Merdeka, merdeka, merdeka!!!

Happy 51st National Day to my country, Malaysia!!!Merdeka, merdeka, merdeka!!!

Today, I just want to post this message in my blog to wish happy birthday to the country I live. Although I grew up in Brunei instead of Malaysia, bur I am still a Malaysian citizen. That is why I decided to come to KL to take my degree after my form 6 study in Brunei. I have stayed in KL for more than 3 years and I am quite used to the life here.

I hope that all the citizens from the 3 main races (chinese, malay and indian) and other ethnic groups could live in harmony and respect each other in this country. I also hope that the government could be more effective in implementing their policies in the benefits of the citizens. In addition, I hope that the policitcal situations will be better soon and be stable in order attract more investments from foreign countries.

Yesterday, I went to attend UTAR convocation to meet with my good friends at Wisma MCA without forgeting to take alot of photos with my friends. Then, I went to meet my university's classmates to celebrate Kong Soon's birthday at Yuen Steamboat restaurant at Sunway. some of my classmates came to visit us from Singapore. Hence, it was like a class gathering for us. At the end, we ended up to have a drink at Sunway's club.

The end of Beijing Olympic...

Yesterday closing ceromony marked the end of the 16 days Beijing Olympic 2008 which was organized successfully. It is considered to be the best Olympic game so far. I would like to congratualate the organizers for their hard work and efforts. Of course, wont forget the volunteers, athletes, audience and chinese population for their support. Without them, I don't think this game could be well organized.

I also would like to congratualate those athletes who won medals during this Olympic game. I know that you all have trained and prepared very hard before the game. Anyway, for those who failed to win, don't give up and try again 4 years later in London!!!

Nice fireworks!!!
Giant ribbons float to the ground as thousands of performers and athletes gather around the memory tower
Fireworks of the closing ceremony in the National Stadium
Performance of the Closing ceremony

Paralympic will be held on 6 September 2008 in Beijing. To all the Paralympic athletes, do your best and enjoy your game. Winning may be important but the spirit of taking part can be more important!!! Good luck...

Win vs lose, Pass vs fail...

Yesterday, Lee Chong Wei was beaten easily by Lin Dan. It was one of the worst final matches I ever watched in important games including the Olympic. Of course, I was a bit disappointed as he just miss a golden opportunity to win the first gold medal for Malaysia. But, every game will inevitably have a winner and loser. Loser doesnt mean you will always be loser. Losing an important game could be helpful and meaningful for a player to work harder in the future. We should also admit that Lin Dan was so powerful and fast yesterday, leaving no chance for Chong Wei amid the support by thousand of chinese fans.

There are rumours saying that badminton game might be cancelled in the next Olympic Games in London. The reason given is that the game is always dominated by Asian players. That is just so unfair if that is the reason for cancelling the game. What about other games such as tennis which is always dominated by western players? I just hope that badminton will remain as one of the 28 sport events in the Olympic Game. I always like to watch badinton match.

Today also marked another important day for some as ACCA results was announced worldwide. For all my friends who pass, congrats and continue your hard and smart work for other papers. For those who unfortunately failed the paper/s, don't give, there will be always another chance to try again. For ACCA papers, I think we need to be master in application rather than just memorising. Practice makes perfect as well. That's just my opinion although I havent encountered ACCA exam before (Going to take soon in December). Good luck and all the best.

It's time to work again. I have extra ACCA class this weekend and next week, I will have three days technical training. I just have to try my best to finish my audit works as soon as possible. Gambade to myself and all my colleagues...

Lee Chong Wei...Malaysia's last hope...

Just now, Lee Chong Wei had beaten Lee Hyun Ill, a Korean player in the semi final clash of the men single. This means that Malaysia has secured at least a silver medal. One more step for the Malaysia's first ever Olympic gold medal. The final will be a great match between Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei in the evening of this Sunday.

I could not watch the semi final clash as we were celebrating Marcus and Justine birthday with my audit team members at "Hakka Cun" located at Seri Kembangan. I hope that I will be able to watch at least the final match after my part time acca class.

Chong Wei, I believe you can do it. Prove to us your best and ability to win the gold medal!!! Good luck...

Grand opening ceromony for Beijing Olympic 2008

Yesterday marked a historic moment for China as the Beijing Olympic 2008 has been officially opened. After 7 years of preparation, at last the game started yesterday until 24 August 2008. 91,000 spectators witnessed the opening ceromony in the Bird's nest Stadium whereas more than 4 billion people around the world watched this spectacular ceromony through tv. We chinese should also be proud of this moment. It was also the costliest in the history of Olympic, with 30,000 fireworks during a performance.

