Today this blog is going to inspire you and maybe it will help you to learn something new that you can apply in your life - Li Houng

     In this blog I am going to write an inspiration story of a person who has changed the world. Well, my dear Miss Kalai, I first read you title I already have in mind I would definitely choose a foreign person story but not a local one (sorry for my stubborn). So I decided to write about Colonel Sanders. Yes, a KFC founder. If you Google it “people with inspiration story”, from that website, you definitely can see his name. I don’t know you like to eat KFC or not but I do really like it because of the well fried crispy chicken skin. It is very tasty! KFC is one of the successful businesses in this world. But we do know, behind every successful business, there will always have a very hardship of process need to go through. 

     Why I choose to write about the story of Colonel Sanders? Is it solely because of I like to eat KFC? NO! Don’t worry, you are about to know soon. One of the most amazing aspects of his life is the fact that when he reached the age of sixty-five, after running a restaurant for several years, Harland Sanders found himself penniless. He retired and received his first social security check which was for one hundred and five dollars. And that was just the beginning of his international fame and financial success story…

     He was broke, what he got is just a small house and a beat up car. He wants to have a change in his life. He was done with his current life and he was not going to live in that small house and continuously being broke anymore. He decided that he has got to change. Poorly, the only idea he had was just a chicken recipe, which his friends liked. He was going to try his luck with only that idea in his mind by taking massive action.

     To sell his idea, he needs to leave his home which located in Kentucky. He closed his restaurant in year 1952 and he traveled to many states in the U.S in order to find someone who willing to buy his idea. He went to a lot of restaurant and he made deal with the restaurant owner. He told the restaurant owners that he had one chicken recipe which people liked and he was giving it to them for free. But the only condition he requested was the restaurant owners need to pay him a small percentage on the pieces of chicken sold as Colonel Sander’s return. 

     Things do not go under his plan. He got rejections after rejections. The most inspiration one is he does not give up easily. In fact, he got over 1000 rejections. He got 1009 no’s before he got his first yes. With that one first yes, Colonel Sanders changed the eating habits of the whole world with his friends liked chicken recipe, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Yeayea, he does change mine! =P

     What you’ve learned from this short piece of story? I would say that I’ve learned a lot and it really inspired me. I must have self-evident like Colonel Sanders. I do question myself, “If I were him, can I really do something with the only piece of chicken recipe?” Actually I still have a doubt on myself with that question. To me, he will become successful is not solely of he is intelligent. I would say that the right attitude and behaviour were the impeller to make him become a successful businessman. As I know, not everyone will dare to take their first step out just to change his life. But, we should learn from him as he would like to end his poor life by making changes (leave his house, travelled across country to sell off his chicken recipe to make money). 

     Another part of story which inspired me was he does not give up easily although he got rejected by so many restaurant owners. I would like to emphasize on this attitude as nowadays there are many young entrepreneurs fighting for their own business. I wanted to let them know, fight for own business is tough but after they gone through the hardest part, they are going to success. Young entrepreneurs or people who are doing sales like insurance agents we should learn from this story. We do not know we are going to success on the 110 times after we’ve got 109 times of no. We must get rid of all the difficulties or barriers which may stop us from being successful. So, call on all the young people doesn’t matter who you are and what you are doing now, “Do not afraid to change your life and don’t easily give up on doing something”. Only that you will know how far you can go. 

The photo of Colonel Sanders

References:

"Inspirational Short Stories - Success Story Of Colonel Sanders (Aka KFC) - Smilepls.Com". Smilepls.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.

"The Story Of Colonel Sanders And How He Started KFC". YourStory.com. N.p., 2012. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.

Feloni, Richard. "KFC Founder Colonel Sanders Didn't Achieve His Remarkable Rise To Success Until His 60S - Business Insider". Business Insider. N.p., 2015. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.

Inspiring stories: People who have changed the world -- ROBBEN SIAH

     There have been a number of people throughout history whose actions have changed the world. Every one living on the earth might become a great person who brings changes to the entire world. Today, I would like to share an inspiring successful story about a Malaysian whose invention have marked an important development in technology field. He is Pua Khein-Seng, an energetic 35 year old who is well known as the man behind the pen drive.

     When taking about great Malaysian with successful stories, many locals would be surprised to know that the inventor of pendrive is a Malaysian. Well, he was born in Sekinchan, Selangor in the year 1974 and his father is a farmer. Since the age of nine, he was assisting his father by working at the paddy fields. He then pursued tertiary study by taking degree in Electrical Control Engineering at the renowned Chiao Tung Taiwan in 1993. By that time, his only plan was to complete his studies and return home to work in Malaysia. Nonetheless, he completed his undergraduate programme with first class honour and being offered a place to continue masters.

