Mentorship for the Mission: A Call to Michelle Yeoh, Tiara Jacquelina, and Joanna Bessey

Seeking the wisdom of Malaysia’s core creative matriarchs to train at Enfiniti Academy and launch St Epiphanie Destine Enterprise — a mission to empower unheard voices.

6 min read

1 hour ago

Photo by Lighten Up on Unsplash. Image provided by the author.

Dear Michelle, Tiara, and Joanna,

I hope that you are reading this letter, written from one fellow Malaysian to another, and from one deeply inspired fan to fellow artists.

As a young Malaysian Chinese woman who has longed to feel seen on screen and to have the courage to perform on stage, the Malaysian entertainment industry has always felt like a much safer and more comfortable place for me. This stands in stark contrast to the volatility I endured at home, where I was forced to suppress my creative gifts to conform to the selfish and narcissistic needs of family members, such as my mother’s Malignant Narcissist Personality Disorder and Münchausen Syndrome by Proxy, or my cousin Sharon Chong’s untreated manipulation. These psychological illnesses have badly infiltrated the education, religious, and service sectors of our society.

I found refuge watching local dramas (like Kopitiam), global Asian films (Crazy Rich Asians, Everything Everywhere All At Once), and encountering Malaysian celebrities like Nadia Heng, Marion Caunter, Thanuja Ananthan, Maya Karin, and Linora Low. Working briefly in production for Go ASEAN and under incredible bosses like Datuk Zaidi and Datin Mahfuzah, I got a glimpse of the creative industry’s collaborative spirit. I want to be part of the Malaysian entertainment industry — the place where I felt most secure — to tell the story of Asian struggles and dilemmas that our society, especially women, keeps quiet about.

Michelle Yeoh, you had made me seen as an Asian women and you had made me believe that anything is possible and as a fellow Malaysian, I hope that I can follow your footsteps to represent my own community on stage. Image source from Getty and image provided by the author.

Tiara Jacquelina, since your performance in Puteri Gunung Ledang (2004), I had always felt a deep and massive calling to enter into the Malaysian stage where I can tell my own story as a Malaysian woman. Photo source unknown and image provided by the author.

Joanne Bessey, your performance in Kopitiam (1998) which I watched in NTV7 back in my childhood and my teenage days had helped gave me a safe spot as a struggling Malaysian creative.Photo source from Media Prima/Double Vision and image provided by the author.

The Crisis and the Call for Guidance

The only way I can genuinely help these women, these family members, and the vulnerable individuals I met — including former students like Ethan Raj and Ling Feng, foreign students like Yugo and Toyosi, and shelter residents like Seri Tan and Ritha — is through the power of creative advocacy. I spent ten painful years in the education sector, witnessing a repeated, corruptive practice of structural abuse where educators, religious elders, and shelter caretakers used their power to exploit the vulnerable. These victims, tragically, include both the abused and the perpetrators, like my mother, Caroline Chong, and cousin, Sharon Chong, who are victims of the same generational cruelty.

I am asking for your direct mentorship as a trio of Asian women who have successfully used the gifts of performance and storytelling to serve the community. I have studied your work; Michelle Yeoh, you gave me a voice to describe the pain of the Asian matriarchal system. Tiara Jacquelina and Joanne Bessey, I felt seen through your performances confronting local Malaysian struggles. I want to be mentored by you directly and in person so that I can uplift my community and communicate their pain where no one seems to bother at all.

The opportunity to meet you, Michelle Yeoh in person back in 2023 was one of the most profounding and life altering events that I’ve ever experienced and where I was convinced to create my own stories that featured Asian trauma like Myra’s Ghost and Angelus Destiny. Photo source by the author.

The Path to Enfiniti Academy and Legacy

I am aiming to go to drama school, specifically Enfiniti Academy, next year to be properly trained and guided by the Malaysian creatives in whom I feel safe. I feel a validating calling to follow and continue the creative legacy you have established.

