Monday, July 15, 2013

Faritz and his bicycles

My youngest son, Faritz, is a graduate of Swinburne University (Melbourne, Australia) in Industrial Design.  He graduated in January 2011; came home, looked for jobs that fit his qualification; but no joy.  His friends with similar education are also no better.  Apparently, our Malaysian industries don’t have a need for designers. They just manufacture OEM products. Those that do design work, have enough designers, supposedly.
So last January, he decided to do something related to his hobby.  He loved cycling and the fad is catching on in Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia in general. The Le Tour de Langkawi annual races helped to popularise this sport.
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The Swift modified to carry bikes
His room is like a workshop
One day, while loitering in Sri Hartamas, he saw a cycle shop looking understaffed. He went in and asked the manager for a job. He got it. And now, he is the manager.
It’s a high end bicycle shop selling bikes for racing, mountain rides, dirt track extreme sports and the likes. He has raced too and won an iPad. Now he is really hooked into it and would go to Putrajaya where the happenings are, to cycle to their hearts content in the middle of the night.

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