     He worked for about nearly half year in a Taiwanese company after completed masters. Soon and later, he decided to set up his own venture company with four fellow engineers who had studied with him in the same university. Phison Electronic Corporation is the name of the company where the name originated from the collaboration between five of them, two Malaysian and three Taiwanese engineers. Initially, the company was focused on USB technology. He made his mark in the information technology industry by creating the pendrive. Before the invention of pendrive, people have been using former data storage devices such as floppy disks. The floppy disks have limited capacity storage and these disks have becoming less practical and getting eliminated. Meanwhile, their new product – the USB or also known as pendrive has a favourable demand because it is much smaller and capable of storing larger amount of data. In addition, the USB also much cheaper to produce. 

     Phison Electronic Corporation was the first company in the world to develop the USB Drive SoC or System On Chip. Pua and his fellow partners were confident that USB will have great demand in the market. They spent a lot of sleepless night and faced numerous obstacles before they could smell success. Their first challenge was to raise US $1 million in capital. After they achieved that, they tried to hire more engineers. However, many skilled engineers were reluctant to join their company with the reasons that they are new start-up business and did not have experience within the industry. 

     They introduced pendrive in June 2001 but they broke even by August in the same year. There was a great shortage in the global supply of flash memory. The company tried to source its supply from Samsung who is one of two major global suppliers of flash memory. Nevertheless, Samsung refused to supply Phison because they mainly support bigger companies. After being turned down by Samsung, Phison seek Toshiba for help. Fortunately, Toshiba saved Phison from bankruptcy by providing the urgent supplies that the company needed. Thus, Toshiba has become Phison’s largest shareholder and customer. 

     Today, Phison has become one of the top producers of NAND memory circuits in global. The company was succeed in achieving Bloomberg Businessweek’s Tech 100 List of top performing tech companies. As a successful entrepreneur and investor, he is definitely a role model for the younger generation to learn with. He said if one chose to stay in his comfort zone, he would bound to suffer from lack of success. 

“No one will be poor the whole life through; work hard and you will have wealth” by Pua’s father. 

     Last but not least, his success not only changed the world but he also an inspiring soul who have changed my view on life to become a better person. 

References:

"Pua Khein Seng: I'm A Malaysian And I Invented The USB (Pen Drive)". Funnymalaysia.net. N.p., 2015. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.

"Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman". Utar.edu.my. N.p., 2016. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.

"Up Close & Personal With Pua Khein-Seng - Business News | The Star Online". Thestar.com.my. N.p., 2009. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.

Yay~~!! I feel that Dr.Lawrence Walter Ng got a such magic. Every talk he give will change the world.

     DR LAWRENCE WALTER NG has been described as a dynamic and inspiring speaker. Through his creative presentation and humor, his audience have not only benefited tremendously from his teaching but also thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Thus, making learning interesting and effective. The impact of his lively training and concepts have generated greater energy and direction towards the challenge of excellence. Organisations and individuals have improved their performances with his training. Dr Lawrence Walter Ng has over 29 years experience in training and developing people. He was an advertising, marketing and creative consultant and began his focus on training in 1986. Since then, he has personally spoken to more than 2,000,000 participants. His unique methods of training and ideas are designed to take participants on an exciting journey of learning excellence. He has also produced an Innovative Self Learning package on Corporate Excellence and Personal Self-Improvement. Dr Lawrence Walter Ng also founded the concept of the Mental Warrior, an advanced workshop on Brain Power Motivation and the Psychology of Success. Through his research and experience, he discovered certain patterns of excellence that produce effective results through the understanding of both positive and negative thoughts. Dr Lawrence Walter Ng is one of Asia’s top speakers and Chief Master Trainers. 

     Thus, Lawrence Walter Seminars specializes in customizing our award-winning training programs to exactly what you need to ensure that your organisation and the people feel inspired to do the right things positively and as ONE team. LWS strategically designs the powerful flow of positive energy and specialized knowledge so that it aligns with your organisation’s mission and year-on-year growth road map. By doing this, the training greatly accelerates the transformation and even helps you achieve Quantum Results! Most importantly, people will feel the joy of learning, the passion to be great and the desire to work cohesively together as ONE. These may be achieved through team building, management development training, corporate training, leadership training, public speaking, motivational seminars and motivational workshops, are just to name a few. LWS training Group of Companies was incorporated by Dr Lawrence Walter Ng to ensure this greater purpose is attained. For over 30 years, Dr Lawrence Walter Ng and his team of Master Trainers & supportive ‘angels’ has brought his action- packed, high energy training seminars to over 500 companies in 10 countries around the Asia Pacific region.

     Now you can experience why he is one of Asia’s Top Speakers & Master Trainer. You too can invite him to your company or country and allow your people to discover their hidden potential. He will give you the KEY to success that will unlock the POWER inside you. We also invite you to view his Books, listen to the interesting Audio and watch the award-winning Videos in our unique website. “Dynamic, Very Energetic, Impact, Motivating, Focused, Creative, Entertaining & Talented Speaker.” – Comments from participants of the Trainers Meet Trainers (TMT) Conference where Dr Lawrence was invited to speak. Here is an opportunity to discover why he is so successful. When he talks, people listen, they think, they feel, and they realize that they can do better. Invite Dr Lawrence Walter Ng to your next company’s convention or seminar and motivate your team to a higher level of excellence. 

