Awkward Moment

You know it will be awkward to walk in class when you are ten minutes late. And then, you make such a commotion that people notice you. If it is just one time event, then maybe I guess it will be okay. But it is totally not acceptable if you are walking in thirty minutes late to class every single lesson. Wow, you just proved a point...that you are the late bird to class. This girl literally walked into class every single lesson thirty minutes late. After a month, it would be just normal to see her come to class, or even show up to class.
On Tuesday, without any conscience, I just walked into a class. Normally, you would just open the door and then ooops, you know you screwed up because the class did not disperse yet. Okay, I have to admit that it was not partially my fault. I thought I was running late, so I quickly ran to class. I opened the door, walked up to my usual sitting chart and then I realized that I made a mistake. My class did not even start yet. I blushed and walked out of the room. They all thought I was weird, maybe an executive speaker (student) was invited to this presentation. Like seriously, come on. Luckily, I knew the professor and he helped me to cover up my actions. Best professor ever...period!! Most awkward moment ever...

End of Fall 2010

Another semester has just gone by just like that. As a senior and going to graduate, there are so many things in your life that you have think/worry about. What are you going to do after you graduate? Masters program, internships, your career, financing your career, and the list goes on. On the bright side, I still have another semester to really sort out what I want to do with my life. Who knows, maybe by then...I will get some of my answers, maybe not all. Hopefully, half of them will be answered.

I think that this semester has been going well for me. I cannot believe that I actually attended all of my Social Dance classes. To think of it, I truly enjoyed that class a lot. I got to learn swing, waltz, the cha-cha. Note to self, there are some weird people out there who are just dying to dance and maybe acts weird just to impress the girls. Thankfully, I am not like that. I also took Business Ethics for my Capstone class. Sometimes, I feel that it is ironic to have a class in Ethics and then you see newspaper articles about business people jeopardizing their careers and future just because they need extra money. Seriously, you already earned $5.5 million a year in bonuses, and that does not include your annual salary to add icing in the cake. "Good judgment right there..on your part. Now, you end up with nothing.." In my opinion, this BLS class is truly different because it helps you to analyze different business perspectives and mindset. Then, you use your judgment, beliefs and values in life to the applicable scenario. Now, this is what business ethics should look like. I have to say that this is class is totally on top of my favorite classes at Miami in the Farmers Business School. Besides that, my Management class is something that should be mentioned because our group was assigned with a client case. I just presented our findings yesterday. Amazingly enough, we pull it all together and contribute our ideas into this project. As a result, our client including our professor was impressed with our work.

And finally, my accounting classes. Since I have my Audit internship, I am able to relate my experience and use the knowledge for future purposes. Because only seniors are allowed to take this course, my professor gave us a prep talk to how to prepare for a future in accounting and the prospects in the industry. He also gave us useful advice to use in our first job. (Note to self: find a mentor who you want to emulate and your first job is not the job that you will be doing for the rest of your life) As for my other Accounting class, let's just say that it was a good class (period).

The next week will be hectic and busy as finals week is just around the corner. I have exams on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. After that, I probably attend Dong's graduation in Millett Hall. During the holidays, I will focus on my GMAT preparation and graduate school application. Did I mention, that I am excited to spend time with Rachel (my cousin) in San Francisco. I need to get out of this cold weather and enjoy some place that is hot. Hooray. I think that I know what I am going to do this spring break too....I am going to apply for the Alternative Spring Break in St. Louis. It will be fun....

Counting down the days till it is Christmas...16 days to be exact!!

First day of Snow

Thanksgiving is over but Christmas is coming soon. On Monday, the sky was a cloudy. It was just plain dull. Maybe it was because Thanksgiving break was over so everyone was sad. Perhaps this is what contributed towards the the cloudy weather. When I woke up the next day, I thought I overslept because the sky was super-duper dark and pale. At around 11am, it started raining till 8pm. Yes, this is not an over-exaggerated fact, but the rain did not now and then, but it rained most of the time. That's Oxford weather for you. Today, it started snowing. How ironic is that. Maybe I should have expected it some how. The weather forecast for this weekend is snow too. Ah, finally it starting to look like Christmas.

*singing: "Let it snow, let it snow"....

On a side note, I have so much stuff to do this week. It's like a marathon race to the finish. Projects, presentations, GMAT preparations, meetings, the list is endless. Two more weeks of school and Fall Semester is over. Somehow, I feel like I do not want my time at Miami to end. Kinda feel a bit sad but oh well, just got to move on with life.

What is your Favourite Color?

I have Yahoo set on default on my computer because it keeps on updating news that sometimes get me interested. Occasionally, I will glance through some articles and I found this article to be fairly interesting. When you go shopping for clothes, you normally have a favorite color that you will buy. I think that it is funny how people can create questionaires and surveys about such things like this. I have to admit, my favorite color is blue. Well, that is common color isn't it? However, I think I am trying to diversify my color preference by wearing brown, grey or perhaps purple. I have those colors too but the majority of my closet is BLUE. So what does Blue represents. Here is what I got:

What it represents: Blue is a color of clarity, communications and charm. And regardless of the shade, this hue says: “I like to be understood.” On the downside, under stress, a “blue” person can send mixed messages, have trouble making up their mind, or just space out during conversations.

