1 Malaysia Book Voucher

Yo, I had just spent my 1 Malaysia Book Voucher on Wednesday. The vouchers were distributed to every tertiary studies' students. In my opinion, this is one of the tricks used before election in order to attract more supports, particularly from the young generation. I'm not fallen into that!


Wednesday was Wilayah Day, thus it was a holiday in Kuala Lumpur. My cousin didn't work on that day but he needed to have a glance at the fair of his company in IOI Mall. He invited me to go along and reminded me that there was a Popular bookstore. 


We went there around 12p.m.. We wandered around the bookstore and I was searching for the books that I wanted. I found it, it was the late Steve Job's biography. It cost me RM99.90. There were other editions and Chinese versions which were cheaper but I was so adamant to buy the original version since I wanted to support intellectual property. Besides, according to Johnvyn (Ping), Walter Isaacson was the only one authorised by late Steve to write his biography. I respected the late Steve. As what I had mentioned in the post 'Farewell Test', there is one copy of it in TARc's library (KL Main Campus) but I don't think I have enough time to finish it before I graduate. 


I spent all the book vouchers but the book vouchers were not enough! I bought three books, they cost me RM219.50 with another two books which cost RM59.80 each. The two books were recommended by Jared when we were going to Popular book fair in Penang. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the book which Jared recommended me the most. I thought, it should be a hot stuff, otherwise I should be able to find it. It was a tiny book which cost RM60++. 


For your information, anyone spending RM150 with the book vouchers are eligible to make a student card with Popular free of charge. I wondered whether I was eligible as the terms and conditions stated that the student card was meant for students age from 7 to 18. Hopefully my sister can get it in 6 weeks time. 


There are still plenty of books I want to buy but I am insufficient of the book vouchers. Ergo, I hereby announce that I'm willing to offer RM150 for the RM200 book vouchers. If anyone's interested please contact me. As you may already know, I started to have the reading habit after being influenced and impressed by Jared and Johnvyn. I do hope that those who get the book vouchers appreciate them. 






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龙年 2012

好快哦，我昨天就回到吉隆坡了。很没趣，几乎是没有休息到。这时，我才想起我还有一大堆的assignments还没有做。再给我几天时间充电吧，然后我们才把它们打个落花流水！

今年，我的两个阿姐都叫我去她们家拜年。我几时又多了一个阿姐？哈哈，秘密啦。一个是L.M.Y.，另一个则是T.D.M.。很少人知道这回事。很可惜，我的亲戚从外坡来，因此抽不出时间跟她们叙旧。下次吧，总有机会的。

今年，我的表姐带她的家公、家婆全家来。很热闹！我得当导游，偏偏我又不大熟悉路，毕竟这些日子，在吉隆坡的时间比在槟城还要长，不过我尚算称职啦。我们去了很多地方，也再度去了Pantai Kerachut。很爽，大家坐船回时都很尽兴。

可是，最有意思的还是年初三我去大山脚--忠英园那里找我的妈妈。一如既往的，她看到我们来很开心，我的红包还是最大包的。她得到热心人士的捐款之后，有去洗肾，人看起来精神多了，讲话也比较有中气。不过，她距离最后一次洗肾已经是一个多月，因此她讲话久了会喘。

她的儿子则不顾她，去他的女朋友家过夜。妈妈还告诉我们，有些善款则被她的儿子拿去。她大概只收到一半的钱。我阿嫲就说当作是他的工钱吧，毕竟这些善款还是他利用我妈妈的名义去筹来的。

其实我很讨厌他，很想揍他。我很想快点赚大钱，然后接妈妈去槟城跟我一起住。然后请私家看护照料她，按时带她去医院复诊、洗肾。可惜，我还没到那个程度。不知我会否飞横腾达呢？如果有那么一天，妈妈是否还在呢？

