A heated discussion over Mocha Chiller and Caramelatte took place at Gloria Jean’s on the 30th January 2010, occasional confusion and misunderstandings occurred, holes were punched in each other’s statements, frustration of not understanding each other’s visions cropped up as four twenty year old business students were trying to narrow down their top 3 business ideas (the ones which we have poured our sweat and blood into creating) to the only one that they find is the most viable option and to go for it.
Left to right : Jeffrey, Nigel, Elaine
Photographer : Le Wayne
No surprises there, business students trying to start a business, it’s only logical. Well, only if your point of view is from the sidelines.
What most people don’t know is that only a small portion of students from business courses would actually take the step to try and start their own business this early, eventhough the red carpet had already arrived at their doorstep. Most people would just do nothing and finish up their courses and then look for that stable income job that everyone is vying for.
Instead of climbing someone else’s money tree, why not plant your own?
However, this isn’t a normal business competition that we’re joining, or else it wouldn’t prompt us to have such a hot-blooded discussion. It’s a challenge unlike other business challenges due to its authentic experience you’ll get, its support by Maybank, its partnering organizations, and whether you bag the first place or not is for once, not important, as teams actually get a chance to get your business up and running, for real.
We then proceeded to attend our farewell party that was organized by our friends, as two of our members, including me are leaving to Australia to further our studies this February 7th. We were about to hop on a train that travels on an unpredictable route.
Rewind back to a few days before the new year starts, I was actually running up the stairs, panting, took the lift up to the first floor of Taylor’s Business School to hand over a registration form for a Business challenge, to my horror, the person in charge of the collection of forms was not there ! I panicked; as I wasn’t sure if it was too late for registration.
So I slipped it under her door, also leaving a note. Few days later, I had an email from Ms.Geraldine stating our team was in, only because another team decided to pull out the last minute. Lucky us!
So, business students joining a business challenge, boo, no big revelation there either. Ordinary Business Competitions is a common resource nowadays anyway.
However, this isn’t a normal business competition that we’re joining, or else it wouldn’t prompt us to have such a hot-blooded discussion. It’s a challenge unlike other business challenges due to its authentic experience you’ll get, its support by Maybank, its partnering organizations, and whether you bag the first place or not is for once, not important, as teams actually get a chance to get your business up and running, for real. 
Fast forward to the 30th again, an hour has passed, even with us going off-topic once in a while and joking around, ideas and procedures were agreed upon , visions were aligned, we have decided on the idea we decided to champion (push forward), Codenamed “W.R.I.S.T” to be entered into
Maybank-MoneyTree Young Entrepreneur Startup Challenge.
We then proceeded to attend our farewell party that was organized by our friends, as two of our members, including me are leaving to Australia to further our studies this February 7th. We were about to hop on a train that travels on an unpredictable route.
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