CFAB; 1½ years later.

Oh, how time flies. Thinking back, I could still remember the first day of my class. We were so quiet and everyone actually did the homework on the spot, during break time. HAHA. Now, that is so rare. As a class, we have been through a lot. Personally, I don’t recognize myself back then. I know, I’ve changed so much. College, is definitely one of the major turning point in my life. Heartache, a plenty but happy moments were always abundant. And now, after a year and a half, we will be moving on to ICAEW. So proud, that we made it this far. :)

My super thick Taxation manual. I took my textbooks, they look so daunting.

The Best Nights of This Month.

Thanks to Wei Yuen and Pat from ICAEW Malaysia for the invites to these exclusive events. I honestly had no idea how awesome these events was until I was there. I got to help out a little on both days.

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Cocktail Reception – Nov 9

Quite the excited me, I laid down the accessories I was planning to wear early in the morning. Honestly, I think accessories is the key to work that outfit.

With a view like this, it is kind of obvious where the event was held. It was none other than The Petroleum Club on the 42nd floor of KLCC.

Three macho guys? Nah. I so so prefer guys that smile. The huge teeth-y smile, yo.

We managed to take a picture with Lim Kit Wan. The lady who can do it all, no joke. :)

I was trying to imitate the Economia in the picture on your left. But turns out, it doesn’t even look the same. On the right side, it’s me and Cheok.

This is definitely one picture for the album because Dato’ Johan Raslan is in this picture! Who is he? He is the Partner and Executive Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the firm that I am going to intern at from January till March. It is definitely a great pleasure to meet him in person. A very friendly and humble guy. After the party, I kind of regretted not taking a personal picture with him. Gah.

But the cocktail party was like a sneak peek of how the corporate world does their networking session. I was assigned to follow the photographer (which was very super enthusiastic about his job) to take down the names of the important people he photographed. Sounds like an impossible job at first, but it wasn’t so bad after all. I managed to meet the President (Mr. Gerald Russell) and CEO of ICAEW (Mr. Micheal Izza) while doing my task.

I definitely look forward to attending more of these kinds of events in future!

If you can see clearly, my hair is a bit curly after the party because of my hair do. It left my hair oh-so-dry, it should be the hair spray’s fault. Damn.

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Annual Dinner – Nov 11

Haha, we couldn’t miss the chance to snap a picture with the emcee of the day  (Miss Kit) along with the back drop for the dinner.

Meet my table mates for Table 31! Jo, Cheok and Reuben. We had fun talking a lot of shits.

I met Miss Pushpa, my Law lecturer when I was walking around the ballroom. A huge thanks to her, because I scored 88 in my Law finals. Fantastic lecturer!

That oh-so-lost face. This was candid, I wanted to snap a picture of the ballroom but decided that shot is so damn boring. So, I saw Cheok in front of me and I called out his name. ‘Snap, click.. ta-da!’

One of the nice full-body shot taken, but I realised how grainy this picture looks. Cammy must have burst the ISO.

The CEO’s seat! Hahaa, I am such a stalker. I was peering and looking through the name cards on the main VIP table and I thought I’ll try to snap a picture. I like this picture, think the lighting is just perfect.

A picture with Mr. Ong and the CFAB students. He was sort of the star of the night because one of his students, Mr. An Li Foong won the First Prize and the Watts Prize for the subject ‘Audit & Assurance’; the subject Mr. Ong taught. He brought his wife along, she is pretty and tall.

Group picture! The whole lot of CFAB students at the event.

The picture with silly expressions. Hahaa.

And guess who I managed to take a picture with?

Dato’ Johan Raslan! :) Wish came trueeeee. And I look so overly happy, smiled too huge until can see my gums already. LOL, right?

The souvenirs for the dinner. The CFAB-ers were the ones distributing it to the guests that night. We rock. :D

So, that is all the pictures I have. The dinner was so-so. Some of the food was good, others were just merely edible. Performance was noisy, they had dikir barat in English. And no offence but it sounds tacky. It sounded as though, they flipped open an accounting book and plucked out the words.

Note: I did the make up myself for the first time ever. How was it? How much do you rate?