     The Greater Purpose of Lawrence Walter Seminars is to inspire people & organisations to be extraordinary every single day so that they can add enormous value to everyone that they interact or engage with.

      The unique and interactive methodology can make you feel the difference of you before and after developed by Dr. Lawrence Walter Ng. His training uses the participating system of the Art of Learning, the lively concept of Accelerated learning, USA and the precise science of human behavior called Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to make the training exciting, fast paced, Fun and inspiring you. Get ready to experience Innovative Thinking Games (ITG) which will presented impact fully to enable participants to fully understand what is taught because it involves multi-neuro senses learning and multi-intelligence format. the seminar is not based on the lecture format, rather on active participation and the Co-operative Learning Concept. the master trainer becomes a powerful facilitator guiding you to change towards excellence. these innovative thinking games encourage participants to challenge themselves to create new results. Specially selected videos and movies are used to create special visual learning experiences. Powerful demonstrations make the whole training a wonderful and high experience to the participants.

                   

     Dr. Lawrence Walter Ng has achieved the goals to his customer. For example, after 3 stages of impactful training, Starbucks achieve the highest growth ever. the CEO presenting this award to LWS for helping them to do the extraordinary when many companies are just not doing well. So this is the best time to strengthen the mindset of your team. Lastly, this is the reason why I choose Dr. Lawrence Walter Ng as the people who can inspiring the world. "Team Power is Key, Focus on Being a Mental Warrior" -------by Dr. Lawrence Walter Ng.

Dr. Lawrence with the Starbucks CEO. 

References: 

Dr.Lawrence Walter Ng company profile http://www.lwseminars.com/about-us/company-profile/ [ view: 10 Apr 2016]

Dr. Lawrence seminars and rewards that he achieved : http://www.lwseminars.com/master-trainers/dr-lawrence-walter-ng/ [View: 11 Apr 2016]

Facebook of Dr. Lawrence : https://www.facebook.com/LawrenceWalterSeminars/ [View: 11 Apr 2016]

Linked in profile of Dr. Lawrence : https://my.linkedin.com/in/lawrence-walter-ng-2b5a7572 [View: 11 Apr 2016] 

By Tai Ke Sin

     I have heard about the name of Nicol David since I was in primary school. So far what I know about her is that, she is an excellent squash player in Malaysia. I do not know much story about her until when I am assigned to write an inspiring story about a local people, I choose Nicol David as my title and start searching for more stories about her. 

Who is Nicol David?

Nicol David was born in Penang on 26 August 1983, one of the daughters of Desmond David and Ann Marie David. Her father is an Indian engineer and former state athlete while her mother is a retired Chinese teacher. Nicol academic performance during primary and secondary school was good. She wanted to be an engineer like her father does. At the age of 5, she started playing squash. 3 years later, she won the silver medal in the Under-16 category in the 1992 Milo-Dunlop Sport National Junior Interstate Championship and this was her first national title.  Year by year, Nicol won a lot of championship in different competition, it include:

• 1999 – Women’s World Junior Squash Championships in Antwerp, Belgium (Became the youngest female world junior champion), Champion in British Junior Open, Champion in German Junior Open, Champion in Asian Junior
• 2005 – Win a British Open title and the first Asian to crowned in women’s category, Win in the World Open in Hong Kong
• 2006 – Become the world NO. 1 squash player
• 2009 – Won her second Seoul City Open
• 2010 – Wond the women’s singles final of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi
• 2011 to 2014 – Won a number of championship in different country’s competition, including Hong Kong Open, United State Open, British Open and World Open

Why can She be so Successful?

     During an interview, Nicol recalled that she was travelling around the world, meeting new friends when she was 9 to 10 years old and also, people were telling her that squash can bring her to bright future. This is the reason why Nicol push herself further to perform better in squash. The moment when she won the World Junior title when she was 15 years old, what come into her mind was she thinks that someday she can be a world champion. With a lot of hard work, consistency, determination and resilience, she made her dream come true. 

     Yes! To be success, you have to pay for it! Not paying cash, but pay with effort. Nicol had undergone tough training day by day. She admitted that when you put in the effort, waking up in the morning with body aches, and unable to get out of bed because your body is too stiff and hurting too much; these are the times you wish you could take one day off from training. However, this doesn’t allow her to escape from the training even for one day because she knows that the same feeling will come across her the next day too. This will only slow down her training progress. She believes that, till the end of the day, when she goes into a competition, everything will be fine.

