3/3 F

I promised myself that I will post this blog.

18th of February, the day where all the CAT & ACCA students waited anxiously for the release of result. I opened ACCA website, logged into myACCA, keyed in my registration number and pass code. A few seconds passed. There we go, my result appeared on the screen. 3/3 FAIL !!! Did you get it? All failed! My first ever degree examination and I failed all. What a discouragement! I e-mailed it to my father. Later on, I decided to call. Thinking that he might not have the time to check the mailbox. I wonder what will his expression be. Disappointment? Or can he accept?

True enough! He can! I do not know how he do it. But he can accept this fact.

He said :" Right now, you don't worry about anything, just focus on the current subject. Next sem try again. Study hard ok?"

Speechless me yet able to barely answered an "Ok."

Last December was the examination month. After exam ended, I cried. I knew that I won't make it. It's not that I don't have faith. But how can you expect a pass when you sat for 3 hours and not knowing what to pen down? My father is the one who consoled me.

Feeling guilty? Of course. Feeling sad? Of course. How can a human not felling sad when something bad happened? All human has feelings.

How come failed? Have I been neglecting my time to study? Or I don't understand what am I studying? Or wrong method of studying? Or I just take it lightly? Give me any reason. I don't have the answer.

*getting emo*

Consequences of this failure is wasting of time and money. Extra approx 4k and extra 1/2 year.

*enough of emoness*

There must be a reason for this to happen. God wouldn't favor failing his child, because he loves every single one of them, it hurts to fail his own child. But if failure do happened, he must have his reasons for doing so. Is He disciplining me? Or testing my faith? Can be those reasons. Or He has something for me to learned in that extra half a year time? Can be also. My earthly father still loves me and is still understanding when I failed my exam. All the more will my heavenly Father who loves me until the very end be with me to overcome this challenging time.

*action plan*

Talking about action plan, it is easy to draft it out. But to carry it out? It requires high discipline and commitment. All this while, whenever I am stress-out, I tend to scold people for nothing and started eating like a monster. And I don't realized it when I am doing all this things, releasing tension in a wrong way. My family is my witness. Only when I calm my self down, I come to realize all the foolish act that I've done. Back at home, my family can help in minimizing this from happening. But right now I am not at home. Who will help me? This is the real uni life! Count on God for help, for He is faithful!

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Ephesians 3:20

*off to battle field*

There will always be ups and downs in life. It is up to us to face it or to hide from it. I choose to face it. Do it again! Open the book, and start studying. Do it with the strength, the wisdom and the help from above. I want to let His glory shine in coming exam!

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
But if any of you lack wisdom, you should pray to God, who will give it to you; because God gives generously and graciously to all.
James 1:2-4

Lil RBS reunion

On the 2nd second of CNY night, a group of young, passionate, energetic and lovely child of God gathered together at one of the popular tourism spot -- Jonker Street, Malacca.

I was worried at first. Will this reunion be a successful one? It involves rbses from two different badges. Namely 2006 and 2008. Can we all blend in as RBS student? And not forgetting transport arrangement. Fail to arrange means fail everything.

Thanks to my father who agreed to fetch us. *woohoo* Off we go!!!

We walked through the crowd. All kind of essence, be it from food stall by the road side as well as homo sapiens ascended to the clear and bright without stars sky.

We pushed ourself through the crowd, looking for cendol+laksa shop. We managed to find it. And so we pushed ourself even harder through the crowd. What we see in the end was a shop that is full of customers. There ain't any empty table but only a long queue of human line.

Mission failed!

We settled down at Limau Limau. A small shop yet its design is comparable to other bigger scale shop. All kind and some weird combination of juices are available here. All healthy drinks! I support! We chat chat chat. Trying to "show off" to the other badge how umph is one badge compare to another. All the life transforming story. The little little thing that is really insignificant. The lessons. The people. The place. The food. The activities. The everything. Good job! Now I really missed the time when I was in RBS! The more we talk, the more that we found out we had actually known a few same person. [ of course la, all from Adam ma...]

The day will end soon. Still crowded! The night is still too young for Malaccan folks and also foreigner. We took pictures before we leave one another again just like what we did during graduation day. -.-"

How do I feel about the whole thing? I am H-A-P-P-Y! Glad that we could catch up with one another.

Until we meet again, take care people!

*for pictures lover, check out this gadiy.blogspot.com the title "Melacca for the New Year Part 3"

February

Busy! Busy! Busy!

No time to update!

I will do it retrospectively.

Dear friends, don't mind ya?

A small town name Bahau.

Never had this kind of chinese new year celebration before.

I made up mind and decided to go to a small town name Bahau, Negeri Sembilan for CNY visiting. I was hesitate at first. Why go so far under the hot sun? Moreover, it is in Negeri Sembilan. The place where I study --> away from home. -.-"

As a brief intro ... ...

