All this happened after I finished my National Service, Dec 2004. Six months after moving to Perth, I got a called one day from my Collage Schoolmate, Francis C. "We want to add someone to our team, and we all agree we want you, "he said"
5 years ago, my planning was to go Australia to pursue my studies at Curtin University, I have no intention to come back to Singapore after just six months, since I'm there to pursuit my education. But you know what? Lad back isn’t something I wanted. After much discussion with my Mum and aunt, we came to the conclusion that whether or not I agreed to help them, Francis is going to recruit someone he know outside the Event Industry. (there is a story behind this) And who knew whom he’d find?
I kept saying to Francis in MSN, “What if you hire someone totally sucks?” So finally I had decide to joined, and it wasn’t about being in the spot light. It was about stepping up to represent kids at my age on the Event industry. The whole decision happened practically overnight, and the next few days went by in a blur. My flight arrangements were booked, quitted my job in Perth, pack my items and back to Singapore.
It helped when everyone in Division Communication was very welcoming, especially own my team. I still remember I walked around shaking everyone’s hands and tried my best to remember their names. I must meet a hundred people that morning, inside and outside office.
The daily routine job scope made everything work like clockwork, and I got into the swing of things. We work from 9am - 9pm, six days a week. We would go in and worked 7 - 10 events on a weekly basic. It was so time-consuming!
When I am not working, Me, Kenji and Joe were working together at another project in Hong Kong, which is to own our very first shop. It wasn’t easy. Kenji had been working on his Counterstrike gaming touring all over Asia so it left all to Joe at Hong Kong to take care of the shop alone. We made arrangements to meet up at least once a month and working really took up a lot of my time back than. So I found myself flying out to Hong Kong on my non-working day, and flying back to Singapore in time to start work next morning. I can still remember, I need to arrange a back to back off day so I can stayed in Hong Kong a couple more days.
In the beginning, the team felt on, and I felt I am part of them. But after a while, things changed. There were tensions that hadn’t previously existed, I found out, Joe and Kenji is not very happy about me, how much time I contributed to the shop and getting 60 percent of the profit back at the end of the year in 2005 just because I invented more. I guess they just want to be in the spotlight! After 11 months of this, my schedule was wearing me down. That was not a great time for me. I was over worked and exhausted; I never got to see my mum even I was at Hong Kong because she spends lots of time traveling to China for work. I didn’t have time in Singapore to make new friends besides work. I felt really alone i gonna say.
Meanwhile, the hard work I had done for shop wasn’t feeling like it was worth of the effort. Things we planned were not going smoothly so we had come to conclusion, and is to ended our shop after just 12 months.
I knew it was time to focus on other things i wanted after shop closed, pursuit education. But the mean time, there were disagreement in my team at work, people didn’t see eye to eye during work like we had just started but lucky enough I was approached with the idea of a spin-off set to another team together with Francis, I was ecstatic. We were in talks for weeks before everything was set in stone, unfortunately, not everyone was as stoked about the idea of us leaving the team...
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