昨天，我就乘坐我表姐家的Proton Exora七人房车回吉隆坡。这次没有塞车，因此我们只花了四个钟头就到了。我们先去吃KFC，然后我表姐的家公叫我拿回家我们还吃不完的burger和喝不完的Pepsi。因此，我又剩一餐的钱咯。其实，我很感激、感恩，但是我又很不好意思。

祝大家龙年行大运！

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Farewell Test

I was having two mid-term tests this week. The first paper was Advanced Taxation. Frankly speaking, it was not tough but I couldn't score full marks as I used the wrong format. The second paper was Advanced Financial Management. This was a tough paper! Imagine, we need to find the NPV of NPV while converting the currency and finding our own cost of capital. I was very delighted with the standard of the paper. It was just thrilling me and I loved it so much even though I couldn't answer the questions perfectly. This was the level that I'm looking for! Well done, Ms Chang.


This Thursday was our last lecture with Ms Chang. Ms Chang would be replaced by Dr Wong after receiving some feedback and complaints from the students. Hence, she was in no mood on Thursday and E.S.H and I could feel that. Luckily, we still managed to cheered Ms Chang up occasionally. 


Everybody seems to be so excited with the return of Dr Wong. In my opinion, this might be due to the past record of Dr Wong in maintaining our TARc's AFM ACCA pass rate to a level almost double the AFM ACCA world pass rate. It sounds marvelous, isn't it? However, I had received lots of negative comments from my AAC friends. Ergo, her return might be a good turning point or bad one to us. 


For your information, Ms Chang was recommended by Dr Wong before she retired. Now, they seems to be not trusting Dr Wong. I could smell the tension and conflict between Kenneth and Dr Wong. Kenneth was my tutor and I liked him so much. He was the mighty opponent that I mentioned on my Facebook's wall. I see him as my role model. The way he taught and the experience he possessed was why he could attract me so much. He was a CFO. He said he wouldn't teach as long as Dr Wong is back. However, this didn't imply that he supported Ms Chang. He used to complain Ms Chang as well. Thereupon, I was not happy with the arrangement that Dr Wong would takeover all the tutorial classes. Please let Mr Kenneth stayed with me.


I didn't understand why students disliked Ms Chang. She was improving in every lecture. If you all didn't know, she did ask for E.S.H and others opinions. This proved that she was dedicated and keen to help us. I did admit that she didn't contribute much time to us but I could see her effort. 


I found a very attractive book in the library. It was the biography of Steve Jobs. I got to know that Steve Jobs was the adopted child of Paul Jobs and his real name was Steven Paul Jobs. I didn't finish the book yet. I found one section talking about his elementary level of study where he was a problematic student liking to create troubles. His dad confronted with the teachers and reiterated that it was the problem of the teachers for not making the learning and study attractive to his son. 


Nonetheless, this was not applicable to Ms Chang. Steve Jobs already knew all of the study as he was educated by his mom in young age. In my opinion, Ms Chang couldn't conduct the lecture interactively and didn't give examination techniques were the key points that students disliked her. To me, she was okay as she could answer my questions and clear my doubts. I'm the kind of self-study student.


Few students attended the Thursday's lecture. Nevertheless, at least 95% of them were there for tips of the following day's test. Honestly speaking, I despised them! As you may know how much I disregard the so-called professional judgements from one of my posts, 'Tips'.


Ms Chang always 'overtime' in teaching us. You can know all these by asking the AFM students, how 'black' were the faces of the Malays when it was time to lock the lecture hall. Other than this, she always stayed back with us and answered students' questions after lecture. Imagine, it was 9:00p.m. when the lectured ended and she stayed back until almost 10:00p.m.. 


There was one particular student occupied the 'overtime' every time and the student was the one who complained the most! Again, I disdained the student. I feel so scary how the world is now. The person closest to you is your enemy. He can stab you without your knowledge and still act to be friend with you. I hate this kind of people. They just like to do things 'blackly' and I'm sure this kind of cowards are not dare enough to confront you in front!


Nowadays, people like the look things at their covers and outcomes, they don't emphasise on the process anymore. I don't know whether this is the trend now but what I can tell you is, you are not a good leader! You won't get long-term success in the future! I'm so sorry to be so straightforward.


