Re-allocation of capital and resources in an economy is about shifting from the business failures of the old, tired and stagnating to the new and future-ready enterprises.
I had some interesting reactions when I posted "The key to a successful recovery from this crisis is how fast ... Read More
The key to a successful recovery from this crisis is how fast the economies can re-allocate both financial and human capital
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Management is in need of a major rethink. We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous ("VUCA") world - ... Read More
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I was asked the question today on how do I keep myself motivated, even when things are so stacked against ... Read More
The environment shapes culture. Change the environment, culture will follow.
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. You can have a great strategy, but if the culture is not right then the ... Read More
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Located in the old KTM - Keretapi Tanah Melayu - railway warehouse land in Sentul West, the KLPAC strikes and ... Read More
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Refocusing the cellphone – we want a not so smart phone with *long battery life*.
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Don’t limit empowerment. But create accountability by having transparency
I often have discussions around the issue of accountability at work. My work deals with establishment of limits of authorities, ... Read More
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As a member of the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable (BBRT) I have been studying management activities that encouraged or impeded performance ... Read More
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and ... Read More
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should I convert to wordpress?
I have been a long time drupal user for my websites. I've always considered wordpress as the other alternative but ... Read More
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one of the projects i am working on is putting together a framework for corporate innovation. one thing's for sure, ... Read More
Beyond Budgeting as a model for greater empowerment and innovation
i would like to share with you my personal journey of the beginnings of the transforming an organisation from a ... Read More
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what the education system in malaysia needs today is more empowerment. empower.... ...teachers with the ability to develop and share ... Read More
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source site - How Simplicity Can Help Creativity, Briefly The judicious application of simplicity can help someone to create, whether ... Read More
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source site - Official Debut: MINI Coupe Concept yet again, BMW has come up with another mouth watering concept. this ... Read More
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I grew up reading a bunch of comics. I initially started with the Marvel / DC types, then moved on ... Read More
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source site - Artist Renderings: BMW S.X. Concept The BMW world doesn’t suffer from lack of rendering artists - some ... Read More
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source site - BMW Sportscar Concept Study Creativity of some car fans never ceases to amaze me. In the past ... Read More
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source - Seth Godin on the tribes we lead | Video on TED.com Some of the most basic things regarding ... Read More
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source site - Video: The Black Stig is back, emerges from the ocean after 6 years A press release was ... Read More
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source site - Woody Norris invents amazing things | Video on TED.com Woody Norris shows off two of his inventions ... Read More
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source site - The Boy With The Incredible Brain Daniel Tammet is a boy with extraordinary mental abilities and one ... Read More
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source site - BMW RZ-M6 based on M1 Hommage A small independent body styling company, Racer X Design, decided to ... Read More
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source site - ROTTEN TOMATOES: Ten Sci-Fi Flicks for the Thinking Man Unless you've been living in a cave for ... Read More
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source site - 2009 Movie Preview: 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year Is this the greatest time ... Read More
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source site - The 25 Most Anticipated Movies of 2009 | Film School Rejects Over the past few weeks we’ve ... Read More
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source site - Fasten Your Seatbelts - washingtonpost.com When the present promises only economic hardship and political upheaval, what does ... Read More
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source site - Pivotal role RAISING children is a paradoxical task. It starts out really hard for parents who want ... Read More
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source site - Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Experience: Mind-Shattering Novels of Philip K. Dick As we look forward to ... Read More
Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star
source site - Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star - Telegraph While it has seemed an impossible goal for ... Read More
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source site - What Is Google App Engine? - Google App Engine - Google Code Google App Engine lets you ... Read More
Picture perfect storm: Photographs capture the terrifying beauty of clouds gathering over Greenland
source site - The picture perfect storm: Photographs capture the terrifying beauty of clouds gathering over Greenland | Mail Online ... Read More
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source site - YouTube - Amazing BMW commercial "The walls between art and engineering only exists in our mind"... Kinetic ... Read More
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source site - Autocar - BMW's green supercar BMW is exploring a plan to build what a senior company official ... Read More
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source site - Productivity 2.0: How the New Rules of Work Are Changing the Game | Zen Habits For years, ... Read More
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source site - 7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design | How-To | Smashing Magazine It’s hard to define design. We ... Read More
Can BMW and Mercedes-Benz Put Rivalry Aside to Take on the VW Group?