A Turning Point of Nicol

     In the 2002 Asian Games that held in Busan, Nicol lose for the match and failed to retain the gold medal that she had won four year earlier. This was the lowest point of her life. However, failure is the mother of success; this incident caused her to move to training in Amsterdam under a coach name Liz Lrving, who is now her couch too. This couch train Nicol based on her strength. Nicol reflected that “I should not just depend on what I can do, but what I could do with what I have”. With the help of Liz, Nicol succefully ranked in the world’s top 10 within a year after she return to the circuit in 2003. In 2006 she was rank as the world NO.1. No denying, this is the happiest point of her life and she deserve it!

What Inspiring Me?

     This young lady who are able to be the first successful Malaysian athlete that well known in the world make me feel proud to be a Malaysian. I believe she can be a motivation for Asian girl to be as successful as her in the future, no matter in which career. She reminds us that, whenever you have a dream, you have to make it come true with effort and passion. We must be as tough as her whenever we facing with the lowest point of our life. When you feel to give up, always believe that when we get through the toughest time it will be another sunny day waiting you. 

Successful is only deserved for people who are prepared.  

References:

Leaderonomics.com. (2014). Top Of The World: A Chat With Leading Lady Nicol David. [online] Available at: http://leaderonomics.com/personal/top-of-the-world-a-chat-with-leading-lady-nicol-david [Accessed 11 Apr. 2016].

Thefamouspeople.com. (n.d.). Nicol David Biography. [online] Available at: http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/nicol-david-5971.php [Accessed 11 Apr. 2016].

By Lee Lin Wei

An inspiring story of people who has changed the world - Yeeearn

     Talking about inspiring, it must be someone who has made the world surprise with their talents and ideas. It is referring to the people who is able to influence and affect others with successful achievements and results. One of the most inspiring people to the world is one of the top most inspiring Malaysian young leaders- Bryan Loo.

     In fact, if you’re a tea drinker in Malaysia, Chatime, one of the fastest growing lifestyle tea chains in Malaysia would definitely ring a bell. Thanks to CEO, Bryan Loo, who recognized a void in culture of drinking tea in Malaysia. At 28 years of age, Bryan Loo has about 110 outlets of the bubble-tea beverage franchise, Chatime, all over Malaysia. With a completely unrelated degree in Biotechnology, Loo brought to Malaysia the Taiwan-based bubble tea brand franchise three years ago and sparked the bubble tea craze locally. Instead of Chatime, the bubble tea business rapidly raising in the country and many other brands came off and builds a huge business opportunities and competencies in the market.

     It's a business success story that has landed him as the winner for Malaysia’s Ernst & Young “young entrepreneur of the year 2013” award and his hard work paid off when he earned the accolades of “Best Master Franchiser 2012”. Success don’t come easily anyway, Loo was no stranger to rejections when he sent 50 proposals to different shopping malls and was rejected by every single one of them. His big breakthrough came when he opened his very first Chatime outlet in Pavillion KL. The rest, as they say, is history. Now, it has almost become a requisite for every shopping mall to have a Chatime outlet and there are more than 110 outlets in some of Malaysia’s most upmarket shopping malls.

“Don’t waste time working somewhere you hate”

     Loo’s road to Chatime success was a long one. A degree holder in biotechnology from Monash University, Melbourne, he returned to Malaysia after about four years and joined a stem cell company for more than two years where he was doing sales. Back then, the biotechnology industry was so raw and prospects in that field were very dim. So he decided to pursue his dreams and start his own business and it led Loo to look into the possibility of selling bubble tea in Malaysia. With one decision, changed his whole life of being a normal people. Loo stepped out of the job he disliked with his burning passion for business and tackled it head-on, and today he’s one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Malaysia.

     

     In terms of future business plans, Loo is very passionate about the F&B field. He has no plans to stop exciting the market with more F&B outlets. In May 2015, Tino's Pizza Express which serves Neapolitan style gourmet pizzas was established and he recently launched SodaXpress which is the first sparking water machine in Malaysia. As a result, "PASSION CONQUER EVERYTHING” Loo states that passion as the one thing that keeps him going about the journey of starting businesses. He proves that working with passions will actually bring you success! As the fastest growing beverage brand in Malaysia and the fastest growing Chatime franchise in the Asean region, story of Bryan Loo has inspired people with his brand achievement and personal value.

References:

https://vulcanpost.com/315641/8-lessons-chatime-bryan-loo/

http://our-social-network.blogspot.my/2011/05/chatime-what-drives-its-success.html

Where do you see yourself in 5 years time

I am sitting in one of the Starbucks in Penang, sipping a cup of coffee while writing this blog (2nd April) - Li Houng

     I receive this title on 29th of March in my English class. Seriously, it took me more than 3 days to figure out what and how I should write about this blog. Be frank to you, I am a person who don’t even know what I am going to have for lunch tomorrow. I am a kind of person who lives for now and without any future speculation. Well, I think this is a good chance for me to plan for my future which allows me to see where I am in 5 years’ time. 

