Posted in Rockwills & Estate planning on Mar 28th, 2007
This just in … a news item in today’s The New Straits Times. I’ll be reproducing it verbatim and won’t be making any comments on it as the item is self-explanatory: KUALA LUMPUR: Two rival companies which specialise in the writing of wills and trusts have taken their legal battle further. Rockwills Corporation Sdn Bhd [...]
Posted in Careers on Mar 27th, 2007
Not long ago, my friend, Raymond, was living through a personal crisis. I bumped into him recently. The last time I met him, he was with a well-known local company bringing in impressive sales. He is still in the sales line but now with a different company. So what was Raymond’s crisis? According to him, [...]
Posted in Rockwills & Estate planning on Mar 20th, 2007
I had a telephone call from a friend last week. He was telling me about the problems that one of his friends, a lady, was facing since the death of her husband several years ago. Their children were still minors at that time and in her husband’s Will, he had appointed his brother as the [...]
Posted in Investment on Mar 18th, 2007
When the world markets slid last week, one of the reasons suggested for the slide was nervousness centering on the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market in the United States. Now, what is a sub-prime mortgage market? According to definitions, this market is for borrowers with poor credit histories who normally cannot qualify for mortgage [...]
I’ve just created a new category for this blog and I call it Penang because I’m a proud Penangite and I will always care for this place called Penang. I’ve also transferred a few pertinent stories from the General category to here because it is where they belong. There’s no place like home and Penang [...]
Posted in Careers on Mar 18th, 2007
In an article in today’s The Sunday Star (18 Mar 2007), Deputy Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak was asked: What do you think can be done to improve the level of English in the country? “I think we should strengthen our command of both the national language and English. I think all of [...]
Posted in Penang on Mar 18th, 2007
I stay on the mainland but that does not mean I’m insensitive to the transportation problems faced by my insular island cousins. On the contrary, as one that grew up on the island before transplanting myself to the mainland some 28 years ago, I feel for those people who are pained by the inadequate public [...]
Posted in General on Mar 17th, 2007
My wife asked me yesterday whether I had read the Letter To The Editor which the FMM President had released to the newspapers. So I went to the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturer’s website and saw that it was already in the public domain. Moreover, as newspapers such as The Star have already carried it, I [...]
Posted in Investment on Mar 15th, 2007
The markets bounced back with a vengeance, spurred by recovery on Wall Street. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index was up by 13.93 points from yesterday’s close. But don’t bet your last dollar that it is the last we’ll see of the bears. We’ll continue to be affected by the US economy which still has a [...]
Posted in Careers on Mar 15th, 2007
This is not the first time I am writing about job scams but a recent case that was reported in The Star on 14 Mar 2007 certainly took the cake. When a team of police officers raided a house in Taman Pandan Ria in Ampang, they found 16 youths who were held captive in the [...]
