Christmas and College Days ...

My college days are filled with too many things to do. One of my good friend said to me "You are probably the busiest kid in college". For my beeper keeps beeping and I have to excuse myself to make a call. It's so troublesome that I later got myself a motorola brick cell phone and it was damn cool. Everywhere you go everyone looks at you especially when you are 18/19 and holding such a cool gadget many call the "tai goh tai" ( big brother big ).

Today is Christmas and usually Christmas in my college days was never partying with my college friends as it's one of the most busy night of year for me. After I left school I changed my company STEP ONE into a real company specializing in providing "Entertainment Extraordinaire" ... the words are special right but those were STEP ONE taglines back then.

We are in the live entertainment business of providing magic, modeling and dance shows at clubs and lounges. Another of my company specializes in providing DJ's and sound machines. It's a cool and fun business to be in ...

2011 : What Hotels do Start-Up entrepreneurs stay ?

The photos above are not a joke. I m now in Busan, Korea attending the GSTAR game expo and this is the hotel I m staying in now - QUEENS MOTEL *potentially a sex motel haha ! The 3 of us all stayed here including the CEO of Say Design and my CTO *RC.

2011 - Galaxia Press Event

Calvin at Galaxia animations press conference 2011.

2011 : SVB Showcase 2011 in Silicon Valley

Calvin speaking at Silicon Valley Bank event in P.Alto Silicon Valley, CA, USA.

2011 - Tai Zhi Loong Signing Ceremony

Cooperation signing agreement with Tai Zhi Loong in Hangzhou.

13 and a Champion of Games

Yes ! At the age of 13 I was already a top console games Champion in Malaysia. Our homes were lined with trophies from every tournament and championship in the last 3 years. Me and my 2 brothers were the most popular gamers in the country simply because we won at every tournament from ATARI to COLECO VISION consoles basically from every games genre we were the best - Donkey Kong, Sega F1 and Centipede.

Were we that good ?

Basically we were better than other kids simply because our mom allows us to play games non-stop everyday. So practise makes perfect and we became damn good at it.

Then there was the National Championship and that year we had very strong competitors whom knows more about the games tricks than us. There were 2 key competitors we pointed out among ourselves - (a.) A family whom their dad also encourages them to win the Chanpionship and had helped them analys the game. (b.) A group of non-schooling kids whom hangs out at the shopping playing the game everyday for hours.

They had better play mechanics.
We lost at the first 4 state tournaments as only the No.1 gets to go to the finals. Looking back it's crazy ... we wanted so badly to be in the finals so we traveled to 3 different states to make sure we get into the finals. After we got into the finals we knew we need to understand what's their play mechanics are or else we may still lose at the finals.

We had a plan.
Become friends with both competitors and get them to teach us their secrets. Being friend with the kids is easy, we took them for good dinners and ais creams ... ta da ... they shared their game play with us. Then come the family which it took us a little more time but this time we challenge them while my 2 other brothers study his move.

Guess who won the Championship finals?

The Fight and The Power

I was sitting at the canteen taking my lunch when suddenly I felt something was not right. Around me was about 10+ of those dudes whom I topple their event. They came up and asked me to pay for their losses. I told to them to 'F' but it was a mistake I learned as we broke into a fight and it was just me against a dozen or so bad ass.

It was no Jackie Chan movie, even with my Tae Kwon Do black belt I was not able to fight like Jet Li. Luckily I managed to grab the canteen bench and I wack like a crazy man who-ever who stands in my way.

The fight ended when teachers and etc prefects rushed to the scene. I was badly hurt, a black eye, bleeding nose and mouth. Bruises all over my hands and legs. Torn shirt. The ambulance came and I was thinking shit was it that serious ? Where was I hurt that serious ? Oh ! It was not for me but one of those dudes whom I hit him accidentally with the bench on his head and he was bleeding, his white shirt was covered in blood.

11 of us was taken to the hospital.

My school discipline teacher wanted to expel me from school. But he cant do so as the next day my dad went to school and told the headmaster that this fight was serious and that the school have gangsters and he wants to bring this to the press. This was bad reputation for the school indeed and my head master knows I m a popular guy at the press. He expel 2 guys from the gang instead.

This was not over for I knew they would come and hit me again. I knew I had to get help quick and its not from my dad. How to deal with mini ganngsters was to use the bigger gangsters ... I called the boss of the disco as I knew he surely have such connections. He dispatched 2 guys to me and I meet the gang whom came with 20+ school dudes. But as soon as they saw the 2 guys that came with me they sorta like had a big surprise. They told them that if they know who they are then they should know I m as I m their boss providing them with a job managing security at the club.

After that day the mini gangsters dare not bother me anymore. That's Power.