Malaysian 9 Year Old iPhone Application Developer

lim-ding-wenI’m beginning to feel there’s no such thing as too early to start anything right now. Plus, what surprised me is how our local Malaysia newspapers never picked this up. It’s already been plastered over at BBC News. What? Is it because he’s a Malaysian kid residing in Singapore?

The boy; Lim Ding Wen, innocent kid only wanted to create the iPhone application called; Doodle Kids, for his two younger sisters. Talk about pure passion.

Read the whole story of his accomplishments of being fluent in six (6) programming languages at the BBC website. Image credits: BBC

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Posted by dannyfoo on February 10, 2009 | Filed Under Apple iPhone, News |

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8 Responses to “Malaysian 9 Year Old iPhone Application Developer”

  1. Response #1 by Malaysia VMware on February 10th, 2009

    I can found on Malaysia Chinese newspaper but I cant remember which Chinese newspaper.

  2. Response #2 by Damien Tan on February 11th, 2009

    I know of some Malaysians in the US who’ve came up with brilliant innovations and set up successful companies. They’ve never made the news anywhere. Some of them no longer want to be called Malaysian.

  3. Response #3 by thatjames on February 11th, 2009

    I read about it a few days back. But in that article, he was Singaporean.

  4. Response #4 by MJ on February 11th, 2009

    Yeah it was reported in Singapore that he was a singaporean also.

  5. Response #5 by tekong on February 11th, 2009

    yup.. i read in that article he was singaporean… so may we ask.. whose this boy belong to… malaysian or singaporean? LOL

  6. Response #6 by Lim Thye Chean on February 12th, 2009

    He is a Malaysian living in Singapore. Singapore newspapers never says he is a Singaporean though (they just said “from Singapore” or “local”). But the information is right there in Ding Wen’s web page (http://virtualgs.larwe.com/Virtual_GS/Lim_Ding_Wen.html).

    BBC definitely read his web page, and found my blog before they published that article, thus correctly identify him as a Malaysian. Malaysian newspapers take the article from Shin Min and automatically assumed he is a Singaporean.

    The story can be found here in my blog:

    http://retromaccast.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ding-wen-iphone-and-the-apple

    Hope this help.

  7. Response #7 by Danny Foo on February 13th, 2009

    @vmware: that seems always the case.

    @damien: I’d personally feel almost similar. :(

    @james: you read Chinese papers ar?

    @thye chean: glad to have you come by and help out with the clarification. :)

    @all: so the truth is out. even if the local papers ain’t got it. ;)

  8. Response #8 by Neo on February 16th, 2009

    In Malaysia, we don’t even have “legal” iPhones…