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Just a short one.....

1. Been to bookfest Malaysia finally after three years waiting (this is the 4th year), nice bargain with a vast collections of books and other items....at least 20% discount on every single item on sale.....worthwhile.....though transportation fees are not cheap.....

2. Exams, exams and more exams.....time to tell myself be positive and concentrate liao...though we as students had been "dumped" bulks of information which is equivalent to about 30% of real exams content in just bloody 3 weeks.....

3. Fly or not fly during upcoming weekend? I also dont know....feeling like a waste if burn it....but if i go back.......exams shall suffers......lolz.....confused...

That's all....

Bye!

Backed in lifes....

Hello, long time didnt come up liao. Having just finished my first Progress Test yesterday. Now is having a "short holiday" of four days, as next class shall be on next Monday. Anyway, let's take a look at what the exams had "offered"...

F5: Performance Management --- Had been the worst paper that I had ever had...It had used to be my most favourite branch of accounting (FYI, this is under cost and management accounting) since CAT level and I had doing quite well for those papers when compared to Financial accounting or Taxation. But then now at here, with the lausy cost accounting lecturing teams; it had proved that something NEED to be done on our own (literally means BUY BOOKS and read YOURSELF!) if we wish to had a pass in December exam! The first time that I had a question that it knows me, but I dont know "him" (Literally means I didnt understand at all what the question wanted from us as candidiate, what the...).

F4: Corporate and Business Law --- Still ok i think in a sense that still being able to write sufficient (though NOT ALL) answers for most of the questions. But the trouble is that I didnt remembered much legal phases and cases laws, making my script more generalised; didnt look like a LAW paper. Anyway, just see this approach is acceptable or not lo, lolz. I just dont know how to remember the whole book that is full of legal facts!

F6: Taxation (M) --- still nice enough, i think the chance to pass is higher then the other two. But still this is a legal paper also in a sense that the content are laid down according to governemnt policies. Thus, bulk of contents also due to come despite it had already been a lot.

By the way, next Monday is the result release date for June session, which means it is almost time to enrol for December session exams liao; and guess what, as the past, the exams fees shoot up again, and this round is a freaking 6 pound in one go per paper. Three papers exam fees in MYR would amount to MORE than MYR1000!

Air Asia is having their "BIG SALES" this week, NOT that big enough as advertised as SOME of the routes are still expensive then the "FREE SEATS" promos in the past. Nevertheless, I still like their fares to Taipei, FREAKING CHEAP! LESS THAN MYR300 you can get a return ticket to Taipei per pax!

Malaysia Airlines on the other hand had good news also: Enrich Miles accural rules had been changed, and the new rule had enable passengers with the membership to be able to accrue the mile more easily. Now, with the exception of MHLow fare band under domestic routes, ALL other fares bands will be QUALIFY for Enrich accural. YEAH! At least it is more affordable to accurue the mileages for free flight. You now only need to pay the minimum of MHBasic fare under domestic routes in order to get 50% Enrich miles, not like before where you need to pay MHSmart fare only this shall be possible. International routes are even more FUN, MHLow will be QUALIFY for Enrich miles also with 30% mileage, YEAH! Cheers for MAS!

I had applied the membership last Feb, at throughout this half year, I already booked seven MAS tickets at MHLow; thus implying that my mileages still stand at the 1000 welcome miles level. If I didnt buy a qualifying fares within 2 to 3 years time from Feb 2009, the membership shall be deemed dormant and being void by then. So, I am now quite happy to hear this, XD:)=

The haze and water crisis in Borneo looks like more and more serious only, the haze even had affected the turboprop services, looks like it is real deal now for Sabahan and Sarawakian to "fight" against such situations. NO WATER is terrible, hope the water supply there is still sustainable!

On the other hand, Taiwan now is really having a bad time --- 50 years worst floods swept over the southern coast of Taiwan, turning the island into a "sea" with terrific chaos...Hope everything is fine soon. I think Borneo people might think: If marakot typhoon spare 1% of the rains to Borneo, it would be far more than enough already....Peep:)=

H1N1 in Malaysia is getting more out of control, more and more death cases related to it either directly or indirectly had been revealed this few days...Maybe the real deal of fighting against the virus had just came to SEA region....Our's nations fatalities figures even outrun Singapore's one, which stood at 9. Anyway, nothing much can be done except to keep our personal hygience to the MAX.

I will be most likely flying back to MYY for merdeka holidays for 48 hours only. Will review the situation two weeks later to see how it goes, but no matter what; most likely i will just go back, perhaps.

And the other day I had just booked a ticket with Air Asia for a flight in Oct back to MYY, the first time to bound with AK since thier incorporation 8 years ago. Hope that they wouldnt give me a "surprised" chaos that turned me down...

Guess that's all for the time being.

Bye for now!

Usual thing + rojak...

