The Great Retirement Plan
- mienspg
- Aug 9
- 4 min read
I was caught by surprise to be announced as representing the Royal family when I met at the reception of the official office opening on the 20th July 2025. That was how I was introduced to the top management of DFP and Softbank. Whilst I indeed have presentation decks of several royal families' businesses (a dilemma), the surreal experiences of being treated as VVIP meant that even going to the lavatory, I had to be monitored and ushered back to my seat until the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
(Ps. Thank you for the opportunities to represent you all to DFP-Softbank.)
Whenever a client or someone were to ask me, "Do I plan to retire?", my answer has been consistently "no". The reason is that I get bored easily.
I had wanted to be Marvin Bower, Peter F. Drucker, Maurice Saatchi, Lim Chong Eu, and hey, Dr. Mahathir (there, I said it) and continue to acquire knowledge, give a thought, and share my findings.
To this end, I have secured a temporary HQ for the crews even though we practice a hybrid work style. I never step into my offices except when necessary. Most of the time, I am doing what I do best, networking and management consulting at my clients' places. Having said that, an office is important for important meetings to take place, with all the private discussions and a place for gatherings. We had tons of birthdays to the extent that there is only 1 day in a month just for all birthday boys and girls, including myself.
Retired?
22nd July 2025, I had crafted my retirement announcement and had it circulated to all clients who often become friends and/or business partners. I took the opportunity to consolidate my private office and back offices and dropped the bombshell.
I had decided to concentrate on my family office as my very own client.
The 9,000 headcounts in 45 countries at 135+ sites with the support of the best global accountants, investment banks, legal firms and technology companies as partners in crime.
I called up for meetings and told the teams that:
I am going to finish off whatever I, we have promised to deliver, including introducing to private placements, no matter how difficult the cases may be. Anything else, after 1st August 2025, will be determined by the management consultants in charge of the affairs.
I am going to concentrate on my personal TEDx event entitled "The Taipan 2025", where the Legacy Modelling (please refer to past postings), which I was building since 2010 for Intel, all other thoughts, idea and for publications, and until to this day for DFP-Softbank, to conquer the US 191 billion for 2029 turnover in the ASEAN market.
I will break down point for point the analyses, the predictions, and the reduction of the risk of project and business failures at 70% to 95%. The ticket is priced at USD 350 to USD 50,000 per person (limited to 6 tickets for each category).
I have already distributed a free book to friends and clients and I am targeting to finish up a few working titles.
(For more information, kindly write to Gray@samarata.com.my.)
The new 100-storey HQ office tower.
The elderly care townships.
Ensuring that we advise our clients, we are practising ourselves.
and to try out the chicken rice by my ex-boss, where he built from 20 staff to 80 staff for the accounting firm that refused all the to-be IPO companies from me and advised me to pass it to the Big 8.
Free* and Affordable Elderly Care Townships by GRAY
With inflation and the cost of taking care of the elderly, prices can range from RM 800 per resident per month to RM 15,000 or more per resident per month. Let's do something for the world.
There are currently about 2,200 nursing homes in Malaysia, with a population of approximately 40,000 to 50,000.
By 2030, 15% of the population will be over 60 years old, and my country will enter the stage of an aging country. AGECOPE currently has about 200 nursing homes registered as members in Malaysia, with about 10,000 residents. There are about 10 government nursing homes in Malaysia, each of which can accommodate an average of 300 people.
The current proportion of the population in our country, the elderly aged 60 and above account for about 10%, and by 2030 this will rise to 15%.
Based on a population of 30 million, 15% of the elderly means about 4.5 million people, of which about 10% or about 400,000 people, will need care. However, the number of people that can be accommodated in the 2,200 nursing homes in Malaysia is only 40,000 to 50,000, which is not enough to meet the needs of society.
You can come visit at my elderly care resident:
Whilst other people pick up calligraphy and cursive writing, I wish to spend more time in mind-mapping my private projects.
Should you have a problem to be solved, kindly write to admin@samarata.com.my and my management consultants will be with you, wherever you may be.
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