Ayuni Ayatillah

Everyone can start up a business, but one has to know that there’s more than the transaction of selling and buying that can ensure a business to endure its rough patches and grow sustainably into the future. For Wan Mohamad Zaffuan Wan Mohamad Zin, Executive Director of WGN Scan Sdn Bhd and Managing Director of D’Aquarian (M) Sdn Bhd, his years of experience dabbling in business has taught him that it is a lot about planning ahead, particularly in the elements of the financial preparation.

A business idea can sometimes come from the most unexpected places. The ability to recognise a problem and offer a solution – this often translates into a successful business endeavour. What’s more when it is a solution for a person’s problem and recognising that it could also benefit others. For Nurul Asmad binti Ghozali, 34, a mother of three children, it is no surprise that the inspiration to set up Lavender Confinement Care came from her own experience.

How many times have you come across a blog or a Facebook page, read the headlines, skim the paragraphs or timeline and immediately decided to leave? I admit I do that countless of times. Not particularly because I dislike a brand or hold any grudges to anyone or anything. It’s simple – the contents do not speak out to me. Think of the internet as a vast universe, and your brand is just a tiny dot on its colossal landscape. How do you make yourself stand out? Even when you have worked so hard t

My son Khaleeli is turning 3 soon. He is blooming and thriving ever so wonderfully, absorbing every little detail of the world around him, just like any other toddler would do. He is beautiful, in his very own way, very expressive, naturally wired for rough, physical play and obviously developing a mind of his own. He will take every chance to imitate everything adults do around him, including house chores.  Like sweeping the floor, for instance. “Khaleeli, put that broom away.  You’re just

Every mother wishes to be able to do everything a mother is expected to do – take care of the home, cook for the family, educate and nurture the children or even bake a scrumptious chocolate cake. Before I became a mother myself, I used to put that image high up on my motherhood pedestal, wishing that I could be that mother who manages to juggle every single thing on her own. Unfortunately, the truth is that this would never happen. Not to me, at least, because I’ve learned that there’s no suc

Let me start my story with this one confession – all my life, my biggest insecurity has always been my weight. It started as early as my teenage years. Back then, I was active in sports and that helped me manage my weight well. The sports stopped when I entered university and my weight soared up the scales and I gained almost 10 kilograms. I did whatever I could to shed the weight, even to the extent of signing up for slimming programme with my very limited financial resources. A few years la

Malaysian-born singer-songwriter, Yunalis Zarai a.k.a. Yuna, 29, has come a long way from her early singing days on MySpace. What began as an innocent means of soul-searching quickly transformed into a burning passion for music after she started writing songs at the tender age of 14. With a strong online presence, Yuna effortlessly garnered a huge number of followers and quickly became the ‘new cool’ for the Malaysian music scene. Breaking the barriers of the local music industry, she became th

I remember being in a perpetual motion of light and dark. Light was the days, and dark was what seemed to be endless nights tending to a baby who only craved for the comfort of my breasts. Dark also seemed to linger well into my days as I struggled to keep up with his demands while attending to an erratic 4-year-old sister who was losing so much of my attention and also struggling to cope with a sibling. My baby was perfect, apart from being a little yellow from prolonged jaundice. He was all

Pregnancy is a miraculous journey, but it is also body-changing experience for every woman. Even though a woman’s body is amazingly designed to adapt to various physical and physiological changes during pregnancy, it is very important for a mother to take care of her body throughout pregnancy and well after delivery. Asian mothers have long been known to practice the traditional confinement period after giving birth, covering 40 days post-partum. This critical period is the healing window for