Wow, I must make quite an impression with you. :)

Well, I am generally a lucky person. And as cliche as it sounds, I believe luck is created when opportunity meets preparation. I meet a lot of interesting person in my life almost daily and due to my unique personality, it might make people curious and they want to know more.

Hence it explains this page. Just in case the right person check it up.

Who Am I?

You might meet me overseas when I am travelling. We might sit next to each other on a plane. We might meet at a conference we both attended. You might meet me at my booth where I try to sell you something or you might even be a reader of one of the book I authored.

When you are reading this blog, you might be confused. Depending on which “hat” I am wearing at that time, you might get a wrong impression about who am I.

Who Am I?

Am I an author? Or an entrepreneur? Or a backpacker? Or a millionaire? Or just a mid-level manager at a private company in KL?

I am a former project manager for a small company (but a fun & exciting one at that) in KL. The company was recently voted as the World Most Democratic Company and from 40 companies that won that award, we are the only one located in Asia. My colleagues hail from 23 different countries around the world (the company has 42 employees). This company is awesome and my colleagues are super awesome. I love working with them.

After one and half year working for this awesome company, I was called to serve my nation through our country National Oil Company, which present me with a totally different type of challenges. With this assignment, I started my journey in the corporate world as a young executive for a multinational oil and gas company based at the world’s tallest twin tower.

However, I am an entrepreneur at heart. Being shackled to a desk from 9-5 is not my idea of work. I enjoy creating stuff. I enjoy brainstorming and strategy session. I delight in seeing people buy my products. I feel blessed being able to mentor other people be it my partner, staff or customers.

I was exposed to business very early when I was just in Standard Two. In my freshman year, I co-founded a profitable company which still exist to this day. Now, I had my hand in several businesses.

So, after office hours and especially weekend I worked on my own business. Hence if you see me at a promotional booth in shopping complex, this is the reason why. I like to get my hands dirty. The booth are usually manned by my staffs but from time to time I will come on weekend to understand my customers need better and to see whether my staffs are doing their job or not.

My employer knows about my business but they are cool with it as long as I can maintain being a rockstar at the office too. :)

Oh, they pay me well but my business pay me better.

Why don’t I quit and concentrate on my business then?

I am still learning a tonne from the company and my colleagues are among the most amazing people in Malaysia I know. You work with superstars, you become a superstar. And I want to keep the aura. I like it how I feel when being around them. Around high performers.

Let’s talk about my business, a topic I am very interested in.

What You Do In Your Business? Manning Your Booth? It Could Not Be That Hard?

Yes, you are absolutely right.

Anybody can man a booth. But it takes a special man to do it successfully.

Once, I implement a simple tweak that make our products on the shelf stand out more, we immediately broke our sales day record. And then, on another occasion I remove a banner that block a passage which customer can use to enter our booth and we exceed the previous sales day record by 50%.

I also study the traffic flow of the shopping complexes and the booth to make sure we got the best location with the highest exposure to visitors when I am on the ground at my booth.

These are all in addition to speaking directly to the customers, listening to them about their needs and try to sell them my products if it fit their needs.

These are all small stuff I do in my business. I call this tactics.

But I am responsible also to map the business policy and do all the strategic planning for my business. These I consider as the more fun stuff and more high level.

For example I decide on the best ratio of our own capital we need to use vs how much vendor debt we can take advantage from. How much of this product we need to bring in and what are the projection for certain promotional campaign and devising strategies on how to achieve it.

Finally, it is also my job to motivate, inspire and lead by example my partners and staff so that we can keep performing at the highest standard.

There are a lot more I can share with you about business, entrepreneurship and life, but I think this is enough to give you an insight into my professional life. We can always talk about this later if you are interested to know more.

Sounds to Me That You Don’t Have a Life

If life mean clubbing and getting drunk, yes I don’t have a life.

Occasionally I hang out with my friends at mamak, went to the cinema and do other fun stuff young people like to do. However, I made sure I get enough sleeps everyday. I consider sleep important hence I rarely went out after midnight.

I like to travel and while living life on the fast lane I still manage to travel a lot. You can see some of my pictures I put up on the blog. I also manage to read at least 3 books per month. And successfully self taught myself baking.

So I guess I do have a live. Just I lead a full and a meaningful one.

If you live life with a purpose, you will find time for everything.

Family Man?

I am the first of four siblings. We are very fond for each other and enjoy each other company. I also make sure that no matter how busy I am, I will go back to my hometown at least once a month.

Am I a family man? Quite, (I think).

So, much better now? :)

Contact me if you need any further information. Speak to you again! :)