Category Archives: Métier
London: The Ambiance
Hyde Park, London – It is the third day of my stay in this wonderful city. Eighteen years ago, I was almost sent here by my family for my secondary education. Back then my mother was adamant that I should remain in Malaysia so that I would get a religious upbringing. It was of her [...]
Love Your Job
I love my job. I think everyone should. Even if it is the worst job on earth, it still is the source of our rizq. It is how we get our income to put food on our table everyday, to have clothes to cover our modesty and to have roofs to shelter our heads under [...]
Public Lecture on Political Marketing: An Overview
Uno Pace, City Centre – A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity of attending a public lecture by Dr Jennifer Lees-Marshment, a Political Marketing guru from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Entitled “Political Marketing: Principles and Applications”, the public lecture was a stepping stone for the nascence of this new field in our [...]
Master of Minds
The Foreign Policy (FP) portal recently published their choice of top 100 public intellectuals in the world. Apparently, most of them are human scientists with expertise in political science, philosophy, communication, arts, history, religion and so forth. The list breaks the cliche (often viewed by students in IIUM) that Human Science courses are of lesser [...]
Wiki Warning!
UM Library – This is a kind monition to students, researchers and scholars in sieving excerpts from Wiki portals for their intellectual masterpieces. Prior to quoting information from this type of sites such as the Wikipedia, it is of utmost importance for us to be aware of its defective consequences. The core detrimental reason is [...]
