This is a challenge by @anomadsoul alongside @blocktrades and @ocdb to introduce myself to the world of Hive. For those who have seen me around but do not know in-depth about me, here's something for you.

What do I do for a living? Where I'm from? How am I here on Hive? You name it... Though you may always find talking to me on discord and IF you're in Malaysia, meeting the real person is always better.

Ps. cause I would love meeting you too

Sooo let me begin my 'My Introduction to the Hive Community'.

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This almost feels like writing an essay again back in Primary school when the essay's titles are always, 'My hobby', 'My family' and 'My dream house'. The only difference is, it's probably gonna be longer than 50 words.

Hello World,

you can call me zord189 or people around here call me zord! I'm an INTJ, I can easily switch to be an extrovert or a leader if the situation requires but staying too long in a crowd will drain a lot of my energy. People with an Extroverted nature would love sticking around me because they strive on people's energy like myself. That is when I have to cocoon myself back to recharge. I am really passionate about good visuals, and music. I bought a really expensive pair of headphones just to listen to Spotify premium. I am visually ecstatic about movies such as Spiderman:Into the spiderverse. Being in the animation industry myself, I have learned over the years on how to value creative things.

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My Upbringing

I have three very important areas in my life that I can't live without. There are my Family, Friends and God.

I grew up in a small city in East Malaysia called Kuching. Though my parents were from West Malaysia, I was born and raised in Kuching. They've decided to migrate to Kuching to start a family business which we later on sold off all 5 branches before the financial crisis in 1998 happened. Dad said he heard from God that it was time to venture into something else.

Being the youngest in the family, with an eldest sister, I was usually the more timid one. My sister was the loud one. Sorry sis, I wuv u. But you know how it is among the family siblings, there's always the loud one, and the other one would be the softer one. There would also be the smarter one(my sis) and then there's ME, the not so studious type one. I never liked memorizing formulas and have never pictured myself wearing a lab coat. I like guns though, hehe... when the teachers were handing out our personal biography card for us to fill in, I wrote that I wanted to become a policeman, then an architect, then a doctor. Doctor was cause it was the job that was called successful for some Asian families. The Asian Stigma

A few years forward after my high school years, I am now an animator.

I'm truly blessed to be in this family because I ended up being a Character Animator! Geez zord, where did that come from. Policeman to Animator. Reason why I feel that I'm truly blessed is because my family have always been supportive of my creative career. They've supported my sister to go overseas to study and now she's a REALLY GOOD pharmacists(bias) and as for me, I wanted to do art.

And I did...

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My Animation Career

Counting With Paula

Disney Jr' Docmcstuffins

NBA Jr Jumpsquad

Leo The Wildlife Ranger

These are just some of the projects I've worked on. I have worked on movies and other action pack stuff as well.

I found out that I wanted to be an animator quite young really. When I was inspired watching the first animated film 'Toy Story' and I told my mum, "Mum... I wanna do that". At that time, I didn't know that such a job called 'animator' existed. It just sparked within me and it was my parents who supported me all the way.

I am now a senior animator in my company and lead a team of animators guiding and leading them. I guess for the most part, the satisfaction is seeing your work being aired around the world. Bringing little children together, learning new things and that makes me happy and it fuels my passion.

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My Time Here in Hive

Then there are amazing & beautiful people that came into my life and made everything worth living for. These people are my friends. People who I've laughed with, been through some tough things together, and just having great conversations. Part of this group is from the people I've met from the Steem days and have come along together into this wonderful Hive blockchain.

The #powerhousecreatives community is one which I call home. This community is led by @jaynie who is very passionate about authentic engagement on this crypto space. We even go to the extend of promoting Hive on other social media daily.

I hold weekly internal community contest for the community members to help them jumpstart their topic for the day. To inspire them to think out of the box and believe me when I tell you this. We have one of the most amazing bloggers/content creators on HIVE!

Yeaps! They come in all shape and sizes and these are the ones that mean the world to me. These are the Hive-ians from #teammalaysia. I've certainly made a lot of friends being in the blockchain sphere for nearly 3 years now. I know there are still some of you out there that aren't in the photos, I would love to meet you someday. The Hive people from other parts of the world!

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Last and most important area in my life is God. I was born into a Christian family but have never really felt that God was Real until I reached the age of 17. Imagine that! 17 years just going to church and going to Sunday school like a routine.

At the age of 17, I was suddenly woken up by a few miraculous incidents that happened during that time and they all constantly pointed me towards how REAL the creator Himself is to me.

His blessings and favors have always been so overflowing in my life that I can't deny and say that it's just 'coincidence'.But rather, I would choose to believe. My Christian faith plays a huge role in my life, in how I represent, how I talk, basically how I live my life.

Though I'm not perfect, and never will be, I know the ONE who is and I'm running after Him.

Thank you @anomadsoul, @blocktrades and @ocdb once again for this wonderful challenge! Do check out this challenge if you guys are interested in joining too - My Introduction To Hive Community

Have a great week!