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Like most companies, we are also not spared from Covid-19. Every time a case is reported, the HR team will drop everything and start to contact trace. We will interview the people and send all close contacts to pack and leave the office immediately. All common areas, their working desks and surrounding areas will be … Read more

The other day, someone asked me, when I am hiring, can I put in the condition as a prerequisite that they must be vaccinated or at least registered for vaccination? Well, it’s actually similar to the conditional hiring of passing a medical check-up, so the answer to that is yes. I do foresee this kind … Read more

Vaccination is not made mandatory currently here in Malaysia but govt did loosened up the rules for the vaxxed ones like they are allowed to dine-in in eateries. But this morning it raised my curiosity, is there any country who made in mandatory, so I started googling about it. Seemed that mostly the countries made … Read more

When MITI announced that manufacturing sector companies that are not listed as essential services in MCO3 are allowed to operate based on the rate of their fully vaccinated workers, MITI has asked companies to declare the number and names of their fully vaccinated employees in the CIMS 3.0 system. Though we are not from the … Read more

With the vaccination rate in the country accelerating, the government has started to gradually loosen up rules and regulations to allow more businesses to open shops. I have also seen businesses promoting that their workers have been vaccinated as part of their marketing effort to attract customers. I have to say it’s smart for it … Read more

I can understand why some are not comfortable being vaccinated. They probably had a poor personal experience with vaccines before. But I do notice a difference for those who are a tested positive, the vaxxed & the unvaxxed. Like most companies, we are also not spared from Covid-19 and I can see there was a … Read more

I see people were so excited to go get vaccinated, they went dressed up in costumes. So, I thought to myself, why not. I was delighted when I was able to fit into my 2016 annual dinner dress & I was even more delighted when I had my 2nd vaccine completed. Regardless of the state … Read more

Like all muscles, we need to exercise our brain in order to strengthen it. Besides biographies & encyclopedias, this is the other type of books I love to buy – activity books. When I was younger, I love to do crossword & sudoku puzzles in newspapers and magazines. I also love solving riddles & math … Read more

We do have a lot of talented writers and cartoonists in Malaysia. So I do try to support them as much as I can. This KL Noir: White is part 2 of the KL Noir Series (it comes in Red, White Blue and Yellow). It’s a collection of short stories about Malaysia’s capital city’s dark … Read more

Well, it’s not uncommon when we are running a business, we refer it as going to war. It’s a dog-eat-dog world after all we are in. Probably that is also why it’s not uncommon we hear that businessmen applies the strategies learnt from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War to their businesses. This Chinese military … Read more