Hai, I am here again...after quite a long while...haha...someone made a complaint that all my recent stuffs are very lame and dry...yes, I admit that...as all are about my studies items...but what to do la...I can write something else...but takes times to create stories or something in kind...haha...bear it nia la...

Another thing I just wanna post up, my "school" is just rediculous and money faced.
They gave ACCA students complementary english lessons, however every student is required to buy the materials at RM18. And for those who had done Form 6 MUET with band 5 or band 6 (or other similiar capacity at international level) had an option whether want to join the class or not. These are all no big deal.

What is really stupid is that the way they collect the money. Last week was the first lessons in stage for all students. And you know what, they say all items must be collected latest by last friday, which I only came to the knowledge yesterday after an "incident", whereby I was trying to log on to the school computer to have some internet assess that is not available in my hostel. Initially, I thought I had typed the wrong log on info as I really typed something wrong...then the screen pop up a message stating that my account was disabled. Having fine with that, I go to the computer department to seek for assistant as I thought it was blocked due to that reason as in most common cases...who knows they said it shall be due to financial reasons as they never set that "common rules" in their computers system.

Done with that, I go to the financial department to check it out. In the end, is the RM18 that they are talking about! really sien and ridiculous. How can you expect all the students to clear the "debts" within the first week with the fact that some students havent even had their first lesson yet??!! Nonsense and rubbish. But anyway, I gonna to see later whether it is unblocked or not...wahaha...

Yesterday just having read through the Bookfest catalogue, really nice bargains to be grab during the exhibition at KLCC exhibition hall on next month. Let's see what else that they have to offer, with more than 1 million copies of books and other multimedia related items on display; I hope to grabs some nice bargains on casual reading materials. But anyway, what's more important is that since they had a vast area for English books and they stated there that there are publisher from UK to be participant in the event, I do hope to see some academic materials from UK (ACCA or something in kind) at discounted prices....

One month had passed, and the lecturers are progressing faster and faster; and I think that shall mark the revision count down towards exams...anyway, just hope everything goes accordingly...haha...

Here it goes, another school related item....haha...lolz..

Bye for now!

Something on customers' appraisal....

Well, as far as a business entity going concern is being taken into account for; I believe customers' appraisal is the key of "survival"...if you cant make the customers happy or refused to listened and act hospitably towards their request(s) and and demand(s), in the end business's sales or reputation and goodwill that are definitely going to suffer.

First of all, I would like to give MAS a good credit on customers' feedback matters. Few months backed I wrote in to them (due to something that they had done regarding the flight scheduling which is not so appealing) to complain something. They did get back to me giving some explanations towards my question.

I did drop off a suggestion of requesting them to review one of MASWings' RAS services in Sabah & Sarawak as I feel that it shall be retimed for the conveniences of the public, particularly those seek immediate connection from west Malaysia. And yesterday I came to acknowledge that they are going to retimed one's of it's flight time in the near future, bringing it more closely to the time during the earlier MAS era.

Anyway, they didnt really get my point; thus hoping that the to be three additional weekly frequencies shall be timed for these purpose mentioned. Anyhow, thumbs up for them to really listen and valued customers' feedback despite the fact that I had heard quite a number of people talking about their onboard hospitality which is not so reflected as it shall be in the ads (I do agree to a certain extent, but anyway if they gave what I shall be entitiled for onboard, it is OK with me whether they do smile or not or whether they could really actually acting promptly to your onboard request or not; for me I just want a value for money flight...).

Looking at some other entity it is the other way round. When someone talking to them, they just like...seem talking like a robot, with no tones, not so "friendly" faces, even dont care about customers' request...which is quite....(no need to say much la)...

My point is just: Valued the feedback of customers, all entities! Like a chinese saying goes: "Customers are the ultimate bosses". It is them who shall enable your businesses to be going concern.

(PS: Anyway, I personally DO NOT like those shops who are "over hospitalised"; meaning upon you step into their shop(s), they would just simply "following" you, asking you in the first place what are you looking for, there is NO FUN of shopping at all in such place, please! My point is that what for I step into your shop looking around when I already really know the exact item(s) that I want to buy?! right? And it is even more rude when a cashier ask is that all that you want to buy when you actually only got one or two items to buy!)

Guess that's all, just painting about something about "consumers' right", haha.

Bye bye!

Qualified for life

(PS: Apparently, I dont know what happened to my hostel connection; Internet is being made available, but then it refused to bring me to this posting page yesterday after I had attempted a few times of opening it. Now using campus wireless facilities. Anyway, here it comes; the longest prose probably in my blogging history.)

Well, for those of you out there who are well converse with professional qualifications; this slogan shall sound familiar to you, it's ACCA icon anyway if you dont know this.

Practically, my intention here is to “bombard” something from what professional qualifications students should have been enjoying. Well, as the three words suggest; it would mean that once a person had obtain the qualification with relevant and sufficient practical experiences, then he or she shall be well converse with the accountancy and business world or any other place where accountancy knowledge are required.

