100% incompetent

I'm so glad my parents can afford me an overseas education!
Refer THE STAR newspaper dated 10th August 2009 "Start in English and end in English".
Flip-flop decision. If I ever were to hire such people, he'll be out instantly. FIRED for incompetency!

Proud of my nation, embarrass with my "leaders".

Hope I ain't too late to wish a few people:
My cousins, who are also my friends and also my brothers : Max Thum Chun Mun and Veneon Siew Soon Wai . Best of luck with the results!

Studies are back.

My Semester 1, Year 2 subjects: Cost information for decision making (Lecturer: Berekat) ; Company reporting (Lecturer: Wen Qu) ; Accounting information system & financial modelling (Lecturer: Beaman); Commercial banking & finance (Lecturer: Kathy).

I tried relistening lectures for week 1 for company reporting and commercial banking by downloading them at Monash website, conclusion...the lecturer for the latter one is horrible. she sounded so lack of confidence about what she's trying to say. On the other hand, the former one is understandable after second hearing commence. Next is Accounting information system & financial modelling (This lecturer is good eventhough only done with the first hearing, clear and concise) and Cost information for decision making (Need to really catch he's slang- not Australian but i think is from Sri Lanka or Pakistan).

Weather is getting colder, around 13-15 degrees every morning and now it's gloomy for the past 3 days already. Autumn is approaching, and I've gotten my AUD 89.95 winter jacket from DFO, Melbourne City. It's good in the sense that it's not overly huge untill like those North Pole expedition kind of wind breaker. Just nice and can you believe I bought the size XL. Weird size isn't it, considering the Australians are generally way bigger in size compare to their Asian counterpart.

Most companies offering internships are closing their application around mid April and I haven't start writing my Resume yet. Shit! PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young, KPMG, General Electric, Credit Suisse, UBS and many more employers. Offering and marketing myself to be employed for internship experience although not required at all for my course but since I've been working since after SAM, so why not just continue on. Speaking of it, hope I'll stand a higher chance to be employed considering of my petite exposure to the corporation governance since 2 years ago.

Alright, hopefully weather is fine on Saturday, consider of heading to Clayton Town for cheap Asian groceries. I got bored with the varieties at Brandon Park every Saturday, 9.15am-1.15pm. Coles Supermarket is certainly not offering the cheapest price eventhough with the home brand products onsale. I'm going for the even more cheaper once at Clayton Town. My capital budget for the week is around AUD 30 max. for a full week of suppplies from junk to real home cook breakfast/dinner/lunch meals. Yes, I've started cooking 2 weeks ago, reason is Halls Cafe's meals are not that cheap also, AUD 5.40 for a meal compare with what I cook which cost around AUD 4 for a meal, thus saving AUD1.40 a meal, which times with average exchange rate is 2.5 times. That makes up to saving RM3.50 per meal which times around 2 meals a day is RM7 and again times 7 days a week is RM49, time again 4 weeks a month is RM196, times again 10 months is RM1960 saved and that is by approximation only because I don't cook EVERYDAY. Sometimes lazy then go down to eat for AUD 5.40 per meal. Speaking of that I've been here for more than a month. Wohhooo! Easter is coming and I can't wait to see what are the Easter Eggs as in sweets or chocolates offered here. Wonderful delight junkies. I also found the Australian made sweet "Sugar" during my visit to the city again last week Sunday. It's a very interesting sweet. Buddies back home, I'll be carrying some to your doorstep when i returned. Something to share with you all. Till then cheers again from the land of the Aussie and kangaroos and wallabies and also wombats. Have a good day!


I've join 5 societies scattered with 4 of them based at Clayton and 1 at Caulfield. Namely are: Economic & Commerce Student Society (ECSS); Monash Finance Association; Monash University Malaysian Student Union (MUMSU); SIFE and ASEAN (Caulfield). ECSS is organsing a Corporate Cocktail Night at Rydges on Swanston Street, Melbourne City from 6pm-9pm. I bought the ticket (AUD$ 10) but the problem is returning to the Howitt, because no bus operates during the night. Yes, no bus operates around 9pm. This is Australia, things closed around 5-8pm. No night rider for me to hope in, and taxis is massively expensive. Walk is dangerous considering I'm in a foreign land. Last 2 weeks ago while walking with 10 of my friends, some drunken people threw eggs at us while driving pass us. All eggs were missed, fortunately, but heck of an experience cause I've heard alot of things about eggs threwing/flying and I've gotten my dose of it. Peace man. That makes me a FUCKING foreigner in their typical language. Come'on every locals hated foreigners that comes to their country to steal their jobs considering now with the full blewn impact of the global financial crisis.

ALRIGHT FINAL BYE!

