My Digital Story

My name is Muhammad Fajar Siddiq Bin Zainal Abidin, I was born on 14th March 1986, raised & based in Yishun Street 22, Singapore. My ethnicity is Malay, I speak Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Indonesia, English & Basic Arabic Language. I'm currently single, 34 years old, A Self-Taught designer since 2005 and developer since 2011, & I have always believed in 'Do-It-Yourself' Culture. Till then I bootstrapped 3 startups that became profitable businesses with no funding, full time while self-employed. I've been travelling and doing remote work from my laptop since 2005 doing branding & marketing work for creative designs, product launches and web-development. I have helped local startup clients make a profit over $50k of sales in e-commerce, conference events, marketing campaigns and also successfully launched their products. I've been in the gig & passion economy and I enjoy doing contract work and also doing things I love. I continue to learn & grow my digital skills includes Content Creating, Newsletters, Podcasts, Community Building, Graphic Design, UI/UX Design, Business Development, Video-Editing, Video-Recording & Audio Recording, Social Media Advertising, Astrography, GPT-3, Marketplaces, JAMstack JavaScript, APIs, and Markup.

Back when I was younger, I was very involved in the punk rock & hardcore music scene, band & DIY "Do-It-Yourself" culture but later on I left the music scene to focus on entrepreneurship as I grew up. I am a professional yo-yo player, judge and performer & mentor. I have been doing it for 20 years in the skills toys industry. I'm an ex duncan crew worldwide sponsored member from 2002-2014 by Duncan Toys, USA. In my free time, I memorize & recite The Holy Book of Quran, Reading Islamic Books, Volunteer Community Projects & hang out with my close friends, loved ones & neighbours. I'm a big fan of Apple products & i'm using Macbook Pro to do my work digitally everywhere. Currently I've travelled to 10 countries to explore the world of adventures as Digital Nomad. I've travelled to India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Hong Kong, Japan & Saudi Arabia. I lost my late mom, late dad and late brother in 2012 & 2013, they are my biggest inspiration that has impacted my life today. Family is everything to me.

Self-Taught, Bootstrapped & Independent

Fajar Siddiq is the co-founder of Euphorya™, Singapore based Creative Design Agency which he started in his room in 2005. In 2011 he registered the business in Yishun, Singapore with his friends building a creative design agency offering graphic designs & web-design products to startups, communities & companies. Fajar is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for the business. He leads as a graphic designer and web-developer of Euphorya’s branding & marketing services and development of the web design services. Fajar graduated in Architectural at the Institute Of Technical Education, Balestier Campus in 2003.

Fajar attended Institute Of Technical Education, Balestier and studied architecture before founding Euphorya. He started as a freelancer running a side project designing t-shirts, drawing vector illustrations of faces of people on photoshop and doing silk-screen printing t-shirts selling it online locally and worldwide. In his early life, he also picked-up yo-yoing as a hobby when he was 12 years old and Fajar also represents the pinnacle of yo-yo skill across the globe as professional yo-yo player, contest yo-yo judge and also as a yo-yo instructor.

In 2011, Fajar co-founded Dement Clothing™, a Singapore based clothing brand. The designer clothes made for street & lifestyle culture products from printed graphic designs on a t-shirt, polo-t, hoodie long sleeve. In 2014, Fajar co-founded Ilm Productions™ after returning from the Islamic holy city of Makkah Al-Mukarramah & Al-Madīnah Al-Munawwarah for the pilgrimage (Umrah) in Saudi Arabia, he founded a start-up team up with the dakwah community to do creative and media work like designing, video-recording/editing and live-streaming.