Anyhow, it's over. Hopefully they get what they wish to. Happy Chinese New Year 2012 to all of you.






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1 Week Before Chinese New Year 2012

Hi World, it's the first time I didn't on Facebook for few days consecutively. Yes, this semester is really tiring. 


Suppose this is the last semester, then it should be relatively relaxing and easy. However, this is not the case. We are all packed up with assignments, presentations and tutorials. For those Advanced Financial Management's students are even tougher, we have lectures at night and even on Saturday. My case is the worst, most students have 2 rest days but  I just have one and the day is normally used to make my own notes and do some tutorials. 


I didn't blame about this, just to describe my current situation to you. I want to suggest that, if this is the case, I would prefer not to have the semester break for internship but to finish these sub-core papers, for instance Financial Decision Making and Moral dan Etika. Since we are focusing on our optional papers in the last semester, we should not be distracted away by these non-core subjects.


Workloads are arranged until the end of my semester and this was out of my expectation since the commencement of this semester. It's quite heavy sometimes. My god sister, Ms T.D.M. called me on Friday's afternoon. She wanted to meet me up during Chinese New Year but I couldn't promise her anything as I needed to finish my works first. 


No time for my hobbies, no time for my magic and there is no time for Facebook. I had never alienate Facebook unless I had some businesses to do last time. I used to play games, on Facebook and etc even during examinations. Nonetheless, I couldn't make it in this semester. 


I even didn't celebrate my birthday last week. This was not a surprise as I'm not the kind of person who loves to celebrate. If possible, I prefer to stay with my beloved ones such as my family and so on. Nonetheless, this didn't happen this year. It's okay. 


I received many wishes but I particularly appreciated some of them. For instance, wishes from my BICT ex-colleagues. Among them, I was flattered by Ping for being the best magician he had ever encountered. Thanks a lot, seem like I shouldn't be lazy, instead I should master up my skills and techniques. I promise that I won't relinquish on my magic and I will try to learn new tricks and think of new ways of performing in the future.


My 21 ended so fast and I had grown smarter and matured in this year. Hopefully my 22 can be more fascinating.






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Generosity vs Self-interest

Well, I have a friend who is always putting himself in other's shoes. He can sacrifice himself just to satisfy others. Even though he regrets all the times but he is still doing it again and again. I have taught him some ways to avoid all these but he seems like doesn't practise them.


I watched new drama last night, 《缺宅男女》. I found that the male protagonist was just the same type as my friend. However, what he did was more worthy in the sense that that was for his family. In my friend's case, others just take advantage from him, as time passes, they tend to take thing for granted from him. We all sympathise him.


I don't mean not to help people but within your own capability. Sometimes, you have to be self-interest and think for yourself. Being generous just limited to certain degree where both parties can be benefited but not benefiting others while harming yourself. 


People take things for granted is a norms now, we should know how to protect ourselves. Sometimes, letting people taking advantage on us is a way of survival but we should think of resolutions to avoid it next time. I hope he really learns that because he doesn't know how to protect himself. I always doubt his origin. He seems like not born in Kuala Lumpur where almost everyone is self-interest!


If people do appreciate his effort and sacrifice, then it's fine but I don't think this is the case. Therefore, he really needs to voice out and be determined to say 'No' instead of being 'Mr Yes' all the times.






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The Keys of Hell

Well, you might know that I just finished a novel which I had bought 6 years ago if you were aware of my Facebook status's update on Tuesday. The title today is the title of the novel which I meant. 


It's a 264-page novel written by Jack Higgins who receives numerous commendations from San Francisco Chronicle, The Associated Press and etc. It's just a book with a dimension of approximately 17cm x 1.8cm x 10.5cm and a font size of 12. In conclusion, it's a relatively short story, then why I took so much time to finish it?


