Business Law Examination on 17 Aug 2007

Finally, the Business Law Examination has finished.

I was quite calm about the Business Law questions as most of the topics that were covered were what the lecturer told us were important to to focus more on.

Well I handled Section A pretty well as I was prepared for them during my revision. I just hope that I would do better for the LAC questions in Section B.

Overall, I think I did my best and the preparation which I had was rather sufficient to defeat the examination.

Next up, Finance of International Trade and Taxation!

18th Birthday Plans

For this year 2007, I intend to hold a birthday party for my 18th birthday on September 15, Saturday. I'm not having the party on my actual birthdate as I can anticipate that some of my classmates and coursemates may be working during weekdays and may not be able to attend. I mean, what's a party without the people in it?

I didn't host one last year in 2006 because I didn't think I was that familiar or close with my classmates and coursemates. So I thought maybe I should wait another year for me to get to know them better.

Hence, this year in 2007, I am sure I relate to some of my classmates easier and comforably now.

I've informed all my classmates in TA07 and some coursemates whom I usually interact with during lectures.

Hope that all invitations are accepted because I intend to play the game "Taboo" during my party as it requires teams of people to play and it's an intelligent game to play with people at the ages of 18 and above.

On Wednesday, Aug 8, I'm going to confirm invitations for my party and know the attendance so that other important plans can be made

End of the Interdisciplinary Studies Module

The end of the 2007 IS modules has marked a threshold in life where I have acquired new skills to use.

Firstly about Spanish class. The Spanish class is really enriching in the sense that I had a taste of the Spanish language and bits of the culture. Now, I'm able to communicate in Espanol with my uncle, such as Como estas (How are you), Bueno dias (Good day), gracias (Thank you) and Adios (Bye Bye). Someday, I hope to go to USA maybe with somebody to visit my uncle and maybe I can really experience the spanish culture there.

Secondly about my photography class. I have learnt many shooting techniques and lens settings effects of the camera to produce different impressions. My CCA, Catholic Youth Apostolate in NP will definitely benefit from my skill and competence as I produce good quality photos for them. It has also taught me to appreciate the different aspects of photography and allowed me to understand the impression that the photographer wants to make.

I think I am rather fortunate in taking these two classes as these classes are my preferred choices which I made in the module preference ranking exercise few months ago before module enrolment. Some of my classmates and coursemates failed to secure their places in their preference during enrolment.

According to my photography tutor, he said that the demand for this module is increasingly significant during the module preference ranking exericise. My cohort is rather lucky to have the module as a hands-on class. In previous semesters, only the theory principles are taught and students had to use film cameras.

Exams for Year 2 Semester 1 Coming!

The examination for year 2 semester 1 is coming. This time, I'll be seating for Business Law, Finance of International Trade, Taxation 1, Cost Accounting and Intermediate Financial Accounting.

According to my tutor for Business Law, it will be an open-book exam. However, I still doubt the calmness and time-management during the business law exam. I think it's better to memorise the harder ones and refer to the book for the easier ones.

For taxation, there's a lot of memory work to do. All the Tax reliefs and conditions must be in my human hard disk drive. From past experience of Taxation common test, time-management is very important. Not doing so can results in lots of rush work and careless mistakes can happen.

For cost accounting and intermediate financial accounting, I'm not that worried as it's just the statement format and some theory principles to remember for the exam. The statements are the parts of the exams that make it tedious. But by getting the format correct may give me some sympathy marks just in case careless mistakes do occur.

CYA & CSS 2007 Interaction Day

On Monday, June 18 2007, both catholic groups and societies in Ngee Ann Polytechnic and Singapore Polytechnic had a June Interaction Programme held in Singapore Polytechnic.

It started off with mass celebrated by Father Val from Holy Cross Church in Clementi. The congregation was comfortably accommodated in the small room which it was held in.

After mass, all of us went for a worthwhile games session in the campus. Snooker tables and foosball were fun to play. Some of us learnt many foosball tactics and strategies from the SP mates. Snooker was equally fun as we had both laughters and teases during the games to break ice.

Of course, some just could not resist to show off their foosball and snooker skills and techniques. From that we learnt a lot of new things from the games and it was fruitful.

For lunch, we headed to the fastfood outlet, namely KFC and PizzaHut. It was a good way to get to know each better as fellow catholics.

Soon after lunch, we headed back for games. This time we had a longer and serious game. Both presidents were eager to challenge each other to foosball and snooker, one-on-one! Not only did we have a lot of fun, we got the chance to explore a bit of SP campus.

I can say that this interaction programme was a well-organised one as we had a good time with each other and got to know some other SP friends.

Hope that this kind of programme will be organised again to improve the relations and strengthen the bonds of both catholic groups.

Alleluia!

Common Test (2 - 7 June 2007)

Wah, common test was kinda mini obstacle man. go for a few consultations for IFA, and COST. funny, blaw tutor did not give past yr's blaw common test paper to prep for test. well, nevermind, got do memory work for blaw principles and court cases enough.

Taxation common test was really a challenging one. I think just passed Tax.
Intermediate Financial Accounting was not too bad but still a brain-racking one because of I wasn't so sure about the Statement of Changes in Equity answers.
Business Law could be said as OK. I didn't really spot the questions but those that I studied majority were tested.
Cost Accounting is said to be the least tough. Most of the MCQs should be ok. The long question was manageable.

Hope that this common test can pass or, better, score. It comprises of 20% of final assessment.

Very fortunate to have John and Gabriel as study buddies during the Common Test prep. Thank God for them!

New academic year has come!

Yeah, finally school has started for me. Waiting for 8 weeks can be really tough. Of course, I had my own stuff to entertain me. Electone practices, listening to grammy and songs, playing with the iPod.

This holiday has been really deserving for me after the brain-exhausting semestral examinations. Luckily, I used most of the time during the holidays to record good songs and songs which my siblings liked very much to listen to.

Well, to start off the first week of school term, I'm taking Spanish and Exploring Photography for my IS (Interdisciplinary Studies) modules. Spanish for the 1st term and the other in the 2nd. For my cores, I've enrolled for Cost Accounting, Taxation, Finance of International Trade, Intermediate Financial Accounting and Business Law.

Luckily for me, the electives which I've enrolled are both my preferred choice so I think I'll pretty much enjoy them for the 1st semester of year 2.

Exams results

Hahaha. Got my exam results. Not too bad. Scored a better gpa (3.2917) compared to last sem's (3.2273).

Here's the thing.
BCA - A, BMGT - B, FFA - B+, IAC - B+, LMS - A, MAEC - C+, WCOM - B
need to improve more on my macroeconomics. read more newspapers (straits times, business times). i know.

lucky got new tutor to guide me for FFA, otherwise confirm kick the bucket ah. (touchwood). but still can't sit down and relax. need to bring it to at least A. BMGT could have been better if I'd memorised the correct stuff.

must do better next time for year 2. chiong ah.