The day of the Master

Today is really a fascinating day! I met the boss of shooting gallery (Singapore Number One Photography and Commercial Production Studio) and learn the meaning of integrity in the afternoon. In the evening, I meet the boss of one of the top interactive company in Singapore who has given us a valued preposition. Meeting these 2 person in a day may be life-changing to my personal and business development which makes today a day that must be penned down on my blog.

Met Seb of shooting gallery in the afternoon today and have learnt a lot from him. He is the perfect embodiment of the word integrity out of the many people I know. Seb has a hard life when he is young and got cheated from his boss despite the hard work and dedication that he has put in to build his boss business. From there, he told his boss that money can be earned and business can be built through the honest way with integrity. A lot of people has said that business man must be shrewd to survive in the business world but Seb has proven that it can also be done with high level of integrity without having to resort to dishonesty and cunningness. He has expanded his business through integrity and has staffs who go through thick and thin with him.

My description of what Seb has gone through is just an understatement, I think he really is a great person as he has hold through to his believes and survive hardship positively and still come out strong. The humbleness and great passion to help aspiring entrepreneur, treating them with respect has also won my greatest respect. Unlike the many rich people who are the top in their industry, Seb is willing to share and spend his time with entrepreneur like us who is not even well known in the industry. He has inspired me to know that people with integrity can do well in business too and I will aspire to have his level of humbleness when I succeed in business.

The second person I met in the evening is an entrepreneur that has made a name in the interactive business. He was like what I am at now and started with a design company not knowing what to expect. Now he owns an interactive company that can compete with the big players and the meeting with him today might just push my company to the next level. I can’t talk about his name and also his preposition as it is suppose to be kept hush hush, however what we can start to expect is that, he is sincerely going to teach us the way to succeed in the interactive business.

Really appreciate it from someone that has gone up there and yet still wishes to help those that are trying to get to his level. Business is business, he might be looking for some benefit but isn’t it natural for people to get some gains for their effort? Even though so, I am already grateful that he is going to teach us and I will be glad to learn more from him from now on.

Meeting these 2 persons really give me encouragement to move on strong in business as the path seems brighter when people like them who are up there start appearing in your life to inspire you and motivate you on! I think knowing this people and knowing more people of their caliber will definitely improve my business acumen and if I am willing to work hard for it, success shouldn’t be far off. I thank heaven for giving me the opportunity and today is a day that I wish to mark down as it might mark the beginning of my road to success ^^.

Ha ha as I finished this blog, just heard from my business partner that a lady who had close a million dollar sales before wanted to collaborate with us in business! ALRIGHT TO GO DAY!

Always stay positive and good things will appear if you persevere enough
~ James Tan ~

Journey in Life

Steve Job once said that everything in life that you do has a purpose and will start to manifest itself once all the dots are linked to serve a bigger purpose in life. Looking at my life, I really feel that it is so. The many skills that one has learn that doesn’t seem to make sense at some point in life will start having its use when you have to serve a bigger objective. The principle applies to both business and love.

This time round I will have to pen down a story that I intended for my ex-gf if we are fated to be married. However now it is just a story that will not be delivered and will only be a story that will exist on my blog. I wanted to pen down this story as it aligns my emotional beliefs and also my business beliefs with the idea of believing that every journey and people that appears in your life has a reason to serve a bigger purpose.

So here it goes,

When I was young, I was given many opportunities to learn how to swim. However no matter how many people have bothered to teach me to swim properly, I never managed to even make it for a lap in the pool. Next come army where the torturous sergeant and PTI will drill you to the max to make sure you can swim a lap in the pool. The funny thing is I will always be able to swim near the end of the pool and will not be able to complete the full lap no matter how many times I try.

However the turn of the tide came when my ex-gf went to learn swimming and after she has mastered it, we went on a few swimming trip and with her around, I am finally able to swim one full lap. At that moment, I felt that she is someone that can complete my journey in life just like how she has helped me to complete one lap in the swimming pool. I have made this analogous to a journey in life that you require someone to complete with you, something that you can not complete alone and will only be able to accomplish with a special someone.


As much as man wanted certain things to work out, heaven has not willed it to happen the way you wanted it. I have intended to complete my life journey with my ex-gf, making the end of the pool as the end point of my life that I can voyage with her. I have swam one lap in the pool, but perhaps I am destined to swim more than just a pool, maybe I am supposed to sail the oceans and braved the storm. The moral of the story is to tell us that although things might prove to be hurting and unacceptable at one point of time where you are unable to take the pain and has to live through it, it is perhaps meant to prepare you for better things in life. Which brings me back to the days I was in my secondary school, I got my sec 2 results and am not able to make it to the best class due to my poor math result. To me that is a disgrace as I am always the few top student in class and not being able to go to the top class is an insult. I finally come to terms with it and start working on my math, finally during my O’level result I got a 12pts for 6 subjects, scoring A1 for my math and 3 other subjects. Only then do I realize that it is a blessing in disguise when I did not make it to the best class as it has decreased my complacency and motivated me to work harder for what I want.

I can go through many more examples but I will save on the details. The point is that one must always live with the temporal pain inflicted on them, live positively, learn from bad experiences and emerge stronger thereafter. Some things are not meant for you in life perhaps it is not for you in the first place and is there to complete a small but important journey in life. I read a comic some times ago and it talks about a spirit who was once a genius in Wei Qi (Chinese chess- GO), who has came back to the modern time where only a boy can see him. He guided the boy in the game and wanted to seek the perfect game which he has yet to find even when he died. And one day, he realize that he is not destined to come back in order to complete the perfect game, he is in fact present for the sake of the boy who is in fact having more hidden talent then he has and was back in order to help the boy to complete the perfect game.

It brings to light that certain people in your life appear so that they can bring out a better you and their appearance should be appreciated no matter how short lived it is. Be it your parents, your past relationships, your friends, your spouse, your children and grandchildren. They have all appear in your life to serve a purpose to better your life and your part is to identify why they are in your life that will build you, appreciate their presence and thank them for being there in your life no matter how short it is.

In the other perspective, your existence is also important to other people’s life and you have appeared in other people’s life to bring value to their life. Hence we must be able to understand the value each person in your life has brought to you so that you can enhance your capability and bring more value to the people that you have existed for.

All in all, all these can only be achieved if a person is equipped with the positive belief that all things happen for a reason and they are usually positive so as to serve a bigger and higher purpose in life. Only then can they identify how they can receive from others and give values to others in return. Always believe in the higher purpose and appreciate all those around you =D

“Existence of all is mutually beneficial and life is dynamic for all to learn from each other”

~ James Tan ~