Since May 2011, together with my team, we have been busy building the brand of CAPITAL ASIA GROUP (M) SDN BHD. We have been featuring in a number of media since we were incorporated. By surprise, I found myself on Bernama Malaysia.

So much of motivation and my entrepreneurship journey, today I just feel like blogging about my personal life story. Both myself and Jonathan has a list of dream places to visit together. Turkey is one of them! This holiday is meant to be a getaway for myself and my family in Japan but due to the natural disaster….the destination was changed to Turkey.

Hours and hours of flight and transit we finally arrive in Istanbul! So sorry…no pictures of the flights and my Day 1 trip… you know why? Coz I went to format the camera without knowing what I am doing and there goes all the pictures!

Let’s begin the journey now.

This place that you are going to see is called the Goreme Open Air Museum. Amazing historical place. The valley of mountains are full of holes. And in each hole is either a bedroom, dining room, store room, kitchen or even a Church! There are 4000 churches in the whole valley!

After hours of journey, we arrive at another destination – The House of Virgin Mary. It is said that Mother Mary stayed in this place in Turkey for years. It is not allowed to take pictures inside of the house so..I shall share with you the exterior design.

For the 10 days I stayed in Turkey, I easily get hungry…..but….everytime when it’s meal time…there goes my appetite. The food there does not suit me. Every meal we had are buffet and all the meals are the same…plus….the desserts are super super sweet! Look at my expressions and you will know…Check it out!

Turkey has rich history and most of the places are ancient cities. The following is one of the magnificent place that we visited.

I really loved this picture. *High Jump*!

See this elevated steps? This is an open theatre for the people in the ancient city to watch plays in open air. This steps is elevated at 60 degree… my feet always wobble when I am placed at a high place!

This is Ali! Our driver who is extremely careful and never dozed off while driving. After speaking to him, then we realised he is 59 years old and he had the experience of driving for days across Turkey, Greece and Spain! Salute!

In the upcoming pictures, I have witnessed one of the best belly dancer! Her dance, her shakes are amazing! Kinda motivated me to pick up belly dance. Check out the drinks they served…Free flow of beer, white wine, red wine, spirits and even Rika (Turkish Whiskey)!

Enjoying the belly dance, the following day here we are at Topkapi Palace Museum!

There are more places I have visited….too much for me to share everything here with all of you.

Last picture before i sign off this blog…..I wanna show you short female model on catwalk! That’s me!!!

Hi Everyone, I have been missing from my blog for a long long time. For the last one month plus, the schedule has been very hectic…

Hmm… what have I done over the last one month?

I have been to Turkey, Dubai, Singapore, Johor, Kuching …..

I have also been invited for speaking engagement in Swinburne University in Kuching, Potential Builders International in KL and UCSI in Cheras.

In the upcoming post, I shall share more on the things I have learnt and experienced for the last one month. At the same time, I thank some of the readers who wrote to me personally to share on the urgency for me to continue writing great posts here. Thanks all for your feedback and I will upload the level of standard.

Cheers!

“I can’t give you a surefireformula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time!” ~Herbert Bayard Swope

I realise that the basic rules of being successful are surprisingly uniform and predictably divergent from what the rest of the world is doing.

1. LESS IS NOT LAZINESS
Doing less meaningful work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard to accept but our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity. Having more time equals more self worth and more reinforcement from those above and around them.

2. THE TIMING IS NEVER RIGHT
Look, timing always sucks! Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. It’s not that the universe is conspiring against you. The fact is conditions are never perfect. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

3. EMPHASIZE STRENGTHS, DON’T FIX WEAKNESSES
We are not created to be good in all the things. It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armr. The choice is between multiplication of results using strength or incremental improvement fixing weakness……your choice!

On my way to Penang last month, I received a call by SME magazine to be interviewed and featured in May’s issue. This morning while I am in the bookstore, I realised that the interview is released. The topic of the month is “The Young & The Restless” – featuring 14 youth entrepreneurs on what it’s like to be young and successful. I am blessed to be featured together with all of them, together with a good friend of mine Harish!

You may not be able to read the interview from the above screen shot. Here you go…sharing with you the content of my interview.

1. Tell us a little about the nature of your business/company.

Together with my business partner, we run True North Asia Sdn Bhd which specialise on Alternative Investment, namely real estate participation investment, Gold&Silver investment, fine wine investment and arts & antiques. We hold education seminars, labs and workshop for corporate companies, universities and the public.

 2. How did you come up with the idea for your business?

I always expose myself to learn from successful investors and entrepreneurs. I wonder why the rich keep on getting richer and the poor keep on getting poorer. The investment portfolio that private banker clients are exposed to are always out of reach to layman on the street. Hence My partner and myself started to wonder how can we let all layman on the street be part of the giant’s man game. One of the research we found in Merill lynch world wealth report is the high networth investors do keep 7-10% of their portfolio into alternative investment and we realize, holding physical assets is the way to go other than our business being the biggest asset.

  3. Do you think Gen Y entrepreneurs differ from entrepreneurs from previous generations? What makes young entrepreneurs “special”?

 Everyone of us come to the world naked. We are all the same species. Deng Xiao Ping once said,’whether u are a black cat or white cat, as long as u can catch mice, u are a good cat!’

One of the advantage the GenY entrepreneurs have is the time and ability to learn from the experience of successful entrepreneurs and allow us to be wary of the pitfalls and challenges ahead of us. Leaving an impression be it good or bad is better than leaving no impression at all. We did two weeks ago on a group of GenY entrepreneurs recently and found that they have many things in common!

a. They may not know how to start being an entrepreneur but they are real hungry enough to seek and ask. The moment u know how to let ur E-GO, u will humble down to learn from people who are better than us.

b. They know where they wanted to be and no matter how badly their parents object, they will still bite on and dash through the challenges. 90% of the youth we talked to are facing this as the main challenge but it still doesn’t daunt them from moving forward! I applaud to that!

c. They may or may not have a degree or master, but they have PHD! They have the pain, hunger and desire to be successful! This is something that a young entrepreneur must always have in them.

  4. Any advice or thoughts to share with our young entrepreneur readers out there?

 The roots of a green plant grown in a greenhouse is never as strong as the plant grown in the wild! If u dream to be a successful entrepreneur, put yourself in the wild and never give up no matter how tough or lonely the journey is going to be.

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.“
Thomas A. Edison

People have always known that persistence and perseverance are a key ingredient to success. Hence the old saying “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”.

Studies of successful entrepreneurs show that the millionaires in this world possess a tremendous level of perseverance – they stick at it not just when the going gets tough, but even when others tell them to stop.

“Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”
Thomas Henry Huxley

Single mindedness, determination, dedication and self belief, the inability to ever give in are what distinguish people who do great things with their lives from those whose dreams die with them. When you have great perseverance you take into account what others say but you don’t let it rule you. You remain true to your vision.

I love this video very much. At times when I feel like giving up on my dreams, I will recall back how this coach motivate his team towards breaking own goals just by never give up! Enjoy!

I happen to bump into this particular video which I love. In life, some remain where we are, some keep moving forward. When you realise that you want to be an eagle, you just need that little push in order to soar.

Enjoy this vides – Even Eagles Need A Push!