When Alina shared the link via WhatsApp, I didn’t get it at first but because it was her who shared, I immediately went on clicking on it anyway.To my pleasant surprise, and I was definitely surprise and super happy to see the financial literacy program that started from a random discussion between 3 people: Alina, Intan and me at San Francisco Coffee, Menara Shell on 8 August 2019 has made it this far.  Fun(d) For Life featured in Ringgit 01/021 From a random idea, ending up at a pilot 3 days camp up north, which then became a dream to...

I was telling myself I would try and post more frequently in this space this year – maybe every other day. Then life told me – “you don’t have enough time.” So, maybe I’ll try not to be over ambitious – I guess once a week would already be a huge achievement. In my earlier post, I’ve shared a bit about my journey into inclusive takaful last year. It has been an exciting one and hopefully it continues to remain exciting this year. And I mentioned too that besides rolling out a product for the lower income segment, we managed to...

The announcement today surely wasn’t a surprise given the rising trend of COVID-19 cases in Malaysia. While we can continue to go back into time and blame the politicians for what happened during the Sabah elections, to be fair this time around it isn’t just them – a lot of us took things for granted over the past 2 months or so. Everyone was everywhere, we start taking chances at restaurants and shops, group activities became a norm – many were working from home, which was meant to reduce the risk, but decided to spent those hours saved to go...

I realized when I was posting yesterday that I went missing from updating this space for more than 2 months. It dawned on me that it was indeed a hectic last 2 months of the year at work. There was so much going on and was juggling priorities by the minute. Nevertheless it was still a fulfilling last quarter of 2020 for me.  After so many years being in the takaful industry, finally my dream of introducing meaningful and inclusive takaful products came true – that was the theme for the last quarter of 2020 (+ the last week of September).Firstly,...

It’s been forever since I did a posting. Instead I’ve been doing a lot of talks last year, talking to various audiences from different age groups and segments on various topics: takaful, digital, covid-19, etc.  It was fun. Yesterday was the highlight of it all where the most enjoyable recording I did in 2020 got premiered: Episode 5 of the “Kecil-Kecil, Celik Duit” series – my first attempt at doing a talk show with kids (probably an over-matured kid myself, stuck in an old man’s body).  “Kecil-Kecil, Celik Duit” Episode 5: “Apakah risiko kewangan dan apa itu takaful?” (What are...