End of my Convocation!!!

Yesterday marked a historic and memorable day for me as I have formally graduated by holding a degree. It was my convocation yesterday at Wisma MCA. My family came to attend my convo from Brunei and they flew back to Brunei today. Thanks them for coming and I will always miss them very much.

In addition, nice to meet all my classmates and coursemates again. I also miss them so much. To all, happy graduating and all the best in ur work and/or study. We must always keep in contact.

Then, I also would like to thanks my batch of xiaxiang friends for attending my convo. They include Ah Ming(2nd batch), Ah Hing, Jian Cheng, Jason, Ah Lee, Kok Soon, Xiao Ting, Xiao Yu, Chui Fang, Si Min, Kim, Su Min, Wen Qing, Wen Zhi, Wendy, Ji Mei, Epin and Jia Soon. Thanks for the flower, bear, cards, tie...I also wanted to thanks 4th batch xia xiang members including soon hau, way teng, xing xing, sherly, wun hui and guo jun for attending my convo.

Yee ting, thanks for coming and also the snoopy you presented to me. All the best in your work too. I also wanted to thanks Seng Hui (Jason), my good friend for coming. Thanks to Ms.Tian, Kent Chan and others who took photos with me.

Sorry if I miss out some of the names. And, thanks for all the sms and wishes from my friends who could not attend my convocation. I understand that quite a number of my friends were unable to attend the convocation because they went back to hometown to "Sau Mu" for the "Qing Min Jie".

Once again, I would like to thanks all for taking your time to attend our convo and took photos with me. I am now waiting for you guys to send me the photos. I really looking forward to receive the photos.

My Family

Some of my presents
My Classmates
3rd Batch xiaxiang friends
4th Batch xiaxiang friends
Me and my roommate
Me and Kent
Me and Wen Zhi
Ji Leng Convo

A night of a thousand stars!!!

Yesterday, I went to the UTAR FAM Nite 2008 with yong joo and kent at the Golden Horse Grand Royal Ballroom. I met with a number of my juniors and we took alot of photos for memorable purpose. Tan Sri Dr. Ng Lay Swee, the UTAR President and CEO is the invited guest along with the designated President of UTAR Professor Chua and other senior officials of UTAR. Tan Sri is going to retire very soon, end of this week and our batch convocation will be her last event and day in UTAR. She has contributed very much to both KTAR and UTAR. I really appreciate her contributions and hard work during the past 30 years or more in the academic industry. Wish her happy retiring and enjoy the rest of her life.

My convocation will be coming very soon. It will be on this Saturday at 1pm at the Wisma MCA. My family members are coming to kl this wednesday. I miss them so much and hope to see them very soon. My friends...you are all invited to come to my convocation and if you do come, please find me take photos!!!

These are some of the photos I took during the FAM Nite yesterday:

Me and Ah JooKim and Me
Sherly and Me
Me and Kai Sin, xiaxiang friend
Rui Shan and Me
Me and Chui Fang, another xiaxiang friend
Yu Mei and Me
Sue Hui and Me
Me and Wendy

BDO

"BDO International is recognized as the fifth largest international accounting and consulting organization in the world. It operates over 621 offices in 111 countries and achieved a worldwide turnover in 2006 exceeding US$ 3.91 billion ( € 3 billion). BDO International comprises a network of leading member firms in every major financial and commercial centre in the world, linked by common working standards and by a common name.

In Malaysia, BDO Binder, as a member firm of BDO International, is a trusted and highly respected accounting and consulting firm identified as the global strategic partner for growing PLCs and emerging businesses. We operate with a well-qualified and experienced team of more than 380 professional staffs led by 20 partners and directors. We work with our client from offices in Kuala Lumpur, Seremban, Johor Bahru, Labuan, Bintulu, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Miri and Sibu.

BDO Malaysia's strength lies in the people we employ who are well qualified, experienced and respected professionals.Our partners and the senior management team are people who have more than 10 years of experience both in the public accounting practice and the commercial field. We believe in providing our client with only the best services in terms of quality and professionalism, adopting a personalised, practical and proactive approach to all assignments. This approach demonstrates our fundamental philosophy that clients’ interests shall come first.

Our commitment to excellence begins at the top. Partners set the example and lead the way not only by being personally involved in assignments but also by being readily accessible to clients at all times." Information quoted from the company's website.

BDO is quite a nice place to work. The seniors here are willing to teach and we are working in a very friendly environment. In addition, you can learn alot from this firm. You may think of choosing BDO!!!

Goodbye!!!

I want to say goodbye to my roommate as he will go to Port klang to do audit for the next two to three months. He will stay in a 5 star hotel in Port Klang leaving us behind. Moreover, he is also from Klang. Hence, I will be alone in the room. No one can wake me up although I am the one who always wake him up. No one will be able to talk and chat with me before I sleep every night although we did not always sleep on the same time. Sad...