Understanding people who love it: If blue is your favorite color, you never run out of anything to say — expression is your strong suit. And if you’re dating a “blue” person? The same holds true; you should always know where you stand.

[Well, this article explained it in a brief way, but you get the idea]

* I am going to share this link in case you want to know what color defines you:
http://yahoo.match.com/y/article.aspx?articleid=6130&TrackingID=526103&BannerID=706376

Caffein vs Evening Naps

I can't believe that nowadays I am trying to avoid taking evening naps anymore. I think that evening naps is a waste of time because it only makes me even more sleepier. Some people call it power nap but I think that does not solve the equation in this issue. Plus, I do not see the point in taking evening naps because I still sleep at the same time as I did without my evening nap. It is not like anything is going to change. Instead of sleeping, I can gradually finish my ever-piling homework. How do I prevent myself from sleeping? This goes straight to my point in this blog. My only solution is to take coffee breaks or soda-caffeinated drinks like Coke or Mountain Dew. But, then I realized that Coke/Mountain Dew is bad for you because of the amount of sugars in it. So I turned to coffee because it is a better alternative. Luckily, I got lots of supply of coffee which hopefully will last me for another semester. I hope that I do not make this a daily habit. But I do need something strong to keep me awake so that I can be more productive. Is there any other alternatives that I can consider? I guess not, and coffee seems like the ideal answer. After all, winter is here and coffee helps me to stay warm with warm fuzzy feelings.

It was only just a dream....a real dream

I had an interesting nightmare yesterday. I went to bed at 2pm because I was studying for my Auditing exam that is coming up on Wednesday. Before that, I reminded myself that I need to submit my BUS 228 homework assignment that is due on Monday, 830 am. I got too carried away studying that this event just slips by my mind. After I finished studying, I turned off the lights, and went to bed. Then, I had a nightmare that the BUS 228 teacher, put me in the spot because I did not submit my homework on time. She kept on saying how irresponsible a student I am in front of the class and obviously I was humilliated. That was when I woke up, and knew that I forgot to submit my homework. As I turned on my laptop, it was 5am. Think about the irony that happened. My nightmare actually saved me because I managed to submit my homework in time before the due date. Ah, what a blessing. Good thing I finished this paper on Friday and just had to add some finishing touches to it. And voila, I hit the submit button.....phew!! Then, I went back to bed again.....
My alarm rang at 850am, being as lazy as I can be, I involuntary woke up, brushed my teeth and turned on my laptop again. This time, I had to rescheduled my ACC class because my desired professor switched sections. Luckily, I managed to get into the section that I want...Now, everything is done. However, this time, I did not go back to sleep. My 10.10 is about to start.
At least I got off to a bright start.....That is what matters!!!

Halloween Weekend

While I was walking to get food uptown on Thursday, I saw a lot of people dressing up in costumes. Some of them dressed up as Lady Gaga, The Situation guy, robonic man and etc. And it struck my mind that this week is Halloween Weekend. I think I will try to be something different this year, last year I was Mario, this year, who knows? I want to be something cool and at the same time unique. Also, I am trying to be involved on campus and what better way to do it as volunteering to Trick-or-Can organized by Buck Rodgers. Instead of collecting candies and goodies for Halloween, we go to each houses and collect perishable items like food cans. All proceeds go to the Oxford Community Center. Last year, we collected almost 2000 cans and I was part of this event. I am really looking forward to this year Trick-Or-Can event. It is gonna be fun.....

*scarry music playing in the background*....

I think it is time to stop blogging, it is almost time for Tininkling practice at Withrow. sigh!!!

Tornado Watch

Every Wednesday, there is a tornado alarm test in Miami University. I always wonder why would they conduct the tornado alarm when we do not have any tornado alert. Today, I finally understand why. As I was waiting for the bus to go home, I actually missed it because the bus driver was stupid enough to just drive past. Since I already missed my bus, I decided to go to Brill Science library to catch up on some homework and assignments. While I was doing my Business memo, my university was on tornado alert and we all were required to go down to the basement. The weather was already so bad that I knew this was already happenning.

Spring 2011 class

Time flies by really fast don't you think? Today I registered for my Spring 2011 classes. One week before registering, I would look at ratemyprofessors.com to search for good professors to take. And then when the time comes, you wait anxiously for your slot to open and then you quickly choose the class that you want to take and hope that it does not be full. Rule number one for registering, always have a backup plan. I think I have the best schedule ever so far, especially Spring 2011. The classes that I am taking are:

MW 1245-2pm Cyberlaw
MW 215-330 Management
TH 930-1045 Accounting
TH 1115-1230 MIS
TH 530-8pm Accounting Electives

And there you have it, my final semester of classes. If you are paying attention, I have scheduled my classes in a way that I have Friday off. How cool is that? Which means that I have a semester of Spring break, 3 day weekend....yes!!! On a side note, I think that next semester class will be a lot of work. Hopefully it is not.....*fingers crossed*
I think I will continue to sleep.....ZZZZZZ