I bought this book when I was in Form 4 from Tesco Penang. There was a book sale with promotional price. I decided to buy it because it just cost me RM10, the attractiveness of the title as it seemed cool and my will to strengthen my English. I bought two books in total. I started to read this novel, 'The Keys of Hell'.


Within few days, I began to relinquish since I needed to search dictionary for the words which I didn't know or understand. Imagine, almost half of the page was filled with the meanings. You can imagine how poor my English was. What annoyed me was I had to find the meaning of the same word repeatedly since I forgot what I had found out last time. Then I paused to a halt. 


If I'm not mistaken, I started to read the novel again when I was taking my Diploma. Nonetheless, the same thing occurred again but I read more chapters that time. I brought this novel along when I was moving to Kuala Lumpur for Advanced Diploma's study, just in case I got bored. However, it was left at the side until the commencement of this semester. I took the initiative to find back the novel and make up my mind to finish the novel. 


I re-read the novel from the very first page because I had forgotten the story. The process was quite smooth and entertaining partly due to the story and meanings which I found out earlier. To achieve my target, I even set aside my academic text books and concentrated on my novel. Eventually, I did it on Tuesday. 


As a summary, it'll be a novel recommended by me but I think, it's not suitable for girls as the content talks about smuggling, adventure and so on. I love the adventure's parts. This is what I always look and train for. In an adventure, all you need are the courage, judgement, intelligence and so on. Thanks to this novel, I learned some techniques and skills. 


I'm looking to finish the second novel which I had bought six years ago together with this novel but I didn't bring it along. Nonetheless, this wouldn't stop me. I'll continue my e-books after I manage to catch up with my study. I think, I start to have this reading habit since the book fair with Jared and Ping. They're my real models.






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Fitness First

My cousin called me about 11:00 a.m., she was asking me to Fitness First to have some gyms because her friend, Yen Fong (if I'm not mistaken) had some free vouchers. Initially I was reluctant to go as I wanted to finish my novel but she called me twice, then I finally agreed. 


My first impression on the Fitness First at Cheras LeisureMall was not good as the centre looked small. Even though it was better and bigger than the TARc ones, but it still looked small to me as a professional fitness centre. 


I started by taking some free loads (weights). Thereafter, I went to have a sit-up. I met my cousin and her friend at the running machine. I wanted to train my stamina so I began to run for 10 minutes, my fastest speed was 10 km/hr. It was okay to me and in fact, I could run faster. I used to run very fast because I played as a forward or winger in football field. Speed was not a problem to me. See here, I use past tense. Meaning that I'm damned slow now and my stamina's even worse! 


Then I started my training with the rowing machines. From what the personal coach explained, rowing machine was meant to train cardiovascular. Yes, it did but to me, it was more towards training my arms' muscles. This was my first time to finish 5000 metres of workout. It took me roughly 20 minutes to finish the workout. 


There were classes for yoga, martial arts, cycling and etc. After my exercise, I went for sauna but the sauna was not what was shown on television. It was just a hot room, no steam at all. Beside the sauna room was a steam bath room. I stayed there for quite a long time, about 20 minutes. It was not as hot as I expected and I sweated. I believed that that was not my sweat but the steam. In scientific term, it shouldn't be called steam, as a steam is a water vapour at boiling point. It was just about 40-50 degree celcius. 


Then I went to have my bath, hair shampoo and body shampoo were supplied. After that, I had a cup of coffee at the pantry. I had some 100 plus during my exercise. Then it was the end of my experience in Fitness First. In short, it's quite an enjoyable place to go if you go with friends. Indeed, you can do all the exercises at home by yourself but the apparatuses there will make exercise more entertaining.






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Study Life

My new semester started this week. After one week of studying, it's time to come to an initial assessment.


Firstly, I can't believe that two of friends taking exactly the optional papers as me. We must be don't know how to write the word 'die'. Secondly, students still take things for granted. They still like to complain. 


Basically, they're complaining the lecturers. First of all, Advanced Taxation. I received some feedback that the lecturer, Mr Chong was weak in communicating. He liked to pause for seconds. In my opinion, he would be better if he could delete the unnecessary history and focus more on the topic in detailed.


