, currently known as Sing Industry.

launched its first [Start] button. As a guy who prefers fun to Corporate, I chose to venture into the Event Market (a niche).

My first "Apps" for the event-entertainment market were developed into the Amiga PCs. Below shows my first hardware investment, an Amiga 1200 that cost me S$800 where the first "Computerized Lucky Draw" system was made. Yes, with today's software development environment, it may take only 2 weeks for a software developer to make this "app". But during that time when hardware were primitive, and software was hardware based, it took me 3 months of day and night work to get the first "workable" version out to the market. (Believe it or not, my Amiga 1200 memory size was 2MB, and my first harddisk for it was 20MB.) With that, I pioneered the "Computerized Lucky Draw" in Singapore. Since market was fresh and hardware very primitive, my development path was like caveman making the wheel. It was challenging but fun.

But the Amiga went off the market, and big Bill took the world market by storm with his Windows and Office. I had no choice but to rewrite the entire "Computerized Lucky Draw" into Windows PCs. And together, I added a new module called the "Barcode Registration System". This combination was a catalyst and worked well and I gained the event market in Singapore. Life went on smoothly and the business is known today as Sing Industry. For more info, visit www.SingIndustry.com

"show off" to event managers that I'm "on-site and online". True, I'm from the pre-windows era, where even LAN was "complicated". But I don't stay in "pre-Y2k" era, where "Dot-Com" literally became "Dot-Gone". I'm ALSO online. This means, I'm an all-rounder where software is concerned. I'm both "on LAN" and "in the Cloud" (get the pun?).

Well, the picture above shows my "pre-Covid-era" glorious days. This is why in this "Post-Covid-era" I have to do up this Page, just to show off. Yes, everything you see in this Page is written by me. Everything.... Responsive, CSS tricks (more accurately SCSS), Javascript, PHP, etc. Although I know React and Node.js, I do not use them here. I choose to use primarily PHP and SCSS to showcase my skills. JS is only for basic interaction. I'll add Form Submit as the alternative so that JS become optional. (Wait for upgrade.) Hence this Page shows like 10% of what I can do in real life. (Lower part of this Page shows my past projects, government and corporate.)

Yes, I'm on LAN and in the Cloud. My apps are hybrids, on-site and online. If you're an Event Manager, please give me your support. I won't disappoint you. If you're a "Job Hunter", I don't do full-time, but I don't mind small projects.

Wish all good health and good wealth!