source site - Can BMW and Mercedes-Benz Put Rivalry Aside to Take on the VW Group? | Automotive News Blog ... Read More
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source site - People Love Angry-Faced Cars | LiveScience If a Toyota Prius just looks too friendly for your tastes, ... Read More
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source site - How to Persuade People With Subconscious Techniques - wikiHow Persuasiveness is one of the most important skills ... Read More
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source site - Zen Moments - the great power of small things source article - The Cab Ride I’ll Never ... Read More
17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Love To Use!
source site - 17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Love To Use! - Opensource, Free and Useful ... Read More
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source site - 10 sci-fi technologies that just might happen | Geekend | TechRepublic.com My buddies at SFSignal pointed me ... Read More
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David rose gives a very quick run through on what makes a good presentation to VCs. his talk is also ... Read More
How NOT to Use PowerPoint
source site - Bold Leaps: How NOT to Use PowerPoint Have you ever sat thru a presentation that used PowerPoint ... Read More
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source site - Presentation Zen: Is education killing creativity? British reporter Riz Khan put together a nice 20 minute interview ... Read More
BMW or Mercedes Benz? US survey results.
source site - Insurance Blog, Home Insurance Blog, Life Insurance, InsWeb Insurance Blog Have you ever pondered that question? If ... Read More
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source site - Observing Ramadan - The Big Picture - Boston.com Muslim faithful throughout the world are currently observing the ... Read More
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source site - Google Calendar: How to Sync Any Desktop Calendar with Google Calendar As of yesterday's announcement of CalDAV ... Read More
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source site - CleanTechnica - Technology Inspired By Nature A fresh, up-to-date perspective on the latest trends in clean tech ... Read More
Internet tools to help you never forget anything again
source site - How to Never Forget Anything Again - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss The human brain is ... Read More
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source site - Image: global cooling idea Aside from doing this to reduce global warming, can this technique be used ... Read More
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source site: P2P is coming to YouTube It looks like the idea of a P2P-powered YouTube is finally becoming reality, ... Read More
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source site - Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web | Video on TED.com In this absorbing look at emerging ... Read More
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source site - Big Buck Bunny on Vimeo Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a ... Read More
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source site - [ timebeat ] this is a nice rendition of a clock using flash ... Read More
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source site - BBC - Science & Nature - Sex ID Some researchers say that men can have 'women's brains' ... Read More
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source site - Musical tastes in tune with who you are Fans of heavy metal music are gentle, creative people ... Read More
Chris Bangle at TED.com – an insight to BMW’s design spirit
I managed to stumble on this great video of Chris Bangle at TED.com relating to the BMW design philosophy and ... Read More
The rise of collaboration in economic value creation
Again at TED.com, one of my favourite websites, Yoshai Benkler talks about the rise of collaboration in economic activities resulting ... Read More
Robotic technological progress
We often marvel how computing technology has progressed over the years. I remember about 20 years ago, most home computers ... Read More
Top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2007
Wired online magazine did an article on the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2007 recently. Welcome to the first annual ... Read More
The fantastic BMW Welt (world)
The newly opened BMW Welt is one fantastic place for car (and in particular BMW) fans. I found the auto ... Read More
BMW 1 series tii concept
how is this for a completely mental concept from BMW.... the 1 series tii. this is looking so cool i ... Read More
7 steps to inspiring leadership
This is something i picked up today.... The Seven Secrets of Inspiring Leaders Thursday October 11, 8:08 am ET By ... Read More
Thoughts on leadership & success
