19/03 Setup a Company? Me?

Had a busy morning from doing a site walk at my Gali Batu Bus Depot project site with Guru, my colleague from Stellar Technologies.

It was such a hot day. I’m practically melting as we walk the site and check on the site progress in preparation for our upcoming works to start

But halfway through, Leong actually gave me a call and wants to meet me for lunch. He told me he has something to discuss with me

The question “Could it be another new project?” makes me look forward to meeting him today already

Hence I round up today’s site walk, and head over to my gombak site to meet him up asap

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When I joined him at the coffeeshop opposite my Gombak site, he started the conversation 1st with updates for the Labrador project

Just last night, the Labrador project owner has contacted Leong and tried to change the payment terms which Leong’s side cannot accept, hence that project has been put on hold at the moment

Feeling a bit disappointed as I was expecting to receive at least 10-15k in referral commission from Jacqueline’s side without getting myself involved in the project,

But what comes after is a pleasant surprise

Leong raised an idea – because of my last conversation last week with the 2nd son of TKK’s Boss where I recommend my former company to him if TKK require any security specialist, Leong had an idea to branch into taking M&E projects

And he wants to start a new M&E main contractor company together with me!

Feeling a bit intimidated by the idea of me owning a company, I do feel honoured that he has extended his invitation to someone like me, when he knows I am still heavily in debts at the moment

My only reply to him was “setup a company? Me?”

Leong replied “yeah, because I have lots of sub contractors who can do a lot of different M&E trade, so we do not have to worry about having no one to execute most of the jobs”

I ponder for a bit, and finally replied “Yeah, why not?”