we as young people have always thought
that we need to act a certain way or
conform to us the trend assistant type
of thinking that our peers have been
thinking or have been imposed on to us
by our parents and by our society and
through the education that we’ve had
throughout the years I believe if we
were to think beyond tomorrow or we want
to change the future that we have
tomorrow we would first have to rethink
how we think and how we portray
ourselves today in the current age we
are always chasing for one is tomorrow
to always find that stability to get the
next big job to get that great
internship at some big company or even
to probably just settle down and be like
everyone else but try to be unique in
our own little corner in the space I
feel for us to really excel for us to
really try it in the real world we
actually have to choose to be unstable
to do things that will scare us and to
do things that will evidently lead us to
feel so scared and feel like giving up
that’s when we know that we can no
longer go any further down and there’s
only way to go up is to thrive and to
strive and to fight all the way up we as
used have many choices in life for
example where to go to university
although I’m assuming that all of your
toes UTP now you wouldn’t be here
probably also after that after you chose
UTP you probably then had to choose
where to study I’m also assuming that
most of you probably chose engineering
since you are also here for me I chose
mass communications and marketing how
does that relate to iti will tell you in
a bit so basically I had the choice from
from five as soon as I finished my
parents who are great influences in my
life the
me that if you want to succeed you need
to go ahead and jump right into
university so I did I should we jump
into university and as soon as I
finished University I wanted to travel
the world like that was the only plan
only goal I told everybody I’m gonna
travel i don’t care i’m gonna bump
around somewhere far far away and i
don’t get a job my parents thought about
it and they were having none of it they
said no do you not care about your
future you not care whether or not you
end up a successful in the future i will
still adamant about it whatever see okay
how about we send you and do your
masters and I said no I don’t want to do
something where I will be forced to go
back to studying and before so doing
things that I don’t want to do because
looking back I have always done what
they told me to do from kill garden I
jumped to send one no I had a choice got
the government imposed it then I jumped
to secondary school and then from there
I just keep on jumping so when at the
junction of life where I am able to
choose where I’m supposed to go I
compromised my parents and I got a job
two weeks after I finish my final exam
not after I graduated two weeks after I
finish my final exam I can still
remember that ah upon finishing my final
exam I took a short break but even in
that short break I was already working
and doing some work because my boss was
that great and taught me we really
really need you to do something can you
please do it that’s it yeah sure why not
right cuz she’s my boss and I don’t like
starving so yeah that was me like really
wonder and aimless but one thing that
was devoted within me is that I wanted
to talk and I wanted to make a
difference in the world and I wanted to
write I don’t do things that would make
me happy things that would make sure
that in 10 years down the road when I
look back when I probably already have
that stable job when I already have that
certain sense of security I want to know
that I really did everything in my power
in my youth to be a young person instead
of being someone that everyone else told
us to be my favorite book by malcolm
gladwell pop blink he said
we as individuals or as human beings if
we are so used to what we want and if
you are so passionate about we want to
do we can automatically make a decision
or tell a true from a lie about three
seconds after we see on the situation
unfolding I believe that all of us would
already know i’m going to do or there’s
some neat part inside of us that’s why
are you pushing us to do something that
we actually want to do throughout our
entire lives but because of the
prejudice from our peers from our
parents from society we tend to shy away
from actually doing and pursuing what
you want to do because we don’t want to
conform to the stereotype that people
say the young people just waste their
lives that young people only do things
that are getting it from themselves so
we choose to turn away from our passion
we choose to turn away from things that
actually will make us happy to do things
that we think is the correct thing to do
just because we don’t want to upset the
balance although we do see already a
time of formation of people standing up
young people stepping up to be changed
makers people stepping up to make a
difference but we don’t see that enough
and for us to really transition to be a
better world tomorrow we need to start
with today to change our mindset today
for a better tomorrow so as you will see
online as I see the advice you forgive
the young people is that life is always
up and down and it’s curvy and it’s
sometimes you have split owes but I
believe this change needs to happen
towards this one
ok
we as young people this is important you
may think it’s up and down but it’s
probably going to look something like
this after University gonna run and it’s
going to be an uphill battle for at
least a good 10 years of your life
you’re going to be striving and they’re
going to be running uphill for as long
as you can remember until you finally
reach just ability therefore I say don’t
then go what other pro tells you to do
people will tell you to turn left when
there’s no laughs although you can
clearly see you need to go right but
what essentially you do is you go left
because everyone said that the best way
to go is go left turn right follow your
gut go with the uphill battle don’t give
up when you see challenges or when you
see things that will scare you because
there are many things life that will
scare you might as well it scared out of
your mind when you’re young rather than
get scared out of your mind when you
have children to feed when you have to
pay off that house mortgage or when you
have to pay off the car installment this
is what people would like you to believe
you should be looking at when you are
young this beautiful grassy area having
some forms ability being able to buy
nice things that you weren’t able to buy
before because you were younger and
because your parents yet no but what we
fail to see is that if we stay in this
beautiful area for too long of you stay
stable on the get go straight away we
will forget the dance and unknown beyond
our line of sight there is a scary world
out there that we need to face and
address it is better to address it now