after my talk with the kids, i started thinking of what attributes i needed to help develop in my kids ... Read More
Learning: the need to relentlessly acquire knowledge
i had a long talk with my kids today. much of this was with the intent of creating an understanding ... Read More
The classic BMW 507
The 507 is one of the most beautiful classic BMW's ever. It is therefore good to see a well maintained ... Read More
Gran Turismo 5 (hi-def) for the PS3
Once again, Polyphony has produced what looks like the mother of all console racing simulators with the upcoming Gran Turismo ... Read More
Hilarious Darth Vader parodies
Never thought that Darth Vader could be so witty. LOL. Darth SmartAlec: The wheezing musician: Never use answer your cellphone ... Read More
Steve buscemi – silverscreen psycho…
steve buscemi Oh how accurate that statement is... 🙂 ... Read More
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I found this site which collects the top movies that prophecies a dystopian future. dystopia is the opposite of utopia ... Read More
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According to an article in the Perth Now, most people will see this dancer moving counter-clockwise because they use more ... Read More
The 2008 E92 BMW M3 (V8)
The new 2008 BMW M3 is a breathtaking beast. This site shows a bit of why it is so... http://content.bmwusa.com/microsite/2008M3/index.html ... Read More
One laptop per child project
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project got me excite about a year back when I saw Nicholas Negroponte's video ... Read More
Creative pictures and actions
I thought this site has some fairly cool pictures. http://www.linkinn.com/_Dream_of_Flying_Pictures ... Read More
Cultural gaps in our society
I am in a cultural analysis mood today. One other cultural phenomenon often cited is the moral degradation of our ... Read More
The problems in present day society
The recent tragedy of Nurin Jazlin Jazimin, 8 years old (al-fatihah) gave me cause to think about the society we ... Read More
BMW: most improved environmental performance
With the launch of the BMW Hydrogen 7, the exciting X6 Efficient Dynamics Active Hybrid and the brace of clean ... Read More
Photoshop tutorials
Over the years, I have been doodling with website designing, both from the coding (HTML, perl, PHP etc) as well ... Read More
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I remember Blade Runner when it was launch. I was in Tokyo and at the same was E.T. Like everybody's ... Read More
The Lotus 2-eleven. I want.
Some raw stats of the 2eleven: Performance 0-60 mph 3.8 secs (estimated) 0-100 km/h 3.9 secs (estimated) 0-100 mph 9.1 ... Read More
The KTM X-Bow – why can’t we have cars like these in Malaysia?
Oh yet another "naked car" like the Ariel Atom 2, the Lotus 2eleven and the Caparo T1. My mouth is ... Read More
A good collection of Calvin & Hobbes comic strips
I love Calvin & Hobbes. The characters have this very interesting perspective on life and concepts. This site has some ... Read More
Cool and creative advertisements
I found some really cool & subtle advertisements which i think is very classy ... Read More
The most versatile 4 letter word
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This guy has an interesting collection of edited photos which i think is rather cool (some risque). sort interesting artwork ... Read More
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Caparo T1 – too fast too furious, damn cool
This is another of the really cool racing cars for the road. I like this one. The Caparo T1 has ... Read More
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I like this one on retro technology... http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid452319854?bctid=1135486277 ... Read More
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This is an interesting experiment on subliminal messaging. Check out this video as it speaks for itself ... Read More
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Here is a collection of things that Google does in the office. Well, i need not tell you that Google ... Read More
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Technology today is changing at a hectic pace. Keeping up is causing me breathlessness. Damn, I must commit to some ... Read More
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I found this incredibly amazing technology which is able to put a massive number of images together and link each ... Read More
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Still the best supercar ever made
I recently read a good article about the McLaren F1. This article got me all excited about the car all ... Read More
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One of the most exciting technology announcements recently is Microsoft's Surface computing. Check out microsoft's site. In a nutshell this ... Read More
BMW to buy Volvo from Ford?