Hey there Delilah

I hear the radio a lot, in the car, at work, on my ipod, and also on my laptop. Different people have different radio station that they love. In Malaysia, I always turned to Hitz.fm, a radio for new music which my parents dislike. After hearing the radio for five minutes, my dad will always grumble at me and then he will change to Light and Easy station. He says that this radio station should be THE radio station. Well, they actually play good music from the oldies. Sometimes, my parents, sis and me compromise on the radio station, we usually turned to 94.5 that plays a collection of new and old music. After being in the US for a while, I stumbled across a radio station called 98.5 aka Delilah radio station. Delilah radio station plays good music especially at night. It is not some blend radio station that plays the same song over and over again. Delilah (she) plays songs for the caller and the song usually resemble the caller itself. I have to admit, the songs that she choose are always good. Also, listeners can call in and talk to Delilah about their problems. Sometimes, the caller share sad stories and consult her for serious advice. When I hear sad stories on this radio station, I feel really sad for the the caller. I am fortunate that God has blesssed me and I realized how fortunate I am. Other times, the stories that they tell are quite obvious. The stories are quite common, love, relationship, friends, parents. But different people have different stories in their life. Go figure!
If I got the chance to call Delilah, I wonder what my story would be? Wait, I don't think I want that much drama in my life. So I think I will pass on that. Anyways, I just love this radio station, and I thought I would share it with you. Hint, you can search it on Google (delilah radio station). That what I do and so can you....she comes on at US 8-12. Listen to her and be inspired!!

Fall Break 2010

It's time for break especially when you have gone through school for 2 months non-stop. This is a good time for a break. Well, this break is so short that it is only Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Do you call this a break? Some college kids schedule their classes so that they avoid having Friday classes. How cool is that? I want to have that kind too. 3 day weekend sounds good to me.Hopefully it will work next semester for me. *fingers crossed*

Campus is quite quiet because a lot of college kids go home during this break. Unfortunately, home for me is too far away and so going home is not an option for me. So, here I am at home, blogging and reminding myself the greatness of HOME. I think it is true the saying,"Absence makes the heart go fonder". Actually, I really do miss home a lot...I miss my dad's cooking, I miss playing with eeling (or maybe iritating her), I miss talking to my mum, I miss driving around PJ, I miss meeting my favorite cousins and Aunty Susan, I miss Taiping & Seremban, I miss Malaysian food, I miss my Bandar Utama bed, I miss my BB friends, I miss Aunty Diana...

Frankly, I just miss being in Malaysia right now....Maybe just for this 3 day weekend. I have compiled a collage of pictures that I miss in Malaysia.

Cooking and Cleaning

There always a policy in my family about cooking and cleaning. My dad cooks most of the time and he spends like 2-3 hours cooking for us and his dishes would be excellent. I really miss eating his steam fish or his curry fish head. Since my dad cooks, he expects either my sister or me to clean up the dishes afterwards. It is just the way it is in my family. We know our roles pretty well. I think my dad cooks a lot just to relax himself from a day's work. Maybe that is where he finds his comfort. In the kitchen. Me and my sister would usually wash the dishes after he cooks. Yes, sometimes we argue on washing the dishes but we normally do it either way.

I think I inherit this gene from my dad where I would volunteer to cook for my group of friends. I really do not mind cooking for anybody that is close to me if I have the extra time. I have to admit, I like people to try my cooking especially if I am making Malaysian cuisine. Whenever I cook, I try to stay on the safe side and stick with the cooking that I am good at. That just the way it is. After I finished cooking, I expect people that eat the food to clean up. I spend almost an hour in the kitchen, cutting, cooking, washing, tasting and the least that you could do is spend 7 minutes washing the plates. Adding to the fact that I spend $20 on food without even asking a penny from you annoys me a lot. That all I asked from you. So right now, I am $20 dollars poorer, less food in the house and pots/dishes lying in the kitchen waiting to be washed. How thoughtful of you.

Birthday Surprise

Yesterday I got a secret invite to attend a birthday party celebration which I have no clue whose birthday party it is let alone who sent it. I guess that is why they call it a surprise. And then I began thinking about myself. I always get invite for secret birthday parties, like you are invited to a surprise for X at 7pm etc. I always feel that if someone actually gives me a surprise, I would actually be emotional and cry in the end. Fortunately, that has never happened to me before which is kinda good but then at the same time, I want to be on the receiving end of a birthday surprise. Anyways, I just as contented if somebody just treat me out for a dinner or bake me a birthday cake. And then, this makes me wonder. Am I that insignificant that nobody ever throws me a surprise? Because if you are indeed special, someone would actually throw you a surprise right? On a side note, at least people wishes me happy birthday, treat me for dinner and bake me a cake. I think I am grateful of having that. ah well, you can't ask for more right?
I want to find out who actually planned this surprise, and who this surprise is for. This is going to be interesting....As the date looms closer, I will keep you posted on the latest news.
For now, it's a surprise!!!

