Revival

Well i'm been under some peer pressure to revive my online diary that's so far consists only of craps! It seems that my blog has been left empty my entire birthday month. Maybe some pictures will be up soon when I get too bored of law.

Anyways i wonder why i am here right now while i am supposed to be pouring my so called full concentration on my books right now. (and worst still i'm going out later -.- ) Alright, ta for now =D Who knows for those of you that read this boring page, there'll be some stuffs up later =D 

Cheers!

Hermes...

Well being the messenger God, i'm just taking over His job and passing a message.

A friend of mine is doing her moral project and is seeking some donations. If any of you are interested in purchasing these items or just wanna donate some cash, just contact me =) thanks folks. Alright here goes,

Hey guys,

I’m doing a fund raising project for my moral studies project in conjunction with Humans Rights week in Sunway University College. Besides collecting donations, I’m also selling some stuff. All proceeds will go to charity so I don’t earn anything. All things sold are below market price. All the funds raised will go to WAO(Women’s Aid organization) or CREST(refugees and cyclone victims). I highly recommend that you guys buy the chair with cooler bag because it’s very useful when we go for Frisbee competitions. I bought one too! I’ll be coming to training today so whoever is interested please bring some money. Thanks very much and have a nice day! =)

Chair, RM 30

Side view
Front view

with an advanced cooler bag :D

Thermos Flask, RM40Pouch, RM1

A Mug, RM 3

Another Mug, same price =D

Bowl, also 3 bucks

And lastly an alarm clock, RM 1 each

Well, I'm off to study for my progress test now! Law tomorrow... I badly need luck now.(if it does help)... Ciaoz

Malaysian Student Leaders Summit 2008 (msls 08)

Awkwardly, i have never expected to attend this seminar in the beginning(I was actually registered by my sister -.- ) Anyways when i got the confirmation letter i got quite excited, and true enough i ended up there.

AUSMAT's talent night was held the night before and naturally, me being a busybody stayed back and went for it. At last i came back only at 1 am and was forced to wake up at 530 am to get to the summit.

Honestly i have never attended this kind of really formal seminars before and i thought i looked quite weird in a blazer. -.- (and apparently i did) Worse still i was ALONE =( There wasn't anyone that i knew were there...Haha

Well, i arrived early last Saturday, so i turned 'sua ku' and took a couple of pictures.

Nikko Hotel

The walkway

The hall

And apparently i look as though i am 20 years old!!! (some even mentioned 23 =.=)

The hall was fitted to fit about 500 of us and we were like ants there. All fully formal and stuffed into the same place. And gosh! There were so so so many brains there! Lots of them were studying overseas in renowned unis like Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick and such. I seriously felt so small compared to them when announcing i was from Sunway... :D


Anyway the way these students talked really opened my eyes. Haha. i was really dumbfounded by the way they spoke. The issues they brought up were quite alien to me. Just realized how much inferior i was compared to them, in both language and knowledge.

Pak Lah is somewhere in front i guess.... PS: his speech was the 'best' as he'd 'so happen' forgotten bout it...
And he was grilled too !!

On the whole the event was awesome. Food was ok, since its free, so i guess its justifiable. (Accountants..... LOL ) Met a couple of new friends all dispersed round the world too and it was just great. Haha. I feel really like a new person after the event... although this may sound dramatic but i just dunno how else to put it.

Try looking for me :P ! Hint: my eyes were closed.....

Anyways that's all for now. Need my beauty sleep. And really lagging behind in my homework..ish! And lastly, some crap!



Take care and cheers people!

PS: We really got to start doing something and be united before someone elses start sodomising us again.. (Tahun Meliwat? :D)

written out of total randomness

As usual i have been neglecting my blog and there were even apparently cobwebs all round it. So glad to say i am back... maybe for a short period maybe long, who knows?

Classes started like 3 weeks back and i'm badly in need of help now. Its not that i'm busy with classes and all(in fact i'm quite free :D ) It is just that there is nothing to push me through...

