⇒Let us begin with the background about me. I'm an ordinary guy born in Penang, Malaysia on the 13th Nov 1986. My family consists of 6 members, including me. I have 3 sisters, plus my dad and mum. During my young age, I stayed with my grandparents since I was born. My parents were doing business at the city of Georgetown,Penang as hawker selling chicken rice. During my child time, I stayed in a village at Tg. tokong which belongs to my grandparents. I had great experience in that village, starting from running around with my fellow friends all around the kampung playing games like kites, hide & seek and a lots more which kids today will never experience before. The days during that time were great, where we do not worry about ourself, family and future. We were too naive at that time, where we just let the days past by and we grow. As I reach my teenage age, I have to leave the village because it will be demolish for government project to widen the roads for better traffic.

Since then, I moved to my parents house at Greenlane, somewhere nearby Gelugor if you guys know Penang. It was another beginning for me because I have never leave the village or move to any new environment outside my village. I started to know computer since I moved to stay with my parents because my dad bought us a new PC, during that time I used Intel Celeron. Hooray, computer really changed my life as I started to explore to the featured of Windows 98 (1999). Finally, I got my 1st Internet access at the age of 14 with the speed of 56kbps. With Internet, my experience and interest into the computer become more and more greater. I started my first programming with mIRC scripts, where people during that time like to program their own scripts to do flooding, swearing and chatting with a lots of great features. The second language that I learned was HTML, where I get my first webpage assisted with geocities webpage building kits.

My next turning point of my life is when I have to decide the road for my future after I finished my SPM examination. There are 2 alternatives for me, to stay for STPM or to go colleges for diploma/Pre-u to further my studies. I have chosen STPM, the road that make me struggle so much that sometimes I feel like I'm giving up. My friends like Darren always critise on the decision I have made to stay for STPM. Because of that, he even quarrel with me few times during our reunion when he came back Penang for semester break. I'm totally agreed with him, STPM was totally a nightmare for me especially studying in Physic class. OMG, I always skip classes because I have no interest at all in Pure Science . All I ever want is to become a programmer, not because I want to be rich like Bill Gates but because I really like programming. I'm a person that will never give up on the things I want to do, except I'm not interested or talented in doing it.

Here it goes, after one and half year of hardship with STPM everything paid off. I got an offer from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia to study Computer Science, I was so happy and blessed that finally I'm back to my track. I didn't get good supports from my sisters because they said this field had the most numbers of unemployment. I don't even listen and I will prove to them that "this is my field, I will show you how far I can go!". During my one and a half year stuyding in UTM, I always work hard to achieve good grades in my academic. I will show you guys who look down on me, "I can do it, as I always do".

~Never give up, unless you were given up by yourself~

Zhi Hao