My Salina Boy, now
Posted onMy youngest cat, Salina Boy, is growing fast. He has become a big bully to the other cats, Baby, Yen, Charlie and Tuya. I manage to capture two poses from Salina Boy.
Author: Dato' Dr Anuar
Founder, Bison Consulting, Management and Technology Consulting.
BSc Chemical Engineering, Birmingham University, UK.
MBA, Bradford Management Centre, University of Bradford, UK.
MSc, Management of Technology, Sloan School of Management, UK.
PhD, Business Management, UiTM, Malaysia
Adjunct Professor, Asia e University, Malaysia
Let us harvest the power of the sun: the pioneers of PV solar technology
Posted onEvery day I use solar flood lights to deter wild monkeys from feasting on my ripe rambutans. Hopefully, the flood lights will also deter unwanted strangers from stealing the ripe rambutans. I recharge the solar flood lights using solar panels. Many are interested to know who invented the solar panels that let us to harvest […]
The Language of Crypto Traders
Posted onCrypto currencies, especially bitcoins and ethereum, have been in many people’s minds. The prices of bitcoin has been on fluctuating widely. This phenomenon is logical. The more people want something, the more value you can attach to it. It is supply and demand, which is the oldest rule in thew economics textbook. But when everyone […]
Understanding Covid herd immunity
Posted onThis week I had two close relatives succumbed to Covid in less than 5 days of being tested positive. In Malaysia, this week also witnessed a high infection rate of over 7,000 daily and a death rate of over 100 patients. Other countries, such as Britain, are considering lifting restrictions. In the country, three milestones […]
A Hermes handbag gives good return, as well as please your wife
Posted onAn article in the London Sunday Times on February 28th, 2021, was an interesting one. It quoted Hermes handbags, made by the French company, Hermes International SA, went up by 17 per cent in price while the FTSE 100 index fell by 14.3 per cent. Aside from being a highly desirable fashion accessories, luxury handbags […]
The race for solid-state battery: The case of QuantumSpace Corporation
Posted onThe share prices of EV start-ups have been rising sharply over recent months. Testa Inc., which produces 500,000 EVs per year is valued at more than US$800 billion. At one point, an EV start-up, Nikola, was worth US$40 billion, more than the market value of the 100-year old Ford Motor. Investors have also taken […]
We could be buying Apple’s autonomous electric vehicle soon!
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On February 13th, 2021, the headline of the Times London online was “Britons are at the back of a year-long queue for new Tesla model. Another headline in the Barron’s online reads “Electric vehicles were a non-starter until Tesla comes along. There were a few starts for electric vehicles in the last 100 years. The […]
African giant rats trained to sniff out disease
Posted onOccasionally small rats entered our kitchen to sniff out for leftover foods. If they are not lucky, they are caught by my cats, Salina Boy or Charlie. Instead of being considered a pest, a species of rat, the African giant pouched rat, is being trained to detect a disease that is devastating livestock and threatening […]
Sir, here is your mealworms in curry sauce
Posted onWhen I was small, living in a village with many rivers and natural ponds, a favourite hobby was fishing for fresh water fish. We would find larvae of beetles in fallen sago palms and used it as a fish bait. In remote parts of Sarawak in East Malaysia, locals eat these live larvae as delicacies […]
Innovators who own start-ups can now go public via SPACs
Posted onWe begin 2021 with an article on a new alternative source of capital for innovators. The first topic of the new year is on SPAC, special-vehicle acquisition company. In the US innovators have taken their companies public by merging with SPACs. Through SPAC owners of start-ups have a different, perfectly legal approach to promoting […]