CPA Undergraduate Conference 2010

This morning my housemates and I have joined CPA AUSTRALIA Undergraduate Conference 2010. This year the theme of the conference is The Ultimate Entrepreneurship Challenge. CPA AUSTRALIA Undergraduate Conference 2010 started around 9a.m. However, we need arrive at 8a.m for the registration and changing our T-shirt to conference T-shirt.

The program for the conference as below:

8a.m-9a.m Registration

9:05a.m-9:10a.m Welcoming and speech by Organising Chairperson

9:10a.m-9:25a.m Speech by representative of Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive, Professor Debiprasad Dash (Head of School of Business and Design)

9:25a.m-9:30a.m Launching

9:30a.m-10:55a.m The Entrepreneur Start Kit

10:55a.m- 11a.m Photo Taking Season

11a.m-12p.m Biz Plan-Work on it!

12p.m-1p.m Lunch & continue discussion for Biz Plan

1p.m- 1:20p.m “How to Become a CPA”

1:20p.m- 3:20p.m Time to Shine- Reveal Your Business Idea

3:20p.m-4:30p.m “Meeting the Leaders” Forum Session

4:30p.m-5p.m Time to Shine- Reveal Your Business Idea (Continue)

5p.m-5:30p.m Announcement of result & Closing Ceremony

After I joined the conference today, I felt a little tired but I am Happy with it. This is because I have learned something from the business which is to become a leader we need learn from mistake, how to make our Biz Plan successful and accept by investors and etc. However, the conference also got bored part which is the Forum Session and Time to Shine- Reveal Your Business Idea. In forum session, the invited guests only talk about their experiences which this part not attract me to listen. For Time to Shine- Reveal Your Business Idea part, it is because the sound system problem or the sound of the speaker not loud enough. I can’t hear what the groups have been presented in front. Lastly, we have given a gift bag before we dismiss. I also have attached some picture about the conference in below.

Poster of CPA Undergraduate Conference 2010

Information Books and CD cover inside gift bag

Gift Bag given by CPA AUS

Folder

Program Book, Pen and some information papers inside folder

Participant Name Tag

Sibu by-election

Yesterday, Sibu had a by-election. The seat that competed was Sibu parliamentary seat. Mr. Wong Ho Leng from Democratic Action Party (DAP) had won the Sibu parlimentary seat. The result was Mr. Wong Ho Leng had obtained 18,845 votes while his challengers Mr. Robert Lau Hui Yew from Barisan Nasional (BN) obtained only 18,447 votes and Independent Mr. Narawi Haron obtained only 232 votes. In total, Mr. Wong Ho Leng had won 398 votes. This also means that Mr. Wong Ho Leng from DAP is the new Sibu Member of Parliament (MP).

*All sources get from http://www.merdekareview.com

Sibu MP and Malaysia Deputy Transport Minister dies

Just now, my friend told me that Sibu Member Parliament- Datuk Robert Lau Hui chew who also our Malaysia deputy transport minister had death this morning. I though they just kidding with me. However when I check whether got any news about the death of Datuk Robert Lau at internet, it confirms that Datuk Robert Lau was death this morning. The reason he death was because he got liver cancer and he death at the age 67.

For more details, please read the news in following link:

Chinese:

http://www.merdekareview.com/news/n/12928.html

English:

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/4/9/nation/20100409124155&sec=nation

First Week of another New Semester (4th sem)

This week is my first week for another new semester. This semester is my fourth semesters in Swinburne Sarawak. In this semester, I have found that Swinburne have make improvement for enrolment tutorial class. I think this is the first improvement that Swinburne had makes that let me feel happy with it. This time the Swinburne ask all the students enroll their tutorial class through the system call ALLOCATE PLUS (Allocate +). We just need access to the system and pick the tutorial time that we want and this system is first come first serve basis. In overall, I really satisfy with my time-table. My this semester time-table in below:

Monday
1330-1530 Contract Law (Lecture)
1530-1730 Contract Law (Tutorial)

Tuesday
0830-1030 Analysis for competitive advantages (Tutorial)
1530-1730 Corporate Accounting (Lecture)

Wednesday
1030-1230 Macroeconomics (Tutorial)

Thursday
0830-1030 Corporate Accounting (Tutorial)
1030-1230 Analysis for competitive advantages (Lecture)
1530-1630 Careers in the curriculum (Lecture)
1630-1830 Macroeconomics (Lecture)

Disappointed With SWINBURNE SARAWAK!!!

Yesterday night I had received news that Swinburne Sarawak had forget to include the Contact Law for students who take major in accounting. This subject must taken by students who want to take CPA program after graduate their Bachelor. Due to the changes of program for next semester, I need to choose one minor and two electives, contact law is one of the subjects in the electives. My friend told me that contact law now becomes compulsory elective subject for accounting students. However, I had finished two elective subjects and I had no more extra choices to choose contact law.

This morning, my friend and I decide go to find the coordinator for Business degree program- Accounting. When we find the coordinator and we told her about our situation, she told us we only can choose the Commercial Law or Basic Marketing as our minor if we want finishes our degree within three year. We cannot choose other minor combinations like Finance, economics, human resource, leadership, applied marketing and organization behavior. If we choose this minor we need to extend our program for one semester. At first, I had chosen finance as my minor because I think among eight of the minors I most interested in finance. But now, my choice only left Commercial Law or Basic Marketing and the most important thing is this two minor is the minor that I not interested with and this two minor is the first minors that I abandon I when I making decision for choosing which minor.

This make me feel very angry with Swinburne because I think Swinburne should not force me to take the subjects or minor that I interested with. Why the wrong of Swinburne management need to ask me as student to endure??? Now I feel very antimony because I want to finish my Degree program within three year time which now only left one and half year but I don’t want to take the Commercial Law or Basic Marketing as my minor. If I don’t want take Commercial Law or Basic Marketing as my minor I need to extend one more semester and this will waste my time for taking one subject only for three month time and my graduation will extend one semester. Besides that, the plan that I do all now become rubbish due to the wrong of Swinburne management!!!!

Haiz….I think I need to do the decision faster because I will back to Sibu in this Sunday and I need hang up the study plan to my friend for helping me hang up to Swinburne before tomorrow night. I only left around one day form now for think whether want to choose which minor…… haiz…… God if can please show me the ways……

I think after this situation, I really feel disappointed with Swinburne. How can they do the changes for the program and subjects for students without making the research probably??? This will seriously affect the future of the students!!!! I think they only know to teach the students but they don’t know how to apply the thing that they teach in Swinburne….. I will not recommend my friend to take their degree in Swinburne!!!