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Every volunteer joins the TEDxPetalingStreet family for their own reasons;
However, being able to persevere through the years and reach the end is what's truly precious.
We even cheekily ask in recent application forms:
"How much time are you willing to dedicate to the team in a week?"
The purpose is simply to let everyone know that organizing an annual event under the global TED brand,
from major external matters to the smallest details, we genuinely need a full year to coordinate.
The halo of "passion and professionalism" that outsiders crown us with,
how can we allow ourselves to casually stroll around and taste the fruits of success?

After ten years, I truly feel that,
when volunteers step down from the stage under the spotlight and applause,
still maintaining their original intention, staying at their posts, doing their best, and refining themselves,
is more substantial and priceless than others' affirmation and praise.
When everyone focuses on doing their part well,
when all forces come together,
it naturally forms a fine "grid" and a broad "situation",
achieving beautiful things will be the most beautiful thing.
Thank you to the team leaders for discovering and picking me up from the vast sea of people,
then tirelessly and carefully nurturing and cultivating,
and continuously urging, reminding, and supporting.
I dare not say "the right time to meet the right person",
because time has been constantly tempering me,
only by continuing to reflect, learn, grow, and move forward,
can I become that more right person in the days to come,
and shoulder that unwavering love and trust.
Continuously exercising perfect excellence,
the premise is, only exercising those important and prioritized perfect excellence,
is the way to be kind to yourself in limited time.
I look forward to it, and I believe you do too.

Entering our 10th year, we have something to say...

GRIT

2025<br/>THEME:<br/>

Desmond Wong

"With the sound of singing bowls, awaken inner peace and the light of self-healing."

Hymn Wong

"Using black and white, connecting the blur and clarity of life."

Lawrence Ong

"In choice and flow, forging one's own trajectory."

Connie Chew

"Every miracle of subtle change is the art of time."

Eriko Motoyama

"We don't have to be victims. We should be our own first responders."

Lim Tze Tshen

"Let me speak the long-sealed stories for the silent fossils."

Jillian Ooi

"Beneath the shimmering waves, she gathers the murmurs of seagrass and returns with tales for the world above."

Ma Zi Song

"With the eye of science, exploring romance in the minute."

Orang Orang Drum Theatre

"They build stages with drumbeats and write the echoes between urban and rural with theatre."

Li Zi Shu

"She writes about the mundane matters of small places, yet her name appears in major literary awards."

Chong Lee Choo

"Recording the city's stories with eyes and words."

Wong Chin Yoong

"Economic storms are unpredictable, but the methods to respond lie in the nation's resilience and people's tenacity."

Kenny Lim

"Ten years, thirty-four cities—he traded walking for listening, using firsthand experience to piece together a more three-dimensional China."

Yudi Yap

"She narrates Malaysia with her singing voice, interpreting herself and the things around her."

Zhao Hanqing

"Riding the AI wave, breaking conventions to pioneer a brand-new narrative space."

Jeff Lau

"He's not a professional athlete, yet he ran all the way into the world's most extreme terrains."

DJ Point

"He uses rhythm to dismantle misunderstandings, building an audible bridge between beats and culture."

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