The most important part of the opening ceromony was the lighting of Olympic flame at the Cauldron. Li Ning, a former gymnastics star lift the Olympic flame to the air and "running" one round of the stadium passing the whole world.



"One World One Dream"...Good luck. To all the sportsmen/women, try your very best to achieve your goal. Please be a fair player as well. Hope that this event will be held peacefully. I also wish that Malaysia will be able to win the long awaited first gold medal in the Olympic game.

Tired but life goes on...Enjoy...

I have been very very busy recently, working Monday till Saturday while attebdubg part time acca classes on Sunday. Apart from working, I managed to meet with my old friends during the night time/

My cousin from Kuching, who was my housemate in my 1st year of my university life called me early morning that he has arrived kl with Chiew Teck, another housemate and good friend of mine. It was a great surprise for me as they didnt inform me in advance. So, we decided to meet yesterday for a dinner after my audit at Putrajaya. After having a short dinner at Sungei Wang, I decided not to back home that night and we sang k until 2am before went back to Hilton, PJ.

For today, I just came back from extra class from 6.30pm till 9.30pm at Sunway college. After the class, Eddie and I went to meet our utar friends for chit chatting.

Beside, Beijing Olympic 2008 is approaching and left 2 more days. Good luck and all the best in the organizing of this Olympic in the midst of security problem and terror threats.

Save the world...

I just thought of writing something that could contribute a bit to the society. Global warming has become a very serious issue and problem discussed nowadays. The ice has started to melt in the Artic region. How can we reduce global warming effect to save the environment? I don't think we can stop this global warming problem completely. What we can do is only to reduce the effect as much as we can, to delay the worst to come.

We, as the citizen and residents of the world, have to start doing something. That will the best and most effective way. Some of the easy ways that we can apply when carrying out our day-to-day activities:

1. Bring a cloth bag for shopping trips. Of course, this can help reduce the use of plastic bags. And say no to plastic bags when you only purchase one or few items.

2. Recycle your newspaper, magazines, glass, tin as well as recycle plastics.

3. Try to take public transport if possible. If not, then try to car pool with friends. This can help a bit to reduce air pollution.

There are a lot of other ways that we can do our part in contributing to save the environment from being damaged by human activities. Try to influence and encourage close friends and family members to do the same with you. We don't want to live in a world which is badly polluted and become hotter due to global warming...

Beside, organizations nowadays have started to engaged in their business activities socially and ethically. Moreover, research has shown that reputation of the firms is one of the factors that can directly link to the success of the firms.

Another important party that can do something is the Government. The Government can impose some policies and rules to encourage and govern the people as well as organizations to be socially and ethically responsible for the environment.

My job as an auditor...for how long?

I have started working in BDO, one of big five accounting firms in Malaysia and around the world since 18 February 2008. It has been more than 5 months that I work as an audit associate (so called 'auditor"). This is also my first job after I graduated with an accounting degree from UTAR end of last year. What I have learned and did in the past 5 months? How long would I stay as an auditor? What is my future plan? A lot of questions flow into my mind. Let me try to answer here in my blog.

Of course, I have learned how to audit. I have audited small private companies, newly public listed company as well large public listed company which I have been auditing in the past two months. The industries involved included plantation, shipping, trading as well as property. It is a good experience for me to be involved and understand in different type of industries...I also did stutatory records audits for quite a number of companies. In addition, I also went to Sabah for 2 weeks to visit the plantation estates and mill. During that period, I have done test of control (including walkthrough), PPE signthing, employee sighting and so on. One of the works that I have not really good and try at is stocktake. I really hope that I will have a chance to do it very soon.

I think and expect that I will stay in audit line for at least 3 years to 5 years to learn as much as I can. By the time, I hope that I have passed all my acca papers. Then, I plan to go overseas to work for a period of time, say 1-2 years before coming back to Malaysia. What will happen later, I am not 100% sure. I am planning for it. I will let you guys know soon.

Countdown to Beijing Olympic 2008!!!

Beijing Olympic 2008 will be held very soon...20 more days...8pm, 08.08.2008!!! I just hope the Olympic games will be a success. It is also the first that this world prestige game is going to be held in the mainland China. We chinese should be proud of this historic moment. All the best and good luck the Beijing Olympic organizing committee.

Of course, I also hope that Malaysia will be able to try their best to win the first gold medal in the Olympic games. The best medal won by Malaysia was a silver through the Badminton double players. MALAYSIA BOLEH...!!!

I always like to watch sport's games such as Olympic, Commenwealth and Asian Games. Recently, I am very busy with my audit of a large PLC, working from Monday to Saturday. In addition, I have ACCA part time classes on Sunday...I hope that I can at least watch the Opening Ceromony of the Beijing Olympic, to witness the historic moment...

