Thanks to my wife, Datin Azimah, who closely takes care of the rose apple tree, pruning and fertlising, we are now ready to enjoy bountiful rose apple fruits. They look juicy red. The photos are so vivid and beautiful. Readers are welcome to use them in your blogs or albums.
This new Semester 20025/2026, I am introducing a new subject, Organizational Death. Fast-changing buiness environment is causing more companies, including established companies, go bankrupt. Please be free to download the PPT.
Previously, 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 […]
Recently, the media has seemed to catch on the new invention—NFTs. NFT is a unique, non-interchangeable digital asset basked by blockchain ledger technology. Non fungible characteristic of these tokens or assets refers to the unique and non-replicable nature of this digital-crypto assets, compared to, for example a Bitcoin or a US$1 bill, where each unit […]
NFT Buzz is a new blog focusing on NFTs, metaverse and related topics. We hope readers will enjoy the blog as usual. Please visit the blog, http://nft.datodranuar.com/wp
The oil palm industry in Malaysia used to hire thousands of female workers to just manually gather pollen grains from male flowers of oil palms to pollinate female flowers. On average, a group of three workers are required for a every hectare of oil palm plantation. Teams of workers patrolled the oil palm estate daily, […]
The motor industry in Europe and the US in the early 1900s led to the mad rush for plantation rubber in British Malaya (Malaysia now). There was not enough supply of rubber gathered from the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. A large part of British Malaya was cleared of its forests and planted with rubber trees. […]
Introduction Coconut leaf mid-rib or spine has been used extensively as brooms. However, these brooms have been replaced by plastic brooms, which are cheaper. However, these plastic brooms contribute to the problem of plastic wastes. Coconut leaf mid-rib brooms are slightly more expensive as they need to be manually separated from the coconut leaves by […]