End and beginning...

Finally, its the end of CAT life for me (hopefully) after going through all the exams. Hopefully I'll be able to achieve something this time (world prize maybe?) as i think i did well for some of the papers. One paper I'll be hoping for is T6 (Drafting Financial Statements). I think i got all the computations correct so it is likely that I might be able to score a 100 for this paper. For the others, there is little or even no chance to getting a prize (especially audit) and i only hope to pass them with above average marks.

Since exams are already over, I'll have a couple of decisions to make. Those of which could plot the journey of my life. One of it would be to consider whether to go for the ICAEW offer. If I accept the offer, I'll be having a new beginning for my life next year onwards.

The offer requires me to start work with BDO Binder. This is because they'll be sponsoring my education while I have to work for them until I complete it (which is approx 5 years). Worse case scenario of me accepting the offer would be that I wont have a social life due to the job being a full time job. On the bright side, I'll be able to get the ACA qualification and it will help me in my career in the future (not to mention that I'll be getting paid). I'll have to decide it by this week or else it'll be too late cause the interviews are soon.

The other decisions that I'll have to make cover other aspects of my life, however the only important one would be the ICAEW thingy.

On a side note, I'm having my holidays now until the end of the month. So it is time for me to unwind and prepare to face whatever that's coming for me next year.

Dama Vocal Fest 2008

Went to the Dama Vocal Festival 2008 yesterday with my sister at KL Performing Arts Centre. It was indeed very enjoyable for me. The Dama Orchestra was amazing with their variety of musical instruments from the west as well as the east.

Went for the Songs from Musicals and Crossovers Concert. Upon reaching there, I was surprised to see that i got the front row seat although we only bought the RM 300 tickets. The Dama Orchestra played Beauty and the Beast and Colours of the Wind. Then they had Angel Lee, Phoon Sook Peng and Khoo Hooi Lay to sing other songs along with the Dama Orchestra. Concert started at 8.30 pm and ended at 11.30 pm. The audience there was very reluctant to leave and kept on asking for an encore.

Nevertheless, the it had to end somehow and once a couple of people started to leave, the whole crowd followed suit. I'll be sure to get the tickets whenever they're performing in KL now after experiencing it first hand.

Preparations...

Approximately one more month until my finals which is to be spread across the first two weeks of December. I'll probably be able to pass all, but somehow I just have this feeling of wanting to achieve something.

Hence, I've made a bet with myself. If I manage to exceed my expectations, for whichever paper, I'll do something which I've always wanted to do for a long time but keep on making excuses to delay it. And this will also be my motivation to study for the papers in the whole of November. If all goes well, I'll be keeping my promise probably around the 9th till 16th of February when the results are out. My results will also be my early or belated birthday gift, so i plan to do well for it in order to avoid disappointment.

More tests....

Progress test week is even more hectic as I progress further up in my studies. Unlike the past few years where I usually only studied for the semester exams a couple of hours before the exma, I actually spend almost 5 hours staying back in college revising with my friends. It is a first indeed for me feeling worried even for just an internal test.

T6 started last Friday and it is not too bad. In fact, it is slightly easier than the first one(due to the fewer theory questions) but still I don't think I'll be able to get more than 75 marks. T7 is much more harder than i expected, more theory and confusing questions. I even lost 9 marks cause i didn't know how to write a memorandum to the directors. I answered approximately 67 marks worth of question, so my marks will be really disappointing.

Tomorrow's test would be T8, and I only hope to pass it. Last progress test i managed to scrape a mere 48 marks due to my understanding of the paper (and a past year question which i did before). Not so sure whether I'll be lucky this time. T9 is on Tuesday which means I'll probably stay back again on Monday after the test to study (and probably tutor some of the others) and then it is the Raya holidays.

Can't wait for Raya to come. I'll usually go to the open house of a friend of my dad every year for the Johor Laska. But until then, I still have more auditing procedures to study...

Dreaming for it...

Can't believe how much a dream would mean to me. Just this morning, I had a very unexpected dream and it is still fresh in my memory ever since I woke up. Maybe its cause this dream showed to me how much I wanted it to be in reality or maybe its cause I'm subconsciously hoping that the dream is an indication of what will happen in the near future. Whichever one it is, it certainly got me thinking about it all the time about whether I should act according to it. Now, I am tempted to fall asleep just so that i could have that dream again or even continue on from where it stopped.

And yes, the dream is about that special someone. Someone whose name has been mentioned in this blog a couple of times already.