Connectivity

Globalization is the term that every company is using today. Going global is every company dream so that they can expand into new markets and gain a larger market share. With the use of the Internet, we are practically connected to nearly every part of the world. People use Skype for video conferencing so that managers don't need to travel 100 miles and pay for flight expenses. And then, there is also your phone set. So many people nowadays have Blackberries, Iphone, PDA and etc. I wish I had one too. I am a maniac that I will check my email before I sleep although I already checked it 5 minutes before that. It's just that I don't want to miss anything that would be important. Imagine if I got a Blackberry or an Iphone, I would be obssessive with emails, and constantly checking them. Yes, I know what you are going to say to counter this....Well, it is more convenient having a portable computer in the size of your hand. You don't need to find for a PC and etc....the list goes on. My point being, I don't need to have a Iphone or a Blackberry, what I do need is a new phone. One that has all the updated features of a phone, MP3 player, camera phone, ability to connect to the web (highly desirable) and web browswer. I noticed that phones nowadays cost so much, and if I invest in one, I want to have a good quality phone which will last me maybe a long time. All I do with my current phone is send text and call. To be honest, that is lame. But on a brighter side, it still works minus the keys sometimes backfires on me. Overall, it still is a good phone.
Which leaves me to this question, obviously I won't pay the ridiculous high price fee and get tied to a service provider just because I want to look cool. That is too much to ask for. I would rather save checking my email if I ever find a computer or a laptop. That would be my preferred option. Should I invest in an Itouch although I already have a Ipod. Considering the disadvantages outweighs the benefits, I chose to not buy a ITouch. For now, I think I will stick to my old phone, which still serves me well, and my Ipod that I used to listen to music.

Career Fair

I got so many things on my mind this senior year. I am going to apply for graduate school, sign up for job interviews on campus and elsewhere, GMAT, work and study at the same time. How can I even manage my time to do all of these in one semester? Remember that I have no choice but to complete all of these before my senior year is up. Note that time is ticking and it is of the essence. I cannot mention how important my senior year is going to be.

Remember when you were younger you watch shows/cartoon and tell your parents that that is what you want your career to be. I remember watching Wah Lai Toi shows and tell myself that I want to be a pilot or air steward when I grow up. That of course did not go so well. I know that parents always want the best for their children and say "Kid, you need to dream big, aspire to be a doctor/lawyer/businessman and you will succeed in life." I believe that kids should follow their dreams, luckily I have supportive parents who tell me to follow my dream and do what I want. I get to choose my own career path, alas, I chose Accounting.

Well, in 5 years time, I wished to get my CPA move up the rungs of within an organization and maybe one day be a CEO of a company. Hopefully, that would happen someday but if I can achieve anything higher than a CFO, I would be contented with my life. If I was that talented, I would be probably be:

1) The best soccer player ever. People have stigma over soccer players but look at Messi, Ronaldo etc. They get paid playing soccer. How cool is that!! The best part is they only play 90 minutes 4 times a week and get paid like close to $1million. You get the opportunity to travel, by playing in other leagues like Spain, France, England, Champions League. Imagine donning the colors of your national team by playing in the World Cup. How cool is that!! That my friend is life....Hold on, being a manager of a soccer team can't hurt either. Just compare that with Jose Mourinho...Chelsea manager, Porto manager, Inter Millan and now Real Madrid!!! Ponder this, does footballers play to work or work to play?

2) Doing cool stuff like the commentator of History Channel, I envy the guy in Cities of the Underworld. Maybe his job is tough but you get to experience first hand the hidden underground city that is above you. I would be so impressed with my job as I will be discovering secret pathways in every episode.

3) Another career that I find interesting would be maybe working with animals. Like a zoo trainer or something. Training dolphins to do tricks or dogs would be a fun thing to do don't you think so? Hearing the crowd cheer because you personally trained them would be a satisfying experience. However, in this case, I rather be a volunteer just to be on the safe side.

4) I also feel that being a bartender is a cool job too. deejaying, damn is a much more cooler. Every weekend you get to spin the cd and rock the dancefloor with your music. Or maybe mixing drinks and coming up with your own unique drinks. Think pyschology, you can mix and make drinks according to that person moods or desire. You will be known as the Special Mixer (i know lame....)

5) I really have not come up with the 5th one yet...but I have all other spots filled up for now. I will just leave number 5 for you to come up with yourself. You probably be better off thinking what you want to do.

This song from B.O.B Mars sums up my career path,
"I wanna be a billionaire so freaking bad, buy all the pieces that I never had. I want to be on a cover of Forbes magazine, smiling next to Oprah and the queen. Oh every time I close my eyes, I see my shade in shining eyes, different cities every night, oh yeah, I wanna a billionaire....and the song goes on......!!!!"
Ah, tomorrow is career fair.....

September 16th

How do I describe this day?? one word, truly special because it is my birthday. I realized that I share the same birthday as my cousin, Angela Lim, 2 of my high school friends, Tajuddin & William Cheng, and my best Alexander worker Greg Mattingly. Who in the world can be proud to announce that all these wonderful people was born on September 16. Amazing right?? At least I think it is. The best present I have is to successfully become Treasurer for Asian American Association. I always played second fiddle and finally I got the opportunity to hold this position. My greatest present ever. Every birthday present seems to be sweeter than previous. In the future, I realize that if I go back to Malaysia, there will be holidays because September 16 is officially Malaysia Day. Ah, the great joys being born on September 16. What would I wish for my birthday present? I probably cannot think of anything right now, I got everything that I ever wanted. I just want to stay in good health, get a good job or maybe be successful in graduate school application. That what I want the most right now. It isn't too much to ask for right? That would be my dream. Being a senior, brings so much complications in life. Now, it is the time to think about 5 years down the road, what would you like to become, set goals and achieve them. Wish that I was still young, with nothing to worry about. As years go by, we mature and we need to take responsibility in be a leader. With age, comes experience, with experience comes great burdens, with great burdens comes great responsibility.
You might ask, how will I be celebrating my birthday. I have to go for a student fair forum at 4pm, then head towards my group meeting at 5pm. Next, I will attend a Nestle Presentation at 7pm and go to Alexander Student Meeting later. That is probably how I will spend my birthday. I know it seems boring but yeah, I have a lot of things to do. We will see how it goes later.
Happy birthday to all, and have a great everyone!! peace...