Bahau is situated at the border of Negeri Sembilan. My church, chinese meeting, planted a church there a few year ago. It is called Bahau Gospel Hall "ma kou fu ying tang" We normally travel using old road, which will take us about one to one an a half hour.

Programme ... ...

8:30 am Min Lian fetch me and sis to fu keong's house in Taman Asean, Malacca.
9:15 am Kim Fatt fetch us. Off we go!
10:30 am Reach bahau. Meet in church. We are the earliest.
11:15 am Message by Chee Tat, entitle " wu fu lin men "
11:45 am Makan
12:00 pm "Gong Xi Fah Chai, Hong Pau Na Lai." Split into 3 arrears. Each with 2 cars.
1st house--> big house, very comfortable to live in.
2nd house-->wooden house, surrounded by trees, cooling, they were watching cj7.
3rd house-->terrace house, nice soup, own plant vege, great meal.
4th house-->terrace house, homemake fruit drinks, creative hand-made house deco.
5th house-->half wooden and concrete house, nice cookies, all gather in this house,
took picture.
*we are visiting houses of kids attending Sunday School, all non-believer*
5:30 pm Back to Malacca
7:00 pm Reach home. Get ready for family visiting. @.@

At the end of the day, everybody is exhausted! Nevertheless, the tiredness is overshadowed by the feeling of satisfaction and joy for being able to spend time with our spiritual family in this festive season.

The message --> "wu fu lin men" Literally it means 5 different blessings come to your door step. Figuratively it means, think yourself! It is taken from 5 different chapter from the book of Psalms. The popular CNY word - "fu" can be dissected into 3 part. God, Adam and Garden of Eden. Combine it all together, it can be said, in everything that we do, God is always there lending out helping hand. The speaker reminded us to thanked God for all the blessing that we were bless ever since we were still in our mother's womb.

The program looked ordinary. So what? Program is secondary. I do feel a stronger bond between us. It is stronger enough to make the thin wall between us shudder. (read previous post) The conversation, laughter, encouragement and care will I cherish forever. May the good Lord bless you all.

BGR in IAS 8

There are many accounting standards to be learned in this paper namely Financial Reporting. One of it is IAS 8 Change in accounting policies, Change in accounting estimates and Fundamental errors. Do not be sacred away by these accounting terms. It is perfectly okay if it looks strange to you because it is an accounting jargon. *sigh*

I am all the more happy to have a young, pretty, experienced and caliber lecturer to lecture me on financial reporting. Beside lecturing, she even taught us how to fly a rocket! I guess it is normal. To ensure that the syllabus can be covered on time.

I think it was during the second lecture, she started using the favorite word for most of us as teenager - boyfriend and girlfriend! Not only that. The sentence that caught my attention to her lecture again was when she said: "In the balance sheet itself actually contains a lot of s***!"
Erm.... I shall not make any comment.

Okay, back to IAS 8.

The first element in this IAS is a change in accounting policies. This changes is not encourage. The word policies can be replace by the word practices.

The second element is a change in accounting estimates. This kind of changes is encourage to disclose frequently, preferably every year.

The third element, fundamental errors. I will not elaborate. It has nothing to do with my posting today. *ha*

After explaining, ample example is given. How nice to have such lecturer! *awe* Then, read the conversation below,

Lecturer: "Ok, change of boyfriend. Consider as change of policy or estimate?"

No one answer. As usual. So, she picked some one to answer.

Lecturer:"A, what do you think? Policy or Estimate?"

A looked stunned.

A:"No idea."

Lecturer:"No idea ar? Ok, never mind."

Lecturer looked around. Looking for some one else to answer her question. And she got one.

Lecturer:" SP, what do you think? Policy or Estimate?"

SP:"Hmm... Policy."

Lecturer:"OK, what about JY? What do you think?"

JY:" Policy."

Lecturer:" Whoa! So serious ar? A change of boyfriend means a change of policy ar?"

I felt relieved that she stopped picking student to answer this question. I was sitting beside SP and JY! She continued.

Lecturer:" A change of boyfriend is actually an estimate. Not policy. Because no matter how many boyfriend you change, both of you all will still be doing he same thing right? If do same thing means same practice la. If same practice meaning same policy la."

O.o

Lecturer:" Actually, it is like that. At first, when you evaluate your boyfriend or girlfriend personality, you will make your own estimate that maybe this guy or girl has this this this few personality that you want. But after sometimes, if you find your estimate is not so right, you should change your estimate. And every time you change it, make sure you disclose it. So that the impact wouldn't be too great! Don't just simply change new one. It's not encourage to do so."

O.o

Continue talking while cleaning the board.

Lecturer:"Nowadays ar, a lot of women said she is blind la, stupid la, for choosing this guy as her husband. No need to say like one. All they have to do is to change their estimate, and then move on. If don't want to change it, then divorce lo. What to do right? Estimation involves uncertainty and individual judgment. Estimation can be wrong ma."

