Saturday, August 6, 2011

Rock Your Business Singapore & Malaysia – Play a Bigger Game.

About 2 months ago, I attended a highly interactive 3-days International Business Convention in Singapore that completely changed my life.

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Rock Your Business Singapore – May 2011.


If you don’t know me personally or you haven’t been in touch with me for a while, I ought to tell you a little bit about my background.

I am 22 years old, completed my final theory examinations for my Medical Studies, earned an Advanced Diploma in Medical Science and am officially a Student Doctor. A day before leaving for my practical studies in Hospital Tuanku Jaafar for the next 2.5 years to earn my Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery Degree, I decided there and then to defer my studies and took that plunge into entrepreneurship. :) It felt right, it was now or never. And as they say, the rest is history.

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That’s me, once upon a time ago in medical school.


In a nutshell, I am now the Business Development Director of a Green Energy Business with my dad. About 3 weeks into the business, I met Matthias Gelber (The Greenest Man on the Planet) in a coffee talk, he briefly mentioned Rock Your Business that was to be held in Singapore in a couple of days, and I asked him more about it.. I don’t usually go for business events, but this one just felt right and I told him to mark my words that I will be there. The next thing I knew, I was on the plane to Singapore. :)



I don’t know about you, but I measure the quality of any programs by it’s track record. Prior to leaving for Singapore, I found out Rock Your Business was already held successfully in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa to name a few. And there were many testimonials and positive reviews about it. After having attended Rock Your Business in Singapore, I can vouch for those testimonials, because I had by then experienced the magic of it…

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Rock Your Business Malaysia – July 2011


Rock Your Business isn’t a regular business program that teaches you the ‘HOW’ of things in business. It teaches you that the most important question you should ask is ‘WHY’ followed by ‘WHO’, ‘WHEN’ and ‘WHERE’ . And by asking the right questions, you will find the right answers and the ‘HOW’ will follow suit. The things you’ll learn in Rock Your Business are from the years of experience these business experts acquired. And for a person like me fresh into entrepreneurship, these kind of lessons are like gems.

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Group sessions with individual Sages – Dave Rogers (Asia’s leading Entrepreneur Coach)


Don’t get me wrong though.. this is not a program for only people new in entrepreneurship. I’ve met alot of people who already have got successful businesses themselves in Singapore, but are there to bring their businesses to the next level and best of all, they’ve got great value from of it as well. It is a very blended and thriving environment to be in, with people from all age, background and businesses. (There was even an opera singer who has coached Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman!). Getting the opportunity to mingle and learn from the experiences of these entrepreneurs was a bonus to me!

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Paul Zaman – He led the equity research and marketing of the world’s largest A$14 Billion IPO of Telstra in 1998.


When people asked what will they get out of Rock Your Business. My best response would be – What are you looking for? Different people are in search of different things in life, their career and for their business. And … Rock Your Business will amaze you.. it’s all about asking the right questions, shifting the energy, knowing who should be in your team, finding out what sort of collaboration or partnerships you should have, or understanding the investors’ mindset. That’s just to name a few..

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Mike Handcock – Bestselling author of 11 books, founder of Rock Your Life and Asia’s leading Edutainer.
“Why do you really do the things you do in life?”
Some people were there to discover the question they should be asking themselves is “Who am I?”. Most definitely, there are different levels of value and learning for different individuals to take home after the Rock Your Business weekend.

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Matthias Gelber – Greenest Man on the Planet & Eco Mentor.


So, when Rock Your Business was brought into Malaysia, a couple of us Malaysians who attended the Singapore one could not hesitate to go for it again! All Rock Your Business graduates will get a special discount to attend any Rock Your Business events again – that is just awesome isn’t it? The amount of value we got out of it does not justify the amount we paid for the program (even in full).. this program is absolutely worth every single penny.

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Lilian Lim – Franchising & Licensing expert.


I would highly encourage anyone to experience Rock Your Business, whether or not you have a business.. This will change your life and will definitely catapult your business into the next level.

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Rock Your Business Malaysia – July 2011 graduates.


I know I talked about track record previously, so it is only fair that I share my track record on how RYB benefited for me and my business. 1 month after Rock Your Business Singapore, my company has already established collaborations & partnerships with UCSI and Technology Park Malaysia (TPM) for our product testing and validation - in preparation for commercialization. We are moving in quite an encouraging pace for a new technology that has yet to emerge in the market. 1 month and we could already see positive outcomes from Rock Your Business! And that was just a 2 months old business at that time.

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Woohoo!
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The next Rock Your Business Malaysia will be on the 2nd – 4th of December 2011. You can get your tickets at http://rybmalaysia.eventbrite.com.

Not only that, you will also be able to network with many inspirational and successful business experts and participants in the room.

