Second part of The Property Show on BFM. Shaun Di Gregorio, CEO of iProperty.com Group shares the similarities, concerns and issues faced by home buyers in Malaysia and Australia. Aside from that Shaun also sheds light on the property terrain in Malaysia with listeners on BFM.
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Shaun Di Gregorio, CEO of iProperty.com Group shares the similarities, concerns and issues faced by home buyers in Malaysia and Australia. Aside from that Shaun also sheds light on the property terrain in Malaysia with listeners on BFM.
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“Exhibition is like Art. You start with your imagination, then onto paper, and then into reality when the exhibition commences.” – Antony Wong, one half of the founders of iProperty.com Events Sdn Bhd
One of the most enigmatic couple in the iProperty.com group (there are several such couples working in the same office) is Mr and Mrs Wong or better known as Antony Wong and Yvonne Low. Antony entered the exhibition world some 26 years ago and has never looked back since. His greatest achievement (apart from marrying Yvonne) is founding iProperty.com Events Sdn Bhd together with the latter and steering it to become one of the most profitable divisions in the iProperty.com group, achieving sales in the 7-figure range for 2010.
With the spirited Yvonne as partner, the duo was unstoppable, achieving increasing sales from each property exhibition they organized under the iProperty.com banner over the past 3 years. Their story on property investment is now immortalized in famed property consultant Ho Chin Soon’s latest book entitled “Penang Island & Golden Triangle ”.
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When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, putatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancrefine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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By Timothy Hor
At iProperty, we have laid down 10 simple core values.
We believe that these values are fundamental principles that will lead, guide, and direct us in everything we do.
We believe that our success as a company hinges on how well each and every one of us believe and live by these values.
Really ah? You might be thinking to yourself.
The core values may seem like platitudes that you have read and heard before, maybe even in companies where you have worked in before.
And I would not be surprised if you have a heavy sense of skepticism that these values really matter and that they will remain as just that -
10 nice-sounding idealistic statements on a piece of paper.
Funny thing about these core values too is that they could mean very different things to different people.
In this entry, I would like to share my understanding and my belief as to why the first core value,
“We are Passionate in our words and actions”, is so very critical to our business, and also to YOU.
To understand this core value, the key word we need to really understand is PASSION.
Sometimes the best place to begin to define a word is with Webster.
Webster’s dictionary states that passion is an emotional response.
Here’s a definition taken from the movie “Serendipity”
For most people, the word “passion” refers to that something which they can do with utmost fondness, that something which awakens their inner desires to go beyond typical, that something which drives them to forget that they are alive and causes them to go beyond natural. Passion for some is that something which they truly love with supreme sincerity, that something which allows them to wake up in the morning with something to look forward to, and above all, that something which gives them genuine happiness in their lives.
How many of us really come to work everyday in a PASSION-driven state-of-mind as described above?
How many of us really think that PASSION and WORK can come together. For some, we work hard
so that we can do things that we are passionate about. For some, our PASSION is money.
That can be good but if driven wrongly to an extreme can also turn out to be really bad.
People can do really crazy things for money.
To shed a different light on what Passion means, here are some famous quotes:
1. “You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.” — Dale Carnegie
2. “Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” – Christian Friedrich Hebbel
3. “Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.” – Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ.
4. “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
5. “Tell me what your passion is, and I’ll tell you who you are.” John Little Prince
I, however, believe that passion cannot be defined in all its brilliance by mere words. Instead, passion defines who you are.
The Greeks didn’t write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: “Did he have passion?”
My belief is that every human that is alive and breathing is by nature a Passionate being.
The key question you need to first answer is to find out who you are and what is your purpose.
Then maybe that fire in you will be ignited and burn brightly, and set you on your way to being who you can be.
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