O.o

Lecture continued... ...

A food for thought! So coincidence, I was reading the book "Living for God in the modern world".
I was reading the last three chapter. Which the sub-topics are:

• What about courtship?
• What about marriage?
• Approved unto God
  

Not a coincidence. It's another precious reminder instead. More and more of my friends, whether they are Christian or non-Christian, is in a relationship. Some managed it well, some just couldn't. I shall not rush for this, neither making my own insufficient estimate which is full of uncertainty. I don't want to displease God. I don't want to go through heart-breaking. I don't want to disappoint people who love me. I want to be approved unto God in every way!

Ephesians 5:31
"For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh."

1Peter 3:7
Likewise, husbands, live together according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, the female, as truly being co-heirs together of the grace of life, not cutting off your prayers.

2Timothy 2:15
Study earnestly to present yourself approved to God, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

Learning Curve Theory

A brief explanation about this theory. It means the more you do it the less time you will need to achieve the target and the more efficient you will become.

I would say it is a privilege to be in the working committee, another more appropriate terms will be - youth servant, for the youth back in church ( MGC ). All the older brothers and sisters-in-Christ are kind and patient enough to mentor me through out the task that I've been assigned to. They show me how to carry out task in a fast way and still get a result that is pleasing. After some time, they sort of 'let go' of me. They put their trust in me that I am able to carry out task with minimal supervision. Their encouragement and prayer never ceases, which gives me the confident to make decision on my own and move on. Subsequently, they are about to fly off to further their studies. Those that are in the same badge as me is given the responsibility of running of event and taking care of the spiritual need of other youth. It has never been easy. I do make mistake along the way. It is their ever-forgiving heart that gives me has the courage to stand up again. They did not scold nor yell but still a piece of encouragement is given unto me. I do get tired sometime. The time spent on meetings after meetings, preparations after preparations and as well as reminders after another reminders. It is a time consuming process but without it, how can a presentable or even a perfect plan be planned out? I had never grumble about it for I am filled with satisfaction of working together for God. Apart from learning how to work out my best for God, my relationship with them get even more closer than before. So from there, I continue to serve the Lord after they officially left for their studies. Among the areas that I serve are like organizing evangelistic event, being a committee of annual camp, worship leader and also group leader. I am not trying to boast for my pass services. But every time when I thought of it, I realized that God is molding me into a better person with the help of my brothers and sisters-in-Christ. They might be far in distance but I will always remember them deeply in my heart. A big thank you to you all! May God bless you all as you all continue to shine for Him in wherever you are.

I have not really been involve in such planning when I move to new church ( MGH ). That is in the month of March 2007. I spent my time to get to know them and to bond together as a family. Not much event is being organized. And so I stopped from what I have been doing previously in MGC because it is 'not required' here.

In the month of June 2007, it is another stepping stone in my life. I enrolled in Inti International College University. And there is Christian Fellowship here. I had never join any of it before in my secondary school for a Malay school student am I. So I signed up and attended their meetings regularly. And I attended the assembly nearby which is ( NGC ). Both of this place of meeting is like a lost and found thing. I can start a conversation without fear of being 'lecture'. We talked, we sang, we ate, we played and most importantly we worship the same God that created the heaven and earth. I am not saying I cannot do those thing with the saints in MGH, but somehow I do feel that there is a wall between us. It is just a very thin wall but we cannot break it down. I am still trying to break it and to reach out to them, with the help from God.

In the year of 2008, I am chosen as the treasurer for CF. Another opportunity to serve God in uni life. CF camp is coming up in February. During our last meeting in camp planning, we drafted out an estimated cost for this camp. I took out a piece of paper and started writing down the cost. Everything was find. The meeting ended with a command that a lot of thing need to be done by this week. The efficient secretary immediately prepare a proposal. And there is where all my mistake is revealed! I calculated about RM 1000 short from the amount it should be! I do not know what will happen next for providing wrong information. And I felt bad.

I do have experienced in being a treasurer for camp in MGC. It was okay. I was too dealing with four figures at that time. At the age as young as 16. Why are there mistake this time? When I am in the age of 20? Being an ACCA student myself, it was the silliest mistake I have ever done. Will the committee trust me again in handling money? Deep in my heart I hope they will.

According to the theory, it says that when one stops from performing a particular task for a long period, he/she will 'forget' how to do it, and will need time to learn it again.

True enough! I need to start it all over again. Some will say it is only an account. In fact, it requires an alertness of mind when an estimation is carried out, to ensure all items are duly included. My mind has forgotten how to be alert!

This is not the end of everything. There are still more to be done, like rectifies my errors and 'trains' my mind to be alert. I believe that God will help me through because He is the one that plans out the plan in my life. He has a better view of everything but not me for I am lack of wisdom.

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD."

Jeremiah 29:11-14

Afresh!

I've deleted previous post and start posting new one. Start afresh! Here it goes, impossible possibility!