Do visit, http://rockyourbusinessmalaysia.com for more information. You may call me at +60192233022 if you’d like to know more about Rock Your Business Malaysia personally from me.
“Show up, Step up, and Give back..” :)

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Damn U, IMU

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Times like this, I feel like wringling someone’s neck (IT Dept head’s neck to be precise). Not only our exam’s coming up next week, now our I-drive is not accessible!

I-drive’s this place we go online to get our lecture notes. And in IMU, lecture notes are very very important. Other medical schools, please don’t add to our stress by telling us to read from books instead.

1) IMU’s curriculum is very very focused. Meaning, you read beyond the scope you are just wasting your time.

2) IMU lecture notes have shitloads of things to memorise. Because we have been given notes, we cannot say we don’t know. It is very unlike universities that follow objectives and read from books, so exam questions are very different over here. You need to know every single detail in the lecture notes. Call it spoonfeeding if you want, but our exams are way tougher. Don’t believe? Not my problem. You better don’t start a debate with us.

3) IMU IT Department’s doing some sorta maintenance on the I-drive. WITHOUT prior notice. I always went into cardiac arrest when I couldn’t access it on Friday evening.

4) Maintenance period supposed to be until yesterday, Sat 7pm. It’s been 7 hours, and no sign of it back online yet.

5) The SRC has informed us to inform them whether there’s any problems with the I-drive (after the migration of servers) next week. NEXT WEEK. WE DO NOT HAVE NEXT WEEK IF YOU START TROUBLESHOOTING ON MONDAY. BLOODY >:(

6) We cannot seem to contact the IT department directly.

7) We are freaking stressed. Actually I was alright before this shit happened, NOW I AM FREAKING STRESSED.

8) We can get the notes from our friends. Of course we thought about it. But everybody’s stressing out for the exam, and it is not very convenient to get it from each other. Mariam helped me out fortunately (owe you one gal!) But we cannot keep badgering each other for help can we? We can only pester someone so much.

9) It’s Sunday, and IMU will be CLOSED.

10) WTH is wrong with IMU? Is $330k not enough for you? Please stop torturing us. Just let us study, sit for the exams, and graduate in peace. I beg of you.

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*breathes* TO BED.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

In the mood for some adventure. But.

As always, when exam is approaching, I’ll take the opportunity to waste some study time to write some nonsense on this blog.

Exam’s in 2 weeks. Summative to be exact, which is my end of semester 5 examination. The stress comes after that, because we have 2 weeks to cram semester 3, 4 and 5 for our EOS examination on the 28th November.

I’LL BE A FREE BIRD STARTING DEC 3rd.
Actually December 2nd right after my OSCE (practical exam)!  
I can’t wait to do all those things I’ve always wanted to do! I’m not telling you what they are though, until it actually takes off. :)


Hospital Tuanku Ja’afar, Seremban.

I’ll be resuming my studies in Tuanku Ja’afar Hosp + IMU Clinical School in Seremban, March 2011 onwards. Which I will rot away, again. Curse you, Medical school.


Tuanku Ja’afar. I believe he’s on our current paper money?

Btw, does anyone have any recommendations on getting rid of hyperpigmentations? I have pigmentation popping up on my face, due to UV damage from my camping, kawat, and sunburn days back in school. And I’m desperate.

Has anyone used Vichy? Any good?

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Nerding Lambert

Hello!

I’d been trying out Tumblr as my blogging tool.. Despite living by it’s reputation ‘The easiest way to blog’, but I realised that it’s not as flexible as the conventional blogging tools available like Blogger and Wordpress.

Been pretty busy with my revision as well. However, with some good loud music, twitter, facebook and emails.. it aint so bad after all. Sometimes we just need to relax, have a little fun, go for a movie or makan.. then get back to the books. Rather than getting sick of studying and start throwing fits .. right?

ANYWAY.

Looks who’s going for the AWESOMEST concert on planet earth?!

*points to myself*

FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT! CAN’T WAIT. Happening this Thursday, 14th October 2010.

Friday, August 6, 2010

Jared: The Butcher of Song

For some weird (unknown) reason, I find this really hilarious!

Can you tell me what it means? I’ll prob treat you with Starbucks JavaChip. Ha!

P/s: I’m watching this for the 10th time and I still can’t rub that silly grin off my face.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Shrilling Chicken

LOL.

The 1st time I spotted the shrilling chicken was probably a year ago, at a clearance sale in Kajang. Alex and I played with it and ran off, laughing our asses off, that awfully funny sound it made!

Little did I know, that was not the end of our encounter with the shrilling chicken. In no time, this toy has sprouted all over the world! Heck, I went to Shanghai and I spotted it, Malacca it’s there, and then I stumbled upon it on Youtube, apparently it’s in US too.

Who would have known this toy will be such a hit!