7am

Being a student manager, I realized that I need to uphold my responsibility and be an example to my fellow student employees. The "manager" student manager arranges the schedule and we have to abide by it. We gave him our schedules and he arranges our work schedule. As managers, we don't have a set time to work and he sends out an attachments on the times we are supposed to work. It kinda works but it has some flaws...we don't know what are our exact hours. Ah well, you can't please everybody right? Let me not get off track with business, I am assigned to work at 7am on Friday (yesterday) and Sunday (tomorrow). I never imagine I could wake up at that time, amazingly enough your brain adjusts and wakes you up. The walk to work ain't that bad..at least my apartment is only 15 minute walk to Alexander. I wake up at 610am, shower eat breakfast and hopefully by 645am I need to be out of my apartment. As I walk the long journey, I have to keep a lookout of strangers. You need to be extra careful at this time. Don't wanna get mugged right?? I passed by the Rec Center and see students exercising already...damn. I wish I had that commitment. Maybe that the difference between an athlete and a nobody. I look up to the sky and admire the sunset, breathe in the fresh air and tell myself it is a start of a new brand day. Alexander appears in sight but I get afraid. I see a pack of deers venturing out into campus territory for their breakfast. I walked around them, open the door to my paycheck, clock in, get changed and then work starts. I always wish that people would show up for work but I tend not to expect a lot. On the other hand, I wished that I could conjure a magic spell and split myself into three able bodies. I have to get stock for Greystone, replace food in Breakfast line and wash dishes in the dishroom. I don't know how I do it but I manage to do everything too. I just realized that I am that good. haha. I know that at least somebody will call in sick, or just not show up for work. I always expect nothing, but pray for the best. How inconvenient of them to sign up for work and not work. The lamest excuse would be "I got wasted last night". Tough luck kiddo, work sucks, I know. Get used to it...I already did~!!!

First Week of Senior Year

I cannot believe that first week of Fall semester senior year has just began. The classes that I am taking are Social Dance, two Accounting classes (Audit and Accounting) on MWF and Business Law and Management on TH. Social dance is pretty fun, if you can master the steps. For me, it is just too difficult, it sounds simple, "step, step, rock, step step". The guys get to ask the ladies for a dance. It will be awkward if you are a bad swing dancer. Like me...oh well!! Audit, well it is audit, so it should cover a lot of petty details. The second Accounting class is a bit bland, probably is the professor. Well, he is indeed old. Business Law, sounds so ewww, but I think it will be an exciting and interesting class. Totally out of the normal class that college students are suppose to take. I feel it is a bit ironic to learn about ethics when ethics are what people are normally born with. That just what I feel. As for my Management class, it should be not too bad. Guess this year I will have a lot of group projects.
Work has been hectic this week. I have been learning the ropes of becoming a student manager. With great power, comes great responsibility. I have to teach new student workers while also help them out. Actually, I prefer to teach them and hopefully they will be good student workers in the future. I think I can be a good mentor in the future, because I am very approachable and a I teach with patience. Sometimes, I feel that I give them too much work to do. Hey, that is life, accept it....I work more than you. I came in to work at 7am, food run, set up greystone, taught new workers and handle the dish room too. I was running everywhere like a headless chicken. I actually don't mind doing all of this, I rather do that than just stand and watch time fly by. With more work to do, time goes by quicker. Well, I feel that it is inconsiderable to just stand and watch Jon (who works in the dish room) handling everything. Pity him too you know....
Tomorrow I work at 7am again, sigh.....
Time to signed off now. It's back to a busy life again...Study, work and GMAT leaves no time for play...

Oxford

I arrived in Dayton on Saturday and survived the overnight layover in JFK airport which sucked really bad. Note to self, never stay overnight in American airport, there are no Internet and you cannot be in the departure area. Luckily I was smart enough to go to the arrival section and stayed there till my next flight the next morning. I still coping through the jetlag but I think that helps because I get to wake up early in the morning. This whole week I have Student Manager training, the best week ever. I get 40 pay hours and allowance to buy groceries/dinner. Practically, all I ever do is just sit there and hear people talk. I already unpacked most of my stuff. I am adjusting to my new life without my sisters to take care of me. I have so many sisters over here, Suling, HuiHui, Annie. Bridget is the only one that stayed at Miami. Hopefully, I can get a study table soon and sit on my table instead of sitting on the carpet floor. My back hurts from it!! I took a trip to Rec Center and played indoor soccer and badminton. My goal this year is to improve on my soccer skills and fitness level. I even scored two goals this time around. I know that my badminton skills deterioate...I cannot ever smash!!
this is my update....

