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This blog contains my ideas from all facets of my life: my very contrarian ideas on management and business transformation developed under Jimeu Consultants; very fascinating facts from Malaysian socio-political history; my insights into the geopolitics and everyday living of the world around us as well as exploring the traditions of the Church.
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Catholic Soundbite 08 - Lent & Easter
To continue from the post on the Liturgical Calendar , which covered Advent-Christmas, I would like to move on to Lent-Easter. ...
Mar 21, 202420 min read
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16 The Englishmen who founded the MCA
Chinese people have been in south-east Asia for two thousand years since the Han Dynasty and some settled largely as traders, fisherman...
Mar 18, 202422 min read
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15 - Races working together
The first five months of 1948 was a rather good period for Umno. The Federation of Malaya was set up on February 1 with a constitution...
Feb 29, 202415 min read
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Catholic Soundbite 07- Advent & Christmas
The liturgical calendar, in which the Church festivals are set out, has come to us after centuries of evolution. You can be sure in...
Feb 7, 202411 min read
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Authentic musical performances and where it take us
Music lives in a context I remember once taking a hostel-mate for a sung mass at the Catholic Westminster Cathedral. He was Northern...
Feb 4, 20246 min read
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Globalisation of food
People tend to think of globalisation as something that happened only recently but in truth globalisation has been ongoing since...
Jan 18, 202412 min read
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Catholic Soundbites 06 - the Church Building
The church building is something that we tend to take for granted. Many of the objects in the church has a story behind it. In more...
Jan 14, 202410 min read
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14 - Education system in Malaya
The position of the education minister has historically been especially important in Malaysian politics. Each and every successor to the...
Jan 12, 202419 min read
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Pitfalls in hiring a new CEO
Many years ago, I brought a project to a senior manager to try and persuade him to take it on. I told him that this was the project was...
Dec 27, 20235 min read
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Singapore and the negative parts of its corporate culture
So far, I have been discussing the interesting aspects that made Singapore such an economic and political success worthy of emulation...
Dec 17, 20238 min read
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Catholic Soundbites 05 - Cardinals and Papal Elections
An earlier post on the Pope begs another another post on what happens when a Pope dies and a new one elected. I have been involved with...
Dec 14, 202317 min read
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013 - Opposition to the Anglo-Umno front and the Hartal
Non-Malay response to Malayan Union In contrast to the widespread, spontaneous and highly impassioned Malay opposition to the Malayan...
Dec 12, 202313 min read
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Case Study 2 - The Project Management Dashboard
I was invited for dinner one day by a young man in the construction industry for some advice on his business. On arrival at the dinner...
Nov 30, 20237 min read
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Catholic Soundbites 04 - the Pope
With this current Pope Francis, it may be time to share some soundbites about the Papacy. Again, I do not expect anyone to memorise all...
Nov 15, 202311 min read
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012 Onn Jaafar - a visionary but a deeply flawed man
Much has been made in history about being the right person at the right place at the right time. However, most of us are pretty much...
Nov 3, 202312 min read
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Catholic Soundbites 03 - Bishops
There have been many aspects of the Catholic Church, that has always fascinated me ever since I was a boy. The decades of reading and...
Oct 22, 20239 min read
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Singapore and its social engineering
As with any other tourist cities, Singapore offers T-shirts that say "My mother went to Singapore and all I got was this lousy T-shirt”. ...
Oct 17, 20237 min read
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Case Study 1 - The young man
At the beginning of the pandemic, I met a prospective client on the phone: a young man who has been quite successful in his business...
Oct 12, 20234 min read
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Catholic Soundbites 02 - Priests
There have been many aspects of the Catholic Church, that has always fascinated me ever since I was a boy. The decades of reading and...
Sep 22, 202210 min read
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011 Malayan Union - the Malay response
One of the British Military Administration's first instructions from London was to announce the Malayan Union proposals. The response...
Sep 22, 20229 min read
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