Sunday, March 30, 2008

1 2 3 Appeal Letter Writing Guide

As this is my first time being barred, I seriously don't know how should I even start the appeal letter. I know that it required some personal details, state out the subject being barred and also the reason for absence.

The required

I think most people have a big scratch on their head when it comes to writing formal letter, and worst of all, this letters is submitted to the head of department and it determines your future whether you will be barred or vice versa.

So after thinking for the "right" format which will save me from being barred, I finally came out the easy 123 steps for writing an appeal letter.

Step 1.
We need to praise and continue praising the head of department. As any formal letter, we start of with salutation. Normally we would start with,

"Dear Sir, Dear Mrs. etc."

but for this, we would start of with,

"Dear Very Handsome and Macho + Smart + Buddha-Like + Super Super Good Sir"

or

"Dear Very Leng Lui, Kind-Hearted, Quan Yin Ma Goddess Miss"

So, even before reading the rest of your letter, the head of department would be so happy that he or she would be jumping in joy already.

Step 2.

Step 2 is pretty simple actually, we just write down all the required details needed for example your name, your ID etc. and the reason for your absence. Try to make out some "ke-lian" or very very sad story for your reason for absence.

Successful stories includes,

"I saw an old woman crossing the road. As I am a very kind person, I helped her out. She then started asking me to help her cross more roads! I agreed and helped and before I knew it I was already in Seremban! I tried to rush back, but it was too late. It wasn't my fault!! I was the old woman which was so damn demanding that asked me to help her crossed thousands of roads!!"

"I went for the class actually, but I went for the wrong class! and I forgot to sign. haha!"

"My alarm didn't rang, cause my bloody house mate pranked me and changed my alarm clock's time!"

"When I was walking on to UTAR from my condo, I feel down the stairs, down the hallway, down to the poolside in my condominium. When i was walking on the streets, few dogs chased me and I was knocked down by a bloody Mat Rempit. I was unable to attend class after that."

"My father's mother's brother's cousin's son's wife's sister's someone passed away, I have to go and pay respect to that someone."

"I have a chronic disease, I can't wake up early in the morning and I can't remember my classes time well."

That's some example stories which had been proven very "successful" during the appeal.

Step 3.

Keep begging and apologizing.
Before ending your letter, you should always state how much you have regretted on your absence and also beg for a chance from the HOD.

For example,

"I'm Sorry!! Very Very Sorry!! I have regret it so much, that I want to bang the wall now!! I m terribly absolutely SORRY!! Dui Bu Zi!! Gome Nasai! Mohon beribu beribu ampun dan minta maaf!!! I won't do it again!! I promise and swear in the name of Almighty dunno-what-good-for-nothing person that I will never do it again! Please don't Bar me! Please, you must be very forgiving like the Quan Yin Ma, or Allah or Jesus !!! Please Don't Bar Me!! ......"

End.

This is just an example of a guide. This guide is merely just for blogging purposes. Any consequences caused by following this guide what so ever will not be responsible by me.

Hope everyone enjoy this guide =).



Saturday, March 29, 2008

Got Barred!!

I got barred!! Expected doh...but not OHR!!!! I'm still curious of the barring system, why is there first batch written on it? Is there gonna be second batch etc.? and why is there the non-interview and interview list? which is more serious?

Anyways, I'm more excited to be in the interview session now than the fact that I might not be able to sit for the exam. Hiak hiak hiak XD

1st name on the list, kena barred dah!

UTAR Apprentice Finale

Yes its UTAR Apprentice Final Showdown, but I'm not in it. Nevermind, today we are here to support our nakama, Odyssey!!! Although they didn't won but we all know that they have did their very best and sometimes there's just some elements which cause things to be otherwise.

Let me give some postmortem for those in Entrepreneurship Society, basically, you have done 3 major bias mistakes.

1. The society's adviser, Mr.Ken should not be the main judge through out the whole Apprentice. The reason? Is because of bias-ness do happens. and it DID happen through the whole event. I got to admit that Protege is a good team but the other's are doing very well as well but even so Mr.Ken didn't notice. Mr.Ken keep on praising Protege from the very start till the very end. You might say he's not the only judge but yes but, his decisions or opinions can influence other judges as well.

