Kelantan

Born in 1991 in Kelantan, the cultural heartland of Malaysia. This is where the story begins — surrounded by paddy fields, mosques, and the warmth of a kampung upbringing.

Summers at grandmother's wooden house in the kampung. The sound of cicadas, the smell of nasi kerabu, and hours spent reading old magazines. A world before the internet.

School days in Kota Bharu. Got into trouble once for a phishing experiment at 13 — learned the wrong lesson first, then the right one. Curiosity was the constant.

The sound of a modem connecting to the internet. GeoCities pages. Akademi Fantasia fan sites. Every page load was an investment. This was the web that made me fall in love with building things.

Built fan sites on GeoCities with HTML tables and marquee tags. Created an Akademi Fantasia fan site that got actual traffic. The first taste of reaching people through code.