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WINNERS ANNOUNCED - The British Indian Awards

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Winners announced at the inaugural British Indian Awards 2013

-The British Indian Awards presented by BDO -

 

The winners of the British Indian Awards presented by accountancy and business advisory firm, BDO LLP, were announced on the 17th May 2013, at the prestigious ceremony at the St. Johns Hotel in Birmingham.

The evening honoured the success and achievements of Britain’s Indian individuals, groups and business people. The night was one of recognition and celebration, which highlighted the significant role Indian’s play in contributing to a better Great Britain.

Vijay Goel founder of Indo European Business Forum with the hosts Sunny and Shay

There were eighteen awards presented on the night, the winners are:

The Community Award sponsored by The English Curry Awards

Winner: Loomba Foundation

 

Sports Achievement of the Year presented by Asian World

Winner - Netan Sansara (FC Vestsjaelland)

 

 Best in Arts & Culture presented by Pratham UK

Winner: Anish Kapoor (British Born Sculptor)

 

 Best in Science & Engineering

Winner:  Roma Agrawal (Chartered Structual Engineer)

 

Best in Medical

Winner: Bijayendra Singh (Medway Foundation NHS Trust)

 

Best in Accountancy & Finance

Winner: Kamel Hothi (Lloyds Banking Group)

 

Best in Legal Services

Winner: Mitesh Patel (Levenes Solicitors)

 

Best in Education presented by Pratham UK

Winner: Spinder Dhaliwal (University of Surrey)

Best in Media

Winner: Avtar Lit (Sunrise Radio)

 

Best in Creative Industries & Technology

Winner : Moneeb Awan (eSAY Solutions Ltd)

 

Outstanding Achievement Award

Winner: Fauja Singh (British Centenarian Marathon Runner)

 

Young Achiever of the Year presented by Indo European Business Forum

Winner: Dev Patel (British Indian Actor)

 

Best in Civil Service & Armed Forces

Winner: Keith Vaz MP

 

Financial Director of the Year sponsored by BDO

Winner: Tarsem Dhaliwal (Iceland)

 

Businesswoman of the Year presented by Asians UK

Winner: Shashi Gossain (Pharmaclinix)

 

Businessman of the Year sponsored by Carlton International

Winner: Daksh Gupta (Marshall Motor Group)

 

 Business of the Year sponsored by BDO

Winner: East End Foods

 

Entrepreneur of the Year presented by Asian Wealth Magazine

Winner: Deepak Kuntawala (DVK Group)

 

Arbinder Chatwal, Head of India Advisory Services, BDO LLP commented:

“It’s important that we take the time to recognise the achievements of the Indian community in Britain today. The awards ceremony showcased the very best in talent and we have been proud to be part of the celebrations. Congratulations to all the winners, who demonstrate an impressive mix of dedication, hard work, integrity and creativity.”

 

Over 400 people attended the glamorous event, including hosts, Sunny and Shay, from the Bafta nominated Channel 4’s ‘The Family’, who now present their own show for BBC London 94.9fm. The entertainment of the evening was provided by the talented Desi Nach.

 “We have some truly inspirational individuals who are proud to be Indian and British and the Awards were a great platform to recognise their efforts and achievements. It was a fantastic evening and I would like to thank everyone for attending and a big thank you to our sponsors. Congratulations to all our winner and finalists, and I hope to see you next year!” commented Amit Arora, Business Development Director of event organizers Oceanic Consulting.

As well as recognising the achievements of Indian men and women at the forefront of their communities and industries, the event also raised money for the official charity partners Pratham UK.

The main sponsor is BDO LLP and Pratham UK are this year’s charity partner. Other sponsors and partners of the event include: Carlton International, Confederation of Indian Industry, Indo European Business Forum, Saffron Events Uk, AsiansUK, Grafx Media, De:strukt, Asian World, The English Curry Awards.

