Jakarta: Re-entry

13th – 15th January 2010. It was just more than a week before that I launched my first non-Internet Marketing website ever, PIPsician.com – to attract people who are interested in the opportunities of making money from Foreign Exchange (Forex).

Even though targeted at only Malaysians, surprisingly, many who signed up to my mailing list are from… Indonesia! ๐Ÿ™‚

If not for my friend, Dee Ferdinand, I wouldn’t have thought let alone come again to Jakarta, Indonesia. This would be my second time here.

Prospecting the opportunities of opening a new market in a new country. Why not? That’s what I was here for!

So I bought my plane ticket and flew down to Jakarta, Indonesia to conduct a preview on Forex the SRDC way.

Marcus Chang helped provided the Powerpoint slides just a few hours shy before I left for Jakarta. ๐Ÿ™‚

15 people showed up for the preview, all of them Dee’s friends and contacts. Was able to close 6 of them to come down to Malaysia for the 23rd January USU class. yay YAY yay! ๐Ÿ˜›

Wrapped up the last night here with a trip to one of the malls in Jakarta, ate at the food court with the group. ๐Ÿ™‚

Btw, Warong “Buntut” LOL spotted this. In Bahasa Indonesia “buntut” means “tail” but in Malay it means “ass” Haha!

I know I’ll have to be back here in Jakarta again! ๐Ÿ™‚

(to be continued in the next post…)

New Yearโ€™s Eve 2010

It’s been some time since the last post. A lot of overdue posts! Year 2010 kick started with a big bang for me.

The atmosphere was happening around me just before the world celebrated 2010 – congrats everyone, we lived one decade into the 21st century! ๐Ÿ˜€

Also in the last 3 weeks, I became highly involved in the SRDC Forex previews, went to Jakarta and Brunei, and launched my first 72-hour PLR Sale of the year at the same time!

Alright, alright I’ll stick to the theme of this blog post. ๐Ÿ™‚ Got carried away, too excited. LOL

I didn’t have any solid plans to celebrate the New Year and was thinking of staying in… until I saw an event on Facebook – the ‘Black & White’ NYE Party at Terrace @ Hok Choon KL.

Forget staying at home to celebrate 10 years of the first 21st century, man… call in the cavalry!

Yep. Me, Jimmy Chen, Constance Ying (his gf) and Kenneth Lee. We went there to do the countdown.

I also met Eunice Cheng by lucky chance! Practically the first person I see as soon as the clock struck 12! Will I be lucky for the rest of the year? ๐Ÿ˜‰

The night was still young so the four of us went to Zouk KL to partay partay!

It was Jimmy’s sister’s boyfriend’s birthday too, so we had the privilege of getting access to the VIP lounge in Phuture. Though that was after trying to find our way there amidst the HUGE crowd of people dancing and music blasting through our ear drums.

That’s me pretending to be drunk. But then, after looking at this photo I don’t think I needed to act out too much. LOL

Happy New Year 2010, Everyone! ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ™‚

2009 Reviewed

I can really, really say that I’ve never had so much fun in a long, long time. Or rather, in my life! ๐Ÿ™‚ The last 2 months have been sky high for me. And looking back, Year 2009 has been the greatest year for me to date.

It had been challenging. It had been exciting. And I gained a lot of new experience in so many things I would have never even thought of trying, or getting into.

It’s easy to understand why when I review and reflect again.

January 2009: Trip Around the Country!

Spent the first month of the year going around states in the country!

Went to Genting Highlands. Went to Desaru. Started my first life-changing Forex journey with Orange Roshan and the SRDCโ€™ians in KL. Relatives came over to visit us in Johor Bahru. We also paid our Singaporean relatives a visit during Chinese New Year.

February 2009: Visit Sydney, Australia!

Met up with my online marketing friend Aurelius Tjin. Attended the Sydney online entrepreneurs gathering. Climbed the Harbour Bridge. Visited the Three Sisters. And did a whole lot more fun stuff while I was here for one whole week!

March – April 2009: Gadget Pimping and GIS Penang

This was probably the most challenging time for me. Broke up with my ex-girlfriend and as it is my first relationship, well, I took it rather badly and bitterly. Got back in… and got a strike-out again! ๐Ÿ™ Sucks to the max.

I was still primarily based in Johor Bahru at this point, and I wanted to start anew. Figured being busy with something else would keep me occupied from heartache so I went on a personal โ€˜make overโ€™. Hmm… found out shopping isnโ€™t such a bad thing either. ๐Ÿ™‚

Pimped myself up with new gadgets โ€“ Playstation 3, new custom suit, got my own car (and gave the Myvi to my mom). Plans were underway to move to PJ to start anew.

Right about the same time, I was invited as a main speaker to speak for the Global Internet Summit event in Penang.

