hey guys it's wengie here I've been
requested to do a draw my life for so
long but I've always been really daunted
by this task because took my whole life
down on a white board is pretty scary
but I'm gonna try my best on January 9
1986 a little girl by the name of wengie
popped up I obviously don't remember
being a baby
but apparently I was impossible to feed
and would take a spoonful of rice and
suck on it for hours just to get the
flavour out but never actually eat it
my family was worried that I'd be
malnourished but I got by I did enjoy
ice cream and would negotiate with my
grandfather to buy one for me every
Sunday when I saw him using apparently
very mature negotiation tactics both my
parents left for Australia when I was
really little and I was looked after by
my nanny and my grandparents till I was
four I remember taking the plane ride to
Australia it was a huge adventure and I
swear that during the flight I opened
the windows and played with the clouds
it must have been such a vivid dream
because the next time I hopped on the
plane I tried to open the windows and
was really frustrated when they wouldn't
open when I landed in Melbourne it was
cold and dreary and I remember my
grandfather tried to cheer me up by
buying me a packet of Smarties they
tasted magical when I saw my parents for
the first time I cried I wanted my
grandfather to take me back to China I
didn't know who these two strangers were
and he was telling me they were my
parents I didn't know it at the time but
my family was pretty poor because we
were just trying to settle down in a new
country so I grew up with a lot of DIY
toys like I made a princess doll out of
a tennis ball and a Lee Kum Kee jar or
costumes out of paper so I could pretend
I was a Voltron pilot I was obsessed
with robot animes transformers and Ninja
Turtles yes I was a massive tomboy
growing up my parents tried to save as
much money as I could so even the vacuum
cleaner we had for about 12 years was
something someone threw out during
garbage collection day and my dad fixed
it up and my parents wouldn't even buy a
new vacuum cleaner even though we could
have
bought it until this one break my
parents got new jobs when I was seven
and we ended up moving to a nicer place
in Sydney I didn't make many friends in
my new school because I was painfully
shy I didn't know at the time but I was
just extremely introverted even the
teachers were worried about how shy I
was they told my dad during
parent-teacher interviews to take me out
to meet more people
it wasn't my grades that were suffering
it was my social skills so my dad tried
his very best to take me outside to play
with other kids I think I've developed a
complex about this so during high school
I ended up trying very hard to make a
lot of friends and have active social
life during my early high school years
was when the internet came out this was
back when an mp3 would take an hour to
download and I would spend my time after
school on the internet chatting to
random strangers on Microsoft comic chat
by the way don't talk to strangers guys
it's not a good idea and I even created
my own websites where I would showcase
my anime drawings and my love for
fighting games like King of Fighters
do you guys remember geo cities that was
the bomb also in high school I remember
having a huge crush on a guy with hair
like Nick Carter from the Backstreet
Boys because he was so cute and when he
told me his favorite song I ended up
downloading it and yeah I waited an hour
for this and listening to it a hundred
and twelve times that night yes you
don't want me to be crushing on you I do
get a little creepy oh and during my
final years of high school something
surprising happened I had been telling
my mom to stop eating because I thought
she was getting a little too you know
round but it turned out her belly
contained another little human later to
be known as my brother Jim hi Jim you
definitely cheered me on during my final
exams in high school you have an amazing
set of lungs needless to say I spent a
lot of time studying in the library
during my final years of high school
when we were all deciding our fate of
our future my parents encouraged me to
apply for a co-op accounting scholarship
they told me very early on they weren't
gonna be paying for my uni fees so they
thought the extra money
would help me out I had always thought
I'd be a fashion designer I used to make
all my own clothes and I used to be
inseparable from the sewing machine a
graphics designer or maybe even do
psychology accounting wasn't really
something I wanted to do but I knew it
helped my family tremendously
financially so I tried very hard to make
all the requirements and I couldn't
believe it but I actually got the
scholarship my next three years of
university was a blare of summer school
night classes and full-time work and my
limited social life consisted of meeting
various people on data servers since
that's all I kind of did outside of my
crazy schedule in fact I developed such
a strong work ethic actually some of you
may call it being a workaholic to this
day I don't know whether it's a talent
or a flaw like any good Asian daughter I
got a job in a big company doing
accounting straight after uni my brother
was growing up and needed his own room
and because our home was kind of small
it ended up being my room that he needed
so I moved out when I was 24 I guess my
mom was preparing me for this day for a
very long time four years into being an
accountant my boss came to tell me about
my poor performance and I didn't blame
him my heart just wasn't in it it wasn't
that I absolutely hated what I was doing
but I didn't have a chance to express
myself creatively and that had always
been a huge part of who I was and yes
creative accounting is illegal so it
wasn't really an option to incorporate
creativity into my job so at that point
I decided to resign and it was the first
time in my life that I really had to
make my own decisions and that I wasn't
doing things for other people it only
took me 25 years but it was very very
scary by luck or by fate I ended up
becoming a social media consultant it
was a fairly new position and not
something anyone ever really studied in
university so my new boss gave me three
books to read and with absolutely no
experience I got my first major client
soon I had 12 clients and headed up the
department it meant late nights and
sometimes I would be getting pitches
ready at 12:00 midnight and being
available 24 hours a day it was
kind of a requirement since social media
didn't really switch off that being said
I enjoyed it tremendously so much that I
decided to start my own blog about
fashion and B since I figured it was a
way to practice my skills while talking
about something I absolutely loved few
years after I started my blog I remember
I got asked to work on my first real
project with a shopping center in
Singapore it felt unreal to be
travelling to another country to do a
campaign for my blog even though I had
to pay for all the flights and
accommodation myself but it was the
first taste to what my life could be
like - getting more requests to share my
makeup looks I decided to officially
launch my channel on February 11th 2013
in fact at this time I actually wasn't
on YouTube a lot other than just
watching random viral videos or just
cats till 2 a.m. in the morning so I
actually had no idea what I was doing
and I was just uploading videos that my
blog greed is requested and I used
YouTube to kind of embed it into my blog
post so now I was making videos and
still posting twice a week on my blog it
was really tough on me I would come home
from work and then film or edit videos
till I slept I used every single lunch
break to edit or work on my blog and my
workmates were just so used to me
telling them that I couldn't even join
them for lunch that they stopped asking
I had no social life to speak of and my
home didn't even resemble a home anymore
it literally just looked like a studio
the situation got so bad I ended up on
national television as a hoarder and had
my whole apartment deed cluttered and
renovated while everyone watched what a
mess I got myself into even though it
was tiring to juggle both a full-time
job and making videos I was motivated to
keep going but all your love and support
every single comment and words of
encouragement gave me extra energy to
try harder even when my longtime
relationship fell apart I continued to
make videos and it was such a great
distraction from it and looking back on
what happened even horrible things
happen for a reason and if it wasn't for
what happened to me I would never have
had the opportunity to open my heart to
max
the most loving and supportive person in
my life with the encouragement of you
guys and Max I had the courage to quit
my job which I decided to do in August
2014 I got engaged to max at Yosemite
National Park in August 2015
since that day I have made over 300
videos on my channel and started to
daily vlog on my vlogging channel my
family has grown to over a million
beautiful people and every morning I
wake up to spend time with you guys
because you all enriched my life in so
many ways I can't even begin to describe
and even if I never get to see all of
you face to face I think about you guys
every day and vlog my life for you for
better or worse thank you so much for
being here for me every time you click
on one of my videos I hope to grow old
with you and share with you everything I
learn about this funny thing called life
I love you guys so much like you cannot
even believe in fact saying all this is
kind of making me tear up now so I'm
gonna sign off with this and I hope you
enjoyed my draw my life when gee