Nigel Sia

Blessed Birthday Joshua!

Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.

Matthew 6:8

Have a good one!

Nigel

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By the way, did you know :

The name Joshua is a compilation of two elements. The first element is , which is the commonly accepted abbreviated form of , which is YHWH, the Name of the Lord.
The second part of the name comes from the verb  (yasha 929), be saved, delivered. Derivations  (yesha 929a) and  (yeshua 929b) both mean salvation. Derivation  (shoa 929c) indicates a ‘free man,’ meaning an independent person.

BDB lists  under  and reads Yah Is Salvation. NOBSE reads Yahweh Is Salvation.

The name Joshua is the Hebrew form of the Greek name Jesus, and most probably the name by which Jesus was known by His contemporaries. Jesus was fascinated by the Book of Isaiah, probably mostly because this Book appears to be entirely about Him, but perhaps also because the name Isaiah () is almost identical to the name Joshua with the two segments reversed.

I’m currently live blogging from the Young Corporate Malaysians 2009 Summit here at Menara Integriti.

Oh ya, you might have noticed that this is not Joshua Ong. Haha.

Oh well, he asked me to guest blog and I figured I’d better write something here. He was supposed to be here with me in this summit though but he’s currently in UK and he’s going to catch a football match pretty soon. Jealousnya.

Anyway, check out the massive amount of people here :

Anyway, I’m gonna pluck out some of the interesting pointers from Twitter and put it here (not too sure if its gonna be important for Joshua’s readers) :

1. Some countries grow in terms of GDP by getting into borrowings. They got themselves heavily indebted.

2. Malaysia is getting less credit for being away from protectionism. – Dato’ Justin Leong

3. They borrow from the future generations to satisfy the greed of the present. Bad model.

4. Instead of criticising the govt, the ruling party, it’s an incumbent for everyone to work upon on. – Dato’s Justin Leong

5. We will always be an export-dependent economy. The next q is: Export to where? – Dato’s Justin Leong

6. We should also pay attention to what we’re importing, one of which is coffee. Ehem.

7. Domestic consumption economy only applies to China and India.

8. Malaysia has a fantastic tourism appeal, especially eco-tourism. – Dato’s Justin Leong

9. The balance of having the infrastructure to get to eco-tourism spot is important too. – Dato’s Justin Leong

10. For those who naively believe that there’s equality. There’s no equality – but equity and equitable quality. – Omar Mustapha

11. There’re 22 banks in Malaysia which only 9 of them are Malaysians. – Charon Mokhzani

12. Protectionism is a propaganda: Look at SG.

13. Malaysian has world class banking facilities, and better credit card functions and benefits. A lot to shout about fr M’sian banks.

14. Bank Negara has done a stellar job in avoiding highly complicated derivatives. – Michael Foong

15. While working on getting foreign banks’ interests into the country, we need to be thinking regionally – local banks going abroad.

16. Malaysia has a serious lack of talents in the financial services industry.

17. Singapore models the Swiss financial services industry model a lot. – Charon Mokhzani

18. The next growth for banking sector will be Indonesia. – Charon Mokhzani

19. Dubai never position themselves as an Islamic financial sector. – Charon Mokhzani

20. There’s no lack of talents, but there’re too many choices of places for talents to go to. – Charon Mokhzani

21. Don’t think there’s a fundamental mismatch in talents today but 2 key: language capabilities critical thinking qualities. – Michael Foong

22. The young ppl today, they’ve fundamentally different expectations. – Michael Foong

23. Many Malaysian banks have very large proportionate of foreign shareholders. – Charon Mokhzani

24. Fueled on Nasi Goreng, Fried Mac and Jala Bread! Let’s continue making Msia Proud. 300 YCM in da hauz!

(it was a lunch break for that one)

25. Challenge of raising projet financing for PLUS privatisation had nvr been done before in the region.

26. Msia has 400 researchers for every 1 million ppl where the likes of Germany & Korea have 5000!

27. Is there still coffee at the back of the hall?

Okay, I think I’m boring you guys out. Gonna go off now. Here’s another random picture of the day :

Signing off,

Nigel