Michelle Yeoh: Meeting you in 2023 was one of the best experiences, empowering me to tell my own story and create my works, Myra’s Ghost and Angelus Destiny, as a response.
Tiara Jacquelina: As a fellow St. Marian from St Mary Secondary School, I feel a strong connection to your mission to serve. You opened the path for me, showing that anything is possible for a Malaysian creative woman.
Joanna Bessey: I crossed paths with you in 2009 during the neurodiversity fundraising concert at KLCC, where I sang with Jacklyn Victor and Juwita Suwito — a moment that solidified my calling to the stage.

I urge all three of you to mentor me in this next journey where the creative industry is my pure calling, and where I seek to use my gifts and emotional pain for indirect advocacy for Asian voices and trauma.

St Epiphanie Destine Enterprise and Global Representation

I am launching my own production and publication house, St Epiphanie Destine Enterprise, to empower multiple voices, especially Asian and minority voices. My manifesto, Myra’s Ghost (first book, An American Tragedy, due 2026), will be a plot about multiple celebrities and journalists working together to create a fictional HBO/Warner Bros and Universal documentary series centralized on White trauma (Myra Markle, Penelope Carpenter) and Asian trauma (Ai Shinsuka, Anna Yagami).

I am aiming for a 2028/2029 HBO/Warner Bros and Netflix adaptation which will feature Malaysian and Southeast Asian talents. I plan for you to be featured as sovereign Asian leaders:

Tiara Jacquelina: Fictional Deputy Head of NBCUniversal and Executive Producer, Marsha Morais.
Michelle Yeoh: Fictional Head of Creative Consultancy and Authenticity at Montgomery Street House and Executive Producer, Miranda Schindler.
Joanna Bessey: Fictional Head of Warner Bros and HBO Asia, Alicia Liu.

The second half of the first book will be set in Malaysia and Singapore, making it a watershed moment for Southeast Asian representation in a prestige international production. I truly hope you can mentor me on how to execute this idea to advocate for our community and its talents.

The Financial Plea

On a personal note, I would like some partial financial help when it comes to me entering into a drama school, especially Enfiniti Academy. I was financially exploited throughout my ten years of struggle in the education sector, severely underpaid, and required to give more than three-quarters of my salary to my family, leaving me broke. I aim to enter by the beginning of next year to learn the craft of filmmaking and performing arts. Only you three can therefore help me — whether it is a scholarship to get into the drama school, or side projects in the entertainment industry where I can learn the art of filmmaking. I want to give back to the society that made me feel seen.

I hope that you are reading this letter and that we can eventually cross paths again in a case where I can be trained and equipped to represent my beloved country at the central stage.

With due respect and admiration,

Charlotte Cheng,

CEO and Founder of St Epiphanie Destine Enterprise,

Creator and Writer of Myra’s Ghost and Angelus Destiny.

The deepest intellectual flaw in our society is the collective insistence on the Saccharine Lie—the beautiful lie of perfection, maintained at the cost of human life. I know this cost intimately. For ten years, I navigated a procedural system that valued a forgotten leave certificate over my basic health and sanity. I witnessed firsthand how the fear of being "found fault with" and the anxiety of "losing a job" (fears I inherited from my own mother) forces good people into silence. I now leave that rigid environment not in failure, but in righteous anger, because the survival of our children depends on dismantling the structural rot I was forced to observe.
The book I have written, Myra’s Ghost, is not a novel of entertainment; it is a meticulously researched manifesto detailing the mechanisms of this systemic failure. The coming chapters reveal not only the truth behind the heartbreaking murders of Myra Markle and the abuse of countless others but expose the very institutional silence that allowed the Vile Archives to thrive. We are facing a cultural inflection point—a purge is upon us—and this book is the blueprint for the necessary confrontation.
The author, Charlotte Cheng, is a neurodivergent writer and structural theorist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. My work is dedicated to examining the flaws of institutional frameworks and the psychology of trauma. My personal journey includes fighting institutional rigidity within the education sector for over a decade, a path that ultimately provided the framework for the structural analysis found within this text. My current focus, as seen in this article and others, is to provide the intellectual honesty and Volatile Truth required to combat the global Saccharine Lie. The fight begins now, and also I can be contacted via email by charlottejoancheng@gmail.com or by my Malaysian phone number at +60199108708.