Author: Datuk Beatrice Nirmala

Understanding narcissism

Men are gonna come alongAnd wanna teach you things,Doesn’t make them smarter.In most ways they’re not.But it makes them feel bigger.It takes a strong womanTo stay by herselfIn a world where people will settle for anythingJust to say they have something.So never forget who you are. – Alice telling her

Some ESP on the ESG

For the direction you are headed, it’s wise to seek a mentor who’s a master of the craft you want to immerse yourself in. Read books in your field of interest as a short-term solution until you’ve built a mindset to move onto the next level of your craft. –

Who are we as a nation?

I think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making change. – Hozier, Irish musician In the spirit of celebrating Malaysia Day which is around the corner – September 16 – I will like to reflect how far we have actually progressed, whether we have

You are the age of your soul

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision. – Plato, Greek philosopher If happiness is a state of mind as we are often told,

Solutions for a spiralling Malaysian workforce

It appears that no matter what kind of upskilling and reskilling is being introduced, the locals are less likely to do the low entry levels of work. This explains why our youth (15 to 24 years old) unemployment rate is high. – Anthony Dass, adjunct professor of UNITAR Malaysia I

The hijacking of feminism

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. – Rebecca West, British author Eight years ago I believed in what feminism stood for, which is to

I hope you dance

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. – Wayne Dyer, American self-help author and motivational speaker I have been having this awful cough and cold for more than a week. Don’t you feel

Being yourself

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ― Oscar Wilde, Irish poet Comparison is the thief of joy. When you compare yourself with someone else, you can never be happy with who you are. There is always going to be someone else who will be smarter, richer, owns more things,

I remember …

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman, American poet VOICE OF ASEAN is a very ambitious project – it brings 10 countries together in one platform, where we leverage on the expertise gained networking amongst top echelons of corporate and

The infinite passions of life

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa Federico Fellini said, “There is no end, there is no beginning, there is only the infinite