 

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Gotta Watch This - Miyoko Shida Rigolo

This is an exceptional piece of performance art. In fact, it is so much more than just exhibiting the powers of concentration. It is art definitely, loaded with meanings and inflections. The inter-connectedness of everything in life, its delicate balance ... seemingly unimportant (feather) yet it holds everything together. Its beautiful, moving and thought provoking.

The Work Stress Effect on Marriage

I firmly believe that some people do not feel a great deal of pressure from their source of income.  In other words, some folks don't suffer work stress, or much of it.  Maybe they just know how to handle it, and it rolls like water off a duck's back.

I did not marry one of those people.  I did not realize this until later in our life -- but it had been there all the time.  I had cues and clues, but no clear category under which to place them, until finally, everything added up and I found "work stress" as the answer.

It's a beastly thing, if you have it, or if your husband suffers from it.

Naming it, owning it, discussing it and finding alternate avenues of handling it took years for us.  Don't let it take that long for you.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  ~~Matthew 11:28-29

When Stress Comes to Stay

Never did I realize how purposefully God moves until several years into marriage, when I realized how much stress my husband carries daily, and that I have an important role in that stress ... to help relieve it.

However, in our first few years of marriage, I didn't recognize the way stress built in him -- I simply couldn't understand his behavior.  I worked, too, in those years, and every Sunday night I felt the mania that a looming Monday morning brings to so many nine-to-fivers in the working world.

While I could shed the irritations and aggravations of the work day,  my husband continued to wear his.  I thought he just didn't have any desire to relate to me and often wore his heart on his sleeve along with a chip on his shoulder, when really, his feelings of stress multiplied and coated him in layers.  Within a few years of working his first job, he had wore a cloak of stress as his main wardrobe item ... and it clashed with everything.

Hanging back, not wanting to irritate him, I didn't ask many questions.  When I did, he didn't have enough experience with his working world self to understand how much work weighed on him.  Any irritation he felt he often placed on me.  

Sufferers of stress often place blame on those unaffiliated with the stress and a spouse sits as Target #1. Always there and easy to hit.  Unrelated to the source of stress, a wife brings on a different kind of stress:  dependence on love, need for emotional give and take, a share in the financial gain from the stress source (job), and the living day to day with irritating methods of toothpaste tube folding,  taking all the covers at night, and wanting to have a life that does not take place in front of the television or computer screen.

When job stress takes over, the little irritations grow to the size of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons without warning.

I didn't catch onto the fact that his temper flared easily beginning on Sunday morning.  I didn't realize that his lack of enthusiasm for any activity I suggested lay in his long-time habit of worrying about the upcoming week well in advance. This tendency overpowered his capacity for diversion and joy, and I did not have a concept of how to effectively redirect his attention from those worries or to stop from adding to them inadvertently.

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?  ~~Matthew 6:25-27

The Void Faith Should Fill

Work stress becomes a habit and worsens in a personality that has no outlet for it.  It feeds on itself and on every activity outside its usual domain that requires planning, social/family interaction, financial input, or infringement on "free" time.  The hardest habit to break in a work-stressed husband is the "escape factor" -- zoning on mindless activities that lead nowhere for long periods of time (electronics, television, gaming).  The man I married inherited his inability to handle stress (not at all or ineffectively), and learned how to react (panic, anger, worry, negative thoughts, diversion, escape) instead of act (solve problems, think positively, pray, manage resources, engage in physical activity), probably before birth.  Because I did not grow up with that kind of pressure from the inside out, I did not come equipped to combat it.

God would have been our answer, and would have filled the void we both had at that time in our marriage.  We did not invite him in ... or rather, we did not let him out of the church at our wedding.

We did not have a faith hold in the early years of our marriage, and it showed.  We struggle and we flailed wildly in all directions, hoping to hit a moving target we could not identify.  We made it through with lots of emotional baggage which we carried for years.  We worked together, commuted together and spent most of our time together, and while we enjoyed much of it, I had the role of talking him down from the ledge whenever an attack of stress hit -- and my methods became predictable and distasteful ... and added to his stress level.

