Invitation by Dr. Zuriana

Right after our exam & presentation for Management Accounting, we were invited by Dr. Zuriana to visit UUM & have lunch with her family at her house in Changloon at 23rd May 2009.

This is the first time that we are invited by lecturer and we also use this opportunity to link up our classmates' relationship. It really works that for my group that already start our relationship, we are getting closer after the trip. For those classmates who we are not familiar with, we start to understand each other...

Well, we had more than 50% (10 from 16 ppls) of participation from our classmates. Of course, we are the most "meriah" group when we stop by in Gurun R&R. This is the best time that we tease each other outside the classroom, proposed crazy idea such as object one of our classmate's marriage with the reason that she didn't give us the invitation card, etc... :)

This is our group photo. From right, Heama, Dr. Zuriana, me, Faizal, Khursani, Han Neng, Fadzil. Behind:- Ashraff, Kok Tatt & Liau.

When we reach UUM, we visited UUM's library.. Well, I went to UUM personally a few times but I was not able to have chance to visit it. After this visit, I would suggest that we all can save our $$ to spend in old town, startbucks, Nasi Kandar in UUM's library.... However 1 thing no good to study in library is no food allow... :(

After visit UUM library, we pay a visit to Dr.'s room.

Group photo at Dr.'s room.

After that we tour the whole campus (by car)... Then we went to Dr.'s house because Fadzil already hungry...

This is our photo in Dr.'s house.. We have Nasri & his family joined us for lunch...

Thanks for Dr.'s warm hospitality to invite us to her house...

FYI, Dr. is a good cook!!! She cooked Nasi dagang and satay for us... Too bad that I had 2 rounds for my breakfast so I am only able to eat 1 round for Nasi dagang...

Additional trip to Khursani's house, Heama & me had another round of makan...that is after 30 minutes we left from Dr.'s house... Wow, I was full until midnight... on that particular day...

Well, study Master is not only assignment...assignment...assignment... or work ...work...work... This is our time to have fun!!! Thanks for your support & make the trip more fun.

Finally my 2nd semester in MBA is end by today

At last, I had submitted my 2 exam papers on Saturday and Sunday separately... Wao... So tension about what had happen past 1 whole week... Assignment...assignment...assignment... + exam....exam...exam...and exam...

This semester, 1st time, I had 2 take home exams within 1 week.. At the same time, I need to cater for urgent issues and meeting in office...As usual, I applied 1 week leave to prepare my exam and assignments. I am glad that I prepare my schedule early...

However, unexpected that my group and me took almost 4 hours per 1 accounting's exam questions..... Even though we have only 3 questions in our take home exam but not an easy assignment for us... I am lucky that our group start to do our discussion early of the week so we know the difficult level of the questions. However, when I think back, actually this is the only time we seriously spend our time to perform the accounting exercises so the level of difficult is definite for us.

At last, I can completed it on time but burn midnight candle light almost every night...

2nd take home exam, marketing management.... by propose Marketing plan for SME.. Well, the company that assigned has no annual report to perform further analysis on market position even though I tried to call to that particular company, the HR manager is so firm that their company's annual report is not allow for study purposes...

Since I have no choice and request to change company last minute...burn my midnight candle light every night for this paper too.... At last, I managed to finish it on time even though I can submit to lecturer latest on Monday....

Below is my marketing management group members and lecturer...

Re-structuring

Well, heard that re-structuring will annouce next week but too bad that I will on leave for whole week due to my 2 exams...

Not sure what will happen to me... All the material analysts looking forward not to perform excess and obsolescent every quarter again... However it seems like outsource activities will continue, inventory management will become more and more important in future. So material analyst's role will become more and more important in near future...

Approve for VSS - lucky?

As I mentioned, the vss package that offered in my company is not bad however there is a criteria:-
1. 50 yrs old and above
2. Work in Agilent for more than 20 yrs...

So after mid of Apr's announcement, there are some of us applied it... Well, 1 of my college applied with 1st level managers already approved her application but her application rejected in 2nd level of management...

So, submit the application doesn't mean that you can get it after review by management.. Even though the package is attractive for us....

There was 1 time, I want to apply the program so much but when I start to ask myself, what I want to do after take this VSS.. I have no answer for that.. probably I will just eat and sleep at home... then I will start get fat......

Secondly, my 1st level of manager and 2nd level of manager won't agree to let me go... Reason:- they want to help me to build up my career path in my company...This is what I always appreciate what my bosses had done for me and I likes to work with them....

At last, I just make myself forget about the program... continue to work hard like cow.... go back home at 11pm at night..... working my US counter part in the morning and night...

Credit card usage in petrol station

Now only I know that if we purchase gas at petrol station with credit card (not pay in counter), they will hold RM200 per transaction for 9 days...

So whoever want to use credit card at petrol station, if you want to avoid this RM200 to be hold for 9 days, you may want to ensure your credit balance still have more than RM200 + $$ that you want to purchase gas. Or you may swap ur credit card at the counter.

Bye bye to my sister's hamsters

Both of my sister's hamster left us already... The female hamster died few days ago... The male hamster died just now after I took it out for fresh air...

According to my sister, the female hamster bite the male hamster before she died...So I suspect that they were sick before they died...

Hope that my sister won't take in any more hamsters.... or else I will miss them especially this pair who always enlighted my life when I get bored...