A particularly interesting piece of news circulating the automotive business world at the moment is the stories that BMW is ... Read More
The YouTube generation cannot be ignored
i have long advocated that local organisations explore the use of internet to drive the development of content in the ... Read More
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This is a most awesome video clip of Nordschleife specialist, Sabine Schmitz (yeah the gal who drove the stripped down ... Read More
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Recently BMW Malaysia concluded the "BMW Shorties" competition gaining 74 entries. The initiative was perhaps a welcome injection into the ... Read More
Courses for toilet cleaning
Are we truly bad when it comes to toilet cleanliness? Regardless this, it would appear that some quarters believe that ... Read More
Project one laptop per child
A friend of mine shared the following link. http://www.netevents.tv/docuplayer.asp?docid=75 It is an interesting coverage of the one laptop per child ... Read More
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a lot has been said about web 2.0. what is it? in short it is about exploiting the technology of ... Read More
I don’t know why I love BMW’s, but I do… check this out
For me, BMW always makes cars for the driving enthusiast in mind. They call themselves the Ultimate Driving Machines. It's ... Read More
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I read today's NST cover on Lat's Kampung Boy debuting in the USA with a warm feeling. Well done to ... Read More
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This is a fun looking head to head battle between the Z4 coupe and the TT. As ever the british ... Read More
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This is a great video clip from the 1997 season - the last season f1 cars were on slick tyres ... Read More
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I post this on the drupal website at http://drupal.org/node/91684 I have posted a couple of requests for support on the ... Read More
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originally posted by TheFazz on my-kart.org: The F1 career of the most successful formula one driver of all time is ... Read More
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Whilst I am at the movies.... here's a short teaser from Spider-man 3. The first two films were both excellent ... Read More
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Anybody who reads batman and daredevil graphic novels will know the name Frank Miller. It has been a while however ... Read More
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Congratulations to Alex Yoong and A1 Team Malaysia for winning the second round of the 06/07 A1GP season at Brno ... Read More
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Internet ventures have long been a phenomena that is very difficult to understand. On one hand, the internet or the ... Read More
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The french of late have been coming out with some radical car designs. The recent Paris motorshow saw the unveiling ... Read More
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I didn't realise that there was such a thing as a space conference. Found this on a Wired article in ... Read More
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We all are pretty concerned about home safety in all aspects: security, disasters etc. But would you buy a house ... Read More
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It has been a long while since I updated my blog. Things have been extreme for me for some time ... Read More
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The new "Superman Returns" film is currently garnering positive reviews. What is interesting is that the film is directed by ... Read More
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A bit of an eventful day today. Caught the first half of the Germany vs Costa Rica match and did ... Read More
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I found some good collection of Villeneuve racing videos at YouTube. Check out some of the fantastic stuff there. The ... Read More
Out of the box: Wherefore the MSC?
I came across a BBC article on the MSC, and felt the need to say my two sen worth. Ten ... Read More
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Many of you know that I am a TV series freak. One of the series which I follow is ABC's ... Read More
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It's nice to have a break. Totally unwind and away from emails, telephones and work. Tanjung Jara is the perfect ... Read More
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One of the challenges at the office is getting the workforce to generate creativity. Our company is in the internet ... Read More
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I've been working on configuring my drupal code to support multi-sites including this one. however, I've been having problems with ... Read More
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I've been watching the first season of House MD and find it excellent. Hugh Laurie acts as the cranky but ... Read More
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I've been advocating that local internet companies aggressively promote community-driven only video solutions like YouTube and the many other copycats ... Read More
Age old chicken or egg question answered!