     Let’s see how my life will change in 5 years’ time. I believe my life will have a real big different than now. I definitely will have a full time job in 5 years’ time. Actually, there are a lot of fastest and shortest ways that can make you to become a millionaire easily, as long as you are dare to take the risk (the risk of losing a lot of money $). So, 5 years later, people who dare to take risk will probably become a millionaire when they are 28 years old. But me, I am not a risk taker. I will only be a worker who receives moderate income per month. I don’t mind to work like a cow with moderate income, because to me, the money which earn easily will go easily too as people said easy come, easy go. 

     I see myself working in a multinational company in Penang, it may be Intel, it may be Agilent or it may be others as long as the company can offer me better benefits. I love Penang so much until I believe I still will be here in 5 years’ time. Now, let’s narrow down the scope as there are many departments in a MNC that I can work in. I definitely will be one of the employees who work in Human Resource Department. I am not an admin, not a secretary but a very successful manager in that department. From the first time I came into contact with the Human Resource subject I have made up my mind to work in this department or in this field. I found interesting to study HR and I scored well on this subject too. My core skills will lead me to be a successful manager who can handle both in my own job and also retain good relationship with colleagues.

     I will be a typical office worker who work 5 days per week. My life seems to be tougher than those who earn money in a way of shortcut. Fortunately, I am not a lazy person when come to work, I am actually a person who works compulsively, in a simple word, I am a workaholic. So, my lives will probably surrounding by work only during that time. Other people’s perception is, a life which surrounding by only work is called lifeless but I do really enjoy this kind of lifestyle. I believe, during weekend I will sit in a café, sipping a coffee like what I am doing now with my working laptop. I will work from café instead of work from home. In order to avoid living “lifelessly”, I will balance my life with travelling to different countries or places. In 5 years’ time, I will be a person who already travelled at least 3 countries in a backpacker style. I may travelled to London, Venice, and Paris and so on to the place that I would like to go.

     I am not sure you heard about World Vision or not. It is a Christian organization working to help communities lift themselves out of poverty. You can join this organization, doesn’t matter what religion you are, by sponsor the poor children with certain amount of money. They usually focus on children. They provide shelter, food and also financial assistance to children who need help. In 5 years’ time, I believe the number of children I will sponsor is around 5. You may curious about how much I am going to sponsor per child. Actually, in a group of 12, the amount that I am going to sponsor for a child is just RM60 per year. So, in my financial condition, I believe I can sponsor around 5 children in 5 years’ time.

Check out the link below to know more about World Vision, let every child free from fear.

http://www.worldvision.org/

     Now, you may wonder about my marital status. Most of my friends said that 28 years old is the most suitable age to get married. I agree with them, but I won’t get married in 5 years’ time. So, I will remain single but still attach to my current loved one. There are many reasons why I see myself don’t get married yet. One of the reason is I believe I still not yet or unable to achieve my own dreams. What is my dream? One of my dreams, which actually not a big one is I wanted to go New Zealand for working holiday. I want to stay at there for at least 6 months. Living at there and experience the different culture and lifestyle. But, I will have too many commitments in my life then until it restrain me from achieving my dream. So, I wish to get married only after I achieve my dreams. If you have same interest like me ( working holiday in New Zealand) you may check out the link below:

http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migrant/stream/work/workingholiday/

     In 5 years’ time, I will become a successful person no matter in workplace or in my life. I will be a successful person who already bought a house, living happily with my family under the same roof. Other than this, I will also buy a car with my own saving. So, this is where I see myself in 5 yeas’ time.

What are you going to do after graduate? 

Why are you studying this program? 

Do you ever think about what are you going to do with this qualification? 

WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS’ TIME?

Oh gosh! I really hate these kinds of questions because I think there is no need to tell everyone about my future. Moreover, I never ask for yours, why you keep asking for mine?

Doubting…

In fact, to answer these questions make me feel annoying and sometime feel a little bit of stress. However, these feeling tell me that I am actually trying to escape from the reality. I feel stress because I really don’t know what am I going to do in the future, needless to say five years, even for next hour. (But now I know I will be writing this blog for my next hour…)

This does not mean that I do not have ambitious. When I was in primary school, I wish to be a teacher. I changed my mind when I came to secondary school. I like calculation. I wish to have further study for Mathematic until Master or PHD level. But what I am doing now doesn’t in the same direction of my ambitious. I am currently final year student for Degree level in business management. Hmm…There must be some reasons. Yes, it is! Before I came to this private college, I was in Form 6 for only one year – the Lower 6. My experience in this year caused me to change my mind again because I found that the Mathematic in this level is hard for me; it’s two or three level harder than those I learn during secondary school. So, I don’t think that I am able to handle those in Master level, don’t even think about the PHD level. At last, I get lost. My ambitious become unclear after that. I once wanted to open a bridal shop, but also have wanted to open a unique café. Recently, when I receive this blog title from my lecturer, something came to my mind. “I WISH TO OWN A BRIDAL SHOP ATTACHED WITH A CAFÉ!”

