Monday, December 20, 2010

Every day I roam

As per the title, ever since I turned 19, I rarely stayed at home man and the week has been awesome!!!!!! Full of cool-ness!!!
Just a brief write-up on my week. Has been an awesome week but I forgotten most of the things, so, please make do with the limited info here *bows and apologies

On Saturday, 11.12.2010, I found out I passed POT paper ady so, my birthday is also the day I am awarded the CFAB qualification. XD

Then on Monday, I went for Piano, nothing much right, wait till you read about the next few days.

Tuesday, there is meeting at Sunway University for ICAEW Christmas Masquerade Party. Just a final briefing on the whole event.

Wednesday, ICAEW Christmas Masquerade Party. Pretty much... un eventful I guess. Objective not reached but sigh..

Thursday, went out with secondary classmates to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, at first we thought we entered wrong cinema hall, so we enter another one. Then, things don't seem that right either. Guess what, movie screening is at 11.50pm, when all the while we thought it is 11.50am. XD so just chit-chat and do nothing..

Friday, did some crazy stuff which I ain't telling.

Saturday and Sunday is Sunway's Open Day, so basically visited Nursing and Hospitality booth pretty often. I reckon about 4 times each. XD Next year I am gonna learn flair-tending and what not. But first of all, ICAEW to the max!!!

Saturday, December 11, 2010

End of a trail, beginning of a journey

Taken on 10.12.2010

10th December is always an eventful date for me. One reason is it being my birthday but for the year 2010, it became even more eventful! For two reasons, one is having to sit for Principle of Taxation e-exam and playing Cashflow game (I don't know the proper name, so I am just putting it like this la). Reasons for the title? Read below, dear folks. XD

The day (commencing time : 12.00am) started off with a phone call from Lilian and Chun Tean, singing birthday song to me and wishing me happy birthday. Feels a little Cinderella-ish because of the 12.00am sharp thing. Alas, they ain't the first though because 10 minutes prior to their call, Tze Lin already sent me a birthday message. XD. Well, that time I am still preparing(STUDYING) actually, so wasn't really able to talk to Lilian and Chun Tean much. Ok, after that, naturally, I had more calls and wishes coming in but I sort of say Thank you and showed my appreciation in facebook ady, so I rather not repeat what I did cause I had more interesting stuff to write about. XD

Basically, few hours later, reached college at 2.30pm and continue studying. ><, this is because exam is at 6pm and the whole day sort of feel wasted because I only concentrated on passing the exam. But then, Mallory and Joann was there as well, crazy peeps la both of them. But It was great having them around, cause they did manage to relieve my stress a little. Mr. Simon was there a well but spoke to him a little only la. Too busy processing my thought on POT subconsciously. XD>

After that, met with Arthur, tried to test each other knowledge but failed miserably. XD, still, manage to clear some doubts la. At 5.30pm, we walked towards the comp lab and wait for others to arrive. It was at this moment the photo was taken, and I quite like the efffect but would have been better if I grasp the lighting. XD Tze Lin bought me a slice of Secret Recipe cake which is damn nice~~ Then, Shu Tin the blur bugger (XD) say Oppa~~ first wor, and not Happy Birthday! but she still did say la later. Wei Ken arrived and he said Happy Birthday also. One by one, the others start coming in. Mallory just knew (from Cheok) that its my birthday so she came to comp lab to great me and Mr. Simon came also to give us moral support la, I guess.

During exam, I was in a half-dazed state of mind actually. I kept looking at the timer and jump here and there. Also had a slight panic attack because I thought I won't have enough time. But overall, the exam was manageable la. Expecting a pass. ;) Also, if I pass, I will buy either a camcorder or camera la. The way things are looking right now, it seems that camera will be what I am getting.

XD, as soon as we are done with the exam, all of them started discussing about the paper which is just so damn UGH!!!! but typically students. XD Then, some of them have to go back hometown and what-not cause it is ady 7.30pm by the time exam ended. Yeah, sun set ady and darkness had enveloped. Then, between mee jawa and Subway, we ( Adam, Arthur, Cheok, Wei Ken, Mr. Simon and me la) went for Subway in Sunway Pyramid. Got buy 1 free 1 coupons, so its ok la. XD And oh my goodness, the things that guys talk about. Damn funny man!! And seriously, I am beginning to believe what books are saying about them la. Not only that, Wei Ken belanja-ed me Subway and for once, Adam being nice, so I manage to get 2 Mitch Albom books for free (yup, birthday present no. 2) XD. I think the highlight is still the things that they are talking about la. I think can be classified as comedy and ecchi. Yeah, hang out with me long enough or read manga/watch anime, then you will know what I am talking about la. Among the things we talk about, includes Sasha Grey(not sure if this is how you spelt her name) series, bottle of 7-hours, and you get my drift. XD, was damn happy la in short.