Soon we will have to think some other conundrum to illustrate an age old question of what comes first: the ... Read More
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For those of you who do not know what an Ariel Atom2 is (no, it is NOT a brand of ... Read More
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Apple's iTunes is making waves again. This time it is in relation to downloadable video (TV). For some time downloadable ... Read More
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Whilst Yahoo! were busy wooing the analsyts, Google was attracting attention of a different kind. Check out this online trading ... Read More
Yahoo! explains the future of the internet media company
As I was digging around for the latest hot tech news on the web, I came across this piece about ... Read More
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I read on the web that the final chapter of the Human Genome Project has been published. The international Human ... Read More
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Deliciously uncivil With a board full of car freaks at BMW, the hard-top M Coupé was a natural. The 330 ... Read More
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I must say that after 6 rounds of the F1 season, it is looking like another championship for Fernando Alonso ... Read More
Happy Labour Day
It's Labour Day. Which means it is a day off for many working folks. Me? Yeah. Off day as well ... Read More
The E60 BMW M5 review by Fifth Gear
This you got to see: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/91703/bmw_m5/ ... Read More
Good God, I am Will Riker! LOL!
I took a silly test and found out I am Will Riker. Wierd! Your results: You are Will Riker Will ... Read More
To the naysayers – never say never
I've often been faced by sceptics about whether on not certain things are possible or not. In fact, I myself ... Read More
Internet TV gaining momentum
It was previously reported that some hollywood studios are following the example of the adult studios in putting their contents ... Read More
Must watch video: BMW Z4 vs Porsche Boxster
As some of you know, I have been stumbling over the 'net for sometime now. Every now and then I ... Read More
The National Automotive Policy – 22 March 2006
Being a car lover, I greeted the announcement of the National Automotive Policy ("NAP") with great interest. Having read the ... Read More
Aah… I’m not happy today
I had a fairly ok weekend which started out with some meetings with people connected to my-kart. The first meeting ... Read More
F1, 2006 – not long to go now!
The wait is almost over! In slightly over a week, the 2006 F1 season will come. So far in testing, ... Read More
A pointless waste of time
Once again tonight, I stumbled around in a slow and weary manner. I'm tired. I've lost much of what I ... Read More
Master Yoda, I am.
I took the above quick survey and discovered that I am that old short green fellow. Urgh. Here is what ... Read More
Busy, but so many things to do for my-kart
It's the usual year end thing. You see, I'm an accountant - of sorts. Our company year end is December ... Read More
Getting zonked out every 24 hours
Been very busy with lots of things. My schedule just fills up as quickly as toilet cistern. Whenever it is ... Read More
Tested my Rotax 125
Yesterday, Munib and I went to the USJ Elite kart circuit for a few rounds on our Rotax Max. I ... Read More
my-KART updates: these guys are getting fast!
To round off 2005 for my-KART we kicked off with an Inter Company / Car Club ("IC3") Challenge. We even ... Read More
Stumbling around on the web
I have not updated this blog in a while. Things have been quite busy for me of late with family ... Read More
Taking a break at Cyberview lodge
Holiday for the Fazz family is a pretty modest affair. Given the five kids we have, a holiday would usually ... Read More
Piquet on Mansell – best F1-related news of the day
For those of you who followed F1 since the late 80s, you would be familiar with the titanic battles between ... Read More
Seasons greetings!
Another 3 days to Christmas and another 10 days to the New Year. I would like to take this opportunity ... Read More
Nostalgia Anime! Blocker Corp Machine Blaster
Was watching some cartoons with my kids this evening and the subject of giant robots came up. Told my son ... Read More
Philosophy in sci-fi films
Some of you may know that I am a sci-fi buff. I enjoy sci-fi in all forms be it novels, ... Read More
Comics to films – The Watchmen and others
Many years ago (in 1987), I picked up a graphic novel (comic book) titled "The Watchmen". Along with Frank Miller's ... Read More
Website experimentation
You may be wondering what is all the odd and disjointed components on this website are all about. Certainly it ... Read More
Finished watching some great sci-fi’s
I recently finished watching the whole Battlestar Galactica (new series) 1st season. First thing to say is I can't wait ... Read More
my-KART championship – what a tough year!