Anyway, all the best in his audit there. I am also auditing in Port Klang and it is quite near to his place of audit. But, we wont be able to meet each other so often. This is the audit life. You will be going outstation, to places like Johor, Penang and so on for a period of time to do audit.

Tomorrow will be a better day!!!

During the past few days after the election, there are some problems with the selection of few states' chief minister as there is conflict between the choice of the Sultan and the Federal Government. I really hope that these problems could be solved and settled as soon as possible so that the residents will be able to live in harmony and peacefully.

This morning, I, Bin Lie, Yong Joo and fook weng went to the Facon Education Fair at KLCC. Then, we went to shopping at Times Square, Pavilion, Sungei Wang as well as Lowyat. At the end, I bought new ties, ubs calculator and some books.

Tomorrow, I will start my interim audit of a logistic listed company at Port Klang along with one senior, another audit associate as well as a trainee for about two weeks. This is my first audit of public listed companies although it is only an interim audit. Hopefully, I will be able to learn as much as possible from my senior during this two weeks.

End of another weekend!!!

It was the polling day for the Malaysia's 12th General Election yesterday. The opposition party has won to become the state governement for Perak, Selangor, Kelantan, Kedah and Penang. It was a shock that the chief minuster of Penang, Dr.Koh has lost the election. Anyway, I just hope those representatives selected by the citizens will do their best for the people and fulfill the actions they promise the people.

Yesterday, I went to Sunway Pyramid to celebrate Esther birthday with Hon Fei. We went to watch a movie, "The Mist". It was considered a terror movie with a very sad ending. After that, I and Hon Fei went to eat dinner at Aman Damai after fetching Ai Qian back her house nearby. When I reached my condo, I received a call from Ah Hing, my utar xiaxiang member and friend. He invited me to play a friendly basketball match between the 3rd batch and 4th batch (our junior) xiaxiang.

So, I took lrt and ktm to Serdang after I took batch and packing my things. Ah Hing fetched me back to Bandar Sungai Long and I stayed overnight at Xiao Ting house in Glencourt. We watched live results of the 12th General Election and we went to yumcha as well as celebrated Sumin's birthday. During the 3 hours' mamak, we discussed alot about the election's results.

This morning, we departed to the Balakong's basketball court at around 7am. Luckily, the court was stil empty. The match ended with a win by 4th batch xiaxiang by 1 point. Anyway, we did enjoy the game and that was more important than winning a game. After eating our lunch in Balakong, I went to get my letters from Gary who stayed in my ex-condo now. I reached my home at around 2pm. I was so tired that I slept for about 3 hours before my roommate, yong joo came back from Klang. Yesterday, I just slept for few hours.Yong joo then fetched me and fook weng to eat our dinner at Aman Damai.

Tomorrow, I will audit a private company rather than a holiding company as stated by me last time. It will be a busy week again.

2 more days to come for election...

The Malaysia election will be held this Saturday. I just hope that it will be a fair election. I just heard the news about the case of EC Chairman. His house and car were spilled with paint. For those who do not plan to vote, try to vote if you can for the representatives that can really contribute and bring development to your area and place. For the representatives, dont promise because of promise and to win the election. Action is better than words!

It has been a busy week for me as I am auditing an international engineering and consulting firm near KLCC. Tomorrow will be the last day for me to go to the client place to do audit. Next week, I will audit a holding company whereas for the following, I will start to do an interim audit of a service listed company. At last, I have a chance to audit public listed company although I hope to learn to audit private company first. It will really be a busy month for me.

End of this weekend...

On Saturday morning, I and yong joo decided to attend the opening ceromomy of the UTAR ACCA conference in Bandar Sungai Long. We reached there around 9am and the opening ceromony has already started. We met with the ACCA officers, FAM dean and head of departments and we chit chatted for a while.

Then, we listened to talks by a KPMG partner and ACCA officer before we have our lunch(pan mee) with Hon Fei and Fang Ching, our very good friend at Balakong. The KPMG has mentioned that there will be an increase pay to RM2450 for fresh graduate starting next month. Wow, so good. But, I am not sure whether we will be entitled to this increase pay in other accounting firm.

At night, I, Bin Lie and Yong Joo went to shopping in One UTAMA after fetching Zhe Quan at PJ. We had our dinner at BBQ Plaza. The food there is quite nice and delicious and it is not so expensive. After that, we just shopped around before we met with Hon Fei and his friend. After, we went to yumcha with Kean yap(my ex-roommate) in Murni, a very popular mamak stall at Petaling Jaya. We left around 12am as we all already felt very tired.

On Sunday, I wake up quite late at 10am. Since Bin Lie went out with her friends, the house only left me and yong joo. We two decided to go to shop at Carrefour in Maluri and we ate our lunch there.

That's all for this weekend. Tomorrow, I will need to work again as normal. Hopefully, it will be a wonderful week for me. Chiew Teck, my ex-housemate in UTAR is coming from kuching for training in KL. He is currently working in UOB bank. I hope to meet him one of the next few days' night to have dinner with him.