We did not talk about stress or how to manage it because we didn't realize that was the answer to the questions we didn't ask.  Neither of us prayed, and we felt the invincibility of the 20-something years.  Physical ailments and hard economic choices hadn't touched us.  We hadn't had any run-ins with dire circumstances.  The false feeling of "can do" no matter what or how large the challenge ruled in our lives.  Faith, though I called myself a Christian, had no role in our individual lives.

We stayed together because we had vowed to, didn't think we had another option, and figured if we fought hard enough for our own individual versions of "right", someone would win.  Neither of us would give up or give in, and neither of us would give up our desire to be right.

We earned our scars.

In future years, as hardships involving finances, child-bearing woes, job changes, and forced separations due to work travel entered our lives, God began to squeeze in, too.  He's merciful like that.


Categorizing Stress and Containing It

As difficulties crossed our path or entered our lives and put down roots, we struggled against each other harder.  I had the answers and so did he, and few of them matched.  Life had to hit us several times before we could see the whole picture ... that so many areas of life don't need to be scheduled or require back-up, and most of the good things happen when we don't feel like doing anything more than collapsing from mental exhaustion.  We have to let our hearts fill with good things to build a strong framework of positive outlook and possibility, rather than look at each day as just another purveyor of doom and gloom, and someone else's emergencies.

Work stress still happens, but the life events that have taken place anyway have framed it better.  Work will always offer stressful situations and my husband will always bring the level head in handling other people's emergencies.

My husband had to have knee surgery in order to feel what "no stress" feels like.  He had to take a month away from work to remember how it feels to sleep through the night and to sit back and enjoy his children and his life.  He had to leave the office to realize that mindless or repetitive escape activities served only to fill time and alienate people.  He had to turn in the wrong directions in order to experience the grace and mercy of the Right Direction.

Now, 20-plus years past those years of struggle and confusion built on lack of understanding and short experience, we have the stressors named.

- work
- financial stability 
- lack of real rest - sleeping well, but also having recreation ... something to do that has a product or a definite positive effect on life, and is measurable in some way.  Hobbies, exercise, family time, etc., make the difference between purposeful and wasted time.  These things allow for mental rest, even though they require attention and focus.  They offer a different kind of "stress", and ease the unhealthy pressures.
- feeling faithless - as we learn more about faith and put it to work, stress decreases.  Faithlessness puts more pressure on self, to succeed and to provide and to maintain life independently.  Growing faith reverses those pressures.


The Fix

- God.  The Customer Service Professional.  Go to Him first.
- the Bible.  No self-help book exists that will offer answers to carry a work-stressed person over the course of a working lifetime like the Bible.  To enhance the experience, prayer has a direct line to the Author for questions and feedback  (Tweet, if you like).   No self-help writer can beat that.  Go there.  It works.
- prayer - as the wife of the work-stressed husband, this has led me to find new ways to meet the stress head-on, to divert my husband's learned behavior of "zoning", and to encourage him in multiple ways every day.  Without prayer and growing faith, I could not be the help-meet in this situation.  Because of prayer, I have power, and my husband has the blessing of it.

He gives power to the weak

and strength to the powerless.

Even youths will become weak and tired,

and young men will fall in exhaustion.

But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength.

They will soar high on wings like eagles.

They will run and not grow weary.

They will walk and not faint.

~~Isaiah 40:29-31

Coming to Terms with Stress

Struggling with stress may never completely.  Going back to the "fixes", of turning to God, reading the Bible for answers and review, and an intent prayer life will improve it to whatever degree the stressed person and you, his wife, will help him achieve.  You are his help-meet, and that doesn't mean just handing him tools for fixing the faucet, or making sure he eats healthy foods -- it means guiding him when one of his rudders is broken or when his compass is off.  It means carrying through while he is carrying on in a state of confusion.  It means never giving up on him.

