Happy New Year everyone!

I checked my blog today and realized that the last time I blogged was on 26th November 2013, just a couple of days after the Liquido Miss Bikini 2013 competition, which was on 23rd November.

Which means that I haven't blogged for 2 months!
Ugh - lazy me.

A lot of significant things have happened over the last couple of months, ever since June 2013.
In June 2013, I decided to relocate from Sao Paulo, Brazil back to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

From then till now, the following happened:
- Liquido in Malaysia has been growing steadily month by month
- I decided to quit my full time job and say goodbye to the corporate world to free up my time to grow my little business
- Thiago and I decided to get married in Brazil by October 2014 and he will relocate to Malaysia to be with me by November 2014.

So yeah - 2014 will be a very significant year for me on so many levels.

I remember a chat that I had with one of my Liquido Miss Bikini 2013 finalist, Iva Seow.

Iva is delightful and now that the competition is over, I suppose I can say that she was one of my favourites. She is beautiful, confident, a pleasure to be around with and basically just an awesome person. We were talking about the competition and she said that one of the reasons why she decided to join the Liquido Miss Bikini 2013 competition was because she read my blog and was inspired by me.

Like, wow.

I always knew that I have a decent grasp of the English language and can tell a story quite well, but to have someone that I genuinely like tell me that my blog has inspired them was pretty darn cool.

I guess it just goes to show that every little bit counts.

And I suppose what this has thought me is that I need to be true to myself - and not blog about superficial things that I think other people will like (such as restaurant reviews for example) because this is not what this blog is about and I will just be alienating my regular readers.

So, I will continue my random ramblings here, about my entrepreneurial journey; which includes empowering women - be it by feeling confident wearing a bikini that flatters their body OR feeling great in the gym by wearing awesome Liquido active wear which are funky yet comfortable.

I'll probably be ranting a lot about my wedding planning. About how a non-traditional Malay girl such as myself is trying to plan a non-traditional wedding here in Malaysia while trying to coordinate the wedding in Brazil, where my fiancee, Thiago is from.

Yeah... 2014 is gonna be one hella of a year.
Bring it on!

Happy New Year!

Hi world!

Happy New Year 2013!
Sorry that I have been MIA for a while. In the midst of bikini shopping, figuring out shipping and import taxes, I have been working on my full time job here in São Paulo, chilling with my boyfriend and taking short weekend trips away from the city when possible.

This year (2013) is the year where I have decided to really concentrate on my business and to grow it.

After 2 months of sending emails back and forth, purchasing stocks, shipping, dealing with paperwork and export matters, the beautiful bikinis have finally arrived into Malaysia.

My bikinis are available for sale on Zalora.
http://www.zalora.com.my/liquido

I have sent over quite a few designs, so happy shopping!

If you would like to leave some feedback on the design that you see on Zalora, kindly leave them here.

Thank you!

First Post

Hello world and welcome to my life. 

Here's a quick introduction:
I'm a young working adult who has found herself thrown into the largest city in South America; São Paulo, Brazil.

I was born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

How I got from KL to São Paulo is a long story that I will tell you over a couple of beers someday. But for now, what is relevant is that I moved from KL to São Paulo in July 2011.

The story of my first 12 months in São Paulo was quite an adventure; and that too, I will tell you over a couple of beers during happy hour someday. 

Long story short, I now call São Paulo my home and am in a relationship with a wonderful Brazilian man.

And then in August 2012, my father (in Kuala Lumpur) passed away.

A friend once said that a significant event such as this (my father's death) is like a catalyst that can change the course of one's life.

My father was the most important person in my life and I loved him dearly. Just before he passed away, I told him that I was interested to import Brazilian bikinis to be sold in South East Asia, namely in countries like Singapore and in the beach resort areas of Thailand and Indonesia (Bali!). Dad was very supportive and he set up a company in my name to faciliate my business idea. And a few short weeks later, he passed on.

It almost seemed as if it were his dying wish for me to take on this business and fly with it. And I am going to do just that.

Over the course of the next 5 years, I intend to accomplish the following:
1. Export Brazilian bikinis to South East Asia and becomes Kuala Lumpur's first Brazilian bikini tycoon.
2. Grow my business so that I can quite my full time job and work on this instead.
3. I want to be close to my family back in KL, but I still and always will have a soft spot for Brazil, so I intend to grow my business so that I will have the option to travel and live in both countries.
4. Marry the man I love and build our life together.

So this blog will basically be about how I will build my export business between Brazil & South East Asia. I will also talk about life in São Paulo. And of course I will talk about Brazilian bikinis.

It starts now!