Addiction

Last weekend I read a column about young teens who are addicted to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and etc. Some teens admit that they are hooked on to Facebook every day just to see people status update or their tweet update. It struck me how the Internet have really changed people sights on their current status or their lives. I believe that I do not fall under that category. Yes, I admit that sometimes I get too carried away and logged on to Facebook but not to the extent that I will spend hours on it. No way, I got a better life to live rather that waiting for your updates. I opened up my Facebook account when I first went to the US. Everybody was talking about this cool website created by Yale or Harvard graduate, Mark Zuckerberg. I thought that this could be another lame website like Friendster. But it turns out to be super cool.On Facebook, you can upload pictures, write on people walls, tag photos, comment and even play games on that website. How cool is that?? Social networking sites helps people to keep in touch with each other, especially people who you have no longer have contact with. Without Facebook, I might have to wait for my friends to on their MSN (god only knows when), to arrange for a get-together meeting. Too much hassle. With Facebook, everybody is constantly on the go waiting for the next comment. Cool way to keep in contact with each other.
I may be complimenting Facebook but I feel that social networking sites really is a work of a genius. It is like comparing Monalisa with art, Internet with Facebook. You get the point!!!
Bottom line is Social Networking sites might bring you to an addiction, but if you have control over it, it can be really helpful to you as it was for me.
My bleek is over....till the next post!!

August is almost here

Time flies by so fast. I feel like I just woke up from my sleep after three months. One moment I feel happy that I am back in May and then suddenly August arrives. Before I know it, my time in Malaysia/vacation is over and I will be back at Oxford doing my senior year. This holiday has been really enjoyable because I spent one month obsessing about the World Cup and late nights. Wish, I did something productive, maybe an internship to broaden my work experience. But, I brought this onto myself. Now, I am just waiting be back in Oxford, studying/enjoying my senior year!! They say that senior year is the most busiest year of student's life. Hopefully, I can get everything settled and enjoy my last year at Miami University....

Long awaited moment

The World Cup season is almost over...actually it ends this weekend. The mouth-watering final between Spain and Holland. Actually, Spain seems like the favorites to win the cup because they have good teamwork and precision passing. Plus, they have six players from Barcelona gelling together to form the crust of the team. Probably the most impressive team so far. Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Pique, soon-to-be Villa. On the other hand, Holland has been impressive so far. Beating Brazil. Outstanding players that should be mention, Sneijder, Kuyt, Robben, and Van Persie. I am rooting for Holland this time, but I am slowly leaning towards Spain. Paul the Octopus who have guessed every match right so far have made his decision, SPAIN. I wonder how it got its psychic powers. Damn, I wished I was that good too..I probably be winning a lot of money. But, I have stopped betting already. Enough is enough...

Singapore

It's been forever since I last remembered going to Malaysia neighbor, Singapore. The last time I went I was only 10 years old. Those days were long forgotten. Since Dongyeun is down visiting in Malaysia, my sister and I decided that this is the perfect opportunity to venture down to SIngapore. We took the Aeroline bus down and reached Singapore 6 hours later. Singapore has a very good transportation system, SMRT, clean and full of busy people. After we reached Singapore, we went to the famous Orchard Road. We walked around the street and walked further down. Before we even know it, we reached the other half of SIngapore. I guess Singapore is really small huh!! We got free accommodation because my cousin, Adrian works/live in Singapore. For the first time, I got to sit on a RX-7 Mazda car. Super cool. We also got the chance to meet his future fiancee. Ah, so cute!! The next day, we went to Sentosa Island. The weather was super hot but at least it did not rain, because that would ruined everything. Che wanted to see dolphins so we stopped at Underworld. Amazingly, che got the opportunity to touched the dolphins for free!!!
We only spent two days in Singapore but the trip was fantastic experience for me. When it was time for us to take the bus home, there was a heavy downpour. Guess, Singapore's God was crying because we were leaving this beautiful city.....

World Cup 2010

I figured that I need to blog about the most anticipated event this year, the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Amazingly, South Africa and African nation got the privilege to host the World Cup this year. I kinda wonder when will Malaysia be the first South East Asian country to host...hopefully if they are able to host, they will be a more formidable team and able to challenge Asian superhorses, South Korea and Japan. That is all I am asking....

This World Cup has been a really unpredictable with many team pulling off upsets, Spain lost to Slovenia, France being eliminated from the group stage, England (as usual) cannot gel their players into contenders again (Fabio, you better put in Joe Cole!!!) and Germany lost to Serbia.

As the quarter final is fastly approaching, the teams that impresses me is Argentina (Messi of course), Dutch, and maybe Brazil/Portugal. Back in SMK BB, I used to bet with my friends chicken rice or drinks but now everything has changed. I learned that betting on football only makes me poorer. I learnt my lesson and now, no more betting on football for me. However, I still have a knack of predicting World Cup champions. I predicted last year that Italy will win. This time, I think my number one choice will be Spain, Argentina and Holland. Dark horses will be England...England, just because. There is a tingly feeling that maybe Portugal will emerge victorous..haha!!
I guess this is why they call it football fever....You stay up till 4am and wake up at 12pm the next day...very productive indeed!!

hello sister, goodbye life

Yesterday, I watched this movie called Hello Sister, Goodbye Life on Hallmark channel. I don't know why I was hooked on this movie but I just thought that this could be a good movie to watch. Well, it was not that bad or good either. The synopsis of the story is a college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parent. This show definitely reminded me of the time when my mum brought back Eeling.My mum always have a knack of doing things that sometimes would be totally outrageous, but somehow as a family, we just breathe in and accept the things that she does. Well, this is one of several things that she does. At that time, I was confused, annoyed and looming questions surrounded me. I did not even have an answer from her on her actions. This show reflects what I have gone through before and I could definitely relate it to my life. I always asked myself, How different would my life be without Eeling, without a younger sister? Then, I found the answer. The answer have always been there all along. The truth is, my life is different with Eeling around. I find it really cool to have a younger sister that follows me and looks up to me. Sometimes, I think that she looks up to me and I feel proud. She changed my life to be more responsible and stern. Sometimes, she might be annoying, and act all princess-y. After all, she is still my precious pink gem that sticks close to my heart, our hearts. Forever and after. The luckiest girl in the world!!!

