After the 'great quit' many good employees are looking at options and taking part in the great search for better opportunities. It is nearly the end of 2023 and, post pandemic, it seems that more and more good people are looking for jobs in keeping with their career aspirations and work life balance expectations. [...]
I have always liked the Radiohead classic 'Creep'. In recent years it has seen a resurgence as a hit thanks in part to people like Brian Crum on the AGT talent show, as well as through multiple interpretations and celebrity covers. Still, I like the original version released back in 1993. I reckon that [...]
Saturday, the 30th of October. I checked out of the big house and moved back to Batu Ferringhi and the apartment that had kindly been arranged for me by one of my ex staff. I also snuck back into the hotel to weigh my suitcases at the loading bay, as I was concerned about [...]
It was Wednesday, the 20th of October. I had finished work on Friday the 15th, the removal company had come to collect everything on Saturday and I was now waiting to secure my certificate of entry (COE) for travel to Thailand to take up my new job. The night before, I had some very [...]
It was August 2021 and we were still in the tail end of the pandemic. However it seemed as though the hotel I was managing would be able to re-open again in early September. We had been closed since the 12th of May. The vaccine roll out in Malaysia was taking hold. The government [...]
This is a cautionary tale, but it does have a happy ending. It was early October 2020. In spite of the odds we had just opened the hotel I was managing, mid pandemic in fact. (The picture above is of the first paying guests). People thought we were crazy to try and open, but [...]
The Fisher family loves musical theatre. You could say my three daughters secretly aspire to be musical theatre performers. Or was that meant to say 'obviously'? A Christmas 'Musical Theatre' session. They have seen many of the best shows and have all the big tunes in their collective memory. Charlotte even majored [...]
I wanted to be a musical theatre performer. I never stood a chance. One had to have a 'sensible' career, follow a vocation that would 'make one successful in life', according to my parents. The sad irony is that music has been a part of Fisher family culture for over four generations, if not [...]
I was thinking about Fathers Day recently and the fact that I haven't seen my family in Australia since September 2019. That seems like such a long time ago. Actually it seems like an eternity. It is partly due to the fact that we were supposed to open the hotel project that I now [...]
This is a happy story about customer recognition (of me, actually) at its most simple, and certainly best. Ever since I came to live in Penang, Malaysia, a couple of years ago, I have enjoyed going to local street food places. After finding the kind of local food I really liked, which happenes to [...]