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.  ~~Jeremiah 29:11

Your experience with work stress may not have the all-encompassing qualities that my husband has experienced.  It may come and go, or run in predictable stints.  No matter how it happens, the fixes work.

You live these trials to understand the experience.  Name them to get a grasp of what they do and how they affect life.  Then, fix them.  You have the Book and the Author at your disposal, and you will find no better source of help.


What is your experience with work stress?  How have you combatted it with God's help?  What advice would you offer to those struggling with it?

New Darling Stock In The Making?

Now we get an idea of whats been driving up the shares of Instacom. The Company also released its first quarter results last Tuesday with revenue of RM30.2m and PAT of RM6.8m. Annualising its PAT would yield a projected year end profits of RM27.2m. 

At last Friday's close of 39.5c, that's a PE of 10 times, which for a growth stock in an exciting rapidly growing and constantly transforming telecommunications industry is fairly reasonable. Some may argue its still cheap as PE of 15 to 18 times is normally par for course for the Telco industry across the region. That would translate in to a price range of 58c to 68c. 

This has not even factored in the earnings contribution from the RM205m as highlighted in the STAR or EDGE today yet. Potentially Instacom can be a GEM as a valued investment stock. You do the calculations and derive your own conclusion based on your risk averse outlook and your balanced portfolio considerations. 

If you assume that it yields just 15% net margins over 3 years, that is RM30.75m or roughly an additional RM10m net a year.

Current number of 20 sen shares: 702.25m

For argument's sake, lets just take RM6m net per quarter, annualised = RM24m

Plus the new project = RM10m = RM34m

Net EPS = 4.8 sen

40 sen     8.3x

45 sen     9.3x

50 sen     10.4x

55 sen     11.4x

60 sen     12.5x

The other question is whether the project is a one off. If you look into the telcos' plans, there are nearly every single telco (Celcom, Maxis, DIGI, etc..) plans to spend an additional RM300m -RM1bn each over the next 12 months. It would be silly to think they would not be getting some of these as the company is heads and shoulders above the rest in its sub-industry in terms of time execution and delivery of projects.

The company could very well be the new darling stock for the rest of the year.

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Vote Now! The MOMO Awards - bringing Muslim Talent Alive.

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Nominations have been announced –

for the MOMO Awards!

 

“MOMO is the Orchestra of Harmony bringing Muslim Talent alive”

Following the outstanding success of nominations received for the MOMO Awards. MOMO proudly presents the finalist shortlisted for the MOMO 2013 Awards.

A spectacular selection of artists chosen by the public going forward to become the possible winners of the prestigious MOMO Awards 2013.

The MOMO Awards hosted by GNAAcademy, is a new global prize that will reward and celebrate the outstanding achievements of Muslims in the Music and Media industry from the UK and across the Globe, proving to be a ground-breaking global innovation which will receive recognition worldwide.

The MOMO’s will be an orchestra of talent synchronised through Music and Media, celebrating achievements and successes at an exclusive Awards ceremony

MOMO Awards’s will announce the winners at the spectacular Awards Ceremony which will take place in November 2013.  The Final ceremony will be an extravagant and esteemed event; which will prove to be the first podium to bring recognition to Muslim Music and Media Artists.

This final stage of the Awards once again calls out to the public to decide

who they would like to see win the MOMO Awards.

 

Simply click on the link below the public can decide the future of artists from the 19 categories.

To vote & for further information on MOMO Awards visit: www.momoawards.co.uk

 

Play your part in creating History, bringing Muslim talent to the forefront. Join the thousands who have voted and decide the finalists

 

 

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Why I Like My Husband

Inside jokes between husbands and wives make for some hilarious moments, but my favorite one doesn't make me laugh, it makes me feel richly blessed.  It connects me to my husband in a way that feel unique.  It inspired us twenty-two years ago, and still inspires us today.

