My name is Tess@ M@ria Lee Tessi@. I dont know if I should be telling that to you but this story will not be complete if I didnt. Mummy told me that ever since she was 16 years old, she had planned her whole life ahead – yes, including what she was going to call her 1st daughter which I turned out to be.

Talisa. No matter who my future father was and no matter how silly Talisa sounded against my future father’s surname. Even if it was Talisa Tan, Talisa Saw or Talisa Ta. Thank goodness for my Ama’s intervention, I am now called Tessa, which I so aptly fit. When Ama heard that I was to be called Talisa, she went up in arms and gave her reasons:-

1. You cant have a Chinese name with 3 syllables (this was to be my Christian name so what’s the problem?)
2. Talisa, the name translated into Chinese doesnt have good feng shui (Mummy had no experience nor the energy during pregnancy to look into this)
3. Kong Kong’s ex-girlfriend was called Lisa and ‘they’ didnt like her (this I suspect was the real reason)

So out of the window Talisa went. Mummy and Daddy spent the next few weeks tearing hairs over my future name. Tessa came and went many times too but suddenly Mummy decided that she liked the name Tess, of which she only knew one other person with the same name in the whole of KL. And when Ama returned with a name (Mummy’s condition to her was that it started with the letter ‘T’ to have some preservation over her buried childhood dream), she returned with Tessia, meaning ‘spectacular sunset’ in Mandarin and signified that I would have many beautiful dreams.

Next came the middle name. Mummy figured that since her grandma is called Maria and since her Mother’s middle name is Maria, that the name be carried down generationally. Not a name I like, personally, but hey, just as you cant choose your parents, you cant choose your given birth name.

Ama also had a condition that my Chinese name, Tessia, be spelt as one word, following modern China names.

So there you go.

More than a year later, one of Mummy’s old school friends asked if she named me Tessa because it was Asset spelt backwards.

TESSA = ASSET Isnt that so cool?

Mummy hadn’t thought of it when she named me but she now believes that God had something to do with making me her precious little asset.

I love my name now. And so does Mummy…….

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.

She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.

A beautiful life without limits.

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Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.