Hmm well with a total of 3 subjects this sem, it all seems quite ok.. but already law is killing me. The classes are not bad but once the textbook is opened, you'll be sleeping after 2 lines. =.= even so, in just 3 weeks i am SUPPOSED to have covered 50 pages of the text book with maybe a trillion case laws and a gazillion sections.(Have I? Well... only someone up there knows the answer :D)

Costing seems fine but alas... I am targeted (I wonder why...?) I haven't even touched the textbook so i cannot comment anything bout it yet... the textbook looks cartoonic(if there is such a word) and cheap though...so it isnt my fault :D !! Typical Sunway...

Tax is great only on the surface =D. Seems to really have lost touch of it even with only 3 weeks into classes. T9 seems to be so straight forward now. Haha. Lots of laws as usual. Maybe a couple of million of sections; but i guess i can take it(so far)

The only thing that seems to be interesing now is frisbee. With a competition tomorrow, and just after a buffet dinner, i'm just hoping that i don't vommit tomorrow. (finger's crossed =P) Well, someone up there has always been looking after me. He'll be there tomorrow :D.

A few good quotes i have heard recently:

~ Sometimes the truth isn't just enough. People deserve more than the truth. They deserve to have their faith rewarded...

~ There is no defeat in death; victory comes into vending what we know is right while we still live..

Sounds familiar? :D

Anyways just a shout out to everyone everywhere: All the best and take care =)

Ciaoz!!!

EXAM TIPS!!!

I found this on the net (apparently given by BPP)

The examiners deliberately try to avoid question spotting. Use the tips as areas to have a good look at, but remember that no-one knows what’s in the exam except the examiner. Your safest bet is to achieve good syllabus coverage in your revision, as the examiner aims to do in the exam.

CAT5 BPP Tips:

* Business and accounting environment
* Internal controls and MIS
* Motivation, leadership/teams
* Personal planning and communication
* Health and Safety at work, and security

CAT 5 Health Check
If you can answer the following questions positively then you will be well placed for the exam.

Can you explain the political, economic, social and technological issues affecting a business and who the different stakeholders are in the business?

Do you know how an organisation is structured , the systems and procedures that are likely to be in place and how the accounting department co-ordinates with other functional areas?

Do you know the difference between internal and external auditors and what the management should do with respect to internal control?

Do you know the control procedures that there are in an accounting system, the main ways to prevent fraud and how management information systems help?

Can you describe the work of the main theorists concerning authority, responsibility, leadership and management, including the weaknesses?

Can you distinguish between a group and a team and know what makes them tick or not tick, including the key theories of motivation?

Do you know the main ways to improve individual effectiveness at work, including interpersonal skills and communication?

Can you describe how to make sure that training is effective, how the process of learning should occur in the workplace and then how workers should be assessed and appraised?

Can you outline the main provisions of relevant legislation on Health and Safety, what sources of danger there are in the workplace and how to prevent this danger?

Cab you describe possible sources of security breach in a workplace and how to prevent them?

CAT7 BPP Tips:
Following are the important Topics for this attempt.

* Principles of cost accounting/collecting and analysing cost information
* Variance analysis
* Forecasting/time series
* Decision making scenario/cost management/performance indicators

CAT 7 Health Check
If you can answer the following questions positively then you will be well placed for the exam.

Do you know about the role of a management accountant in detail, the limitations of management accounting information and how to collect, maintain and improve the information?

Do you know how to analyse and present information, including the use of index numbers?

Can you explain the budgetary process, including functional and departmental budgets, and how this ties into the planning and control cycle within an organisation?

Can you prepare master budgets and all the component parts of them, including the use of time series and scatter diagrams?

Can you calculate variances that arise from a flexible budgeting system, both in terms of physical units as well as pounds?

Can you explain why variances arise, how they are inter-linked and what action to take in response to a variance?

Can you work out suitable performance measures for an organisation (including job, batch, contract, service and process costing environments) and discuss the problems with selecting and monitoring the measures?

