My Personal Profile Over the Years.

 A Very Happy New Year to Me and mine! 2024 has been one long drag of a year with the infestation of war and famine everywhere and the weather spinning out of control claiming untold misery and loss of life. I pray that 2025 will reverse the whole process of decadence and revive peace and harmony for the Planet and humanity as a whole. I hope and pray that change for the better will take effect bringing solace and recuperation where pain and suffering has been making life unbearable for those especially those affected by conflicts and wars. I can only hope and pray however  with a genuine feeling of compassion towards my fellow man I am about to make a radical change in my life to better serve those who cross my path and in need of comfort and care. At my age I am aware that any physical effort would be limited however I feel strongly capable of sharing myself in the capacity of a mental and spiritual assistance for those who are seeking for answers in their lives. I am set upon making the next phase of my journey into 2025 spent among strangers and help those who happen to cross my path through sharing what is relevant of my life's experiences. I hope to open a class for children teaching Art in English like I had done before ex gratis or free of charge for needy kids. This is my intention in the upcoming year and I hope it will happen with the Blessings from on high.

I plan on moving to the East Coast state of Terengganu where I have friends and relatives and am familiar with the local culture and people. it is also my intention to remove myself from my present comfort zone of living with my two adult children who are now I trust more than capable of taking care of themselves. I am also moving away from the hustle of this city life and find a more sedate and tranquil environment to chill in my old age. Ideally I would like to run my own 'Ashram' or retreat where close friends and those looking for a temporary reprieve from their hectic life can find a place to hang out and chill their hearts mind and soul. A place where they can find a sympathetic ear to listen to their woes and a joker who can make them laugh at their own jokes. If possible i would also like to teach a kid or two a little Yoga and Martial Arts which I have experience of doing so in my life. If i can help to ease and heal a mind or two of the young and the old that crosses my path I will be more than satisfied to have accomplished an intention I have held as my life's purpose. As a friend in Alaska once wrote in my journal, "Sam, he is not a just a fisherman, he is a fisher of men." This was a complement I held with very high regard and had motivated me ever since to become a teacher of life or as I have called, "The Art of Living." 

                                  My Degree from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay

Am I qualified to carry out such a task? Let me try to outline my lifetime career ever since I left the secondary school in Terengganu. My first employment was an English language Tutor to the Royal household of the Sultan of Terengganu. The I was working as a medical assistant for an American doctor who was doing a medical research in the rural areas of Ulu Terengganu in the Kuala Brang area and there were five or six villages that we visited and today these villages are under the Kenyir Dam. My second job was as a Radio Operator working for a British Helicopter CO. called Bristow Helicopters out of Surrey, England. The company located close to the Telaga Batin airport was serving the Esso -Continental Oil Operations searching for oil off the coast of Terenggnau and this was before Petronas came into the picture. I later joined the drilling vessel Discoverer 2 as a Roughneck and had a good taste of what hard work and racial prejudice was all about. I then moved to Georgetown, Penang my hometown where i had a job as an Assistant Sales Executive for a Dutch company, Hagermeyer Trdg. Co. that handled products like NIVICO, Matsushita, Christian Dior, I was one of two Malays at the time hired by the company on demand by the Malaysian government that at least a percent of Malays had to be hired. Here again I had a great exposure to what racism was all about when working in a predominantly Chinese environment.

                                 Some of my trainings in the course of my past careers.

At the age of twenty five I married and American lady and relocated to Green Bay, Wisconsin where my first employment was a Bar Cleaner at a Tavern called Farr's Grove in Duck Creek, Brown County, Green Bay. I believe i was the first colored guy that most of the residents of Duck Creek ever met. Later i was hired to become a sweeper and cleaner at Lambeau Field, Home of the Green Bay Packers, picking up paper cups and hot dog wrappers by the bag loads was hard work after every packer game especially during the winter months. I then was employed by Green Bay Meats and Cold Storage as a boner. I became good at separating bones from meat after working for three years in the cold slaughter houses in green Bay and later in Milwaukee. After having a nervous breakdown and loosing my wife and son through a divorce, I was accepted to join the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. I graduated from the University with a Bachelor's degree that I designed of my own called Independent Studies. While a student I worked as a librarian and a Security Guard to survive. It took me ten years to pay back my student loan and I did. Soon after graduation from college i moved to Sandpoint, Alaska, located somewhere in the Aleutian Chains where I did some commercial fishing in the Bering Sea of the Pacific Northwest. I discovered that in the rough seas I was prone to seasickness, however I earned more selling my artworks to survive. 

I moved to San Francisco sometime in 1983-4 and decided to join the Zen Buddhist community there and my first job there was through my Zen Instructor who got me working for an Englishman renovating office buildings, including installations of Tellar machines. I gained good experience working on this job which took me all over the Bay Area. I then joined the Zen community at green Gulch Farm, in the Sausalito area of Marin County. I became a Zen student and for my food and lodging I was employed working the organic farm which help4d to sustain the G.G.Farm. I stayed at the farm for almost two years doing odd jobs while doing my Zen Buddhist practice. When I left the Monastery I was employed by H&H Ship and Environmental Services which was located on China Basin, on the SF water front. From a sweeper I worked myself up to become the Yard Superintendent in charge of the Underground Cleaning and Disposal Facility. in SF I also worked as a Produce Buyer for a company called Del Tomasso and my job was to purchase produce from the SF Produce Market which operates from Midnight till the next morning and deliver it to a Mall across the Bay. For a spell i was selling Temporary Tattoos at the Shoreline Amphitheater during the live concerts there. Later in 1991 onwards i became a Baby sitter taking care of my two toddlers aged 1 and 2 while their mother worked. I chose to do so for the children's sake as i did not want to have someone else raise my kids. My eldest son from my first marriage declared to me that his friend told him that what i was doing was the hardest job a man can take on and i agreed.

Sometime in 1995 my late wife got a job teach ESL in Sendai, Japan and so we moved to Japan where i continued to Babysit while my wife worked. In Sendai I did some of my best Artworks and had six solo art exhibitions including one at the Miyagi Museum of Fine Arts where I spent most of my free time when not babysitting. I was employed as an Art Lecturer by a Japanese Prep School for a semester and got to have a good experience of working in Japan. Sometime in 1988 I decided to move my family back to Malaysia where my late wife was employed as a lecturer at KUSZA in Kuala Terenggnau and I was employed as  Health and Safety Officer in Kerteh and later in Gebeng, Pahang working on a Petronas refinery facility. I worked for three different companies beginning with Ibai Bina Sdn. Bhd., followed by Van Seumerren Romstar and lastly by Autoblast industrial painting company. All three jobs demanded the ability to confront and discipline employees with regard to work safety it was a challenge of one's ability to communicate.