I just finished my classes today. Later, I will go to the Taman Tasik Sri Pemaisuri for jogging. It has been quite a long time that I did not do exercise to relax myself. Next week will be another long busy week!!! Gambade to myself and all my audit team members. I know it will be a tight dateline, let's work hard together.

Enjoy...

For those who are looking for job, try to find job that you are really interested in. This will make you work happier and you would be able to perform better and more effective.

However, this may not always be the case. If the job that you are currently do is not what you expect and interested in, just try your very best to enjoy your work. This will really make you work happier which is very important.

I am currently working as an auditor in BDO, an accounting firm in Malaysia. As you all know, auditor life is very busy as we need to work for longer hours as compared to other jobs. Accounting is what I am interested in. Hence, so far I still very enjoy my life as an auditor. In addition, I will be able to learn many things, meet different people, go many different places to perform audi, etc...Hence, I will stay in audit line for the next few years before I go overseas to work for few years or change to commercial line.

Next Monday, I will have to decide whether to sign the training contract with my firm. My firm will provide full sponsorship for my ACCA part time study in Sunway College University.

Malaysia...political development

The general election in Malaysia has been over for several months. But, the politcal issues has just begun to arise. Is this what we call democracy? Will Anwar take ove Abdullah as prime minister in coming months? I am not supporting any one side. I just hope that all these could end as soon as possible so that we, the citizens and residents of Malaysia can live in harmony. I just that the Government will do their best for the benefits of citizens in priority. That is why the government would be elected at the first place.

The recent drastic increase of the petrol price to RM2.70 has resulted to great impacts to everyone including me although I didnt drive. Inflation rate would remain as high as 6 percent this year. I am not fully against to the increase of petrol price in line with the significant increase in world oil price as based on the economic point of view, it is important for the long term growth of the country. However, I think that the increase is too large that it affect the people adversely which also resulted to the recent protest in a stadium. That is just my opinion.

Malaysia....the country where I live, where I born, where i studied my degree...I wish my country will be a better place to stay in...Hope that everything will be fine tomorrow.

Start of my study life again!!!

Today, I started my ACCA part time class at Sunway from 8am to 7.30pm. Wow...so long hours of lecture classes as I am taking both P1 and P3 this semester. But, the lecturers are quite good so the classes were quite interesting and not so boring. It has been more than 6 months that I didnt study after graduated from UTAR. This is also means that I will be very busy nowadays as I still have to cope with my busy working schedule. Not much time to enjoy during weekends already.

For those who havent take acca yet, it is advisable to take P1 and P3 together then P2 and P7 together. We have to finish essential module first before we are able to take optional papers. Hence, we have to finish P1 and P3 first then can choose to take P2 and P7 (can also take concurrently) which are quite related especially the recently updated accounting standards.

Genting Trip

Last weekend, I went to Genting Highlands with Yong Joo to meet with our coursemates and some of JY's highschool friends. Around 20 of us stayed overnight in Pangsapuri Ria Apartment!!! At Saturday night, we had steamboat at the apartment. We also invited our old friend, Kevin who work in the Casinos.

The environment there was quite cool with big mist due to raining. I did enjoy during the 2 days one night trip although I lost a bit of money at the Casinos. At least I will be able to relax myself, to stay away from the big audit workload.

This Sunday, I will begin my study life in Sunway for ACCA part time. It has been around half a year that I didnt go to class for lecture or tutorial.

It will be quite difficult to balance both audit as well as study life. But, I will try my best as it is my choice and I will also enjoy them...

Good luck to all my friends who like me just started ACCA part time or full-time. Enjoy the study life. And also those who started last semester, study smarter other than harder.

Busy..

Nowadays, I am a bit busy with my audit as I also need to come back work the whole Saturday as we are rushing for the interim audit of large public listed company. For final audit which will start on 17 July, I think i will be superbly busy.

Moreover, my part time ACCA class at Sunway college will start on 1st weekend of July. I am going to take 2 papers (P1 and P3) during this semester. Hopefully, I will be able to cope with the study as well as work together. It is going to be a challenge for me and I will take the challenge and try my best.

Taman Tasik Sri Pemaisuri

I went to have a walk with my roommate, Eddie at Taman Tasik Sri Pemaisuri this afternoon after taking a short nap. Taman Tasik Sri Pemaisuri is situated nearby my residential place at Bayu Tasik Condo, Bandar Sri Pemaisuri. It is a nice place for jogging, relax ourselves especially during weekend after busy working schedule during weekdays. It is also very a beautiful place which is why I want to recommend to all of you.