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CEO Visit  to Sunway – Nov 11

Earlier in the day, the CEO, Mr Micheal Izza actually visited the Sunway University College. And I was the emcee for the visit. Only got the script a day before the event so I didn’t bother memorising it. I was honestly kind of nervous about it. I imagined myself screwing it up and I did, though it was forgivable mistakes. But I got to learn from it, so it is a good experience. Plus, Wei Yuen later told me that the CEO thought I spoke with confidence! Thanked God the nervousness didn’t show through my voice. Oh, I didn’t really like my outfit either. The Batik top was okay, the knee-length skirt (albeit it being from Sub; my favorite shop) I don’t really like it cause it’s too long! It makes me look short even with heels. :(

(Photo grabbed from Vanessa from Facebook) 

Couldn’t resist taking a picture with the CEO. Hey, it’s not like he comes down everyday right? I changed to my dinner outfit immediately after I emceed. Again, he thanked me for hosting the visit. Well, those were his words. They are all so courteous. Even the Head of Operations and Director Learning and Professional Development, Mr. Mark Protherough approached me and said well done for the emceeing. And Mr. Irwin Menezes, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers too!

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this was such an awesome week. i wished my weeks were all like that. xoxo.

How was the weekends?

Saturday – The Amazing Race

Saturday was pure hard work blended with an fantastic coordination and planning that made the Amazing Race such a huge success. And to think that, we managed to pull off the event in just four days. The thought of it is enough to make me float up into the blue sky. The teamwork is great, I have never worked with a team so well before.

These pictures are simply taken from my Bobbing Apple station (where they had to immerse their head into a basin of water to get the apple out) at the Monash University bus stop. I patiently waited with Cheok there for close to two hours. Damn, we were so bored.

I started camwhoring and claimed that kissing an apple was actually apple sex. Haha, my mind does this weird things when it get so bored. Not my fault. :D Hmm, I loved how random these pictures look like. I likey!

 

These people, my dear beloved friends got bored too while waiting at their station which also happens to be the last station. Pity them, but the two guys seem to had plenty of fun attempting pole dancing.

I love this picture. I have always love the idea of having a picture inside another picture. That is Celia and me, by the way. We both feel that we have that copy pasted similar smile in every photographs. Which in my case, is kind of obvious.

And this is Crystie. God, I love how happy she look when she attempts the star jump, where as I always succeeded in looking overly-happy. Which in turns makes me look like shit. :(

A group shot of the committees and the participants. (Though not everyone is in it.)

  Hot Red ICAEW peeps yo!

Thank you all for making this event a success, hope to see you at the next event. CFAB/ICAEW rocks the world.

Happyx Birthdayx to Crystiex Lulux

If you wondering why I add an ‘x’ to the words in my title, it’s because the girl who is celebrating her 18th birthday has a tendency to do so. And I’m doing that in honor of her today. Oh, she also refers to herself from a third person point of view on her blog. So, who is she? Wel, no surprises here, she is one of my BFFs; Crystie!

Ta-da! We managed to surprise her after our Moral examination which was by the way, total crap for me. There are 40 cupcakes there all together with one large candle and eight smaller ones. We got her a dress from Kitschen, currently my favourite place to shop.

The cupcakes were made by Ru Yi’s mom which happens to be the best baker I known. Her fruit tarts are to die for. Hang Ee popped in a penguin as a present too. It’s a cute squeaky one.

The whole lot of our classmates that were there to celebrate.  I love my class, we have surprise parties every month.

Happy Birthday Crys!

Em, trying to look cute like Crys? Failed. :)

The Last Raya Holidays

Honestly speaking, most of my Raya holidays was spent on studying and preparing myself for the Law Final E-Exam. Initially, I thought one week plus was a long time to study for Law. So, I took my own very sweet time to study. Like half a chapter a day and on some days, I didn’t touch the book. I finally realized that if I continue revising this way, I wouldn’t be able to finish the syllabus on the week of the examination.

It is kind of stupid for me to take that long to realize that. In the days to follow, I set the target of reading a few chapters a day; which for me proved to be an impossible feat. But in the end, I did manage to finish all the chapters with the questions along – of course, it took me many midnight oils to burn to accomplish that. So now all I’ve got to do is wait for my results to be out later in the day, should be around 4.30 pm.

