Back of the mengspiration business card.

So after a year serving the government, I’m back in business, quite literally. I’ve registered the business as Mengspiration LLP (…more on the name later :P).

In some ways, I must be the farthest thing from a civil servant now. I’m not only a business partner, but a freelance ready for hire! Ah, a free-lance – sounds like an extra knight, or a roaming swordsman, that a king may hire to bolster his forces before heading into battle.

Aye, ye dragon of doubt and gloom, taste the steely lance of freedom!!!

I’ve rather quickly launched this new website, got my cards printed, and by the grace of God, the army has granted me a deferment so I may get the new business going and spearhead my return to the media industry. Oh the media! Be it TV, film, video, or social media, I’ve had my fingers and thumbs in each of those pies, and surely for good reason. Surely, my experience as a TV producer,  director, writer, and my experience managing the website and social media, can be forged into something good.

The Lord says he has prepared good works in advance for me to do. Of that I have no doubt. But of what that good is, can we be entirely clear? All I know is that I’ve committed to it, and as far as I can see I was made to tell stories on screen.

For a while, I was like Rapunzel – locked in a tower and with talents used for not necessarily the greatest good, but now I am set free to, well, to do whatever it was prepared in advance for me to do. I hope the few hours we spend on upon this terrestrial ball will be spent shining brightly.

And that leads me, rather conveniently, to describe how I came to give this website and the business its name. I was googling variations of the meaning of my name.. I tried – striking, brilliant, glaring, blazing, meng, etc and various cheeky upgrades to the yew portion of the name (like yewniversal studios haha) and most were already taken! Yes, we live in a corny world. You can imagine what other combinations there were.  After a few late night facebook chat brainstorms, I’d all but given up, and thought I should just give it a wee boring name, when suddenly, out of the blue, came inspiration. The brother had this awesome suggestion, which he transmitted via the sis-in-law, that I thought fit the spirit of what we were going for quite well – “Mengspiration”. Ding! the lightbulb in the head lit up immediately. And I pretty much said, ‘Yes! that’s it!’

It was silly enough to pull a laugh, a tad catchy and above all it was meaningful! (at least to me!) And nobody on earth had taken it for a name yet!

明 Meng the bit of my name which means bright, a combination of the Chinese characters for the sun and the moon, combined with “inspiration”. Bright, luminous inspiration. The taking in of breath or air to support luminous combustion!

Definition of INSPIRATION

1

a : a divine influence or action on a person believed to qualify him or her to receive and communicate sacred revelationb : the action or power of moving the intellect or emotionsc : the act of influencing or suggesting opinions

2

: the act of drawing in; specifically : the drawing of air into the lungs

3

a : the quality or state of being inspiredb : something that is inspired <a scheme that was pureinspiration>

4

: an inspiring agent or influence

b archaic : to infuse (as life) by breathing

Please let all of that be true in time. Bright Inspiration. That fits, surely.

The Dad said it was a good name. I might live out what the mum wanted me to be. But hang on, I said. Didn’t my parents want to name me “Yew Fatt” like Chow Yun Fatt? They were only joking it seems. My, my, a revelation after 30 years, or maybe it’s a case of foggy memories?

So, Mengspiration it is. Take it, leave it, or better yet “Like” it!

Like my all-new facebook page and take it beyond 25 likes, so I can give it a better URL like /mengspiration. It’s currently at facebook.com/bleaghoverlycomplexurl...

Or follow me on Twitter. Follow @mengspiration

Seriously, they’re the easiest ways you can join me on this grand adventure and stay up to date with what’s on this blog etc. 🙂 Follow Mengspiratoin on social media and recommend it to your friends, family, loved ones, arch-rivals, businesses, acquaintances, and random strangers! 😛

What is Mengspiration so far? It’s still new and defining itself. I hope it can be a sustainable media solutions business that fuels charitable and divine purpose. That can be a challenge, no? It’ll be fun, frightening and challenging, but above all I hope it will be good!

Do support me and Mengspiration, wish me luck and many blessings. haha.

As the hilarious Jose Mourinho puppet on Special 1 TV might say,

“Do it! Be champions!”