     My name is Lin Wei. Some people will call me Ailsa because I named myself in Facebook as this name. This year I am 23 years old, and it’s my last year for study life. I should cherish this year very much! As people said study life is always enjoyable than working life. Most probably I will be working after this year, maybe in a HR Department of a company or work in a bank. However, in five years’ time, I don’t think that I still working.

     Firstly, after 5 years, I will be a mother of one or two children, and of course a wife of my rich husband. This will be a happy family. I will educate my children with the most appropriate way. When they are doing the right thing, praise them or give them present if only when u think it is needed. On the other hand, when they are doing the wrong thing, give some appropriate punishment so that they can learn from that. They will not behave like most of the children I met now – like a boss in the house, being coddled, impolite, materialistic.  I always believe in this statement, “Like father like son”. Parent attitude always reflected from their kids. Life is miserable with kids around? I disagree. The key is how you educate them.

     Besides, as a mother, as well as a wife, my responsibility will be taking good care of my children and husband. I love cooking and baking. Most probably, kitchen will be my workplace in five years’ time. I will be enjoying with prepare meals for my family. I will also be the only housekeeping staff and secretary in the house as well as my children’s driver. Oh! It sounds tiring but I am happy to serve them. The deepest desire of my heart is still want to have a happy family.

     Maybe if my five years working life allow me to save some capital to open up a business, I am going to make my wish come true – open up a bridal shop that attached with a café. Or maybe my husband is rich enough to invest in it. However, here comes a problem. If I would to open up a business, I will lose my time to get along with my kids. Do I really need to have a choice between them? Maybe I can hire someone to help me look after this business so that I can spend more with my family but is it what I wish? I believe that I will cross that bridge when I come to it.

    This is where I see myself in five years’ time from an optimistic view. Unfortunate things may also happen to me within these five years. After five years, my marital status will change from in a relationship to single. I will still working like a cow in an office taking the same salary like past five years. I will threat myself with luxury goods or delicious food once a month when I get salary. I will go for a travel with friend when I get my bonus. Maybe I will found another Mr. Right of my life after five years and get married with him two years later at the age of 30. Oh, no! Marry at the age of 30 is my limit.

     To be honest, I am the kind of person who never thinks to be a successful woman. No matter how many five years, my life will be as simple as it can be. My husband will be the strongest support in every aspect of my life. I could said that I will 90% rely on him and only 10% on myself. You can’t judge me as useless. Every person has their own living style and this is mine. Not to say that I cannot be independent, it’s just that I choose to be dependent.

A life doubter-Yeeearn

As time goes by, I realized that I am no longer a kid anymore and there are so many dreams I want to achieve and more. It brought me silence when I see the figures on my birthday cake even though I am not old enough to die, but then I know it is the golden time in my life to working out and make my dreams come true. If I was asked about what I see myself in five year time, basically I hope I am still alive because a lot can happen even in just a minute. In five year time, I can be successful, a failure, or dead. Therefore, if I was blessed and still being healthy and available, I want my life to be as enjoyable as I could. Even though I’m not born to be rich, but I want my parents and my life be easier and free from financial limitation. I would like to experience those lives when people do not have to look at the price tag. Anyhow, the reality hits me so hard because there is no fairness can be conducted in every single life. Hence, a five year plan has to be developed because, “Rome wasn’t built in a day”.

A good plan may differs in types of achievement, such as goals in Career, Bucket List, Financial, Family, and Personal. If one man do not have desires, he could not really plan a five year plan without knowing his life plan. It will ends up writing five chapters of a story without deciding the story’s plot. After all, it took me some time to figure out what I want to be in my future. Do I want to be as wealthy as Bill Gates and owes a good social status? Or am I just happy enough with the way I am now? I have a lot of desires as I am slowly growing as an adult, it makes me upset somehow when I realize what I have lack of. I should just stop being a trash and start deciding, and develop plans for my own.

In five year time, I wish I was working with passionate and doing what I love; love what I am doing at the same time. I wish my job is to make this world a little bit better, a little hope I can bring to peoples. I hope I am a capable and reliable working partner to my company and colleagues, I hope my knowledge never stop growing. I want to be trained as a professional, someone who is confident with what she is doing and gain respect by people. I know I am a service provider, I love making customers happy and I really want to prove those bad customer service provider wrong. In today’s society, no one wants to spend their money on a “black” face or what we called bad customer service. No matter what business sector I am working in the future, I will never forget how important attitude and etiquette of being as an adult.

I am a very thankful person, I love my parents with my whole heart. This is because they are the most important person in my life that makes me so grateful and they are the main reason of my happiness. My parents always give me what I wish to have, even though they never had enjoy their life before. I swear I will do everything just to make them happy and proud of me, in terms of love, money, personal achievement and so on. In five year time, I want to be debt free and own my own house and car. I want to call my parents for holidays and birthdays and make them free to see the world together. I know exactly they would not be there forever as time passes so quickly, and I want to make their end of life time as enjoyable as it could be. To be able to do that, I must work hard and pay as much toward debt and do savings for passport and vacation. In order to be debt free, I must be in the middle to owe less than 10k in debt and start house payments as soon as possible.

