ASIAN CONFERENCE FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND HIGHER ED RESEARCH

The Asian Research Conference was my first and sure enough, IT'S JUST THE BEGINNING of more attendance to conferences of the like in the future. I'd say my presentation was good enough yet I missed salient points which the veteran presenters (geez! they abound! they outnumbered neophytes like me.) covered in great detail to the point of them failing in time management but STILL, given the highest acknowledgment... the advantage of being a senior ( I will be in that predicament pretty soon... so I rest my case!).

If only there could be a way to make those presentations more engaging and "alive" as the plain, "oral reading" technique of presenters beat the heck out of me and induced rapid production of melatonin, the sleep agent in our body. Yet the compulsion to stay "prim and proper" helped out most of the audience to stay up and awake as everybody was required to wear formal outfit - commendable dress code, served as control of error.

The best thing that happened to me during the conference came from a  female Malaysian professor from  MARA University of Technology (Malaysia), Jane Aw Yang Huey, who presented her book review on "Economics Made Easy" by David H.S. Ng. She presented an excerpt of the 1994 Hudsucker Proxy movie, and left these words as a recap to her presentation, "It is the consumer taste that changes demand, not the price". Which I stated in another way as - show the value of a commodity and demand changes.That struck me and made me realize it's time to be back in business. I have been "dormant" in business for the longest time to "nanny" my kids. Now it's time..... the dragon is awake.