I’m writing from my grab car returning from a two day speaking event in JB and in my wait at the JB Senai Airport, I had some rather fascinating encounters with people.
One outstanding chat was meeting a Malaysian who became a US Citizen in the 9 years of him living in the USA and he became an owner of a popular chain hotel in Nebraska.
It was truly the American dream that I once was inspired by and to see someone achieve that is absolutely inspiring. He is of Indian descent and the kind of difficulty that he encountered in terms of racism and even just hardcore verbal abuse really made him a tough man.
Made a friend today.
Other interesting people to mention was a man who’s in human dna engineering onroute to Shenzen.
I discovered that the human dna has been successfully sequenced and that vectors are like things you can add to a dna that is missing e.g helping people with alzheimers or leukemia.
Reports can be generated to detect cancer early too.
I also encountered a worker while waiting for my flight working for Greenpeace who’s promoting climate change and orang utans dying every hour due to deforestation. This seems shocking but the monthly contribution is via credit card and starting from RM79 a month as they claim that it cost them a lot to protect the forest. They have a very compelling and emotionally charged 3 minute pitch to find ways to get support.
Phew being a speaker, marketeer comes with great challenges. Prior to my travel I had to juggle some challenges at home with loved ones being unwell.
My greatest challenge was to balance my mind to manage and overcome all kinds of odds while maintaining a straight face in front of an audience.
And this is just one of my travel stories. I’ve been traveling a lot recently and I am definitely a little zonked lol.
Can’t wait to be home.