My story
I was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1995. I studied hard, got the grades, and didn’t get the scholarship, which was my first lesson that doing everything right doesn’t guarantee the outcome.
I started a law degree in 2015 and quit three months in. The next three years were a blur of jobs I was not good at: customer service rep, body lotion salesperson, real estate agent, a stint at an ad agency, and digital marketing manager.
Dropping out made me feel like a failure. No degree, and a quiet need to prove to everyone around me that I wasn’t one. So on top of the jobs, I tried Forex. I was young, dumb and naive, and I got scammed out of about $5,000. That was money that could have paid for the degree I didn’t have. Second lesson: greed gets me nowhere.
I find myself in a job I did not enjoy. I had to pivot.. again.
That's when I chose to become a designer.
In April 2019, I joined a 24-hour hackathon. I didn’t know a single person there, so I signed up alone and got grouped with two strangers. We placed top 10, and I walked out with my first UI/UX design job offer. By July, I was a product designer at Fave, a local startup. Everything clicked for me. I enjoyed the work so much.
Then the pandemic hit. By May 2021 I was filming YouTube videos and learning Final Cut Pro for the first time. Three months later the channel was at 10,000 subscribers. I quit my job in May 2022 at 80,000.
Now I’m Video Lead at Mobbin, where our YouTube channel went from 200 to 10,000+ subscribers in two months.
A trip to San Francisco lit something up in me, and now I host demo nights with my good friend Joe at sidequest.camp, with one goal: to bring the community together, especially in Southeast Asia.
To be continued :)