[Edit: The results is finally out. I passed. Oh, boy. I’m washed with relief.]

It was obviously a very mundane routine for me during the holidays except for some occasional incidents involving Kah Lok. Trust me, his antics are really humorous. Take this for example.

He saw the Pooh bear’s butt from the kitchen and he said, “Eee yer. Barrr-tooock.” And it’s so funny if you can hear the way he said it.

In the very same week too, my daddy trimmed Kah Lok’s hair as it was getting bushy. Plus, we had this old *idon’tknowhatitiscalled* thingy (shown in the picture above). All you got to do is comb the hair, and voila! It’s trimmed.

Mommy decided to hose him down with water after that because he wanted it. Haha. He really like the water. But funny thing is he doesn’t want to learn how to swim. He rather just floats around.

*bam*whack* WTH?

I want to *STW now. Sighs. Now, now now. Why am I sighing again, you ask. Because I sat for my Law E-Exam yesterday and well, I was told that we might not be getting our results so soon as Pearson will be upgrading their system. So, I should technically be prepared not to get my results today. But the thing was that the results was actually already out around 2ish of which I was online but was completely oblivious to the fact that I could check my results. Mainly it is because I didn’t get any texts or calls. So yea. I shall wait patiently with my mouth sealed…. after I do this one thing first.

 

Okay. I’ll keep still now.

* Screw The World.

Hyperhyperbouncebounce!

It’s kind of obvious that I’m happy. Why? Cause my Business Finance results is out! (Much earlier than what I expected but hey, I.am.not.complaining.man)

When I knew the results is out I went to my phone’s Internet browser and pressed on my ICAEW bookmarked page. Then I had to login; first attempt failed (I forgot my username in the midst of my nervousness). I called Abel/Alex and asked him to help me check my results. And I got….

(4³ + 2⁴ ) ÷ 4 × 3.9

Oh, screw that. I passed! And at that moment, I was like “HAHAHAHA.” What else can I say. I failed my first mock and after doing my final, I came out of the computer lab feeling somewhat; “Oh, shit. I think I screwed that up.” I even went on check my manual for the right and wrong answers as mentioned in my previous post here. 

This was basically how obsessed I got with counting the amount of rights and wrongs. I stopped doing that when I was sure I got 28 corrects because that is when I knew I was sure to pass. Yes, I realized how dumb I am now for doing it. But heck, who cares. It did give me a temporary relieved feeling.

And right now, all I have left to tackle is my Law Mock 2 tomorrow and my final on 18th September. Shit, I have a few more chapters to read for mock. I ought to go back to studying considering that my hyperness is almost gone, I could study just now because I was too happy and hyper. Even Teddy had to attack me to make me less hyper.

It’s back to Law. But before that, I would like to thank my parents and Miss Ezrina for having faith and believing that I could do it; pass the BF paper even after I failed my mock. Thanks to Cheok (CH) for studying his BF syllabus again just to teach me and my classmates too. Thanks. I ♥ you all.

Pinkifying Life.

Nice shot, eh? :) I was in my back garden when I saw this pretty pink flower blooming. I have almost never seen this flower bloom in such a rich color; I knew I had to take a picture of it to show the world.

Anyway, today wasn’t any better compared to yesterday. Actually in fact, today is worse. From 8 am to 4 pm, all I did was one chapter of Business Finance and even then, it didn’t settle in my brain. Sighs. I’m doing much better with Law. I’ve always liked reading Law anyway.

Think I’m going to shower now. Will be staying up late too.

Ernst & Young Firm Visit

EY, 2nd firm visit. Wow.

The first impression makes a lot of difference and the HR people at EY certainly know how to do just that. Compared to the first site visit, the talk this time was let’s just say it’s more entertaining. Those kind that you’ll actually listen to. And the fact that they actually asked their working ICAEW students to come and share with us their experiences was something that we can really relate to as we should be in their position (when we’re doing the work based learning).

That will be all from me as Teddy is asking me to study.

A new start. A new semester.