Other than that, once I was 27 years old, I wish I am dating the correct man who loves me more than I do. I wish he is the reason to make me smile from my heart and he loves me just the way I am. A man who loves my parents and our kid that we going to have in the future, FOR EXAMPLE like DAVID BECKHAM. Maybe it is not necessary to be married so soon, but I hope I’d be happily married and raise good kids. And my new formed family will be on good terms with my parents and sibling’s family members just to form a bigger picture of a happy family. The reason I want a correct man to marry with is because I want my life to be secured and my parents don’t have to worry about me anymore. I might not a big dreamer, but I want to be a responsible daughter, a capable working partner, a lovely and beautiful wife or girlfriend, and one day an understanding mother for my children.

“Every man dies, not every man really lives.” stated by William Ross. Away of being something great to others, I want to be a better me in five year time. I hope I have the time to chill on the beach, having glasses of wine and physically fit all the time. I will follow a diet plan, to make sure I am not putting too much weight due to the reason I love food so much. In future, I see myself as a queen, but a queen who owns respects of others instead of fears. Last but not least, I wish I could learn a new language, go skiing and diving, fly in a hot-air balloon and be a patient person in five year time. Instead of seeing myself driving a Maserati while wearing Christian Louboutin heels, I wish I am happily living in my dream house with my family members called HOME SWEET HOME.

Where I see myself in 5 years’ time?--Robben Siah

     Before I begin talking about my future five years, I wish to have an intro about myself. I am Robben, 24 year old and I come from Penang. I’ve been raised up in a single parent family as my parents divorced when I was four. I have a brother which I have not seen him for almost ten years. All along these years, I considered myself as the only child and I lived along with my mother who is the greatest mum in the world. When I was young, my mum went overseas for job opportunity with higher pay. So I have to live with my mum’s siblings, growing up in different families. Growing up, my mum alternated between working two and three jobs at the same time. It was easy to see it wasn’t easy. Since childhood, I told myself not to take the similar path as my parents, I want to have my own complete family one day when I grew up. Until the present, I am still working towards achieving my dreams and I believe that day will come soon.

     Where would I be after five years? Perhaps I might be telling you, I want to gain a lot of money, pursue wealth, status and happiness through material. Yet this is not realistic. I do not wish to have this kind of attitude for my entire life. I have read about one quote showing the importance of goal setting in life, here goes the quote: “You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.” (Zig Ziglar). For me, I have set my life goal and my main objective is to strive towards in achieving my goals. Bear in mind, goal setting is the primary step toward successful goal achievement. I set goals in life to ensure long term success. 

On my previous semester, one of my lecturer required every student to come out with a picture to show “the difference of yourself before and after five years”. The picture became my daily motivation because it reminds me on my five year plans and I am achieving my dream step by step. I have a contented life right now where I am a full time retail associate and also a part time student taking two-year business management degree courses. My friends and families have always asking me if I ever feel exhausted of this kind of hectic lifestyle. My answer is no, I never regret choosing to work and study at the same time. In fact, it might be a little fatigue and stressful sometimes. But I always take it as challenge in life and face it optimistically.

I dream to get married and build my own happy family after five years. I will finish work at six o’clock and get home on time to dine with my dearest family. I always have the picture of me after work whereby I will drag and place my office bag on the corner of living room, lay and relax myself comfortably on the sofa. At this moment, my pretty wife will be preparing dinner in the kitchen and reminding me to go for shower with her sweet soft voice. We will clean up the dining room together after meal and talk about the story happened on that day. Sometimes, we will spend time communicating about workplace, politics, gossips and also future. Moreover, I plan to bring my whole family travelling to different parts of the world each year. That’s how my life going to be after five years. How wonderful it is if all of these come true one day.

I will become a successful man five years later. My working life as a successful manager is I will reach Uniqlo outlet by eight o’clock in the morning every day, switch on all the lights and computers, and open all the entrance doors. I will check and read all the emails and documents sent, update myself on the current store situation in order to make precise job arrangements and brief my staffs about important things to take note. After making arrangements, I will walk around the entire store, checking for any mistakes or incomplete tasks. All of the above are job responsibilities which should be done by a store manager. That’s how I begin my busy workplace. I always follow the principle of “Plan – Do – See” where this principle is vital to maintain the overall store performance.
Definitely, I will become one of the store manager of Uniqlo in Malaysia. Some of the people might feel that the job scope in Uniqlo is selling or promoting clothes to customers. Yet it is more than just selling clothes. We sell high quality and good services to our customers. I wish I could grab the opportunity to work in different Uniqlo outlets located at overseas such as Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and etc. By that time, I believe I would have strong mindset to take the challenge to work globally.

