Posted on January 17th, 2008 by Chris

About

Welcome to my personal blog. My name is Chris and I’m an entrepreneur currently traveling the world searching for new business opportunities, great food and lot’s of fun!

Me!

TGI Fridays, Manila, Philippines.

About Me

  • I’m 26
  • I’m from London, UK
  • I lived in Thailand for 4 years
  • I can speak Thai
  • I can write my name in Thai, but that’s all
  • I don’t have a place I call “home”
  • I have a huge passion for quality food and wine
  • I love to travel - In particular off the beaten path travel
  • I’m very impatient
  • I’m addicted to Fruit smoothies (and Pizza!)
  • I think I’m a good poker player
  • My favorite book is Wilt, by Tom Sharpe
  • I think everyone should read MEAT by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
  • I love visiting markets, especially farmers markets with local produce
  • One day I want to breed my own cows
  • Sambuca is my beverage of choice on a night out
  • I’ve never owned my own Credit Card
  • I’m a huge fan of Wordpress
  • I have a shitzu dog, named Fuji
  • The most craziest country I’ve ever visited is India
  • The most beautiful country I’ve ever visited is Lithuania
  • I enjoy learning graphic design

Favorite Quote:

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” - Sir Winston Churchill

The road to now:

Swiftly moving out of school, I started a year apprenticeship with a Real Estate company before getting fired for “borrowing” keys to vacant properties to host my Friday night parties - I still love a good party! :-)

I then started working at a telephony company specializing in services for the premium rate industry (think ringtones). After a year of making tea, I moved up to manage the web based clients… this is when I started to learn more about web sites and how to promote them.

After a year of traveling around Asia, I decided to move to Samui (an island in the south of Thailand) in 2004. With my short attention span, I quickly got bored of lying on the beach all day so I moved to Bangkok where I opened my first company offering SEO services to small business in the UK.

I then spent a year living between Bangkok and a small village in the north east of Thailand that had no electricity or running water - This was a great experience and I have so many wonderful memories from my time spent there.

During 2008 I launched an online lads mag (Juice Mag), a community driven RSS reader (Feedza) and a web devlopment company. In November 2008 I closed my office in Bangkok so I could move on from Thailand. I’m now dedicating 2009 to networking and travel while keeping my eyes and ears open for my business opportunities.