TEDxKLWomen

Yes! I went for a TEDx conference! Awesome conference and some of the speakers are really interesting and inspiring..  First thing I learnt! Some of the hair band you see on 'Gossip Girls' (Yes, it's the drama Gossip Girls) is actually produce n designed by these two girl from Kuching!!! Interesting right!? It's so surreal! Who would hv thought it would be possible? I was wondering where Gossip girls find all those nice hair bands. Hahaha mana tau, it's custom made.. No wonder.. Now makes me wonder how much they cost.. :) 

This is really awesome food art and paper art! Why paper art? Coz she can cut out the design on a sea weed.. Very pro!!

We had mostly young speakers and the one that really stand out was Cheryl Yeoh. Why? Because she is down to earth and you can see that she is wise beyond her age.. She gave good advise and relevant to all if not most ppl there. What I learned from her.. EXPLORE, just explore your options, passion and try out new things.. People who are successful tried other things before and many of it failed until they landed on that ONE thing that was meant for them to do that made them successful.. so explore your gifts and passion and see where it may leads you. 

Second lesson: DON'T literally take the advise that ask you to follow your passion. LOL.. many do give that advise even myself (and most of the people who spoke during the conference) but I agree with her totally.. Passion can die down when success does not follow.. so what to do when our passion slowly withers away? it does not make you a bad person or a quitter, it just means that you need to find your passion again and sometimes, that means moving on and doing other things.. Which she did.. After her first success (and it was her first baby) she moved on to another project and now she is passionate about what she is doing there! 

After that, we have this Nigerian Performance called Kafayat Quadri that sang for us.. It was lovely and beautiful.. I enjoyed it so much! She works in a lawyer firm (if not mistaken as a lawyer) but she also ventured into a poetry magazine business.. Many people question "who would want to read poetry now a days?" But she persevered but at the same time thought about how to reach out to people so that they would listen to her and read her poetry? Can you all guess it? She started singing it and reaching out to people through her songs.. Inspiring right? 

Another speaker that really caught my attention is Joanne Kam.. I am sure a lot of people out there knows her name.. SHE is so funny, 'ham sap' and proud of it! Some of her jokes are x-rated lar but she is just being herself and it made people laugh.. She has a lot of ventures on her plate and being a single mom, she can really juggle her time well. 

This is a fusion kinda project which I think , if they didn't get any permission from Star Wars to use their characters, can end up with a law suit.. Just saying that Star Wars has an intellectual property rights.. We can't just fusion famous character and made it our own.. I think our community should be enducated with this fact.. Even images, I cannot sell these images for a profit because there is no model or property release.. I am using this images for personal blogging use, that is not to resell ah.. So it's different..

Anyway, people need to know that we cannot simply do a project like this without consulting with the original character makers lor.. That's all I am saying...

Now all the positive have been said, let me share to you something I think is bad advise for the young generations (or even for the older ones.) "It's so easy." when someone said that, automatically some of your audience will conclude, "of course lar, your family is rich, can afford to support you and you don't have any family obligations; Of course lar, you got so many rich friends, so easy to raise money; It's all about network, connections and who you know geh lar. etc" There was a girl sat next next to me that altered that "Her family must be very rich so that she could do all this creative things without needing to work." Of course she also ""Oooo and wah..." when she saw the person's work but how many of the people on stage that night actually started off with a humble background? That is my real question lor..

Of course we can choose to ignore that some of them are from a good back ground, but really..... how many of us can afford to do what they are doing while having our family obligations to attend to? Like a sick family member; a special child; a father with debts; failed businesses etc.. At the same time, there are so many young people out there who has everything and still do not know what to do with their lives and wasting their time on nonsense.. true also.. So How? 

I still believe a person should choose to live a life with a noble purpose, with a good calling. Not something that could endangered other's or corrupt society. So, it doesn't matter if many people who could live their dream or passion because their family is rich.. Be happy for them because they have found something they are passionate about. But when we go home and when we look at our circumstances, don't give up on our dreams while taking care of the things that matters to you most.. Don't be irresponsible but don't give up either.. work hard and hang in there..