Author: Leanda Lee, MDT
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Bizcuits | Gelato
There is this rather funky school near Bologna, Italy to which chefs and sea-changers go to learn the secrets behind putting together the elements that make ... -
Bizcuits | Wishes for a real-world holiday
Holiday time. Time to rest and relax? Time to explore? Time to experience something new – sights, sounds, smells and flavours? Holiday time means different things ... -
Bizcuits | Emotional Labour
“Sir, may I see the children to say good- bye?” On a day earlier this month a domestic helper was told by her boss that her ... -
Bizcuits | Circular is the new black
This was the year Sands launched its first fashion week showcasing international fashion brands and local designers across luxury and lifestyle wear. Red carpet glitz, an ... -
Bizcuits | Fake it until you make it
“Walk through the corridors as if you own the place. No-one will stop you”, was some very early and surprising advice I received in how to ... -
Bizcuits | Putting down roots
Sands has assessed that a sufficiently respectful time has passed to celebrate their tenth birthday, after putting aside plans for the party which were wiped from ... -
Bizcuits | The Macau confession
Life was happier, focused, simpler (some may say one of ignorance and naivety) before I started to read the news in my mid-thirties. After yesterday’s headline, ... -
Bizcuits | Education marches East
There are now 66 Chinese mainland universities listed in the 14th Times Higher Education World University Rankings published earlier this month. China, for the first time, ... -
Bizcuits | Opportunism in Hato
It is the perfect storm. Pressure is building from multiple fronts. There’s a newly found strength in our community. Since the incredible show of people-force buoyed ... -
Bizcuits | Humanity in Hato
Typhoon Hato, Signal 10, brought with it not only the wrath of nature but anger, sadness and disappointment from our community. The lack of preparation, slow ... -
Bizcuits | Bus driver culture shift
How many of us choked on our Weeties yesterday morning? Raising concerns about the quality of bus services and in particular, drivers’ skills in the legislative ... -
Bizcuits | The value of labour
As an idealist, I have preferred to deny that people and cultures value human life differently. That stark contrast in values, or at least an appearance ... -
Bizcuits | When Going Native Goes Feral
I recently embarked on one of those days that I customarily procrastinate over when the errands pile up and it is time to bite the bullet, ... -
Bizcuits | Give us this day our Daily Rag
Congratulations to Macau Daily Times upon its Tenth Anniversary, and especially to the current management and editorial team – the longest serving at the paper; you ... -
Bizcuits | CSR downstream: Business Case for #PlasticFreeJuly
Major transformations in the way businesses interact with their communities and the acceptance of responsibilities to all stakeholders have been spearheaded by major disruptions, critical incidents ... -
Bizcuits | Toilet Paper Day
I received an email to remind me that it was National Toilet Paper Day yesterday, in Australia. Apparently it comes to pass on 26 August in ... -
Bizcuits | G2E Asia USA
G2E Asia has been on in Macau this week. The expo expanded into Asia in 2007 from its Las Vegas foundation at a time when there ... -
Bizcuits | Taxed for standing still
Picture the queue of cars on a typical weekend heading into the carpark under the Workers’ Stadium at the Border Gate. It is tedious at the ... -
Bizcuits | Award inflation
Among the peculiarities of Macau is what seems an exaggerated lauding of certain individuals. In public we tend to bestow labels of “expert”, “specialist”, “media mogul”, ... -
Bizcuits | Dragons Abreast
Ideas have their own time, I’ve been told. In late 2013, I was stopped by a gentleman while overseas who notices my Macau-emblazoned sports slicker. He ... -
Bizcuits | Take it from him, giving works
Servant leadership is one of those idealistic concepts that you either know exists because you’ve been privileged to experience it, hold it as an ideal but ... -
Bizcuits | Ready, set… abort fire
I am in the middle of a malaise of post-holiday blues. The inertia is taking its toll on any focus and drive that I had in ... -
Bizcuits | Rolling, rolling, steamrolling
The power of political control has won over sensitivities as Japan takes its first steps towards legalising gaming. The Japanese Diet, in an “extended, embittered session” ... -
Bizcuits | On/off again, Japan casinos
In the latter part of the year, for the last few years, there have been storms of analysts and would-be investors in Japan’s casino IRs talking ... -
Bizcuits | An expatriate’s nostalgia
It was November 1995. We were relaxing after dinner, probably watching television, when the door-bell rang. In waltzed a close friend, beaming. He’d just left his ... -
Bizcuits | What happened to austerity?
Cost creep is insidious. The insanity of prices of food in our little town just hit home. Price pressures sneak up unannounced until there’s a moment ... -
Bizcuits | Crowned rogue
Australians have a fondness for rogues. Tomes have been written about the Aussie finger-flick at authority. Our naughtiness is generally transparent, with a wink and a ... -
Bizcuits | How much do you trust?
I am periodically reminded that there is no such thing as a coincidence. Although I’m yet to determine an alternative name for the phenomenon, it’s only ... -
Bizcuits | Connectivity expectation overload
A topic close to my heart, and coincidentally commented on by a number of friends and colleagues this week and again tangentially in this column by ... -
Bizcuits | Uberlicious Macau
Today is U-day: the day Uber, the app-based ride-sharing company, leaves Macau. As articulately presented by Gonçalo Maia in Wednesday’s opinion piece, Uber has long been ... -
Bizcuits | Makes a lot of scents
Smell is dreadfully under-rated. We are reminded of its value when it is lost or when assailed by reeking odours, touched by floral caresses or enticed ... -
Bizcuits | So long, our friends
They are leaving again: expatriate friends that have been part of our lives are moving back home or moving on. It seems to happen in waves, ... -
Bizcuits | When the cat’s away
A new sign of the summer holidays arriving are those emails from BNU promoting their foreign banknote online ordering system. In my rare moments of need ... -
Bizcuits | Classic Stupidity
No more for me the days of the classic expatriate meltdown: Life is just easier to appear to go with the flow, but never say die. ... -
Bizcuits | The Macau Review
What was to be of interest in Wednesday’s presentation of the gaming industry’s mid-term review was not so much the content but how it was to ...
