He began his writing career with short stories before embarking on his novel Sayang (1991), A Candle On The Sun (1991) and Moonrise, Sunset (1996). His literary corpus encompasses divergent subjects, from political intrigue and the apotheosis of desire to drug addition and murder mysteries, but this versatility is uniformly tinged by sensuous evocation and an illuminating insight. Nonetheless, he has also been accused of resorting to sensationalism to bait the reader in his uncompromisingly graphic description of sex scenes.