Candice, in the eyes of many is an arrogant person whom you will never want to walk near to. To me, I see myself as a person who is always ready for new challenges. Challenges will never daunt me. Instead, I work extremely well under pressure. That is why in my website, you can read

“Challenges And Never Daunted Is Candice’s Expertise

= CANDICE.”

Behaving in this manner, is not what I wanted. I would say I have been trained this way. I have to protect myself in the society. There are many people who want to take advantage of you. No matter what reasons I can give you that I am never wrong to behave in this manner, for sure I can tell you that this is the beginning of my fall. Been complacent will only drift the wise away from you.

So, who have changed Candice over time?

I have to thank my dearest  Jonathan. During the inital few months of the relationship, he made me realised how unwelcomed I am to many. Many of you who know him will find it so much easier and nicer to confide in or even to have a simple chat with him as compared to me. Over these few months, every single day his actions influenced me to be more considerate to people around me. I am not GOD. I can’t change over night. But I would say…..I am putting my effort to change.

Thank you Nia Nia. I love you!

Another person who I am learning from is King Solomon, the richest man on earth.

A question was posed to him, “How do I prepare for an uncertain future?”

“Seek wisdom,” the King said simply.

From then on, I decided to learn from those around me.

Wisdom waits to be gathered.She cannot be bartered or sold. She is a gift for the diligent. And only the diligent will find her. The lazy man, the stupid man never even looks. Though wisdom is available to many, she is found by few.

So please, seek wisdom.

If you are with me these few months, you will realize I have been speaking and learning from many people. It is because I remembered I read this part on what King Solomon said in one of my research about him,

“Only a fool refuses the counsel of wise men. There is safety in counsel. Sensible instruction is a life-giving fountain that will help you escape all manner of deadly traps. Find a wise man, a person who has accomplished what you wish for in your life and listen closely to his words.”

I am learning to seek wisdom and be humble to all…. Have you?

How many of you have dreamed to be a business owner? I have never been an employee before ever since I graduated. From today onwards, I will journal down all the ups and downs of my journey as an entrepreneur.

August 2009 – October 2009
I have deleted and rewrote what happened to me from August 2009 to October 2009 again and again. Wondering if I should pen it down for all of you to know. Finally, as you can see in this post, I have decided not to. What happened during this period of time taught me a great lesson.

“Never build a business at the expense of others.

You will never know how people suffered and cried at night

because of your selfish doings”

November 2009 – December 2009
These two months are the months where I spent the most amount of time with myself. Many nights tears rolled down, sleepless and stressful nights that I had. Thinking of how far I have drifted apart from a group of best girlfriends gave me moments of guilt and worries that I will lose them. I am at a crossroad, in dilemma, in self doubt. I am searching for a direction for my future. I re-evaluated on my life. Finally I woke up and realised what went wrong that have put myself into not just liabilities but the lost of a balanced life for the last 3 years. I learnt to shut up and listen. This happened by chance. Most of my time during this period is spent in KL and in fact other than the advisers in Fortress, I only know Jacelyn and Arthur. I do not have much chance to chat with anyone. Because of this, I learnt to observe and realised that in life, many things need not be spoken. We focus too much on fighting for the chance to speak but forgotten that ‘Silence is Golden’. By learning to listen, I have gained much more insights.

January 2010 till now
During this period of time, I read and read and I learnt how to read in the right way. The number of books and amount of research that I have done is amazing. I am not a person who loves reading and neither am I a great businesswoman yet. I read, I researched and I take all opportunities to ask and learn. No one know how desperate I am to make money.

I started Racketlon Asia Sdn Bhd with Jonathan and Joyce. My objective of coming in is to make money. It is not for the passion of the sports. Things just can’t move forward and I get stressed out. Business is not easy. Issues on responsibilities, shareholdings, committment started to surface in. Meetings after meetings, problems after problems and money is still not coming in. We need to organise tournaments and this is the only revenue source which will only take place in July and that’s it! Colonel Wong Ah Jit, the man who brought Malaysia squash to where it is today met up with me and Jonathan to advise us on how to run Racketlon Asia. He told us that it will be a blessing if we can just break even from this first tournament. I am feeling like shit then.

By chance during a squash game, I get to know Ernie. I got to know that Ernie is a well known businessman in Malaysia owning 8 companies and I was like ‘WOw, true or not’… haha. You will have the same response as me if you have ever been cheated by people who claimed that they know how to build businesses. As usual, I am skeptical and I trust no one but myself. I went on to research on who this guy is. Though I always tell Ernie that I don’t trust him, nevertheless I have thousands of thanks to say to him.

Do you think it is easy to start a business? You think you can make $1,000,000 over night without hardwork? Bullshit! Dream On! You will have to learn how to start a business from learning about organisation structure to learning what is shareholding and protecting your own interest to learning about the tax laws to learning about branding to learning about social marketing. There is a wide scope of areas that you need to learn. I have learnt many different skills from many individuals and yet my company foundation is still weak. Much more time and effort are required to be put in to build my business successfully.

Remember, in life, there is no shortcut, there is no quick money. Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

It’s 12.25am now and I am tired. In the next episode, I will continue to share what I have learnt and the people I want to thank.

Good night!