A picture of me when i was young:D
I had the beatles hairstyle if i'm not mistaken. When all of us were at this young age, we couldn't careless because they weren't much to care about at all; it was all fun! Like this song by we are young- Fun.
Then when we reach our teenage years. For me i tried to be my best at Football and tried to get some girls because it was "socially cool" back then and maybe it still is; i dont know. At the end of the day, i never cared about what the whole point of life was, i thought it was just fun and games and hopefully to just get a sweet simple job and life with it forever.
I dont know about you guys, but i really thought about chilling with life during my teenage days and was never serious about anything particular. Until recently, I was searching for the meaning of what my life meant, what was my purpose? I always believe that everyone has a purpose in their life. My journey of finding the answer with my life led me to the United States. I applied for the study exchange programme linked with my local college and left to the U.S back in August 2011. The pictures below shows you the people i left behind to chase an important goal.
Family pic(I'm on the left :)
2 important ladies in my life :)
Awesome college mates :D
I'm pretty sure most of us board onto a sad flight where we do not want to leave but we have to. I traveled around the west side of the United States 2 weeks prior enrolling to Northwood University; it was a really good way for me to see the world in a different angle. I love everything i saw and these are some of the pictures i would like to share with you(All pictures taken are trademark of this blog only)
and that's all for the pictures :D None of the place that i've visited changed me except Palo Alto, CA. Why? i had a hunch of what the next big thing project that i was going to do, shhhhhh.... it was just a baby hunch, i wasn't still sure on what was my purpose in life yet.
I watched this commencement speech by Steve Jobs from Stanford. If you didn't catch it, you can watch it here.
It gave me this drive of inspiration after hearing those words from Steve Jobs. He became my idol, my inspiration and my motto. I didn't respect him for abusing his employees but i respected him for being a visionary, a leader and a true showman. This video made me realized that i want to be an entrepreneur. It's not one of those videos where you watch and you suddenly feel a short urge to do something but this video by Steve Jobs opened up my eyes and i started connecting all the dots. All the dots that i connected ever since i was young led me to 3 final judgement.
1) I always wanted an empire
2) I was always tech savvy
3) And i was always curious
These 3 things led me to a path that i've never thought of it before. It told me to change the world. How can one 19 year old change the world? and change what? Those were the questions that kept me thinking all the time. I knew i wanted to do something that is related to technology but i didn't know what. As time went by i had alot of crazy ideas but none were relevant and i kept thinking and thinking.
Back to Malaysia 5 January 2012.
I didn't hesitate in waiting for my degree to finish to start a company, i went full throttle straight. My believe as an entrepreneur or any entrepreneur is to build things that would put a dent in the universe. We do not do things because we want to do them but i solely believe we do things because we want to build a change; we want to challenge the status quo. I knew from the moment i landed back in Malaysia, i wanted to change Malaysia, the rest of Asia and the World. It became true to me that my goal and purpose in life was to change the lives of people around me, to have my influence on them because at the end of the day, if you are able to change a person life; nothing is more meaningful than them saying thank you to you that you changed their life with your words. As an entrepreneur, my goal is to reach the level of Steve Jobs and the vision i have for my company is to match up to Apple and to compete at global standards.
My words to entrepreneur out there, even though if things are bad; persevere my friends because there will be the day where your startups and mine will be able to touch the lives of many. Enriching their life.
My fellow entrepreneurs, mark my words. WE WILL PUT A DENT ON THE UNIVERSE.
We do not have many chance to do many things, and everyone should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know. So this is what we've chosen to do with our life, so it better be damn good, it better be worth it.
- Steve Jobs
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