For Advanced Financial Management. Since the lecturer, Ms Chang is a newbie in lecturing, then there are surely complaints. I received complaints immediately after Ms Chang opened her mouth. Frankly speaking, I didn't know what she taught as well but I thought, this might be because I didn't get the text book yet. I strongly believe that she is capable via what she showed when I asked her some questions. She paid extra patience in dealing and tackling questions from students. In fact, she is dedicated but students still complain! 


Again, students today are more towards 'spoon feed' type. Some of them even planned to complain to SBS office and Mr Simson in order to change lecturer. They had never thought of finding remedy from internal sources, they just knew that when there was a problem, then it must be because of the lecturer (external party)! Some of them made up their mind to take tuition.


Come on, you're matured student at this age, initiative is indispensable. Don't tell me you're going to behave like this in working. If this is the case, then God bless you. Try to recall the Mr Michael's 'doughnut theory', don't just look at the hole, think of its surroundings. 






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Taman Pertanian Malaysia

Just few days after the ACCA examinations, we have to back in action again as our new semester starts today. I came back to Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Thursday, I asked aL for help after playing the badminton but the delivery company closed on that day. Sorry for wasting your petrol, aL. When I was at home, I called to Kuala Lumpur's branch for clarification. They said the guys from Penang needed to attend a funeral in Bukit Mertajam, so they rested on that day and would be continuing the business the next day. He told me their operating hour was from 9a.m. to 5p.m..

I went there again with my mom and we reached there at 9a.m. sharp but the same incident happened again. This annoyed me so much. Again, I phoned to K.L. and the guy there told me they might still rest on that day. I was totally fed up with him. My cousin helped me to find another delivery company and she made it. The delivery company was just few units on the right of my preference. Nonetheless, the uncle told me that there was no delivery on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 

All these made me so frustrated and I started to moan around. I began to bemoan my luck. Actually, these were just parts of my bad luck after the ACCA examinations. 

I fetched my grandpa to hospital to take his medicine and Tanjung Bungah for sonar. Out of my expectation, my mom and my grandpa didn't know that they actually could take the medicine at other centres. I asked my grandpa tell the doctor about this and the doctor approved. Next time, he just needs to go to General Hospital for checking-up and takes his medicines at any other centres. 

I had fetched my grandpa to the sonar eleven times according to him. He went there because he had felt better after the sonar as the sonar was not the normal sonar but with Chinese medicines. Hopefully the effect is just like what he tells me. 

Saturday, I took the bus on 8:30a.m.. A Chinese guy asked me for my bus's destination and asked me for help to guard his bags with the typical China's accent. I was sure that he was not from China but the way he spoke was too strange in Malaysia but I could understand what he said.

My cousin offered me a fetch. She asked me to wait for her in front of A&W. Since she was late, I went to A&W to have a lunch. I called my dad before that to know whether he did manage to deliver my motorcycle that day. He told me that the delivery company did open the day before but their operating hour was from 10a.m. to 6p.m.. On my way to put the burger into my mouth, my eldest auntie called me. She asked me for the location to buy Smart Tag and Touch n Go. After I finished my burger, a Malay girl approached me. She was just three to four years old. She showed me her hand asking for money while counting the money which she managed to collect from others. Initially I didn't know what she wanted so I said "buat apa". She didn't bother me but counting the notes. I knew what she wanted but I chose to ignore her. Then, she moved to her mother. If you were handicapped or old lady, I might give you some!

At night, my cousin fetched me to her house. I slept over there. The next morning, we went to Taman Pertanian Malaysia. We were all six people, my cousin and her husband, her husband's youngest brother, their cousin, their cousin's friend and me. The entrance fee was RM3 each. Then we required to run to book bicycles. Imagine, everyone was running for the bicycles. The bicycle's rental was RM5 for the first hour then RM1 subsequently. We needed to spend RM9 each. 

