No more projects, but......

Our last project, marketing, was a good end to our project struggle of the semester. I was quite satisfied with the project. However, I am a tad skeptical about the grade. The tutor always release us early. He always end his tutorial within 1 hour. Maybe he was in the hurry to go home. Principle of Marketing (POM) is the last tutorial of the day, at 3PM. When my classmate Christine request for tutorial presentation, he declined and preferred interaction. Obviously, he just wanted to get his stuffs quickly done with and go home. He didn't even provide model answer! I requested for it after persuading from my classmate, and he declined too. In fact, he had a look of disdain. It is a wonder that POM was one of my best module for common test (Probably due to the 3 out of 4 questions elective and the number of topics).

I should have known it. He wants to go home early, so do we. However, when it comes to project presentation, he is equally impatient. Yes, we should keep presentation short and sweet. The instruction states that we should not exceed 20 minutes. Still, isn't it rude to cut people's presentation? He said that the first group presentation was half an hour and had to cut them, and ask them to just show them the rest of the slides. I timed 25 minutes. Duh.........

Of course, the rest of the group hurried for fear of being cut-off. We were the 3rd group to present, and managed to finish within 20 minutes. Before the presentation, my group members kept nagging to cut short my part (I had the most number of slides to present, and were quite wordy). Of course, I was well aware of that, and tried to assure them that I would over-run. However, they refuse to trust me. That is quite annoying, when your group members make it so clear to you that they don't trust you.

Came the last group (Only 2 person, as they were not from our class and the groups from our class did not accept them; my group did accept 1 not from our class, and our group project benefited from it), and the tutor fell asleep! The girl who finish talking and passed on to the male presenter laughed, and the whole class turned our head. There were laughter, but the tutor still did not open his eyes!!! He probably woke up only when the class claps at the end of the presentation. *Double duh*

He said that we can call him 2 weeks later to know our grade. 2 weeks! Anyway, this sem we worked so hard for our projects, yet the grades are C!!!!! Ahhhh!!!!! C for AFA! C for CLAW! Even C for MA2 workshop!!!!!!!! *Sigh*

AFA, AFA, AFA.............

Now that the project is over, we are now concentrating on Consolidation of Statements. It is a 5-weeks major topic, not unlike RFA's Notes to Financial Statement. Anyway, Consolidation is no less tedious than Notes to Financial Statement. Though it has minimal theory, there are around 10 journal entries or more to do. You would have to apply these journal entries to the consolidated Income Statement and Balance Sheet. Like Notes to Financial Statement, a lot of practice is required as there are a lot to write, and you have limited time to complete your paper during the exam.

However, I don't find it too difficult at the moment. Maybe because our tutor forced us to do tutorial everyweek (and fine $1 to those who didn't do). Believe me, after 4 tutorials of Consolidation of Statements, I am so sick of the topic already. However, I will continue to persevere on. I will not let my effort go to waste. So my advise to fellow students now doing APT: Do your tutorial constantly no matter how difficult it is or how busy you are. If you are consistently paced, you won't be totally clueless and confused during the study break, and you will have more time to devote to other modules.

Speaking of AFA project, it weighs 15% of the entire module, even though it is the most tedious and difficult project I have ever done. On the other hand, our marketing project weighs 20%. And what do we have to do? No report on microsoft word. Just a 20 minutes powerpoint presentation, and a hard copy to be submitted to tutor. What a discrepancy. Nevertheless, I do not resent doing the AFA project, for it is really an opportunity to learn and stretch our ability. Financial consultancy appears to be a handy skill to possess.

4Shun 2Shi 1Zhen (Clockwise)

Well, my post title is apparently a rip-off from Gigi Leung's latest CD album, consisting of 24 greatest hits and 3 news hits. Of course, my key reason for buying the CD is for her song "Shun Shi Zhen". However, all her other songs are good. Guess it is because she never released her own greatest hit album before (correct me if I am wrong), that's why she has many good songs to be compiled together. In particular, the last song, 4ai 3de 1dai 1jia (Cost of Love), was a song I last heard when I was still in primary school.

Anyway, I thought shun shi zhen is a very meaningful song. Though it applies to romance (I love the innocent touch to it, just like Guang Liang's "2Tong 4Hua", a.k.a. "Fairy Tales"), its concept can be dealt with a lot of things. As time goes by, the pain caused by a failed relationship will slowly heal. To me, time can do a lot of things. It let happiness and misery come and go, leaving only memories. Yes, life is a journey, and time makes our lives an ever-going on journey.

This semester, it seems that I don't have enough time and energy to do everything. Yes, I can do all the things I NEED to do, barely, but I don't have the time to do anything that I WANT to do, such as blogging. However, now that most of our projects are done(Only left resume for Event Communication and Principles of Marketing), I can blog now. When I think of what I want to type about here, I realise that this semester moves at a very fast pace. So fast that before I know it, it is just 1 more week of tutorials to go. So fast that there are so many things to write about, yet I don't know where to start. Despite of the stress and endless works to do, I somehow miss this school. Perhaps Poly life is really more interesting and carefree than Primary and Secondary school life, especially primary school life. I never miss my childhood.

Happy birthday Singapore

For some reasons, I wasn't blogging recently. But for now, I will just say happy birthday to Singapore. :-)