     As short, I will work hard to transform into a better me after five years. I will boost my confidence level, master more language skills such as Japanese, and train myself to achieve more goals. I understand that if I stay in my comfort zone and afraid to make any changes right now, I will still be the same person with the same mentality after five years. Time is gold and I must treasure every moment in my life because human live only once.

     When I reach the age of 29,

     I will become a successful son for my mum, a proud husband for my wife, a super dad for my kids.

     I will keep myself fit and healthy as I were still 24 years old.

     I will gain five digit salary every month and give the best to my family.

     Once again,

     I will become a better me five years later. 

          

||My working place right nowwwwwww||

     Coffee shops are everywhere. On every street corner and inside the shopping mall in Malaysia. And inside each and every coffee shop is a hive of barista who don’t want to be there. Barista with dreams. Dreams large and small. Coffee isn’t their end goal as one might assume. Naturally, a lot of shops do want to hire people with coffee or food service experience. One coffee shop owner I talked to recently said he’s pretty strict on hiring people with experience because they have a feel for these things. However (there’s hope!), he said he had take someone with less experience but with a great attitude over a skilled barista with a sour personality any day. As I was looking for a job in my community, I started to get a feel of some skills to have to succeed as one. Knowing these skills is really important. I have to make sure that I am good fit so that I can enjoy the job and succeed at what I am doing, and so I get benefits on my job and I enjoy my job as an employee as well. I apply this job is because that I am in good fit and I love the environment while in my job. Attitude will affect personal quality while I am working.

[Every espresso shot is come out with different taste of the coffee, and this is the reason why I like coffee J]

     Having the right skills and traits will ensure that I did the best part in barista while I enjoy my work very well. I have found some keys to make me more successful in my journey of a best barista. A coffee shop barista at least I know how to be around people. This includes being friendly and relatable. I have to engage with the customers, as well as enjoy working with my team members. These help me to improve my communication skills to be more successful in 5 years time. Be personal but also professional, realizing I am represent my company. Customers will come back to the coffee shops besides the food and drinks is good, but also when there are good services, friendly environment, get some feedback from the customers and research about what makes customers satisfied and what goes wrong when customers are unhappy. It really helps me a lot while I am always observing around and understand the situation of the customers. Become a barista not only with good coffee but also attach with a smiley face to the customers.

-This is how the environment in this cafe-

     In coffee shops, I will be hired to make drinks and keep up with orders and efficient service such as faster order been made to take more opportunities and able to serve more customers. I have a high work ethic and willing to work hard. With my experience, I shall be comfortable providing quality work in a fast-paced environment, self-motivated to see and do what needs to be done around my area. Being a barista really is a lot of work, but I am willing to do it well. Cleanliness and sanitation is very important in the food industry. Having high standard of hygiene and keeping areas clean is a great train to have. Always keep yourself in clean situation will helps to level up your personal attitudes.

Latte Art by me ^

     In 5 years time, I am ready to become the famous coffee master not only in Malaysia, but also in Thailand. Obviously, I am making some assumptions for this stage of barista life, but I really do think that working as a barista can work at any stage of life. From conversations I have had with my family members, my crazy friends, and some of the regular customers of mine. Every time I go to work with a kind of heart as people needed my coffee to makes their every morning so energetic. I feel that I am so useful for some people that lack of energy or motivation; I will lead them to be more cheerful with a cup of good coffee. My job can remedy without adding the stress and hours that often comes with other jobs. It also adds an element of socializing, talking with customers and catching up with co-workers. Every single moment to be with me, there is no negative energy. I will try my best and did a great job no matter what stage of life and I will just find myself behind the espresso bar again.

[Coffee hunting]

Besides, I think a degree is not only about securing a career. Its journey also lays a foundation in terms of life experience and people I meet. Sometimes people may unhappy about their choice after graduating. For me, I wanted to do more and unleash my potential creatively. I wanted a different challenge and the challenges of being a businessman no longer satisfied me. I wish that I could have my way with both careers because I may not have a strong leadership. However, I have to make a choice of securing my job with my opportunities or follow my passion doing something happy that what I had done right now.

After putting a lot of effort from learning the skills, a barista is not a cool job that many people think of it. Become a barista is not easy like you watch from the drama like “coffee price”. It is totally different from the real life. Barista need to be tough enough because every coffee you made to the customers will affect their emotion in a day. Also, barista need to deal with the customers. I have set a goal to achieve in 5 years time and I wish that I could open up a coffee shop around the world to offer the best coffee to the customers. I hope that I can become experts of the coffee and coming up with cool ideas of new coffee and the better ways to brew coffee without heats. Additionally, I wanted to be a professional barista based on my work ethic and personality that I learned from the past. I believe good attitudes and a kind and genuine character might change your life become more successful and I will never get lost in my future with all my characteristics and the skills in my life.

~travel around the world and try different kind of coffee is my dream~!

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