And the finale of the day!!!!! Playing Cashflow game!!!! So, all of us who went to Subway also stayed back to play Cashflow game. So damn nice to play and interesting too. I mean, being an educational tool, it is really relevant to the real world. But due to the lateness of the time we started playing (9.30 or so), we only completed the first objective which is get out of the rat race. Mr. Simon wants us to focus on this only and the fun part is based on how we played the game. Each of us actually sort of have a signature of the day:
1. Adam is cautious so he did not do much
2. Arthur land on 'doodads' (spendings that serve no purpose) most of the time
3. Cheok is a speculative buyer when it comes to properties
4. Wei Ken got downsized twice but overall he got a lot of opportunities for share market
5. Mr. Simon got two babies and therefore expenses increase, cashflow decrease
6. I usually land on paychecks only. So, typically employee.

But I did have two big breaks which led me to get out of the Rat Race first. XD, 1st one is getting opportunity to buy the share at a low price of 5 bucks and Cheok is willing to give some capital but with a profit-sharing ratio of 7:3 which I am ok with it. XD, cause the selling price we had later was 30 bucks!! XD, so, I got about 96,000 bucks from that one investment. Which enabled to quickly clear off all my loans la. Then, my next big break is I finally land on an opportunity spot and the first I get was a property with 1000 bucks passive income. That exceeded my expenses ady alone! So, I achieve the objective first and sort of ended the game la cause Mr. Simon wants to start teaching what this whole game is about. Though, Cheok only had 60 bucks left but my sudden rise just overshoot him. XD

Personally, what I learnt is, high cashflow by itself won't help much. The real deal comes when your passive income exceeds your expenses. Fair thought? Of course, he taught much more than this but at this point in time, I think the only thing all of us care about is PASSIVE INCOME. XD

Yeah, with the game, CFAB July 2009 is officially the end of the trail and journey begins next year, 4th January 2011 where all of us will be in the ICAEW Application Stage, working our asses and other body parts out to the max. XD Also, 19th is the end of my teen stage, so, gonna be even crazier in my new age!!!

HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY TO MY BLOG TOO!!!!!! XD

PS : Everyone who wished me already. Thank you very much, find your own name in my facebook posts. XD

Sunday, December 5, 2010

2-in-1


Taken on 4.12.2010
Well, 2-in-1 basically means two days worth of activities in one post. XD

Yeah, 3.12.2010 first. Today was the first day of Revision Class (RC). The day started off with my usual tardiness and questions. 2 sets of questions, super taxing!! Ok la, got 30 mins break in between but still! Principle of Taxation is really taxing!!! XD
So, basically, once we finished the 2nd set at 11.30pm, we decided to go Sunway Pyramid to have our meal and ate at Burger King. I was feeding my classmates food if they act as an animal, though my only victims were Amelia, Lee Ning and Cheok. Lee Ning is the only one that entertained me though by wagging her tongue like a dog. Amelia is a dolphin but she only did the trick for the Hershey's chocolate pie whereas Cheok is impassive la. The others either still lining up to buy food or buy phone la. Then, talk while eating and as usual, I eat the slowest.
Ok! After that, the others (meaning lecturer and my classmates except Tze Lin) went to the arcade and played games whereas Tze Lin and I went to explore MPH. XD. Funniest story from them was Mr. Simon purposely go against the traffic to bang the 1st and 2nd racer. In his own words, to screw up the race. XD
We only left Sunway Pyramid at about 2.00pm. Do the maths on how long our break was.
Then, another set of questions and off we go home. My additional activity was a short yumcha session with Mr. Ong and Leong Hong, but I rather call him Hong Leong la.

4.12.2010. Last RC with Mr. Simon but he is teaching us again next year, so no worries about that. The coolest part of today is, in an attempt to de-stress, all of us went to the Cyber Cafe above Medan and played Counter Strike. On my own part, I am really bad in the game. All of us were discussing our strategies loudly, it was damn funny. Then right, Mr. Simon like playing the game by himself de. After that, we did another set of questions and it is the end of studying for today.
Well, because I bought two Robert T. Kiyosaki books today to college today and Mr. Simon saw it. He started talking about Cashflow Quadrant, how it affects income, Cashflow 1.01, the share market, technical indicators and many various things. Its very eye-opening la, whatever he said.
Then at night, or evening, went over to Lilian's house for a sort-of Christmas celebration. Glad to see meet-up with secondary friends. Joked damn much. Laughing till my throats hurt actually. Talking about Japanese game shows, some ghostly elements and sat in Su Wei's Avanza to go around. It's fun la in short.

So, today, 5.12.2010 onwards, its time to put my best game on, lest I fail my POT which should not and never happen!!!