Mahbob Abdullah
45 POSTS
Cocoa rendezvous bears no fruit
WHEN a client asked me in 1992 to do a study on the supply of cocoa beans in Sulawesi and Maluku, I wasted no time in getting started. Accompanying me was Yeong...
Job fuelled by constant travel
I REALISED that Dr Ho Chai Yee had left an efficient team on the 11th floor of Wisma Sime Darby when I took over his place as development director of the Planta...
Joy of working at head office
AT Wisma Sime Darby in Kuala Lumpur, Dr Ho Chai Yee, the development director, was leaving on promotion to lead the research department. He had worked in rubber...
All’s well that ends well in Sabah
IT was a nice life for me in Sabah. But it was not going to last. Being in Kota Kinabalu, I was free to visit the estates owned by Sime Darby near Sandakan. I c...
Surprises come in threes
AFTER my leave was over, I arrived at my apartment in Kota Kinabalu to be greeted at the door by a pretty girl with fair skin and long glossy hair. Her lips wer...
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