Mina armastan sind,              ...

Happenings...

There has been so many happenings recently that i wont be mentioning in detail all of them in my post. Firstly, there's the farewell for Sin Seanne who will be leaving for some place in India, then there's the progress test, the barbecue party at my lecturer's place and also an accident on Thursday which involves my friend.

The farewell party for Sin Seanne was kinda like a short distraction for me but nevertheless I'm glad I attended it although I have my audit progress test the very next day. Did a little catching up, took some photos and also found out that Sher Rin is roomates with one of my primary school classmates.

The berbecue party at my lecturer's palce in BU11 was cause my group managed to achieve 100% passing rate for her paper. Met up with a few old faces there namely Michelle, Su Wei and San San. The main purpose of that party was not the barbecue but rather enjoy her Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3 and XBOX 360. Well I have to say i enjoyed my time there playing tennis, boxing and a few other games on her Wii, Gears of War on the XBOX 360 and a racing game on her PS3. Stayed there until my parents called cause some of us were discussing with her about the ICAEW programme offered by BDO Binder and Deloitte.

My progress test marks are satisfactory so far except for T6 and most probably T8. Scored 75 for T7 and 76 for T9 but only managed to scrape 55 for T6 due to the 40 marks theory question which i only scored 7 out of 40! Will be getting T8 back next week but I'll be lucky if I even get above 45.

Just yesterday, a small group of us decided to play badminton after class. We went to a badminton hall in USJ and played until 5.30 pm. We departed after that and on the way out, a motorcycle rammed into the side door of my friends(Nathan) car. The motorcyclist practically flew off his bike and hit the door together with his bike causing the window to break and the door to be dented badly like it was hit by a car. The guy's head was bleeding and suddenly out of nowhere, a bunch of indians appeared (you could guess that the motorcyclist was indian by now) and pressured my friend accusing him for the accident (when it was the motorcyclist's fault cause my friend was already waiting at the junction and the motorcycle rammed into him) as I was in the car behind his with Yoong Ken and saw it wasnt his fault. I went out of the car and walked to see how it was as did Yin Siew, Kee Wan and Jia Yun. Since the guy's head was bleeding we had to take him to the hospital but Nathan don't know the way so Yin Siew had to direct him and I ended up driving her car to the hospital too.

We waited at the hospital's er section for like 2-3 hours with him and then the motorcyclist's guardians finally arrived. Tried to converse politely and civilised but the guardians are not able to do that so we decided to leave and went to have dinner at McDs before making a police report. I only managed to get home at about 11 pm that night cause my sister came and pick me up from the police station.

2 weeks more till Progress Test 2 and 3 more week till Raya and October... Time flies nowadays and I haven't even prepared anything..

Looking back in time...

Last Friday was the SKTS reunion at SS2 Murni. It was nostalgic moment then when I met those whom I spent 6 years with in primary school. Couldn't recognise some of them as it has been more than 5 years since I last saw them. Fortunately, I was able to recognise familiar faces such as Jessica, Wei Guan, Joshua, Gloria and a few others. However, all of them seem to be able to tell who I am with one look (have i not change in the past 5 years?) while I have to think for a long time in order to place the names to the faces. Even worse, when they talked back about the old times during primary school, I couldn't even remember most of the people and happenings. Maybe my memory isn't so good or maybe I subconsciously choose to forget it all cause of an event which happened before the end of school. Nevertheless, it is indeed good to see all of them again and I am looking forward to meeting up in the future.

Before the reunion, I went to an orphanage with my college mates. When we reached there, the person in charge was asking who is the leader and somehow everyone pointed at me (I didn't have a clue about it since i thought Janice was the leader) including Janice and I had to lead them all during the activities. It was a fun filled day with the children there and each of us have to sorta take care of one or more child throughout the session. Although conducting the activities were hard due to the 'guardians' too busy entertaining the children and not listening to the instructions which they are supposed to translate to BM for their respective child, most of the games were carried out successfully.

Classes have been pretty hectic nowadays. Lecturers rushing through syllabus (T9 - Miss Joyce) and there are lecturers who still have time to joke around and do 1 question during class only (T6 - Mr Jana). This week is progress test week. From Wednesday onwards, I'll be having progress test for each paper until Saturday. This means I'll have to work my ass off in order to score an average of at least 75+ marks for each paper. How I miss the times when I just need to revise a little and only aim to pass the papers. Thus, I'll have to get back to my books now...