Monash is becoming an ass

Monash University Sunway campus had terribly disappointed me with their full blatant lies and misrepresentation all over its brochures telling the world how grand and great they are. Let me share with you my experience while being coerced and later drifted away from my real intention.
At the beginning of 2008, after receiving my unstunning and disappointed SAM results, i forgo my intention to study engineering because I failed the qualification requirement of Monash and had no intention to go for other universities (those that I qualified) as Monash is well-known to be internationally recognise for it's capabilities of producing top-notch undergraduates students for the past several years. So my dad started throwing up questions at the counselors at the Finance Department in Monash University, Sunway campus regarding the chances of being transfered to Monash, Clayton campus in my year 2 which is 2009, and she stated that for Clayton, the requirement of the average marks is to be a minimum of 70% while Caufield campus is minimum of 65% and the rest (Berwick, Peninsular, Gippsland and South Africa) is lower then 65% (She was unsure). She failed to include that those minimum requirements were bounded to change from each semester. That lack of information had induce me to enrol for Monash, as if I was to be inform of the change of requirements then I would have alter my choice and enrol directly to Monash, Clayton campus or other universities such as University of Adelaide or University of Western Australia. Now, after attending two (2) "Monash transfer" talks and being briefed that the new requirement for transfer to Clayton and Caufield campuses had been upgraded to 70% for both respectively. This was due to increase in supply and demand of students and after attaining a minimum of 70%, you are only eligible to apply and not confirm a place in either Clayton or Caufield. Which means they'll pick only the creme de la creme which the earlier counselor had failed to project this information to me or my parents at the time of registration to Monash, Sunway campus. My guess is that too many people had opted for Caufield as a back-up plan if they were to fail the requirement to enter Clayton therefore they increase both to the same level of requirement. Worst of all engineering students only require a minimum of past (50%) to be eligible to offer for transfer to either Clayton or Caufield despite engineering being a much more tougher coarse (so to say) but with many people scoring high distinctions and my guess is that many people opted to study 2+2 if they ever plan to do a transfer, therefore in simple economic terms, there is no demand from the engineering school undergraduates students. Unfair it is because there was obvious a silence when it comes to transfer as many counselors were unaware of the requirements of transferring, as Monash from time to time changes it to suit to the situation without properly addressing to us students and luckily for me that I've done Specialist Mathematics in my YEAR 12 in SAM at Taylors, but to those who didn't do or had drop that subject then its too bad. But as a reasonable person, its hard to actually ask Monash University to find out the requirement as many of us were still unsure of our future path to universities. Therefore its difficult for us as we are at the loosing end no matter what happened, this is obviously a kind of moral hazard whereby one party is much more informed then the other creating an unbalance form of communication. Monash maybe be great at harnessing good undergraduates but seriously a no in terms of giving advice because many of it were omitted. Its so hard in semester two (2) to score an average of 74 marks (Distinction) for each subject. Business Law (Fat hopes), Marketing (attainable), Accounting B (Hopefully) and Money and capital markets (No idea). IN depressing shit, Fuck up la.

Was it a right decision to select business as my field game?

Exactly like the title says; Have I taken the correct move by picking up the business field as my game? Well many people had asked me or perhaps some "concern" people had asked me that why did I ever divert myself away from what I had been aspiring to do since my childhood days till the year 2007, which is engineering to business. Mayby "you" are blinded by pure naivism or you just can't see through my plans clearly. Nevertheless, my reason of coming to this particular conclusion is simple, I've predicted the future prospect of the business field. Lets take it down one by one;