when you are young to be as unstable and
as unsure of yourself to be tested to
the limits to have people challenge your
ideas and challenge who you are as an
individual now so that you can build a
foundation rather than building the
house and let the foundation crumble and
in the future when you finally get to
this place
being unstable will make you appreciate
this stability even more and be less
fearful of what is yet to come because
you already hit the bottom us that you
can and you’ve already stretch yourself
to the biggest limitations that you’ve
already placed upon yourself so going
forward here are four things we should
do to remain unstable and see a future
at the end so first if you give yourself
a time limit we cannot stay young
forever it is simply impossible for us
to continue on being unstable forever
because at a certain point of time
reality will set in people will no
longer tell you that oh that person is
just young let them do whatever they
want to do or that stereotype where they
say that this young person are is young
so they can chase their dreams because
they are allowed to this time limit has
to be set upon yourself when you believe
that you need to grow up that you need
to finally become stable where your
goals and achievements of having that
stable job that cushy apartment and that
beautiful obvious side office is
something that you want young people
nowadays think that what is what what
you want right now but I believe you
should first seek out the skills and
necessary knowledge for you to even get
there next you need to say yes to more
opportunities this saying yes has led me
to many different things say yes to
things that scare you say yes things
that bore you say yes to things that you
think that you’ll never do in your
entire lifetime don’t just do things
which you feel will help you get to that
dream job one day because past our paths
are never paid in stone and there are
multiple types of paths that you can
take to get to where you want to go so
don’t be afraid and if you somehow run
into a roadblock you can always turn
around and take a different route to
where you want to get to if you only
take the highway you don’t necessarily
get to see the scenery
and the beautiful pictures that you will
be able to a C in taking the harder
route in taking the places the things
that you need to do number three learn
new skills to master this is quite
interesting and I’ll tie back to coding
so I’m a mass comm marketing graduate so
how did I do coding basically I have
parents who are both engineers my dad is
an industrial engineer and my mom is an
ENT engineer they both believe that the
children should also be engineers sadly
none of us 30 my siblings and I both
refuse to be engineers but what did he
insist though was that we all learn
coding when we were young so when I was
15 my mom sat down next to me she opened
this really thick book because at the
time I was 15 he was only like it was
quite a far back so they they had this
really thick book us we first decided
make you basics and then sleep last
class and then C sharp and then even a
little bit of Java but I probably
already forgot half of it but yeah so
the bases are holding I understand just
the more complicated in chicken two
things I probably forgot so a whole two
three years of my life my parents SAT me
down and they said look this is
something that you need to learn goal in
it I will help you but you need to learn
this is important because it’s what the
future needs i sat down I hated every
moment of it but I knew somehow that
this will be the future so I just
continue on and persevered on
fast-forward to university days being in
a mess car major my friend was in an IT
major at a time doing computer forensics
told me that there was an opportunity to
code or be part of the team to teach
children how to code and they needed
someone to also be part of their
marketing team I didn’t know it was for
Microsoft I just said yes because I
thought you were something cool
I rarely got to see this friend because
she was forever cooped up in the labs
hacking away at something or other so I
say yes this thing that led to teaching
children across malaysia coding and
because of the work that we did and
because of the time they took off from
our actual studies to teach children how
to code microsoft grip very nicely or
great people that is microsoft they told
us hey since you helped us for our
children’s project president barack
obama is coming do you want to be part
of that actual workshop where the
children will be then president what I
will be in and we just jump for joy were
like oh my goodness finally all the
nights of not sleeping it’s finally paid
off something like that so basically so
I feel that all that up to that actual
day when my parents set me down and
force me to pick up coding I don’t you
probably already know coding since
you’re technically engineers probably
pick up a different skill cooking
because you might not want to starve in
the future painting because you want to
you know pick up something that you know
of my artwork or you know you could take
up magic you know with you know an
somewhere else it window you’re kind of
forced to be engineer right now so
lastly our build your network because
building your network will lead you to
more opportunities you get to meet new
people say Hydra person next to you
because you never know what that person
has installed or what can you do I said
hi to this okay so basically how I got
my job was basically at an event I was
running around okay I was literally like
now boss in the crowd and there was this
speaker this guess because he was
talking and I was really inspired by
what he was talking about and else you
we were leaving he needed to pack
everything up and everybody was just
rushing for him to help him like getting
autograph a picture and I been after him
an event uh hey you need any help like
doing the pack up do you need any sort
of help and he said yeah I’m sure
I didn’t ask for a picture I just like
went and helped him pack all your stuff
up and in the end he offered me a job
right after you news together start up
and I felt like it was a relief because
I didn’t want to go into a corporate job
I only wanted to have fun and I thought
this was a fun thing then so it isn’t
really a fun thing it’s quite stressful
but you know my boss isn’t here so it’s
cool so uh my parting words to you today
is that you need to focus on filling up
your war chest put in a hammer in there
put a special I’ll put you know a magic
trick put a book you know all those kind
of things where you will expand your
knowledge where you will become an
individual where you will learn new
things because if we only focus on
filling up your treasure chest you won’t
have the necessary skills that will be
needed to gut your treasure chest so I
hope you enjoyed this presentation [Applause]