Road Not Taken.

When i was still a primary school (elementary school) kid, i already like the concept of an organization. So i made one with my friends and we ended up in the principal's room because we sounds like gangster >.< The principal thought we were forming a triad. Anyway, the organization lasted for 3 hours.

When i was 15, i started to stay up late like now. Where i went? Cybercafe with my older-than-me friends. The oldest of my friend is 10 years older than me, named Paul. I like to mix with them. We play game, then we went for a drink in the malay stall, then we go up play till morning. Then, i'll go home at 3am... Sleep awhile and wake up at 6am. That kind of life last till now.

Normally, they sit down and talked business more than games. They talked about; the importance of location for a shop, the willingness to inject more capital into a business, the management of a business... because the cybercafe was doing very badly and about to close down. I like the topic... very very much. I can still remember what Paul told me, "What's your future if you continue to work for someone else? If you wanna be successful, build a business." That really motivates me alot. The idea of building a business.

I like to enjoy and play all day. I like to buy things that i like. I like to be able to spend with my OWN money without asking my mother for allowance. My mother told me that i can start to enjoy when i start to work. It doesn't make sense to me. Five days of work, no working holiday like school holiday... In order for me to earn rm10,000 a month is quite a dream. Rm5000 a month is still a problem for me. I was not a good grade student in school. HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSE TO ENJOY WHEN I COME OUT FROM SCHOOL?

Answer: Build a business.

Paul and his friends started a home-based company. I was there. I helped them to distribute the leaflet in USM's hostels. They were selling handphones, reload cards, computers and other technological stuff. I heard how they formed the company, i heard the procedures in forming a company. I followed them when they're dealing with a shop to distribute their products. I bought a handphone from them, the Nokia 3310. (It was the latest in that time and... now it doesn't even worth rm50, but i'm still using now. Why? I'm tight all the time, how can i afford to buy a new one?) I watched them close down the company. I watched the partners argued.

After that event... I got a girlfriend which last about 1 year. Yeah, that's the ex-girlfriend i always talk about. I can't remember much about what happened after we broke up. I just know i was like a lost soul wandering around without a smile. I couldn't smile, i couldn't laugh, and all i wanna do is play online game till the sun comes out, and sleep till night... Then go play game again. I couldn't sleep at night. I would cry at night, then i would fall asleep, when i woke up... i would cry again before i get up.

Not long after that, Paul asked me out to find him in a cafe nearby. When i got there, he was with his friend. His friend, was presenting a Network Marketing company to him... Omegatrend. I just heard this part, "Leon (someone's name) got a computer shop and he got a network of 500 members. All he needs to do is to give the leaflets to his members and there's a business for him everyday. With networks, your business become easier and easier."

I like that! I started to think more about what he said. I don't know about the compensation plan, i don't know how it works, i don't know what is Network Marketing either. I just like what i hear.

I went to a cybercafe and i met my senior there. I told him about Omegatrend and he told me, he is already a member. He asked me to join. And i asked Paul. Paul told me he's not going to do anything about it. So i joined my senior. He was surprised coz i was so enthusiactic without knowing anything about the business.

After that, it was history. I earned a lot... a lot of knowledge and zero money.

Membership : rm570
Buy my level : rm3400
Meetings and training : roughly about rm1000
Knowledge and experience: Priceless

I learnt about the importance of a system in a business, i learnt about how to sell, i learnt about the importance of appearance, i learnt about keeping track of my money. I learnt about giving before receiving, how to smile, how to make friends, how to be sincere, how to find a topic to talk... I grow up alot after that. I couldn't be a youth who only care about clubbing, girls, entertainment... but a youth who wanna create his own destiny.

I quit that network marketing long ago... But it taught me alot. Thanks to my uplines, my mentors and everyone... Vliamz, Kuanhow, Raymond...

My life is just like a novel. Everything that happened to me seems like life is teaching me lessons. A lot of lessons to shape what i will be in the future. Because of that, don't expect me to work for someone else. I'm an entrepreneur. I will be an Entrepreneur.

I rather took the road not taken. I will not be the same like the majority. I am something else. This poem does talk about the path i'm walking...

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

It's LATE!!! Time to go out to have a nice Teh Tarik at mamak stall~~~