At 18 I Wanted to Save the World Now I’m an Engineer So I Guess I Do OK (I think).
W hen I was a 10-year-old kid in a Malaysian village I liked gardening and fishing. I liked putting seeds in the ground, water them, watch them grow and become plants. And if I was not planting stuffs I’d be digging for earthworms for fishing bait to catch snakehead fish. So I thought maybe I’ll just be a farmer or fisherman when I become one of the adults who know everything and tell us kids what not to do. Around that time my eldest brother who was living elsewhere left behind his Macintosh Classic computer. So if I was not out and about with mischief around the village I’d sit in front of the computer writing BASIC programs until the computer broke. I don’t think my primitive BASIC programs that broke the computer though not messing around with system files could have probably extended the computer’s life a bit more. At 15 I saw Zinedine Zidane won the World Cup on TV so I decided I’ll be a soccer player. I was obsessed with soccer and played soccer everyday and figured I...
