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May 11

Where the Young Were : Zamri and the Ironed Toast.

“What is that?” I had asked. 16 year old Zamri Zainal was working wonders with his clothing iron. He was not ironing his shirt though. The iron rested on a rectangular object wrapped in paper. “Toast”, Zamri had replied, looking at me – his eponymous grin on display. I had…

Childhood

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Where the Young Were : Zamri and the Ironed Toast.
Where the Young Were : Zamri and the Ironed Toast.
Childhood

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May 10

Chatting the Artificial Brain : Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road? Provide Academic references.

I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I don’t have real-time access to academic sources. However, I can provide you with a tongue-in-cheek reference that could be used in a lighthearted manner. Please keep in mind that this is not a legitimate academic reference: Author: Doe, J. Title: The…

ChatGPT

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Chatting the Artificial Brain : Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road? Provide Academic references.
Chatting the Artificial Brain : Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road? Provide Academic references.
ChatGPT

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May 7

The Monabandi Chronicles : Ok and Uhuh…

“I love you!” I tried. “Ok” came back the reply from my son Akmal, then 13 who had just came downstairs. I fired another salvo by repeating it, emphasising on the last 2 words “….love you!” “Ok…” came back the return fire. My son was playing hard ball tonight: still…

Family

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The Monabandi Chronicles : Akmal and Ok and Uhuh…
The Monabandi Chronicles : Akmal and Ok and Uhuh…
Family

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Apr 29

The Monabandi Chronicles : Eid and Mom’s Broken Arm

#23.04.29 Mom broke her arm. “Don’t go anywhere!”, I told Mom as I disappeared into the kitchen from the dining room. “I’m not going anywhere!” Mom said incredulously, seated in her wheelchair and with her broken arm in plaster. I got back to the dining table, an orange juice bottle…

Family

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The Monabandi Chronicles : Eid and Mom’s Broken Arm
The Monabandi Chronicles : Eid and Mom’s Broken Arm
Family

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Apr 24

The Work Life Landscape : Negotiating ? Deconstruct to Reconstruct

Deepak Malhotra in his book “Negotiating the Impossible : how to break deadlocks and resolve ugly conflicts (without money or muscle)” wrote about “Framing” – stating how effective negotiators are able to articulate and structure their proposals into a form that the other party could accept. …

Negotiation

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The Work Life Landscape : Negotiating ? Deconstruct to Reconstruct
The Work Life Landscape : Negotiating ? Deconstruct to Reconstruct
Negotiation

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Apr 22

The Monabandi Chronicles : a Spanish Setup

#2023.04.28 Dad’s humour was spontaneous, raw at times and eclectic – indicative of his street smarts, distance travelled and of interacting with people from diverse backgrounds. His circle, which included his close friend and relative Pengiran Umar once demonstrated this when we were eating out at a Mexican restaurant in…

Family

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The Monabandi Chronicles :  a Spanish Setup
The Monabandi Chronicles :  a Spanish Setup
Family

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Apr 22

The Monabandi Chronicles : Rubiks Cubes and Zakat Fitra

The Monabandi Chronicles : Rubiks Cubes and Zakat Fitra It was the eve of the muslim celebration of Eidul-Fitri and I had been 9 years old. Our home in the Brunei town of Kuala Belait had been relatively quiet…dark and empty. Mom had finished with her shift at the…

Eid Mubarak

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The Monabandi Chronicles : Rubiks Cubes and Zakat Fitra
The Monabandi Chronicles : Rubiks Cubes and Zakat Fitra
Eid Mubarak

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Apr 14

The Monabandi Chronicles: You’ll Never Walk Alone

While discussing soccer at a friend’s house, my conversation with him and his family turned to the U.K Liverpool football club. I had known for quite some time that my friend was a die-hard Liverpool fan, so I was not that surprised to learn that his wife was also a…

Soccer

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The Monabandi Chronicles : You’ll Never Walk Alone
The Monabandi Chronicles : You’ll Never Walk Alone
Soccer

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Apr 9

The Work Life Landscape : I had a rather intellectual exchange with ChatGPT, and went down a rabbit hole ..

Intellectual Exchange AI : Human | image by Bing Image Creator Q: Provide the meaning of coherence in the context of sentience and AI. A: In the context of sentience and AI, coherence refers to the degree of consistency and logical flow in the thoughts and actions of an artificial…

AI

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The Work Life Landscape :I had an intellectual exchange with ChatGPT, and went down a rabbit hole ..
The Work Life Landscape :I had an intellectual exchange with ChatGPT, and went down a rabbit hole ..
AI

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Oct 8, 2022

The Giraffe

The baby giraffe entered the compounds of the Bandi family house at No 115 W Drive, Brass Island on a Thursday morning. It had stuck its head into the kitchen door partition, looking intently at the children having their breakfast inside. “Cat!” said 2 year old Tony, the first to…

Fiction

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The Giraffe
The Giraffe
Fiction

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Author of Lessons of 2022 : Navigating the Brunei Work-Life Landscape.

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