Category Archives: General

A warning about plastic

Reproducing here part of an article that appeared on Rodale News. 5. Eating and drinking plastic Toss your plastic water bottles into a recycling bin. According to a University of Cincinnati study, the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) found in hard … Continue reading

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Potential landmine in Financial Services Act 2013?

I’m just a lay person where insurance is concerned but I’d like to share here whatever little that I know about the newly introduced Financial Services Act 2013 vis-a-vis the insurance industry. If I am wrong, I am willing to … Continue reading

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Charter of free inquiry

I’m inviting you to read these 10 lines below in good faith: read them and see whether you’d agree with them. Let me just say at the onset too that this is a Charter of Free Inquiry which advises us … Continue reading

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No-pain grammar checks

I’ve just been introduced to a new service on the Internet which claims to help users of the English language with their grammar. You know how difficult this language can be and although I had gone through my education mainly … Continue reading

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Financial Services Act 2013

This is the new Financial Services Act 2013 that I was talking about earlier which came into effect on 30 June 2013. It has implications for the finance industry in Malaysia as a whole as the new FSA2013 replaces several … Continue reading

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Not quite understandable

Why can’t companies write a friendlier note that’s not so couched in officious words to the point that I’ve to read and re-read it several times in order to understand what they’re trying to say? For example, this letter from … Continue reading

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Legislation affecting financial planning

What are the legislation in Malaysia that will affect financial planners most or at the very least, should be good for them to know or be aware of? In my opinion, below are the few pertinent ones which I present … Continue reading

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Snippet: getting to know the organisation

The next logical step after you have secured that much coveted interview is to find out as much as you can about the organisation. Things that you should have some basic idea of, before going into the interview, are pretty … Continue reading

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Easy: Exabytes’ virtual mall

Exabytes Network (Exabytes) has announced its expansion of virtual mall (http://mall.easy.my), increasing the scale of merchants to over 6000. Exabytes expects to grow their merchant list to at least 10,000 by year-end in its pursuit to build and maintain the … Continue reading

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Passport to bad English

This story appeared in the Free Malaysia Today website on 15 April 2012. It simply accentuates the depths which the Federal Government have sunk to in their command of the English Language. PETALING JAYA: Hundreds of thousands of Malaysian passports … Continue reading

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