Before we married, my husband and I shared "I love you" back and forth the way we express "thank you," now. Often, and for just about everything.  One day, as we shared some quiet time, doing nothing but feeling the rapture of togetherness, I broke the silence with,

He bought me this book for Christmas.  It has all sorts of interesting
"like" reasons in it ... and they hit the spot!

"I like you."

The man I would soon marry turned abruptly toward me and insisted, "Yeah, well, I love you."

I smiled into laughter, which caught him even more off guard.  He thought he had one-upped me!  That laughter led to one of the most interesting discussions we have ever had.  We talked about the difference between "like" and "love" in our relationship.  In a marriage relationship.  And I wanted to impress upon him -- and upon you -- the difference.

The Bible commands us to love one another. this is the brotherly love we share as humans. Friendship quality love.  Phileo, in the Greek. We are to love everyone, and show that love in treating others well.  Obviously, the kind of love we reserve for our spouses differs and it should differ greatly, in Greek it reads "eros", or romantic love, being a much more intimate brand of love, tended with great care.  Marriage is our ultimate relationship, next to God.  It requires more of us than any other relationship, for the lifetime of the couple.

Big.

Then, there's "like."

My like list is long and diverse.  Music - almost all genres.  Cake.  Kayaking.  Knitting.  Travel.  Sunrises.  Snow.  Hardwood floors.  Baking.  Rolling farmland.  Cutting grass.  And so forth and so on, all the way to "my husband."  He's a good egg.

God did not say we have to like everyone.  How can we like what everyone else does, how they act, what they believe, where they spend their time or how they respond to us?  Sometimes we have run-ins with people during which, no matter how hard we try and no matter how well our godly armor fits -- we falter and we fail.  God puts us on the same path as others sometimes, I think, because we need a lesson or two in getting along.  Smooth waters don't teach a person to sail, it's the roughness and storms that bring skill.  So it goes with people.

And so, "I like you," comes as a high compliment.  It goes to a different depth than love, as well as to a different place.  When I experience "like" I know it.  Only my husband has the level of "like" that labels him in my life.  When I bestowed a well-placed like on the man all those years ago, I, in effect, branded him as top of the heap in my box of earthly treasures. 

He hits the spot in my mind, heart and soul.  His idiosyncrasies intrigue me.  His sense of humor still surprises me in its scope and timing.  His Energizer Bunny ability to just keep going causes me to marvel.  He zigs to my zag, and weaves his way through the playground of moods I swing without seeming to mind.  He asks questions about faith, about women, about raising children, about cooking, and about me. He reaches for me in the night.  He doesn't mind if I don't have supper ready.  He can run electrical and plumbing lines whenever or wherever we need them.  He can do math -- the hard stuff.  He can't spell.  He knows I hate to be tickled, but loves how I react to it.  He asks me to do Google searches for him because I'm better at it.  He insists he hates cats but worries about the two we have as pets.  He has a gentle touch.  He doesn't like cream cheese but loves carrot cake (with cream cheese icing).

I like my husband. His list of attributes mean something important to me, complement my own, and make him "the one" for me.

Love runs separately.  It does not depend on likeability.  I could love my husband without his sense of humor.  I could love him even if he minded when my moods run high.  I could love him without his handyman abilities.

I love him by what I do for him.  That's how anyone loves her husband, by serving, by considering his preferences and his needs, and setting herself the goal of meeting them.  Love does.  Love acts.  Love puts itself out there for the good of the other, whereas "like" is relative.  Subjective. 

Get it?  Liking a husband requires a category all to itself.  The like I have for the man I married lies in him ... what he shows me on the surface and deeper than that.  Yet, take away any of those things and love still exists.

Like your husband.  Doing so expands your horizon in how you love him.  Liking him lets you love him better because it gives you more definitive categories with which to work.

What nifty things do you like about your husband?  How do his "like" points help you serve him better?  Love him well?