I do not deserve this

I know that this is bound to happen but I did everything that I can as a VP. I got the news that I will be stepping down temporary from my position. I am not complaining about stepping down, because if stepping down is better for the credit union and my reputation, honestly, I would prefer to step down. But, what I want to complain about is the way I was treated. I cannot stand it when people make decisions without being informed. It is like you are ultimately guilty of what you did. It is just rude and plain disturbing. The worst part, is that the decision is up to the Management Team and the BOD that is in charge. They did not even hear my part of the case, the decision was made and I had to step down. This is purely disrespectful for the individual, in this case me. I wished that they dealt with this issue in a better way. It just hurts because you did not do anything to deserve this utter disrespect. The stolen money did not occur during my shift, if it was anybody responsibility, it should be the person in charge, Supervisor. I am sure that in the private meeting you have discuss this issue before, and the decision did not just pop up of a sudden. If you are going to make this decision, at least have the decency to put me in the spot and plead my case. The worst part, is that the person who opened the bag could have gotten off and perhaps might have taken the money. In the end, I end up being the punching bag and accused.
I guess this is a good experience for me to learn in the future. I am still learning and this lesson have really impacted me a lot. One thing I know for sure is that I did not do anything wrong that would affect my integrity. Maybe the business world is that cruel, everybody fights for themselves and if you are on the chopping block, you might as well just kiss your career goodbye. Life goes on, and I know that I will bounce back from this incident.
My verdict: I plead not guilty, your Honor. I was wrongfully accused.

just another week

The final stretch is here. Two more weeks of school and then I think I will be flying back to New York and then to Malaysia. My parents are coming over for my sister graduation and I am really excited. I can't wait for them to come over and see this beautiful campus. This week, my MKT 415 professor praised my good paper. I was really surprised at her remarks. Well, it was a research paper and I thought that I am bad at research. Apparently, she likes it. Actually, what I did was just find online resources, copy and paste bits here and there, cite the source and there you have it, my "good" paper. Oh yeah, I have a big presentation on Monday with Cintas for this project. I really want to contribute something to the team but I feel that I am being left out. No really, this team is one heck of a group and we get along really well. Wish I did more effort into this project. Next Monday will be semifinals and if we make it to the finals, big guns from Cintas will be present to see the presentation. I really hope we do make it to the finals. Hopefully, my team will be selected to be in the final. If that is the case, I hope to play a bigger role in the presentation although I feel that I have limited power over this.Hopefully, everything goes well.
After working for three years at Alexander Dining Hall, I finally got promoted as student manager. The manager told me that it was an inanimous decision that I got to be a student manager. This means that I will have higher pay position, long working hours, and higher responsibility. I guess I have to live with it. We will see how this goes.

Look How Far I Come

Last week was pretty busy/hectic week for me because I have too many projects, paper and presentation all cramp up in one week. Sigh, I guess that is college. I had a Marketing presentation which took forever to be finish. I realized that having a group of 5 people is too big to collaborate and understand. We had to research about United Kingdom country study. And, I had the most challenging portion of the project, finding information on Logistics. I found out that I am pretty bad as research or maybe I did not put a lot of effort into it. But, I just could not find anything. So, whatever I just put in whatever that I could find that is relevant. For our presentation, we had to cramp our 100 pages of project into a 15 minute presentation. One of our group members had 20 pages of slides and to her...."everything relates to logistics". It took her so much of persuasion to ask her to reduce her slides. During our presentation, we were rated really well among our classmates. Thank goodness.
And then, on Friday I stayed up until 5am compiling and finishing up our paper. Some irresponsible guy did not complete his given assignment and we had to take up his slack. Very frustrating, frustrating indeed. This is latest time I ever stayed awake for a group project. Hopefully, for the effort that we put in, we can achieve a good grade. I slept at 530am and had to wake up at 730am to go for an earlier class. I had to change to an earlier class because my other Marketing class wanted to visit the distribution network of Cintas Corporation. It was really cool looking at how things go around in the network.
Lastly, on Saturday we celebrated Chris Yim and Eric Ng 21st birthday party. It was a surprise party for them but I guess they did not act surprised at all. At the party, there was jello shots (my favorite), SoCo, home-made Amaretto sour, and other variety of drinks. To sum it all up, it was good ending to week as I could take away all those tension during the week.

Green Beer Day

When I was a freshman, I used to wonder why Green Beer Day is such a big event in Oxford. I decided that this year I should participate in GBD just because I had the time and I am almost graduating. What the heck, maybe I should just follow the crowd and get wasted. I brought my shirt that said:
I wish I was taller,
I wish I was baller,
I wish I had a green beer
If I did I would swaller.

Started off the morning at 45...BO got a Green Beer!!

