Back in 2015, he was just a college student with a small dream and a old car full of tools and beads. Every evening after class, he’d pack everything into his old car and drive out to the Batu Ferringhi night market. His table was wobbly, the setup wasn’t perfect, but he showed up, night after night.

Sundays were spent at Hin Bus Depot, selling whatever he could make by hand. Stone necklaces, beaded bracelets, wire-wrapped rings, little earrings made from whatever materials he could afford that week. Some nights it rained. Some nights no one stopped to look. He’d pack up with cold hands and an empty cash box, but still, he kept going.

Every sale mattered. It wasn’t extra money, it helped pay rent, buy food, cover college fees. Just getting by depended on those tiny, handmade pieces. There was no brand yet. No name, no logo, no website. But the heart of it, making something meaningful, something honest, was already there.

In 2017, with a little bit of savings from years of night markets and pop-ups, he started MYJN in a small rented room in Penang. In those early days, someone close to him joined the journey. The name MYJN was originally inspired by their initials.

She helped with fulfilment, photography, and running social media. She had a strong visual eye, and a sense of style that made people pause and look closer. Together, they shaped the early identity of MYJN. She brought the art. He carried the rest.

He did what needed to be done, even when it felt like too much. He registered the company, paid for everything upfront, sourced materials, designed the packaging, built the website, wrote every product page, launched every campaign, ads, replied to every customer.

It wasn’t easy. But slowly, people started to notice. Orders came in. Customers reached out. And he was still there at three in the morning, fixing bugs, answering messages, thinking about what was next. There were no holidays. No hobbies. No safety net. Just belief. Just two people doing whatever they could to make it work, one piece at a time.

You kept coming back.

You told your friends. You shared our pieces with people you cared about. And slowly, MYJN began to grow.

What started from a small rented room in Penang began to feel a little bigger. With encouragement from a close friend who truly believed in the vision, we made a big decision. We moved to Kuala Lumpur and opened a small studio. It was not fancy, but it was ours. A space to create, to build, to dream out loud. For the first time, it felt like there was room to breathe and imagine what MYJN could become.

That friend who believed in the journey became more than just support. They became a partner. Together, they co-founded a new lifestyle and fragrance brand, pouring the same kind of care and storytelling into scents that hold memory and meaning. It was never about trends or hype. It was always about creating things that feel real and honest.

What he build now is rooted in those early nights, those quiet markets, those small moments of belief, from you, and from the people who stayed when things were hard.

A team member left. It wasn’t just sudden. The relationship ended painfully. He came to understand the truth slowly. Bit by bit, heartbroken, quiet choices revealed themselves. While he was still holding on to the future they had planned together, something else had already begun to change.

Everything slowed. He carried a quiet sadness, and each day felt heavier than the last. Every night, he stayed at the studio alone, long after everyone else had gone home. Often until midnight, sitting at the same desk, trying to keep things moving, with tears in his eyes. He had no one to turn to. Years of working day and night had left him with little outside the brand. No distractions. No one to cry to. Just the work. Just the silence.

The studio no longer felt the same. The energy was different. The silence lingered. Alone in that small space, the weight was crushing. At one point, he thought about letting go. Selling the brand. Walking away from everything he had built. But he wasn’t built to quit.

He found comfort in quiet conversations. In colleagues who stayed close. In the unexpected warmth of his parents visiting the studio for the first time since he moved. Little by little, he began to rebuild, not just the brand, but himself.

He never spoke about what happened. He didn’t post. He didn’t complain. He stayed silent, out of heartbreak, out of sadness, and perhaps out of hope that time would allow things to settle on their own. He chose to trust the work. To trust the people who had been there since the beginning, with the creativity, the belief, our commitment to a new direction.

But silence comes at a cost. Over time, a different version of events began to take shape. One where the timelines blurred, the credit shifted, and those who hadn’t seen how it all began started to believe a softer story. Still, he said nothing. Not because he didn’t care, but because he had bigger things to protect.

His team. His colleagues. The brand. The work that still needed him. He believed that real work does not need defending. That the spirit of MYJN would carry forward. And those who have followed MYJN from the beginning, they would feel the difference.

And they did.

In 2023, a new teammate joined us quietly.

She began with fulfilment, replying to customer messages, wrapping each order with care, learning the rhythm of the brand one detail at a time. But from the very beginning, she saw MYJN differently. Where we saw routine, she saw opportunity. Where we saw familiar, she saw space to grow.

Different eyes see different things. And hers brought a new kind of depth.

What started as support soon became something more. She moved from the packing table to campaign planning, from inboxes to art direction. She never asked for a title — she earned one. JX, became our Creative Director not through labels, but through presence, clarity, and care. Through her lens, MYJN didn’t just grow. It matured. We began to speak with more intention. Launch with more feeling. Create with more meaning. Her vision helped us rediscover the heart of what we do, and carry it forward in every detail.

And in 2024, we took our biggest step yet: opening our first showroom in SS2, Petaling Jaya. A space not just to display jewellery, but to connect: with people, with stories, and with the quiet power of pieces made to last. It also marked the beginning of something new: the launch of our Atelier and Object lines, expanding MYJN into thoughtful design beyond jewellery.

And we’re only just getting started.