Malaysians After High School with Carlson Ng: Recent Episodes
Malaysians After High School
Malaysians After High School seek to serve high school students who are clueless, confused, or afraid of the life after high school. We help you by telling you our stories. In each episode of the Malaysians After High School podcast, new stories and experiences will be shared to help you gain clarity in what's ahead of you.
Amin Zakariah is the founder of The Malaysian Hub, one of the most valuable resources for Malaysian college or university students that want to get involved in co-curricular activities. He graduated from an Accounting undergraduate program in Multimedia University, before dabbling into creative marketing among many of his other ventures. He shares with us his motivations behind his extraordinary journey as a student thought leader.
Jason Ngan graduated from Nanyang University's Mechanical Engineering program, but decided Mechanical Engineering as a career was not for him. He later taught himself the necessary skills to be a Software Engineer, and is now working as a Backend Software Engineer at Shopee. He shares with us his tough journey that got him where he is now.
Wilson Cheah studies Accounting in a private university while Mei Jun studies Network Engineering in a public university. In this episode, we attempt to understand the differences in experience a public university and a private university would provide. We get to hear how their respective university systems work, as well as how they get to spend their time on and off campus.
Hii Wen Suog graduated from the only Culinology program in Malaysia, which is provided by Taylor's University. He currently works as a food technologist. Culinology is an amalgam of Food Science and Culinary Arts. In this episode, he shares with us what Culinology is and what his work currently entails.
Sunway Foundation Program is a pre-university program provided by Sunway University, and current students Prabagar Suthagar and Jayden Loh are here to share with us more about the program and their experiences as students.
Chiah Ruey Chee was pursuing her studies in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at IMU while juggling a full time job as a community manager at Monsta, a platform for student personal and career development, before deciding to drop out of university and quit her job as well. She is now a freelance translator, writer and project manager. In this episode, she shares about her decision to drop out, her experience working full time while being a full time student, and the lessons on knowing yourself better and owning your life that she learned through experience.
Ryan Ng is a 21-year-old fine artist from Penang. He is currently doing his undergraduate studies in Finance and Economics at University of Western Australia. He stumbled upon art in his high school, joined Urban Sketchers Penang and eventually fell in love with the craft and dreams of pursuing art for life. In this episode, Ryan shares about his experiences in both worlds, juggling the roles of student and artist. Ryan also shares about what it took to get to where he is today as an artist and the importance of community in the pursuit of something new.
Einstein Pong is a second year Mechanical Engineering student at University of Taylors. Besides that, he is a man of many passions. He is a college student YouTuber that creates content about his interesting adventures in university. He took a gap year after high school to be a barista apprentice and now he is the president of the Barista Club in Taylor's University. In this episode, Einstein shares about his journey into tertiary education, taking a gap year, and time management as college student with many other hats. We also talk about how to discover passion.
Hiew Wen Tian is a Tunku Scholar currently in his second year of pursuing his Law degree through the University of London External Programme under the Yayasan Tunku Abdul Rahman Scholarship. Apart from that, Hiew is also the co-founder of Belia Di Bawah Bayu, an NGO that serves underprivileged communities in Sabah. Hiew was an enthusiastic Science stream student and was even awarded Cassini Scientist Of A Day award by NASA while he was in high school. In this episode, he shares about his transition from Science to Law, his reasoning behind it, his pragmatic approach to life, as well as experiences with his NGO and attaining his scholarship.
Hong Yee Xuen is about to finish his undergraduate studies in University of Melbourne. The program he took was Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and Marketing. In this podcast, Yee Xuen shares about his decision to switch from Economics to Marketing, his academic journey and how he got to where he is, and his personal experiences of internships and work in the Marketing field. We also talk about how one could approach finding the right program and how we landed an internship in Marketing even before switching to Marketing in university.
Episode 1. Carlson Ng and Hong Yee Xuen. In this first-ever episode of the podcast, me and my partner Yee Xuen who founded Malaysians After High School together with me engage in a conversation discussing the motives why we embarked on this journey to build up this organization.