About YeinJee
My name is Yein Jee. Thanks for visiting my Asian journal.
About YeinJee.com
YeinJee.com is a place where I record the things I saw, did, thought of, read and discovered daily. Some of the things I write are from real life experiences, while some others from various sources around the net.
I write about my life, daily encounters, personal thoughts, dining and cooking experiences, as well as travel stories. Travel is my ultimate passion… my goal is to travel around the world while making money online.
I love reading and learning new things, and I often write about some special things that I discovered from various sources. It could be some serious like science or history, or just some random fun stuff.
I write a lot of Asian pop culture articles too, about Asian lifestyle & entertainment, as well as Otaku culture i.e. anime and gadgets etc.
About Me
I am 29 years old, was born in Ipoh (Malaysia) and stayed there happily for 19+ years before moving to Kuala Lumpur for university studies, and never moved back since then.
Graduated as an engineer despite hating the stuff I studied… in fact I almost failed to graduate after skipping too many classes (I even missed a couple of exams) and had to take another extra semester to finish my courses.
Although hated my engineering studies, I still went for an engineer position in a respectable Japanese factory after graduation. I felt that it would be a waste for my 3.5 years of studies if I didn’t become an engineer… besides, fresh grads are paid reasonably well in engineering field. The job ended just 3 months later after I realized that engineering is really not my cup of tea… it’s better to waste 3+ years than to spoil the rest of my life.
I then became actively involved in network marketing… not the fast money scheme but a legit one. I didn’t manage to make it big though; I didn’t have the thick skin and black heart to succeed in the business. I spent more than a year in the field before giving up… the experience was not all bad… it has taught me a few things that I would treasure for the rest of my life.
Working at Home
I started working at home in some online venture after that. It took me quite some time to learn the tits and bits of online business. I was first involving in freelance projects, later becoming a middle man… finding good deals from the rich countries and outsourcing it to cheap programmers (and designers etc.).
There was a good period in my business before it went wrong a couple of times and I had to pay hefty compensation for it. Besides, I also started to realize that I was not building a business, but just working as a self-employed… the moment I stopped working would be the end of my positive cash flow.
So I started to work on passive income instead; building websites of my own and make money with it through various sources. It was around mid-2005 when I started working on my passive income… and I think I am doing reasonably well these days.
I am not making more money than my peers, but one good thing is that if I stop working from today onwards… I am likely to be making the same income for the next 6-12 months while doing nothing. Quite cool isn’t it?
One of the major reasons for me to work on passive income is my love for travelling. I would love to travel around the world but I knew that working on a 9-5 job won’t achieve that… I have to try on something else, and I am on the right track at the moment.
Extra
I also love reading, eating, sleeping (hence overweight) and exploring new things; can’t drink, social-gambler, non smoker and like to talk trash.
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