Zain is a middle class child who fancies the fine exquisite things in life but often have his hands meddling with the opposite. Unlike you, he does not take comfort in referring to myself as a third person.
I am based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. My background is law (civil & syari’ah) and now work in communications, primarily social media and alternative events. I am interested in people, art and politics. Sometimes you.
I ‘started’ in 2008, when I was named 20 of the most influential people in Klang Valley below 40 years old. In 2011, I was a judge on TV3’s Sejuta Impian. It is unclear and unimportant how I got ‘here.’
To simplify, my time is split into four quartiles. Working with clients via Wago, managing a project for RandomAlphabets, consulting non-profit organizations on their strategy and finally travelling when I’m not frolicking on social media.
The above is a brief description of myself, sufficient enough to make you feel better about yourself because of the attitude problem that I have. If you are serious about wanting to read an elaborate version, scroll down. Otherwise, what you do is not my concern really.
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http://twitter.com/ZainHD
http://www.facebook.com/ZainHD
http://RandomAlphabets.com/
http://wago.com.my/
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What you’re about to read is one approach of describing myself, in view of my suspicion of how you arrived at this page. There are many angles to explain oneself, and I choose based on what I trust is relevant to you through this medium. I’m not keen to know what you think of it.
I went to the largest and cheapest public university in the country, UiTM, where I read law. Throughout that and two years after, I taught math as a private home tutor to secondary school students. During the holiday, if I was not doing a second job, I was travelling. I started working when I was 15 years old and to date, I may have had more than 15 jobs.
After my undergraduate degree, instead of moving on to the next phase of becoming a lawyer, I took a gap year. 4 months into it, my then blog, organised an event which was followed by a few more, that led me to finding myself leading a non-profit arts collective, RandomAlphabets. During which, I enrolled in a Post Graduate Diploma in Syari’ah Law.
18 months after organizing projects for RA, and freelancing for clients, I started working in communications for a regional bank. Toward the end of my probation period with them, I concluded that I did not suit the job, and took a break before working on full time in the company that I started some months prior, Wago.
The company does similar work as RA, except the former is where we try to make money and the latter is where we lose it. Two areas of business are social media PR and alternative marketing. From operating out of my living room, it recently moved to its own premise. Maintaining its growth without any external financial support, it now has a team of 7 and growing (as of October 2011).
Of late I am becoming more and more involved in the public sphere and current affairs, advocating primarily public participation and, for the lack of better term, intelligent discourse. I do speaking engagements and contribute to publications such as The Star newspaper and online portal Loyar Burok. But mainly and more importantly discussing ideas with other groups and individuals often from school and universities.
I often don’t publicly share what you just read because society has a way to typically, but naturally, define that as success, when I not just insist it’s otherwise, but wrong. That is my view and that is where we differ. And that is why you’re reading all this. While I appreciate compliments, you doing something about life, yours or others, matter to me, you and others more.