Posted in Rockwills & Estate planning on Oct 31st, 2006
Incorporated under the Companies Act 1965 and registered under the Trust Companies Act 1949, as-Salihin is a Trust Company established to meet the crying need of the ordinary Muslim to preserve, protect and distribute his hard-earned assets for the benefit of his loved ones once he departs for the hereafter. The above statement from as-Salihin [...]
Posted in Investment on Oct 30th, 2006
The AmGlobal Property Equities Fund (AMGLPEQ) was the first specialist Malaysian unit trust fund to offer investors an opportunity to put their money in global property securities. This is a feeder fund with at least 95 per cent of the Fund’s NAV being invested in the Luxembourg-based Henderson Horizon Global Property Equities Fund which has [...]
Posted in Chess on Oct 27th, 2006
I WAS so very much on edge last Friday evening. Who wouldn’t be, watching the four tie-break games of the world chess championship unification match live on the Internet? That was just about the most tense final night in any chess competition. Bulgarian grandmaster Vesselin Topalov, the Fide world champion, was battling the popularly-styled classical [...]
Posted in Rockwills & Estate planning on Oct 26th, 2006
I was flicking through today’s copy of The Star newspaper this evening when I came across this item about the joint deaths of a philanthropist and his wife in a car accident near the Kuala Lumpur International Airport last Tuesday (24 Oct 2006). They were on the way to the airport with their four children [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2006
Today, there is a feature story on Starbucks (SBUK) by the Associated Press (AP) that chronicles how the coffee chain giant is pursuing an aggressive expansion plan globally. My breath was practically taken away when I read through the article which has been carried by most major newspapers around the world. The coffee chain is [...]
Posted in Rockwills & Estate planning on Oct 24th, 2006
I received a phone call today from a friend. He’s in the midst of a divorce. I’m shocked about it because somehow, divorce is not something that I’d thought could happen to people I know. But it does happen. Couples do go their separate ways if their marriages do not work out. Unfortunately, I’m not [...]
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2006
Today is the first day of Syawal, which means that that my Muslim friends are all celebrating Hari Raya Aidil Fitri (Eid Al-Fitr). The end of Ramadan sees them putting on their finest clothes to celebrate this joyous occasion. They’ll be visiting the mosques today for prayers and then visiting family members. A great time [...]
Posted in Careers on Oct 22nd, 2006
Do you know that there are several ways that we can waste time? We do not think of time as a commodity but it is! Time is very limited and yet, we do not really appreciate what we have. In an average lifespan of 70 years, we have only 6,048,000 seconds. How many have you [...]
Posted in General on Oct 21st, 2006
Today is Deepavali in Malaysia and I am spending the day in celebration with my Hindu friends in Simpang Ampat. My wife is in Kulim with her Hindu friends while my son is visitng his own circle of Hindu friends in Seberang Jaya! Known as the Festival of Lights, Deepavali symbolises the victory of good [...]
Posted in Investment on Oct 14th, 2006
My apologies if I have been out of the radar screen for the past weeks. Reason is, I’ve been terribly busy with a lot of “home ministerial” work to catch up with, if you know what I mean. Anyway, I hope that will be behind me for a while. Let’s take a look at another [...]