May 2009: Mega Red Packet and Moving to PJ

Pulled off the mega product launch finally, after six months of working on the Mega Red Packet project! ๐Ÿ™‚ More than $300,000 in total sales in 10 days! It was exhaustive, but I had to move on to the next phase of life: moving to PJ on my own.

Settled in, bought new furniture and had a house warming party to celebrate with friends a bit. ๐Ÿ™‚

Wild Goose Chase!

Hah! This is another interesting, HUGE highlight of 2009. From the time I met Elle Wong, itโ€™s been a wild goose chase for riches! It almost felt as if we were casted into a movie of our own, like the Indiana Jones version for racing to make lots of moo-lah!

Am I making this up? You decide.

Started off with attending the Millionaire Mind Intensive 3-day seminar in The Mines, KL…

The very next day after the seminar, we pulled off Brand Dynamics PLR launch together โ€“ making this the first Private Label Rights product to have both male and female voice over. ๐Ÿ™‚

Hey, we didnโ€™t stop here though. We hosted the IM Weekend Workshop next. My first time hosting a workshop of my own. Iโ€™m so used to working from home. ๐Ÿ˜›

We didnโ€™t stop here either. NEXT… (how many times did I use that word? LOL)

We went to Singapore to attend a follow-up seminar on MMI called Guerrilla Business Intensive by T Harv Eker.

Oh, not forgetting we met up with Calvin Woon, Patricia Lin and Maritius buddy Jonathan Teng. ๐Ÿ™‚ Jhong Ren tagged along too.

THEN… we pulled off a bigger launch than Brand Dynamics โ€“ called the 7-Day PLR Sale. Did above $50,000 in sales in 7 days in November. Woo Hoo! $ $ $ $ $

Iโ€™ve done better launches but for the work we put in, it was well worth it. Not to mention I was pulling off my โ€˜last minute kingโ€™ here. ๐Ÿ˜›

WE DIDNโ€™T STOP HERE… early this month we went to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah to attend the Orange Roshan SRDC Bootcamp!

WOOOOO HOOOOOOO…! ๐Ÿ˜€

July 2009: Bought My First House!

Lakeview house for Mom and Ashley in Johor. ๐Ÿ™‚ We never had a property of our own before. Where my father had failed to do so for my family, Iโ€™m glad Iโ€™m able to provide!

Right about the same time, I also formed my own company in Malaysia called AMLOH CORPORATION SDN. BHD. Hey, paperwork is insane and I nearly went crazy when I first started it out. The procedures to set up, pay taxes and handling the legalities were highly frustrating and later got the hang out of it.

Oh hey, also visited Bangkok, Thailand ๐Ÿ™‚

August 2009: Jungle Warfare

I think I will be doing this for a long, long time. ๐Ÿ™‚

November 2009: My First Halloween Costume

Thanks to Ashleyโ€™s incredible work in helping me out a bit. ๐Ÿ™‚ Elected best costume at the Mindvalley Mischievious Midnight Minglers!

December 2009: Orang Asli Trip, Ex-DJian Gathering and RYM Xmas Party

The best month was saved for the last of the year! Rejoined the church I used to go to when I was a teenager, I went on a trip to the Orang Asli settlement in Kuantan, Pahang.

Also reunited with old school friends from SMKDJ…

Mmmm, couldnโ€™t find a more suitable pic to describe the gathering in one picture. But hey, Iโ€™m not complaining. ๐Ÿ˜‰

Also the RYM Xmas Party towards the near end of the year…

All in all… itโ€™s been amazing for me. I hope itโ€™s been for you too this year. And I know 2010 holds much more in store for all of us.

Happy New Year (and also congratulations for surviving into the first 10 years of the 21st century LOL)! ๐Ÿ˜€

Partay Partay

This is one of those moments I wished I could be in two places at the same time!

27th December 2009. I attended the Ex-DJians 2003 gathering at Marche, The Curve.

It turned out well. It’s been… what? 6 years since we left high school? ๐Ÿ™‚ Although I was probably the only one who left SMKDJ prematurely… that’s a story you can read in my ABOUT page. ๐Ÿ™‚

Amazed how many have changed and how some remained the same, even after all those years! One of them mentioned that we could have repeated high school all over again, so that’s how long it had been!

Okay picture time. ๐Ÿ™‚

Wished I stayed longer โ€“ was having so much fun catching with a lot of old friends and ex-classmates. Then, had to run off to the masquerade / Xmas party by RYM & St. Ignatius Church in Aman Suriaโ€™s community hall.

So I left around 1.5 hours later for the next function. Missed out the games unfortunately, but the food remained intact! Yes I know, Iโ€™m greedy. ๐Ÿ˜›

Another 70+ pax here too. OK More pics, more pics…

Thanks for making it a wonderful year and awesome meeting old friends again, and making new ones. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! ๐Ÿ™‚