PETALING JAYA: The Government’s strategic investment unit, 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) seems to be gearing up for involvement in the real estate industry judging by its large recruitment plan recently. 1MDB placed a two-page recruitment advertisement in The Star on Sept 25, mostly for senior positions within various units in the real estate team of [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Posted in 
Malaysia property market to ride on new wave of interest
September 30th, 2010 
Diana CB RICHARD Ellis (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (CBRE), a real estate services company, expects the number of property transactions in the country to improve this year, thanks to a new wave of interest from local and foreign institutional funds. Executive chairman Christopher Boyd said there is strong buying interest from Singaporean, Hong Kong, Korean and Arab [...]
I Don’t have Gold Bullion
September 30th, 2010 Diana For a start, I am not that rich to own gold bullion but I have GIA – gold investment account with Public Bank. It is just a small amount of gold for investment. The profit can only be realized 1 year later and not less than that, provided the price of gold has gone up. [...]
Australia commercial property deals on the rise
September 30th, 2010 Diana Australian commercial property transactions are climbing as the nation’s economic growth draws investors seeking income and capital growth, CB Richard Ellis Group Inc said. About A$2.6 billion (US$2.5 billion) of properties changed hands in the third quarter, 75 per cent more than a year earlier, the world’s largest commercial real-estate broker said in an e- [...]
Law & Order Los Angeles
September 29th, 2010 Diana Thanks for the post from Sylvester Campbell I can not wait until Law & Order Los Angles starts this fall. I will be watching on my satellite TV every week. I loved the original Law & Order and watched it from the start all the way to the season finale. I hope that Law & [...]
Top 1000 World Banks Ranking for 2010
September 28th, 2010 Diana In July 2010, The Banker Magazine publish Top 1000 World Banks ranking for 2010. The rankings are based on the definition of Tier 1 capital as set out by Basel’s Bank for International Settlements (BIS). The definition is stricter than total stockholders’ equity and covers only the core of the bank’s strength. The shareholders’ equity [...]
Free Viral Traffic for your WebSite or Blog
September 27th, 2010 Diana I came upon this site by chance and decided to try it out. You will get free traffic and it does not cost anything other than your time to sign up and get a similar banner above. I am all out for anything FREE and is a sucker for FREE stuffs. Hence, to increase exposure [...]
Legend of The Guardians : The Owls of Ga Hoole (3D)
September 25th, 2010 Diana Soren (Jim Sturgess) is a young adventurous owl who loves hearing stories from his father Noctus (Hugo Weaving) about the legend of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole, a legendary alliance of owls that are sworn to protect the Kingdom of Ga’Hoole. His younger sister Eglantine (Adrienne deFaria) is enamoured by these stories, but his older brother, [...]
I Love My Job
September 24th, 2010 Diana For some people, their definition of JOB is Just Over Broke. Just kidding! Just to say that I love my job working from a home office since February 2004. No more office politics, no more traffic jams, no more dressing up to get to work and most of all no more crazy supervisors who take [...]
Sister going to Shanghai
September 22nd, 2010 Diana My youngest sister will be going to Shanghai, China to attend a managers’ meeting for 1 week. She is working for a USA company based in Penang. There will be several managers from USA to fly down to Shanghai just for the meeting. They must have calculated that it is cheaper to attend a meeting [...]