Do you know the different types of cost behaviour and apply these to different decision-making situations?

Can you prepare and explain break-even charts and profit-volume charts and then describe the advantages and disadvantages of using the analysis produced?

Do you know modern management theories including Life Cycle, Target, Activity Based costing and Total Quality Mangement?

CAT8 BPP Tips:
Following are the important Topics for this attempt.

* Regulatory framework/third parties
* Audit of balance sheet items/testing
* Accounting systems/control cycles
* Audit completion – analytical review/report qualifications

CAT 8i Health Check

If you can answer the following questions positively then you will be well placed for the exam.

Can you describe the chronology of an audit and explain the various parts of the audit in detail, including where the regulatory framework has an impact?

Can you describe the statutory powers and duties of auditors and how they are required to behave ethically?

Can you explain the different types of audit risk and how these affect the work that is needed on an audit?

Do you know the different types of controls that are likely to exist in a company and how to design tests that fit into the controls that are available, and how to design tests if controls are not available in the company?

Do you know how CAATs are used for control/compliance or substantive testing purposes?

Do you know why audit sampling is relevant to the auditor, can explain terms such as confidence intervals and outline various types of sampling with their advantages and limitations?

Can you explain the procedures involved with auditing all major balance sheet categories?

Do you know the function of review procedures in an audit, including analytical review, post balance sheet events, contingencies, opening balances, letters of representation and management letters?

Can you describe the purpose, significance and content of an audit report?

Do you understand auditor’s liability and responsibility?

Thats all folks =) Happy Studying for exams and best of luck. WE ARE GETTING OUT OF CAT THIS TERM!! Cheers ! Take care too people.

An "Amazing/Extraordinary/Superb" idea.

Ok what i need now is not lots of luck. I desperately need someone to slice my brain open, and insert a hard drive...err wait i think a M2 memory stick will be enough. It MUST be filled with audit, tax and costing notes. The surgeon would then insert a card reader together with it into my brain and connect it to my nervous system so i can write everything and anything i need during the exam without me realizing. I don't even need to understand.

IF ANYONE OUT THERE IS READING AND KNOWS HOW TO DO SO, THIS PLEASE CONTACT ME!!

right, i'm waffling again. I NEED TO STOP CRAPPING!!! CRAP

Exams

Well, i just came back from indiana jones and am too lazy to study (as usual)*smirking*. Papers round the corner and i am just baffled by how fast time actually flies. The day which i just entered college is still fresh in my mind..and now i'm left with what? 216 hours before my CAT exams? duh... Anyways i'm taking my exams in M'cca so i guess that next week will be my last week in college this semester. Feels kind of weird though.. At one time you are going to college everyday whether a not there're classes and now you're leaving it for 1 month. Well it isn't long, i know but it feels different though.

Anyways enough bout those, if i look back into what actually happen these past few weeks of my life, it seems kind of pathetic.. each day i'll wake up, eat, study, eat, plant myself in front of the pc and sleep. Goodness me, i seem to really have no life... Haha luckily i studied in coll or there would have been moss growing round me right now...

Exams soon once again and i am once again forcing myself to plant myself in front of books reading dull stuff which can put you to sleep in 3 seconds. Audit is for one the best example. You don't really get what you're reading and waffle all your way though the tests and when you see the answers it just seems to be common sense. Well the only logical conclusion now is that i guess i have no sense at all during tests and lets pray that doesn't happen next week or the week after.

Saw this equation years ago and guess that its has some truth in it. XD

study = no fail ------ 1
no study = fail ------ 2

1 + 2,

study + no study = fail + no fail

so,

study (1 + no) = fail (1 + no)

that means,

study = fail .... =P

Well frankly i don't really know whats my purpose posting this today and now. I'm just too random i guess. Cheers people. And before i forget,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHUYING!!!

PS : Good luck to everyone this exam and make sure we bloody get out of CAT this round. This sem was great(except the studies of course) Hakuna Matata people!!!