Scary Stories from Tropical Malaysia: For the Truly Unafraid (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515087328)

M A Badrie is a former asociate professor of environmental sciences in Malaysia, and now works full time as an Environmental Consultant. He was educated at the University of California, Davis (BS) and Washington State University, Pullman (MS). He also did a post graduate diploma at the Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, Delft, the Netherlands, and he has a Ph D in Environmental Chemistry from Lancaster University, UK. As an academic he has published numerous research papers mainly on the environment, and a few academic books, and carried out research mainly on heavy metal chemistry. The methodology for metal geochemical fractionation in sediments which he developed in 1982 for his Ph D is still being used by heavy metal researches in various countries. In 1990 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award by the US government, and he spent almost a year at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, during which time he had the opportunity to visit the Congress and meet Senator Fulbright himself. As a consultant he has performed over 230 different jobs within the last 25 years, mainly in Malaysia and Brunei on environmental and agricultural projects. He has also produced a book on the Mangroves of Brunei, to be published by the Forestry Department, Brunei, based on a two year study of the mangrove forests in Brunei. Writing story books is a deep passion he has, and at this stage he written two other titles published with Amazon.com (1) Red Onion White Onion and Other Malay Legends and Folklores (2013) and (2) The Amazing Adventures of Quincy, the Flying Squirrel (2015). He has a few more titles to finish up, on ghost stories and also romance. To be published soon will be his unforgettable adventures as a foreign student in USA, entitled "Did You Happen to See A Tire Coming By This Way?". He has a keen interest in photography, and growing flowers and making music, a few of which are in Youtube. In his spare time he travels to various places, goes for snorkeling in marine parks and coral growing areas and enjoys looking at the marvels of marine life below the water. He lives in Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia with Rubi, his wife of 36 years Rubi and some of their kids.