Archive for October, 2014
Kuala Lumpur Petronas Towers is still the tallest building in Southeast Asia. Standing at 452 metres with 88-floors, the Twin Towers were built in 1998 and have been holding the throne ever since. The pride of Malaysians is also the world’s fifth tallest building, behind Hong Kong International Commerce Centre (484 metres), Shanghai World Financial […]
... written on Oct 16 2014In spring 2014, a competition was held for the design of motifs for the new Norway banknote series. The purpose of the competition was to arrive at a proposal that can be the artistic basis of the new banknote series and communicate the theme “The Sea” in an appropriate manner. Eight participants were selected by a […]
... written on Oct 15 2014Ebola is as deadly as the most accepted theory that a giant asteroid crashed into Earth and wiped out dinosaurs. Although it’s very unlikely that mankind would become extinct this century due to Ebola, thousands and perhaps tens of thousands more people will have to die before it can be contained – if those pharmaceuticals see […]
... written on Oct 15 2014Beware car owners, if you drove a red car, you would most likely stopped by police officers. Whether it’s a fact or simply a myth that red car owners would attract police attention and hence traffic tickets remains a mystery. It could be due to the perception that most sporty or high performance cars were […]
... written on Oct 15 2014You have a great product that could potentially brings in tons of money. Without a good marketing team to introduce it to the market, your product can’t go far. But a good marketing strategy will not work if the product packaging sucks. Companies are spending billions of dollars conducting research on colour schemes, designs and […]
... written on Oct 15 2014What have you done since we published an article about grand-daddy George Soros betting US$2 billion on SPY Puts? If you have been trimming your stock portfolio and take some money off the table, congratulations. If you have done nothing, it’s okay, because by nature you’re just a normal human. You’re no fund manager, let […]
... written on Oct 14 2014Sweden, also known as the Kingdom of Sweden, is the third largest country in the European Union. But the country which borders Norway and Finland has a total population of merely 9.7 million. People may not know or heard of Sweden, but they definitely know IKEA, the world’s largest furniture retailer founded in Sweden back […]
... written on Oct 13 2014On Saturday, October 11th, Edward Snowden, the N.S.A. whistle-blower, spoke via live video with the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer. In the interview, the former N.S.A., C.I.A., and D.I.A. employee was asked some questions of what the public (that’s you and me) can do to protect our privacy, now that it’s an open secret governments are spying […]
... written on Oct 13 2014What do you do when you want a raise? Some of companies’ appraisals are around the corner, now that it’s the end of the year. Some of you may start doing that thing which you’ve been doing every year – pretending to be hard at work hoping your boss notices it and would give you […]
... written on Oct 12 2014Malaysia’s security has gone a little bonkers recently. The craziness has move up a few notches with a pre-dawn grenade explosion yesterday, leaving one car jockey dead and 13 injured. As expected, the country’s police – the best on planet Earth – concluded there and then that the bombing was due to gangland feud. If […]
... written on Oct 10 2014