2. Voting system. I'm saying that voting from students is a no-no for events like this. You know why? One can have more friends than others even if they may not be capable of doing anything. RM2 per vote? and one may win RM400. I can easily scheme up with my friends where I buy 40 tickets for them to come and vote for me, resulting a victorious winning for myself. Voting system is good for strangers or for events in places which we don't normally resent.

3. Bias-ness of speech. As for myself, we have been called under-dogs from the very beginning of the event. Since Task 1 to Task 4. The emcees keep refer us as the "UNDERDOG TEAM"!! my god! You don't call people underdogs no matter how bad are they, and worst of all for 4 weeks straight. Even we won 2 rounds? Which I think is a tie?

That's all I got to say about to the Entrepreneur Society. Now LET ME SHOOT AN OVERLY ARROGANT GUY, ok? Let's refer him as ARROGANT, k? As I don't have any better words to describe him.

At the very beginning of this event, I truly respect ARROGANT as a mature and calm thinking guy. Which I seek to admire and learn from, but after few incidents occurred, the admiration ended up to be bull crap.

Incident 1.
During Task 3, the Durex campaign, Mr. ARROGANT acted like a baby when we won the task by alot!!!, he went to complain to Mr.Ken. So this are the few example conversation that's spoken(it's not 100% but its at least 90% of the truth which I will not add or exaggerate)

Mr. Ken: Is there anything that anyone of you have to say?
ARROGANT: There's no point, no point at all.

After few seconds, ARROGANT starts talking bout bull crap ethics and more bull crap. Then he started to syok sendiri and praises his team.

ARROGANT: No doubt, I'm the the best team in this competition.

And then he ended scolding the girl from Odyssey, keep repeating the phrase," Don't try to challenge me!!", and slams of the room just like that. There goes the mature thinking crap of yourself.

YES WE KNOW YOU ARE GOOD BUT PLEASE KEEP IT TO YOURSELF.

And today, the finale, when when they ask "Why do you deserve to win UTAR Apprentice?" He says, "We have proven tracks of record, we are the runner up for task 1, winner for task 2 and we drop abit during task 3, My God!! You lose by nearly 120 votes ok? Mr.ARROGANT, you had an experience of working 2 years right? if i'm not mistaken? So, what's there you got to show off as you are older and you worked before? you are older than me 3 years god damn it, can't you be more mature?

The prize we won =))

We meet up by fate and of course, friends 4eva =)

I got to say that, I gain more that I could bargain for in this UTAR Apprentice, I gain friends and experience which can't be bought by a mere RM400 grand prize nor a trophy.

CDS Annual Career Forum

CDS aka Career Developement Society organized an annual career forum yearly. The career forum is a talk or in other words, a discussion of a topic by invited panelists. This year, we have 3 panelist, from Malaysian Institution of Accountants, Standard Chartered International Scope and 1 more-lah. The topic for this time is Employability : Opportunities in the International Market. I think and I hope everyone enjoyed the forum despite the "not-so-good" things. It's truly regrettable, I apologize but I promise will try better next time.

Banner preparation

Bani and Leslie posing, I'm not sure what they are posing doh...

Committees all in blazers

Kae Cian!! XD

I don't really know what others think, but to me, I think of everything we do must be of course memorable and enjoyable. We don't organize something and don't have fun on it. Formality is a must, yes but do try to enjoy the every bits of fun during the whole process. Joke around, play around and if possible fly around XD.

What's most important is we gain the memories, bonds everyone friendship and have some experiences as well =).

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Otaku-Fever !!

When people say about the word "otaku", they usually relate it to anime or manga but its not!!!. Otaku basically means obsessed or addicted to something. So, you can be an anything-otaku too.

For example,

Indo-mee-Otaku - Eats Indo Mee everyday and everynight during yum char
Study-Otaku - Study 24-7, brings a book to eat, to bath, and even to pang sai
Laughing-Otaku - will laugh almost every minute de
Blur-Otaku - always blur blur de. =D

So, what otaku are you?

And talking about otaku, I have recently been a anime-drama-otaku.

