Happy Birthday Dad

Happy Birthday Dad. These last few days witnessed some “missing-home” moments with your birthday, the new year celebrations back in Mauritius, the Form 1 admission in high schools. Fresh memories of the days you took me on your Honda bike, the trips to your workplace MBC, the hidden tears of departing from you during the early school days, our car trips, our first drink together, our long golden drinks nights with few golden words, the caring and being there all the way … I can remember these days as if it was yesterday ! … Happy Birthday again pops !

The different perception of beauty

“Amid the flames sleep may men’s eyelids close, In poverty the eye knows no repose,” ~ Thiruvalluvar Poverty refers to the lack of means to accede to ends. One fifth of the world’s population use four fifths of the resources available. Poor people have problems like food, education and shelter which they cannot have access [...]

Article: poor leadership leading to organizational failure

Poor leadership is undoubtedly one of the main potential factor that can lead an organization to fail. In this paper, the causes of poor leadership are discussed. The resulting impact on employees and the organization itself is also evaluated. Three case studies of great startup companies, namely Atari, Commodore and Motorola are used as examples [...]

Book Publication: Creative Commons

Creative Commons is an extension to digital contents licensing. It has brought a different dimension to the way content producers share their data among other entities. It provides free, easy-to-use legal tools that give everyone from individual user generated content creators to major companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to pre-clear usage rights to [...]

Publication

The Business Impacts of Social Media & Social Networking ….. Abstract: ________ Social media and social networking has grown exponentially in the recent years. They have influenced many sectors of the world. Business is one of the affected sectors. Organizations have taken to recent adaptations of mostly online social networks to promote and grow their [...]

Cycle Trip – UnSeen Woodlands Neighbourhoods

UnSeen Woodlands Neighbourhoods. Trip: Marsiling Drive – Admiralty Rd – Sembawang Rd – Yishun – Canberra Rd – Woodlands Ave 6 – Woodlands Center – Marsiling Drive

colors: perception of meanings

Color, the visual perceptual property which humans hold, derives from a spectrum of light when interacted with the eye. Perception of colors differs from varying sensitivity of the eye and processing of this perception by the brain to output meanings. Meanings of colors will differ from person to person but shall have a common enumerated [...]

Adobe Photoshop – Timeline

Celebrating 20 years of Photoshop ! My timeline of usage starts from version 3.0 on a PowerPC mac. {click on image to view full timeline}

drift of a great strategic relationship : Adobe/Apple

“Adobe is Lazy” ! “They can do better things” – Steeve Jobs Where is the long term strategic leadership that Apple always had with Apple ! A strategy that boosted the power of the Mac and digital advancements specially in the entertainment field. Today when Adobe is reaching out to more desktop and web users, [...]

my all-time favorite advert headlines

At Sixty Miles an Hour the Loudest Noise in the New Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock. – David Ogilvy. * When the chief engineer at the Rolls-Royce Factory read this, he shook his head sadly and said, “Its time we did something about that damned clock.”