Hello, my name is Tony Ratnam a.k.a. (Abang Joe).
Well, I’ve finally done, started a blog page, after sitting on the intention for ages. I have loads of stuff in my head that I want to get out, based on my journey in life, my experiences, my passions, things I know, self authored articles based on the work on I do. Hopefully this is the catalyst to me writing my first two books, currently too trapped in my head .. LOL !!
First a bit about me & I’ll proceed to tell you the story behind “Abang Joe“.
I run my own therapy business helping people align themselves to be the best version of themselves. Tapping into my bag of tools as an Energy Healer, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Personal Fitness Trainer, the alignment can happen at one or all of the Physical, Emotional, Mental, and Spiritual levels.
Doing what I do now is me synergising with my Life Purpose, essentially being the reason I was put on this earth for. But I was not always this.
I spent most of life working in the corporate sector mainly in the Accounting field but also having ventured into other managerial positions in Human Resource, Project Management, Business Process Improvements, Business Development and a few more. Pretty much multiskilled & versatile, Jack of all trades and Master of many :-). Among other things, I am a whiz with Excel, for which I have a deep passion, earning the name “The Excel Monster” from my peers.
I left my last fulltime job as a Finance Manger with a large equipment hire company in April 2013 taking advantage of a voluntary redundancy, simply because something within me felt (and knew) that there lay out there something more meaningful for me.
The rest is pure magic, look for the blog to come on this, and here I am.
Now, WHO, WHAT on earth is ABANG JOE ?
I originally hail from Malaysia and as young kid I used to watch a local children’s TV program called “Cumi & Ciki”, about two puppet characters. But within that show was a segment hosted by a guy sporting a mustache and goatie named Abang Joe. The name translated means “Big Brother (or elder brother) Joe”.
Now Abang Joe would create and make stuff from anything, wood, sticks, matchboxes, pieces of anything, almost like craftwork magic and he also knew stuff …… well this was how this little kid perceived him. And after each creation, he would exclaim “look at what Abang Joe created”.
So began the “alter ego” of this little kid, and each time he (the kid) created or achieved something, he likened it to Abang Joe.
And so began the aspect of “Abang Joe” within me. “Abang Joe” was always identified with any success within myself and when I did something well, I called myself “Abang Joe“.
From a young age, I was always very creative (well I guess, that will depend on who you spoke to, my parents and sisters may have another term for it). Growing up I found that there was nothing I could not accomplish if I put my mind to it. Well some challenges lay in me not actually “putting my mind to it”, sort of like the “horse to water’ idiom.
I was an ideas man, loved creating stuff, fixing it, if it was not broken I’d inadvertently break it so that the opportunity to fix presented itself.
Hence through my adult life, I loved challenges (or rather, challenges seemed to always find me), I’d tend to approach things from a zero based point, starting from scratch, breaking new ground, always the analyst, the dog with the bone, the creative “monster”, attempting to reinvent the wheel so to speak.
This was the “Abang Joe” in me, there is nothing Abang Joe could not do.
Now Abang Joe has brought you this blog, keep tuning in to see what he comes up with next.