Been addicted to:

1. Prince Hours aka Princess Hours S which is a reverted version of Princess Hours.

This series talk about a boy gets to know that he himself is the Crown Prince of the royal family of Korea at the age of 20. Rivaled by his cousin, which is the to-be Crown Prince, he slowly adapts himself to the royal lifestyle which he has never been to....

Princess Hours (Goong)

2. One Piece


This is an anime series about pirates where Luffy, a boy with a dream of becoming the Pirate King sets on a journey to search for One Piece which is the rumored greatest treasure in the world. Along the way, Luffy meets up with his new "nakama", Zoro the swordsman, Nami the Navigator, Usopp the ..*erm* and Sanji the cook for his crew.... The series emphasizes alot of how friendship and the relationship among "nakama"s should be and the courage for one to chase after one's dream...

Addicted to this 2 series currently, and to those who want to borrow Princess Hours or Prince Hours, you can ask me-lah.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

The education system and the culture.

Do you ever wonder how you are educated in the system itself? Have you ever wondered that our education system has an impression of educating us to be leaders, but in fact, it is educating us to be good employees(manager post by most). This is regrettably sad but it is how it will be for a long long time to go. So as for this, we can say the education system is bad right?

But if you take a second thought, if you try or step your foot outside for yourself to gain experience from working with others, working, competitions etc, you can really be a leader itself. Not through the education system but with your own effort.

Being a barrier is the Malaysian culture of the "tidak apa" attitude and the "face" attitude is really sad to say, fucked up to me. The "tidak apa" attitude of delaying and procrastinating in the things one may do, for example, "assignment ar? tommorrow do-lah, still got time what, tomorrow only pass up mah!" and the "face" attitude of keeping one's pride too high. I have been to situations where some "Want-Alot-Faces-Wannabe" won't even ask for directions when they are lost and won't even care to ask for the price of a merchandise in the shopping complexes, its as if they would explode if they open their mouth or they would rot when they approaches other human beings( and trust me they are not shy, ok?).

So, to make things short and not waste time(my housemate is starving, waiting for me). The students DO NOT WANT to involve themselves in curricular activities, resulting a lack in leadership and socializing skills or we would say human skills which is very important for us business students years to come. And to make things worst, they blame the education system.

To me, the education can be as crappy as it can be, but our effort is all it takes for us to step forward to a successful future.

PS: Career Forum is today, this issue is also discussed too.

PSSS: SORRY for the PA System!!!! but I really can't do anything bout' it-lah!!! I promise I will read more book on PA Systems, k? =P

PSSSS: For those Tom Dick and Harry out there which say bad things about the forum, please do understand that you're not with the event team and "What The Tut!?" you know what is happening-lah!

Monday, March 24, 2008

FAM Social Night!

CDS and SRC had collaborated and had successfully made FAM Social Night a spectacular success, I won't know how others would think but it truly gives a "WoW" in my brain during that night itself.
FAM Social Night took place in Palace of the Golden Horses, which is one of the most exquisite hotel in Malaysia. Held in the Royal Ballroom of it, it truly gives out the prom or ball night atmosphere for everyone there.

There was about 600++ participants, an amount which surprised me up till now. There was so many guys and pretty girls out there which totally makes me goes, "Hey! m'i in UTAR's Night?". Everyone was in their best coats, for guys and best dresses, for girls.

The night goes on with the arrival of the VIPs, and followed up with several performances such as group bands performing and magic show( btw, Mr.magician, I saw your wires =D). All the performance was great but what really gives the night a boost was the opening of the dance floor.
Everyone was having fun, doesn't really matter if they can dance or not but everyone joined in the fun and just party XD!!! There are slow dances, Waltz, and there too are couples kissing during the night.

The night was just great and it can't be describe in words as it is the Night of a Thousand Stars =) For those who missed this night, join-lah next time (~.~")

Bani

Kae Cian

Mei Mei

Kok Kheong

Sue Hui

Wai Yin JeJe =P



Saturday, March 22, 2008

Asian Cultural Nite Fui Yoh! Experience!