Somehow, today really felt like it was first day in college all over again except this time around I knew my classmates. I could still clearly remember the first day in college. Everyone was so quiet, it took us some time to warm up to each others but look at us now, we are no doubt a noisy bunch.

The first semester was a kind of like a mild rollercoaster ride, you know the ones where kids could still ride on. I had some good time and some not-so-okay time back then. But it wasn’t bad. Now, we have arrived to the second semester. I’d like to think of it as a clean slate, a chance to start anew.

The first thing I did before starting college was to get a whole new, tad drastic look. I thought, ‘Hey, it’s a new semester. Why not try something I have never did before in my entire life.’ So, I got myself a fringe. It should have been no biggie, it is just a fringe after all. But not for me; I never had fringe in my life. It is because my hair is actually curly making it quite impossible to have fringe.

And now, I do have fringe. [Don’t laugh. You have been warned.]

A whole different me, eh? My dad was one of the first ones to see me in my new hairstyle and he said I looked like a ‘lala’, my mom said it made me look so much younger; she didn’t quite like it but she didn’t hate it either, my sister just laughed her head off and said she didn’t recognized me.

Bottom line is they prefer the old hairstyle and I think they need some time getting used to me. For my friends, I guess some of them didn’t recognize me. But it definitely wasn’t as bad as I had imagined. Thanked God.

So, back to today. I had my first Law class with Miss Pushpa and I think I should be okay so far (it’s only the first class anyway). But I am worried for the first half of my semester, seeing the fact that I have to do two core ICAEW subjects in three months. I really have to juggle my time properly. Our study manuals itself can be used to whack someone’s head and I won’t be surprise if the person faints. I mean 'LOOK at IT’.

I honestly don’t know what was going through your mind then, but I’d like you to know that I had your bloody text in my mind the whole day. ‘Anything… Have a nice day.’ Just exactly who am I? Have you stopped caring enough about me already? I wonder if this is the start of you fool.  I  mused, could this be the start of something which might lead the unthinkable? Maybe I’m overreacting or maybe you’re not yourself when you typed that text out. I really don’t know and I really don’t like this. I just thought you should know this.

Me in SUC

Come to think of it, I'm a avid blogger but I don't recall ever blogging in details how life is in Sunway for me. I think this post here; When Innovation Meets CFAB Students is the closest thing I posted in details. I really like that post anyway.

 The iconic Sunway's (errr….) roundabout. It's a boring shot, I know.

For me, college life is an entirely different experience from my high school life. In high school, there are boundaries and what not. I'm not saying that college has no boundaries, it's just that in college you've got more freedom but it comes with responsibilties too. And I honestly feel that what makes college so much more fun (for me, at least) is the company there. Try coming to my class one day, then you'll see why. We even have our own very active group on Facebook. I've never been a person who is excited to go to class but now, I missed not going to class. Ironic.

 

Class starts on July 6th. Can’t wait. :)

But the first three months will be hell. We have to do do core ICAEW subjects in 3 months. Watch me jump down the building?

Pre-Accounting Finals Stress Syndrome

I have the weirdest way of de-stressing; I ate a super chocolatey moist chocolate cake which makes my throat go icky. I am also here blogging when most of my classmates are probably studying, pouring themselves over the books and are not on Facebook. The lack of new notifications only proves it, so is my phone. I guess it is only at times like these when having a blog is useful; I get to release some stress over here. It’s better than keeping it all inside.

I think it’s kind of obvious that my final Accounting paper is just round the corner. It is on this Sat, I've got my second last Accounting class today, last one is tomorrow and then from Wednesday till Friday, it is study break. Hmm, I ought to be fully utilizing that break. I can’t slack, man. I can’t afford it especially after my test results are like the rollercoaster ride.

I wouldn’t want any unpleasant surprises on Sun, when the results is purported to be out. It wasn’t release on the expected date the last time. Let’s hope it does this time.

This ought to serve as a wake-up call for me. I have not been sleeping early, my usual go to bed time: 1-2 am. It’s pretty late, I know. The eye bags are getting more obvious. As the days passed, I think I begin to look more like a zombie. I look like shit. Period.

So, at 11.30 pm tonight, I’m going to go to bed. 

That leaves me less than 30 minutes to get ready for bed then.