Weekend of a lifetime (serious talk)

Everyone could choose how they spend their weekend; shopping, hanging out with friends, Netflix and chill (I do that with my keyboard, since the chance of me having someone that are willing to do that with me together, is smaller than Justin Bebber not being obnoxious), or even opening that magical portal inside your dresser. The weekend is a symbolic flag of “relax”, stop throwing me with more work, or stop making me use my little processor that has happened to be located inside the head. There are so many options out there that the sky is the only limit, or I should say outer space is the only limit (people are doing skydiving during the weekend, so “sky is the only limit” is sort of, politically, practically wrong) Anyhow, that’s not what I did.

To do a short capture of the entire, I would have to say, ” “.

That’s right, I couldn’t say anything because there are no words that could’ve described my whole entire weekend. To break it down, you know, easy it in for your audience kind of thing, there are three things that I will cover here; 1. My Startup weekend experience 2. The power of bias 3. My moment

1. Startup weekend experience

The Startup weekend is a group where they host events around the world, focusing on getting enterpurnurues into the startup game; meeting new people, potential VCs wandering around giving pieces of advice about the projects that you are onto, pitching ideas with new teammates, setting up the minimal viable product for the upcoming ideas, and so on. A fast forward of the weekend is that, we did WON the “Price of Validation”, with the comment of “the most lucrative business model, and most memorable presentation”. Here is the video of the 5 minutes presentation. (I couldn’t watch it myself as I’m cringing so hard)

The good things about this kind of events, are; good exposure, good networking opportunities, you will be meeting tonnes of people who you might or might not work within the coming future, or someone being interested in your idea so much that they want to commit by investing into you, you will never know what’s going to happen next. It’s highly unpredictable, yet extremely exciting. (Probably not as exciting as you first played through Pokemon, but still close enough)

So, we did win one of the awards from the weekend, but that the story behind this was not as nice as it sounds. In this awesome team of 5, 1 were being late(really lucky for us, I’m being honest, and you will know why), 3 of us (including me) had our ideas but no one wanted to be on either one of us’s team, and 3+1 got exiled from a team of ten, where we didn’t want to be part of at the first place.

We worked really hard for the weekend, regardless of how small the price considerate to be, and/or whether our ideas got bashed into shadow realm beyond summoning. The Little highlight, I felt really comfortable because 3 of our team members are from the UK, one from Aus, and me being the maple leaf. People do understand what I was talking about instead of giving me the frozen stare that chills my soul. The weekend was a blast.

But then, what about the bad things about these kinds of events, is that; people are way more judgemental than you think. If you can’t show how talented you are at the very first place, you will soon be treated like a hobo in the golden palace. I understand why this is meant to happen, which to nobody’s fault, no one loves free riders. The swift judgement is totally reasonable and understandable. Also, if you aren’t dressing like someone who came out from a fashion magazine, nor having the body shape that is socially acceptable, you might as well say goodbye to your future.

Well, it’s good that I have the experience of fighting a coca-cola-drinking polo bear, that I’m really tough enough to take some punches. (need to stay away from one of my best features: face…..bazinga)

2. Power of bias

I’d say, as much as I do not want to admit how realistic that is, the richer/famous you are, the funnier you are. It really does not matter what you are talking about, laughing is just a social tool.

Comparing myself to Elon Musk might be a bit too rude/insulting for him as he is one of my favourite business people around the globe, but if anyone did check out his speech in the InvestHK festival, his speech is nowhere near funny. To a huge surprise, most of the people are “laughing” for a good chunk of time. While comparing the effectiveness of the content of the speech, my dialog for the final presentation at the Startup weekend wasn’t that “funny” to most of the audiences.

In short, you don’t have to be funny, just be rich and powerful. People will laugh for you even whatever you are talking taste like cardboard.

3. My moments

I’m not here to brag (yes I am), but the weekend worked out the way far beyond what I was expecting, in the most pleasant way.

First, I didn’t expect that my presentation was going to help the team to win the presentation. I was very flattered, people were coming to me and telling me that I did a great job, very memorable presentation. Even there was this one lady who came to me and convinced me to open a youtube channel for teaching people how to do the memorable public speaking. All these years where people were always telling me that I’m talking too much, too much nonsense, being “too funny”, or I’m not presentable, now is a good time for them to do some thinking. To rethink about was I being the one who was unbearable, or it’s just because they weren’t understanding what I’m capable of doing.

Second, I’ve been doing a lot of weird projects, learning different things that has no direct connection to one and another; 3D drawing, modeling, running restaurants, translations, product design, mechanical keyboard, creative writing, blah blah blah. Somehow, Mr. L came to me and told me that he wanted me to partner with him with his ventures. All these years, not getting hired, being a loner wolf, lost in my own mind, has finally paid off. (reason, why I’m not fully disclosing the details, is because I want to make some real progress before announcing the news) I will be updating once I made some real progress.

Third, relating to the previous point, is where I no longer feel useless after all. It’s good to know that I do worth something, something real big. (not just because of my size)

Anyhow. I just wanted to get it out of my system before I O.D. on excitement and joy. My heart could bearly contain my overflowing of happiness.

Before I stop, I just want to take a moment and appreciate everyone in my life, either they did a lot for me, took me under their wings, taught me everything they knew, or they did nothing for me but taking, asking for more than I could give, couldn’t even spare time to give me a hand when I’m not so hot. It’s everyone that made me, me. And to be honest, I’m quite happy with how I turned out to be. At least, that’s most that matters. Thank you.

And as always, cheers all.

P.S. My awesome team! So good, loving them so much!