We had our breakfast there and started to cycle then. Our first destination was Taman Haiwan. There got a parrot, rabbit, chameleon and deers. Then we moved to 'Four Seasons House'. The season of this month was winter. But we had to go out to the entrance there to buy the ticket for the 'Four Seasons House'. The receptionist was not telling us about this, haiz... Again, the entrance fee cost us RM3 each.

The temperature in the 'Four Seasons House' was between -7 and -2 degree celcius. Since we were just wearing sports wear, we shivered in the House.

There was this game available but the fee was not affordable. There were three levels altogether. The 'extreme' level would cost us RM45, hence we canceled this activity.

This was my first time to cycle for at least 4 hours and it was very tiring! Anyway, it was fun.

Post ACCA Review

This week is ACCA week. Actually, it started last week, just that I'm only having to take the examinations in this week.


Well, I had taken P3 Business Analysis on Monday. An accident occurred, I had insufficient time to complete the paper. Imagine, I only used 15 minutes to complete the last question which comprised 25 marks. Honestly, I couldn't finish it with my desired answers. I saw Tristian straight after my script was collected, he said 'fuck'. I was so shocked as this was the first word he told me. 


Before the examination, we all gathered at Foyer. The examination venue was College Plaza (C.P.) instead of the College Auditorium (C.A.). We met Mr Bernard first then followed by my Darling, Theresa. I called her 2 times but she didn't respond, she only looked at me after I called her name at the third time instead of 'Darling'. 


Tuesday was P2 Corporate Reporting's time. I met Mr Khor Seng Cheong before the examination started. I was extremely anxious on the day because out of the three papers, P2 was the worst paper I did in internal examination. However, when I saw the questions, I was so relieved straight away since the questions seemed not so difficult to me. Nonetheless, I just could finish the paper on time. Even if the questions were simple but it asked too much points and details, hence it could be considered quite challenging. 


Wednesday was the last paper, P1 Governance, Risk and Ethics. Initially, I was quite confident but when I reached college, an incident made me losing all my confidence. Before I entered into the examination hall, I told myself that I wouldn't disappoint Mr Tan twice. Hopefully I did it. After the examination, another incident happened and I lost all my mood due to this. It was nothing about the examination but someone. O.Y.J. and I met Jenny after the examination. I asked her whether she still remembered me and told her that I was from M5. She thought for a while and said Charline's group. Haha, obviously she remembered Charline.


Kee sms me in the morning when I was doing the final preparation for P1. He invited me for futsal but I refused him. What was funny was he asked me whether Anthony would be the same as me. Meaning that did Anthony have examination too. 


After the examination, Anthony, Lucas, Tristian, L.L.J. and etc gathered in front of the college and I thought, they must be going to Red Box to celebrate. Lucas invited me to Red Box on Monday but he didn't tell me the exact time and date so I didn't promise him anything.


O.Y.J. brought me to his car for post review after each paper. He was the kind of person who needed someone to convince him on the appropriateness of his answers but I was not the kind of people who would convince others with a lie. Hence, I just discussed with him what I wrote. 


If possible, I tried not to think about the examination as there were lots more examinations ahead. Thinking about the past examination would just weaken my morale! I would prefer to use the time to prepare for next fight. Luckily my psychology was absolutely excellent this time. I always tried to motivate myself and the best motivator was Elton Lau. I was fulled of motivation and 'ohm' when I thought about his singing and dancing. Nonetheless, it just maintained until the second day. 


I got some spare time in the second and third day. Even though all the papers were not as tough as I expected but they were challenging in the sense that I didn't know how many points did they want and what were they actually asking for. 


At Wednesday's night, my grandpa called me. He was so eager to know how was my performance. I told him not to be worried too much as everything had passed, there is no point for us to keep staying in the past! 


As a conclusion, frankly speaking, I'm not sure whether I can score or even get a pass but hopefully I can do it. I don't want to study the texts again and what's more important is I don't want to waste money for resit.


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