Posts from ‘October, 2008’

Following the problems in the sub-prime lending market in America and the run on Northern Rock in the UK, uncertainty has now hit Japan.
In the last 7 days Origami Bank has folded, Sumo Bank has gone belly up and Bonsai Bank announced plans to cut some of its branches.
Yesterday, it was announced that Karaoke Bank [...]

I recently started participating in a forum dedicated to Malaysia My Second Home: www.my2home.info. I first started interacting with Scott when I was working for Allo’ Expat and he always came up with great informative posts. He opened his forum to share his MM2H experience. At the time, a competitor to AE’s MM2H section, now [...]

Sequoia, one of the most successful Venture Capital firm in the US, recently shared some of their insights and juices in a slide show embedded here-after. Very interesting stuff.
Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturnPopout
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: depression recession)

Lots of very interesting numbers there. Unfortunately it is too US [...]

Royal Skandia just published an open letter to its clients and adivsers to update them on the impact of the current crises in relation to Skandia. In this difficult times, many people are worrying about their investments and how safe their positions are. This letter answers many important questions.
Skandia’s business model is almost exclusively built [...]

Been catching up on my reading this evening, and I Just couldn’t stop laughing out loud for the past 5 minutes after reading this article: Catchy slogan that catches banks out
Had to share this !!

Today is a big day in Malaysia. Today is Hari Raya Aidilfitri!
It marks the end of the Ramaddan and is as big as Christmas back home.
Most Malaysians go back to their Kampung (village) to celebrate with their families and share Rendang and Lemang prepared over the past few days. I just came back from my [...]