Looking back at those tuition providers that we had in ours nation, Malaysia; not many achieved official accreditation from ACCA (The ALP programme). But then after really entering into a well known institution that had produced vast high flying graduates within ACCA programmes, I begin to realise something which is quite diverted from my (and I believe most of others students out there) initial believe(s).

The ALP (Approved Learning Partner) programme do give a vivid indication of how that particular institution performed in ACCA over the past years. But then we, as public doesnt really know what are the exact criteria(s) of awarding such recognition; thereby misleading may occur as basis of assessment really were unclear to public.

From my “analysis” over the past three weeks and from those “experiences” that I had during CAT eras, the conclusion that is VERY vivid and true in nature is that in order for a lecturer really to qualify to teach professional qualification; not only that he or she should have been graduated within the same capacity (any professional certification), he or she shall also possessed sufficient practical experiences in a real business world in order to really being capable to teach students in terms of the application of those knowledge specified in each subject.

Maybe you would say this is too demanding, true enough that I think this is very demanding; but then this is the “real business” of what a lecturer can or cannot give. I do see a few already that those had good exposure to the business world really capable of delivering the lessons more lively, professionally, applicable to real life (in a sense that you can see what are those topics / learning objectives are meant for outside there). On the other hands, those doing something not related or teach immediately after graduated will be slightly not that good and efficient enough though he or she might struggling hard to make sure everyone do understand what is being taught and hoping that after years of “in house exposure”, he or she is capable of producing high flyer's in exams. But then, the fact is that this normally would work to the maximum.

This is really what I am having now. The costing teams (I meant to say those who teach cost and management accounting) appeared to be not so strong to me. Not only that they are not being able to teach in fluent English with sufficient content inside it. The thing that I really cant stand is that how can they simply teach a few pointers about a certain principle then go straight to Q&A session despite that the real textbook(s) had a few pages to reveal the underlying principle?! What even more funny and crazy is that they provided us with BPP Professional Education's kits questions.

For your information, ACCA had two official publisher; namely Kaplan Publishing and the mentioned above. Kaplan publishing had a relatively easier exams kits questions bank but a more hard to comprehen texts. BPP is exactly the reverse way of Kaplan, having user friendly texts but you would have a tough time of working through their questions ---- extremely demanding. Now that with a few pointers and questions from BPP as guided examples, I dont really know how to learn through that way.

My other friend who came along from Miri had chosen another class also experienced the same thing, they are just experiencing simply the identical approaches. The only difference is that that lecturer talk “Mars Language” and mine talk “Human / Earth Language”. Looks like we shall have a tough time for costing paper despite the fact that it is my favourite areas for accounting in CAT eras as I was able to score far more better than financial accounting and taxation during that time. I think the only way to do is having more reading and practice with those official texts (since this institution wrote their own text) and exam kits, the only thing is cost and time to be consumed.

Corporation and Business Law class is fun, as the lecturer can do a good story telling; but then thinking of exams of that really make me sick, all the things are legal terms in nature and you should know that laws speaks differently from human. I just have no ideas yet of how to crunch those pieces into the memory centre of a person's brain despite the fact the she had taught the analytical techniques of tackling those questions. Anyway, the other main trouble is the lack of additional resources which are particularly meant for this subject. Though they had produced a nice thick text for us as the “sole bible” for the time being, but the information are everywhere; not that nice for the purpose of reading for exams.

Taxation classes are pretty good and I enjoyed much of it, just that this is a stressful job as the content meant to the covered are the top for this semester. Anyway, with some solid ground (not that solid though) from CAT; this shall make the journey a little bit more easy in term of comprehension. But my friend claimed that her lecturer is not that good enough though she like the class also. Yesterday she popped me up with a question via MSN whether I am satisfied of what I am getting as a “stakeholder --- the student”, I was like pretty surprising as backed in few months when I was still undecided for where to sign up; she still say this is the best, but then now she changed the perception already, even told me that considering to transfer for another institution that receives much more credit from part timers but receiving a slightly lower “grade” from the ALP programme.

In the end, my conclusion is that Platinum or Gold status is of nothing; it is just the performances measurement taken by ACCA and meant as a guideline only. In the end, it is the working adults comment who pursue part time for professional qualification that shall count as they might have a clearer picture of what to be demanded for from the course and institution.

Anyway, just tried it out smart and hard for a year first; if everything can be secured within first attempt and I can really build a strong confident in what Professional level lecturers can give (rather next 3 papers of F level also), then will go ahead to strike for the end goal or else maybe need to think of opting for OBU and gain the 3 years practical first...see how it's go as time lapsed...hope can survive through...sigh...maybe this is really the end consequences of having too much private institutions in Malaysia that makes the rivalry so clear; resulting the quality of tutors are really hard to determined by any possible means. Even you got the means to give some assessment, it might also turn up the other way round.

Guess that all.

"Work for better tomorrow" (wahaha....telling every single person...).

Bye bye!