In less than 2 weeks’ time, I’ll be travelling again. The longest trip that I’ve planned thus far in life – a 6 weeks honeymoon made up of two unpaid self-proclaimed “sabbatical” together with my wife, which hopefully also serve as a 6 week retreat from the common-sense life that we’re living in the shadow [...]

Only 2 months left and there seems to be nothing settled – not to mention all the other attention grabbing bosses and friends trying to distract me from making this work. And so we will celebrate this day by going to …. USS! This evening that is. [Important announcement for guest] If you haven’t RSVP [...]

After at least 6 years of using ShoutMix on this blog, looks like Snecx is finally putting up his compulsory pay wall to sustain the business. He explains his rational in an open letter. I guess after only 250 legitimate messages and having to manually deal with thousands more spam messages, it’s a great time [...]

This is definitely 1000 times more exciting than Johor Premium Outlets… My rudimentary and summarized understanding by garnering information from www.legoland.com.my is that LEGOLAND Malaysia in JB is going to be mostly theme park, ready 2012, really expensive (i.e. targeted at tourists), very Singapore focused (for revenue), enormous (compared to USS), and needless to say, [...]

Just as I spent most of my childhood knowing only one Prime Minister until I was 23 (MM), I also know only only one opposition leader in parliament, and appears routinely on Chinese newspapers that my family subscribes as the savior for the unjust faced by the daily average Malaysian. This man turned 70 on [...]

Have you wondered what are the top 5 websites that you keep visiting and how much time you have spent on those website? Similarly, do you know the time spread of your activities between, say, MS Excel which might be your work, and Internet Explorer, where you constantly get sucked into your facebook newsfeed? KPI [...]

I’m helping Joyce publicize this a bit more, as I think this is a great opportunity for the current undergrads/grads to get more corporate exposure. Malaysia Inc. is in serious need for a new network of young blood and this can be one interesting program to start with. Here’s a note from them: Otak-Otak : [...]

Brain Gain, Brain Drain. Brain Exchange. Brain Create. Brain Rot. Brain Happy. Just saw the recent announcement of Malaysia’s effort to Brain Gain yesterday by allowing high skilled expats to get a 10 year residency pass with less restrictions (including not being employed) starting next April, and also allowing JPA scholars to serve their bond [...]

All nationalities are welcomed actually. Actually the back story is that we got this extra booking at Quality Hotel that has to be used up, so we thought might as well get together and sembang (isn’t that Malaysian’s favourite past time?) because the last gathering in Woodlands not enough people (so not shiok enough). You [...]

You have read the news. Amidst the public backlash for not preserving a historical site is the need to solve a different public need – road widening – that I’m sure people who drive through that road knows very well (I pull my hair every time I am forced to use that road). But are [...]