• Firstly, engineering was indeed my first choice of profession since age 10 (I guess so). All this time I've been brainwashed by my father and mother to pick up engineering as my future profession, till the days when I'm done with SAM (South Australia Matriculation) at Taylors in 2007. The results of it, I have to admit wasn't really good, because of my foolishness of forgetting my responsibilities to study. Thats is totally my fault.
• Secondly, the papers that I had taken was English as a Second Language, Mathematics (first two are compulsary), Specialist Mathermatics (This is the killer of all), Physics and Accounting Studies. I fair terribly when it comes to Specialist Mathermatics, and I have to say that I'm pretty affraid now to handle sophisticated maths problem because that particular paper (Specialist Mathematics) really pulled me down real hard. On the other hand, I found out that Accounting Studies wasn't that bad at all, though I didn't scored well cause of the same reason, foolishness of forgetting my responsibilities to study (playful). That scenario had distanced myself from taking up engineering coarses. That was the catalyst of my change.
• Thirdly, was the given opportunity to work in my uncle's company, KJ Engineering Bhd. During those times, can't say much that I've done alot of things, but it was certainly an eye opener to the corporate world of business. Given the opportunity to see the difference of working requirements, conditions and payment (salary) between an engineer and an accountant. In the engineering field, I followed my ex-colleague-cum-mentor, Jenson a qualified electrical & electronic engineer, to several selected working sites, such as the refurbishment of the water cooling tank in UNITEN (University Tenaga Nasional) and also with Mr. Wong, manager of Tender Department (Roughly guess so, can't recall that much detail) at Precint 1, Putrajaya to see the instalation of the District Cooling System (DCS). This two (2) places was a major opporation for me because it was my first opportunity to see hands-on work especially at UNITEN with Jenson. But it also gave me a rough idea of what kind of working conditions that suit my style, because it was really frustrating to be working in a piping system room for chillers in UNITEN. The sound generated by the pumps was irritating my ears. Jenson told me that, this was not bad compared to working in a transformer room whereby the sound generated by the transformers sounded more like a whistling kettle, really make you doze off kind of sound. Therefore at that point of time, I drew a line that engineering was really way out of my league. But instead of questioning the reasons behind the functionality of the piping mechanism, I was more interested with the method that the dealings were made, because, Jenson told me that they want to obtain the project of installing a new water tank chiller for UNITEN, and if so why refurbishing the old ones. I ask him "is it a plan to show to UNITEN that KJ Engineering Bhd. has the capabilities of refurbishing the existing water tank, therefore making it a good impression to UNITEN that if they were to be awarded with that project, they could have performed better". He can't answer my question so I went and ask my cousin who is working there too, Melvin and he says "yes, thats what they are trying to do". Therefore that had further strengthen my reason for selecting the business field instead of the engineering field. My interest can be seen clearly towards business.
• Fourthly, I was more interested in reading through business articles then flipping technical booklets about engineering "substances". At first I was resentful with my decision of taking Prinsip Perakaunan (Principle of Accounts) during the end of form 4, but I guess passion drives me further to another step.
• Finally, anything in the world includes business, everything! Alright lets say you mayby becomes an engineer, but as you get promotion, you'll start to loose your technical skills and acquaire more conceptualise skills (which includes business management). As time passes by, you will be overlooking the entire department/organisation/ mulitple companies. If one was to be given an early background in business studies, wouldn't you say he/she would excell further. I'm looking at the long run prospect. The future.

I guess chosing this field wasn't a very bad idea afterall. At least I'm really confident of my goals. Its simple, to earn my first five digit salary by the age of thirty (30) in Australian Dollars, it may sound easy but to be really commited to it, that is a real challenge. After that, moving up to the position of CFO (Chief Financial Officer) by the age of forty (40) or by latest forty-five (45) -10 to 15 years time span for me to climb the corporate ladder. My wish is that to be one of the few youngest CFO for a/few huge multinational companies. After five (5) years then I hope to be the legitimate CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of the current multinasional company. Its a dream yes it mayby, but a man lives by his dream. Salary wise, the end journey would be at large stake, either you get all or you loose all. Becoming a billionaire, it would be simple to purchase anything from hospitals to other companies to include into the companies subsidiaries lists. The long run prospect is definitely good. By chosing these field, it would be a tough road, because they are so many accountants in the world and only the best can make, it. For every one successful accountant, there will always be ten (10) who will fail and I am going to be THE ONE who will succeed.

Another statement that I wish to clarrify was a friend of mine who always convince me to study locally. I had made a stand to study abroad (Australia). Leaving a counrty to further study doesn't implies that I had forgotten my motherland. This is an opportunity that appears once in a live time, how could I let it slip through my fingers?! If my parents have the financial capacity to do so and I have the will to deliver, I would go for it. Learning in a foreign land, gives a person the understandibility to know different cultures. Lets put my case to the discussion; with me having the opportunity to study and graduate in Australia, that leaves me with the understandibility of not only my one county, Malaysia's culture but to also learn and perhaps to assimilate with the Australian culture as well. Upon graduation, would you as an employer wish to hire a locally fresh graduate or a fresh graduate from other countries. There is a higher chance that a fresh graduate from other countries would be able to perform better then the local one, that is already a fact. My job prospect is to be able to travel around for years before returning back to Malaysia to set up a family. Throw me anywhere, India, China, Vietnam, Dubai, Turkey, America, Australia, Saudi Arabia etc. I will be glad that my employer does that to me. Globalisation is the key to sucess. Therefore the benefits of exploting this once in a life time opportunity to study abroad MUST NOT! in anyway to be allow to slip through my fingers. Its not just about Malaysia, its about the world. Integration among members of the world. So I hope now that my "dear friend" could understand the reasons that I chosed my path for both the business field and the decision to study abroad. I will put everything at stake for me to forge this road into reality, you can have my word for that! UPSR, PMR, SPM and SAM are all play time, I guess the real game begins now. I have to confess, that during those times; well I never really put much effort into real studying but I still get quite good results (except SAM) : ) . Guess this is the real game. Call me naive if you want, but I'm just penning down (typing down) my true interior expectations of myself. "To exceed the capabilities and expectations of others" (Thum, 2008).