Saturday 10th December 2005 was a culmination of a tough year in the my-kart K2 championship. The competition is truly ... Read More
Catching movies… The Goblet of Fire, King Kong, Aeon Flux etc
I brought my kids to watch Harry Potter's 4th adventure -The Goblet of Fire- last night. Ok... not too bad, ... Read More
Jacques Villeneuve stays with BMW Sauber F1
A few days ago I read with great happiness that BMW Sauber F1 has confirmed 1997 World F1 Champion, Jacques ... Read More
OSX on intel machines
I've been an Apple fan since the mid 80s and the days of the Apple II. To me the Apple ... Read More
Technology convergence: internet, entertainment & communication
Google has been in the news quite often of late. One moment, they are swallowing up the public domain book ... Read More
Google Base – a new tool?
I came across a link to Google Base whilst browsing the Google Blogs recently. It looks like a new way ... Read More
A1 GP gets a strong fan today
Fellow my-KARTers and Tail Happy Racing teammates Yusnee, Azlan and I managed to get some invitations to the Perdana Suite ... Read More
A1GP comes to Sepang, Malaysia
Today is the start of the Malaysian A1GP weekend at Sepang. Malaysia will be Round 5 of the 12 round ... Read More
The gorgeous 407
Most people who know me know that I love BMWs. I've been a Bimmer fan since the age of 6 ... Read More
my-KART project updates
One of the best things that I've been involved with outside of family and work is the things that Azlan ... Read More
Who are the Japanese singers I listen to?
A friend of mine got into my car and heard some Japanese music playing on my CD player. Who are ... Read More
Am I a finance manager??
I've been doing a lot of thinking about the challenges faced by finance managers in the world of business. These ... Read More
What I’m watching nowadays
I've been watching Star Trek Enterprise and find it quite difficult to go thru the whole first season. Even T'pol's ... Read More
A1GP: Well done again Team Malaysia
The 4th round of the A1GP season at Eastern Creek in Australia just ended. The race was won by France, ... Read More
iPod for my BMW?
I was thinking of expanding the music repertoire for my Bimmer. Was thinking of getting myself an iPod and hooking ... Read More
Things to adopt from other drupal themes
Been swapping themes on this website, and note some good practices that I'd like to adopt for my default site ... Read More
Sci-fi books & movies
I make no secret that I am a sci-fi geek. Sadly, I have not been recommended any good sci-fi stuff, ... Read More
Web Updates – Drupal patching, CSS layouts
I am planning to do a few things: installing a taxanomy access control moduleI did some research on the subject ... Read More
Apple iPod Video makes waves
If you'd browse my World News feeds (look for it on the top menu) you'd find some news of my ... Read More
Firefly / Serenity tops best sci-fi survey
Firefly was a shortlived sci-fi TV series set 500 years in the future in the new wild frontier of space ... Read More
Adding news feeds to my website!
Another mega-cool feature of drupal is the ability to add RSS news feeds to my website. I've just activated the ... Read More
Tinkering with the site layouts through CSS, again
My wandering mind will not ever allow me to be happy with a single layout structure. I was moderately happy ... Read More
going crpg after a long hiatus
It has been a while since I last really played any form of computer games, be in on the PS2, ... Read More
Got my first BMW last night!
I am now a proud owner of an E39 BMW 525i. Just got it last night after buka puasa with ... Read More
BMW just launched the new 2006 Z4 and Z4M roadster
I just read at Germancarfans.com that the 2006 Z4 has just been launched together with a rubber buring Z4M roadster ... Read More
bluehyppo education programmes
Just learnt that bluehyppo and TM smart schools have collaborated on education content at the following website: bluehyppo b-smart website ... Read More
Thinking about my blog projects
Gosh I have many stuff going on at the same time. I have a few blogs going on which potentially ... Read More
Do more of, do less of
I've been thinking of an idea that could hopefully help me and indirectly others improve on personal behaviours. This idea ... Read More
star trek enterprise babe
I first knew of Jolene Blalock from Star Trek Enterprise where she plays the hot Vulcan Subcommander T'Pol. I was ... Read More
Wonderful things you can do with 3D
Sometime ago I was smitten by 3D modelling using Creative Labs' Poser. Now in its 6th incarnation, I find Poser ... Read More