Asian Cultural Society, Cultural Nite 08 was held yesterday, and Fuii Yoh!!! it certainly turned out to be something unexpected. Imagine that ACS turned a Cultural Nite into a Fui Yoh! event where it has an atmosphere of clubbing! I do mean clubbing yo!

The ticket to the Clubbing Nite, Err...Cultural Nite.

The beautifully decorated stage.

The "Urumi" group, for those who didn't know what is Urumi, it is a classical drums. (I think :x)

MC Bani, the best MC in FAM in Kadazan costume!!

Leng Lui MC Kae Cian in Kadazan costume too!




Clubbing in FAM :D

UTAR Apprentice Task 4

After few tasks going on, my team all has been de-motivated sad to say, even myself. The tasks all are too hectic, and with few other things coming up soon, it will be even worst. Relationship might been shaken has too much conflicts happened though out the whole thing not caused by any of us(the 4 teams which have been strongly bonded together) but by someone else who we all knew in our hearts.

Avant-Garde got eliminated this round, but we are not sad or anything but we are glad and happy about it as we gained more than what Entrepreneurship Club can offer us if we win the UTAR Apprentice.

I myself gained to know a whole lot of new friends and the experience of being in a conflict and how a team should work as.

PS: Good Luck to Team Odyssey in the finals!! And to Mergers & Legends, nice to meet you guys & gals :D

Chinese Orchestra Nite

I bought a ticket for Chinese Orchestra Nite from Jacintha, for *erm* voting for us during the SAFE campaign for UTAR Apprentice. Being not very familiar with classical music, I was too curious about how it would be.

The Stage, nicely decorated :)

The title of the night was "3rd month d' small rain" if it is translated directly from mandarin. So, since I'm a March baby myself, I was lagi curious-lah. What does my birth month got to do with small rain (@@")? But then later on i found out is just the title of the song or event so to called...

Chinese Orchestra playing(camera not clear as it is too dark). The MC told us that using flash will scare them :(

A clearer picture :D

This is what interest me the most during the whole night, a song titled "Kukumi". At first i thought it was "Ku Ku Mee" ! haha :D. The MC said a funny story stating that the song title came from a cat, which is "Mi". And since the cat is a male, it is "Ku Ku"........and there we have "Ku Ku Mi" XD.

The Orchestra Night is absolutely wonderful. The musics are good even for me, someone who never really heard them before. It is certainly worth it, and for those who missed it this semester, please buy your tickets next semester !!!!


UTAR Apprentice Task 3

Haven't been updating my blog for quite some time, so today I will ranting for quite abit(~ ~)".

UTAR Apprentice Task 2 is over and now we venture into Task 3 which we are required to do an awareness of AIDS/HIV campaign. In short, a sex campaign.

Its really weird that the Entrepreneurship Club give us 2 slogans to start with, which I find really really weiRrrD, first is "UTAR my choice, DUREX your choice". Weird ain't it? The second one sounds even more weird, "Fun with DUREX"!!! I think UTAR is encouraging its students to FUCK around with DUREX with this phrase.

Anyway forgetting about that, we(Team Avant-Garde, Mergers, Odyssey and Legends think of various way to let students to have "FUN" with DUREX and within a short period of 4 days, we came out with a successful campaign.

Mr.Iskandar cutting the ribbons

My apartment, messed up sia~(>"<)


Our Norty Lobby, *Erm* I mean North Lobby


Preparation of booth
(from left to right, Vicky, Joseph & Wilson)

Our collage board and yes! Mr. DomDom Red and Mr. DomDom White!!

SAFE is our name yo!, SAVE AIDS FOR EVERYONE!

Ribbons in love shapes and condom printed bookmarks free for grabbing!

SAFE :)

We ended up winning this task, thanks to everyone's effort, from preparation, booth setting up, luring people to vote for us and etc. etc. etc. We won't win this task if it is not for everyone's devotion and commitment for this task. If you would want me to list down what is the effort that everyone went through, It would take few hours of writing and a few pages long of essay.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

UTAR Apprentice Task 2 (cont)

Competition was tough, everyone was nervous, I know I am =x. Everyone is done a great job despite all the walls we need to break through. Mid-terms, assignment dues, and brain-storming for ideas for the ad & executing them of course(which is I think is is hardest). Oh ya, not forgetting the amount of time we are given! 1 week to make a commercial + printed ad + a marketing plan, my god even assignments we got at least a month-lah. So I don't think why people can complain about "not having enough time to do assignments".

