Category: Interlude
Congratulation to MSTO MBA Group Semester 1 2023/2024 at the Azman Hashim International Business School, UTM
Posted onMalaysia’s oldest rubber tree is now 146 years old
Posted onPreviously, we highlighted a rubber tree in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaysia. It was the surviving tree among 22 rubber seedlings brought from England. In 1877, a total of 22 rubber seedlings were brought into the country from Kew Gardens, England. Of the 22 seedlings, nine were sown in Kuala Kangsar. This is the only surviving […]
Congrats..MBA students in change management semester 2 June 2023
Posted onI wish to thank the Azman Hashim International Business School at UTM, Malaysia MBA students in change management, Semester 2 June 2023 for sharing your comments and experiences in class. I hope all of you will strive hard and succeed to be CEOs of companies in future.
Japan is Odd: The Government is Encouraging Youth to Consume More Alcoholic Beverages
Posted onThe growing sobriety of Japan’s young people is hitting the amount of revenue flowing into state coffers and has inspired the national tax agency to run a competition for ideas to encourage more drinking. Tax raised from alcohol sales accounted for 5 per cent of total government revenue in 1980, dropping to 3 per cent […]
Magawa, landmine-hunting hero rat dies in Cambodia
Posted onPreviously, we covered about Magawa, the landmine detector that was awarded a gold medal for heroism for clearing ordnance from the Cambodian countryside. Magawa has just died. Magawa, a giant African pouched rat originally from Tanzania, helped clear mines from about 225,000 square metres of land – the equivalent of 42 football pitches – over the […]
My wife’s new flowering orchids
Posted onMy wife has waited for almost one year for two orchids to produce their vibrant colours.
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.
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 […]
140-year old rain trees at Lake Garden, Taiping, Malaysia
Posted onLast weekend, we visited a few relatives in the Malaysian northern state of Perak. We also admired about 20 140-year old rain trees at the Lake Garden, Taiping. The rain trees were planted by British botanists in 1880s. We were sure that the rain trees were maintained by Malay gardeners. The rain trees are like […]