SHE could not ignore it any longer - her inner compass was telling her it was time for a purposeful switch in careers. This was when Ummi Khaltum Junid decided to quit a steady job in a multinational company to begin her journey of self-exploration.
“For the past ten years, I worked in a 9am to 5pm environment, leaving me feeling trapped in a fast-paced lifestyle, disconnected from nature and our surroundings. “We seem to be constantly viewing the world through screens, and I realised that this was no longer my passion,” says the Malaysian-born batik artist.
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