Luckily none of our 3 teams are eliminated this week. Most importantly everyone enjoyed the fun :). Not forgetting, congratz to Team Metamorphosis for winning this task, and also to all the 10 teams that made it to Task 3, hope we will be working together soon enough.


Our team with Mr.George, the retail chain l33t. :)


Barista Coffee!! RM70 per kg!!!

Must grab the taste of this expensive coffee sia~ :x grab more~~


The winners(not mine~) advertisement, for you guys who are curious :P

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

UTAR Apprentice Task 2

Ok ok, guess alot of you will be wondering how our ad will be. Actually i wanted to upload it up yesterday but, f**k-the-tut that my computer died and I need to spent hours on reformating it and reinstalling every inch of things back along with studying for QT mid term which is today!!. my god...



Just enjoy this small ad of done by me and wilson =X.

PS: more on Task 2 after my presentation today ;)

Sunday, March 2, 2008

UTAR Apprentice - Task 1

For UTAR-ians of Sg. Long I think all of you knows about the UTAR Apprentice organized by the Entrepreneur Society. So, basically it has all the elements of the Donald Trump's Apprentice we watch on TV but its in groups of 3-4 instead of solo.

So this is our Task 1:
World of Design - making a new bottle design for F & N soft drinks which me must make a proposal and also a prototype of the bottle.

Hmmm...a bottle eh? What bottle would you think of, if you get to make one of any choice? Something which makes all UTAR apprentice contestants "perah otak" for.

For our group, we start up with this idea/concept~

1. "For Her For Him"(Dildo and breast shaped bottles).. Perverted Idea, might get sue-d or banned by Government or some D*ickhead Anti Society.

2. Compress-able bottle. Big bottle --> Small bottle --> Big bottle --> Small bottle.. Get it?

3. 2 in 1 Flavour Bottle. Taste 2 flavours in 1 bottle.~

So, after some mamak time and thinking we take up the 2 in 1 bottle, and named it F & N Duo!! we even came out a slogan leh~ Double the Flavour, Double the Fun. So there's the start of our concept.

our original bottle was a Glinter bottle.

The logo we came out with. Sounds like some CPU processor sia,
maybe we will come out with F & N Quad next time =P

Our TOP Secret Weapon!!! To make it Waterproof!

Ta-da! Secret Weapon putted in, but failed,
it seems the 1% of condoms leaks do happens, my god!.
We used colored plastic bags instead~

Unexpectedly, our TOP Secret Weapon shot this for us =P.

Task 2 is going as I' m writing this post, but sadly this time I can't think of any TOP TOP Secret Weapon!!! Any ideas?, the task is to create an advertisement for Barrista Coffee which I think it is supposed to be some high classed or luxury coffee compared to Nescafe.

PS: 3 Mid-Terms this weeks, 1 - 2 Presentation, CDS's Forum banner designing, Utar Apprentice. And yes its my Birthday today! wish me!! XD


Jay Chou Mania!! Wee! :)

Didn't manage to update my blog for a long long long time dy. So this is a delayed post~ =(.

As everyone knows, the all-so-famous-and-popular Jay Chou is in Stadium Merdeka doing his concert in Malaysia on 23rd Feb! and luckily, I got free tickets to the concert courtesy of my cousin who work in the media. I swear everyone was crazy and going gila for Jay Chou during the concert...(no offence, but I'm also one of them). The screams for the girls saying" Wo ai ni Zhou jie lun ~!!" is deafening and killing to the ears! Vendors selling **ck uped whistle to make high pitch "PIIiii Piii!" noise is damn annoying where you can hear lala-chai blowing whistle like their mouth is stuck to it. But Jay Chou's concert is really WoWWW! For those who missed it, please go next time =).


No cams no video bla bla bla etc. is the first thing we saw.


The stage and the crowd!

Jay Chou's pink bag

PS: Those who wants the pink bag, can ask from me cause I got 2 left =x