Cool I know...Since the legal age limit is 21, I could buy any drink that I wanted. I tried drinking green beer and to be honest, it tasted good. Minus the coloring that it leaves in your mouth. I can't believe that I woke up at 6am for GBD. I took a green jello shot, and a beer. After that, I went to class, and played a beer game. (no beer involved, that what it's called). I even earned extra credit. woohoo...Then, I went to B-dups for Round 2...drank and took a jello shot. at 12.45 I went for my Tax class, which was super boring...but Dr. Schultz gave us hints for the quiz on Tuesday after Spring Break. I went to Alexander to work, made pizza and went back home. It was time for Round 3. Round 3 was pretty wild. It was my first time going bar hopping, Skippers, Mac & Jos, Steinkeller and Tonic.

Me and my sis at Steinkeller....

Chris, Ryu, Sis, Dong and Me at Skippers

Brad, Hui, Sis, Nhamdi, and Me at 45..

I think Green Beer Day should be an official holiday for Miami. No one comes to class during this day as they will be in their house throwing a party or uptown being wasted. But, teachers are not allowed to "cancel" classes on this day. The worst part, is that if professors purposely give projects or worse, exams on Friday or Thursday just to encourage you not to drink on this day. Luckily, I did not have anything important on Thursday or Friday, I just need to submit my HST 198 paper that I already completed on Wednesday. Well, it was a heck of a night.

P.S: Did I tell you that I am on Spring Break, and I am going to Panama City Beach for Spring break? Yes, I am leaving tonight....woohoo!!

Winter Wonderland in Oxford

Snow always remind me of Malaysia. Back in Malaysia, we have rain that sometimes flood certain parts of the peninsular. Pouring rain also make Malaysian people a bit kiasu because they chose to leave for work earlier to avoid the traffic jam. This causes even more traffic jams. Also, downpour in Malaysia reminds me of "kaki motor" stranding underneath the flyovers for shelter. Snow is good in Oxford. Snow causes school to shut down, increase pay rate, keeping myself warm, exam shifting backwards (not necessary a good thing, coz you just want it to get over with, but you need more time studying) and sledding. Yes, sledding!! I think I made a good choice in dropping my 8am class, imagine waking up early to go to class, and braving the winter storm.

Last semester, I tend to ponder why we do not have any snowy days. Alas, snow came in Spring 2010 and Oxford became a white winter wonderland. I think this time we got a record of 3 inches of snow. This year, I decided to take some pictures on amazing snow scenery in Oxford. Enjoy....

Valentine's Day and New Year

This Valentine's day have been the most interesting so far for me. I decided to pull a prank on my closest friends at Miami. How did I come out with this idea? As I doing grocery shopping in Kroger, I thought that maybe I could buy Valentine's Day cards to Bridget, Annie, Stephanie, Tiffany and Che and write anonymous love poems on the cards. It was all done with careful preparation, at least I thought it was. I am not a poetic person and I got the love poems from the net. I wrote the address with my right hand to make it seem like it was not my handwriting. I posted Bo and Annie cards. It was surprising the first response I had was when Annie posted on her Facebook status : "creeper, sent me and Bo love poems". Hui Hui card was hardest card to sent because I had to give her through her door and she might be sleeping. But, it worked out well. Tiffany and Steph was easy, but I didn't know that all cards that go through the mail, are stamped!! wtf...It was a good prank and I actually managed to pull it off.
Celebrating the Year of the Tiger. These times of the year makes me miss home so much. Taiping, cousins, aunts, uncles, angpows, lots and lots of food, playing games, crackers, lion dance, pop-pop..... ah, so nice. I can't believe that it's been already three years I have not celebrate Chinese New Year. Fun times, fun times.

Happy Valentine's Day and Gong Xi Fa Cai, celebrate the Tiger Lunar Year...

Spring 2010

It's been a long time since I last blogged. I guess I am starting to blog again. Let me summarize the events/things I did in January:
a) performed for Fusion, bamboo dance and Chinese swords/fribbons dance. Overall, my performance was good except that I miss some moves for the dance. But, everything else is okay. And then, there was Fusion after party which as always is awesome. Surprise that I did not get wasted and still managed to bring underaged/wasted people home. Kudos to me!
b) appointed by First Miami Student Credit Union as VP of Depository. Basically, my duties include making sure that end of shift is counted well, and the supply of money is in order. I have to admit, being in a police car for escort when ordering money is so cool, that is if you are in the front seat. I bet that being at the back would suck because you did a crime.
c) School is going okay I guess, History, Accounting, Management, and 2 Marketing classes for my minor. At least I hope it will be my Supply Chain minor. Supply Chain is a important and a growing field for companies because it is getting the right products at the right time at the right place. I will soon be creating a Wiki for my History on Mughal empire. This seems cool I guess!
d) Work is going as smoothly as I want it to be. I am lucky that my Greystone shifts co-workers are helpful and always have my back. Last semester, working with this girl was such a pain. Now, it's getting better. phew...Also, I am proud to say that I am the main pizza maker in Alexander. Making pizza seems to be my forte cause I can make pizzas as fast as the orders are.
e) Booked tickets for my parents and Eeling for my sister's graduation. This would definitely be an exciting memory of Oxford. We are going to NY too for vacation. woohoo....
f ) Finally, finished watching my Cantonese series "Born Rich" by comeback actors such as Gallen Lo and etc.