Brunei’s Marriage Statistics

I was reading some business plans at livewire, and found one about wedding planner, they had reference an interesting statistics on Muslim Marriage in Brunei. The statistic is available online at http://www.mms.gov.bn/malay/images/stories/pdf/PPPR/stat_pppr_2001_2010.pdf below is a copy of it on this website. stat_pppr_2001_2010 – Marriage by year vs District Now looking at the statistic, there is [...]

Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2010

23 June 2010, Wednesday night – The Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards (APEA) 2010 for Brunei was held at the Grand Hall of Empire Hotel Resort. The Special Achievement Awards Category were: Woman Entrepreneur of the Year – Hjh Khadijah Binti Mohamed of Megamas Training Company Sdn. Bhd. Young Entrepreneur of The Year – Haji Mohammad [...]

LiveWIRE Bright Ideas Workshop

Another Bright Ideas Workshop was held at LiveWIRE.The workshop was held from the 15th to the 16th of June 2010. Among the topics were: Truth about money The secret of becoming rich feasible business ideas Basic Business Accounting Opportunities Bright Ideas Workshop is the first of a series of workshops held by LiveWIRE. Other workshops [...]

Playing Games to Educate ourselves financially

Last Saturday on 8th May 2010, Some LiveWIRE participants/members played an expensive board game called Cashflow 101 created by Robert T Kiyosaki, the guy who wrote Rich Dad Poor Dad, Cashflow Quadrant and other Rich Dad Series books. The game is similar to Monopoly. Monopoly teaches the players about real estate, the value of land [...]

5 things to grow your biz right now!

Being a photgrapher, my wife found this article http://photofocus.com/2009/10/30/five-things-you-can-do-right-now-to-grow-your-photography-business/ the article is about things photographers can do grow their business. I found the article to apply not just to photographers but to other businesses as well. Here is my interpretation of the article. Own Your Own Zip Code Start with your own area. Why would you be in [...]

LiveWIRE Business Plan Awards 2008/2009

LiveWIRE’s flagship event – the Business Plan Awards Prize Presentation Ceremony was Held on 10th December 2009 at the Hua Ho Manggis Ballroom. Usually I would be a participant in this event, but I have been too busy this year to complete my business plan. But since I was a LiveWIRE Business Network Committee Member, [...]

Leadership Camp 09/09

The final LiveWIRE Leadership Camp of the year was held from 4 to 6 December 2009. The number of participants were very small compared to the previous batch. After leaving Bandar Seri Begawan, the participants were brought to Pekan Bangar. Due to the camp’s schedule overlapping with cuti-cuti temburong, the first session was held at [...]

Introduction to Writing a Business Plan

I have been writing a business plan since 2003 to participate in the LiveWIRE business plan awards. I won the grand prize for the livewire participant category in 2006/2007. I have also participated in the think big business plan competition. Considering I am going to submit another business plan, I thought it would be appropriate [...]

LiveWIRE Leadership Camp 08-09

Another LiveWIRE Leadership Camp was held last weekend on 20th,21st and 22nd November 2009. The participants consisted mostly of students and staffs from the Youth Development Centre. The Previous Leadership Camp was held the weekend before. This time there were 18 participants. The Leadership Camp is three day and 2 nights with activities ranging from [...]

Agriculture & Agrifood Expo 2009

19 November 2009 – The Agriculture & Agrifood Expo was launcded at the Agro-technology park. His majesty gave an opening speech on how agriculture and entrepreneurship is important and is even an obligation in terms of social, economic and religion. His majesty later presented 3 selected entrepreneurs for their achievements. Namely Soon Lee Farms and [...]