Jogoya

Last Wednesday(15th April), my mum promised me to try the lunch in Jogoya. I always heard from my secondary friends that the foods are delicious. Since I received a buy one and free one voucher, this is an opportunity for me to try the foods.

We reached Starhill by taking Monorail at 11am. The atmosphere was quiet as the restaurants and shops just opened. We waited for half an hour as Jogoya opened at 11.30am. By the time the shop allowed customers entering, there were about 10 customers lining up.

There were procedures for us to do before we could have lunch. Firstly, we need to present our voucher and then we need to make payment at the counter. Next, a waiter would usher us to allocate our sitting place. After that, I was very hungry and could not wait any longer. Haha… There were lots of variety foods. I just didn’t know which to choose first. So, I took suishi first. I selected every type of suishi. My mum took abalone, prawns, lobster and appetizer.

There were glasses on the table so you had to go to the counter to take drinks. I heard from Pei Thieng that coconut drink is their specialty. At first, I didn’t see any coconuts. So, I request from a staff to give me a help. The staff realized that he didn’t take out the coconuts. The size of the coconut is much smaller and it was fresh. They served Chinese Dim Sum, Japanese (raw fishes, tempura soup, suishi), Steamboat, Western, Malay dishes, fruits, cookies, and cakes. Their specialty oysters were fresh and nice to eat. I took my favourite ice-cream, Haazen Dartz. Whenever I took this brand of ice-cream, it reminded me of my Piano teacher who would gave a treat for those students scoring A in exams.

Oh yeah.. They also provided wines. I took red and white wine. Surprised? Not believe me? You can see the picture below. Haha… Nah… I’m just trying the taste of the wines. Don’t worry I won’t get drunk.

I was very full after having 2 hours meals. At 2.30pm, my mum and I left the buiding. Haha.. Now, who ask me whether I try Jogoya before? I would say yes..

My presentations

Last Friday was Good Friday and it was my challenging day.

I had 2 presentations, one is for Moral and another is Financial Decision Making. So, there is two versions-Malay and English. Haha…

My group was the last group to do Moral presentation. Group members were Yen Peng, Ann Qiao, Pui Mun and me.

During Moral presentation, I was stucked in the beginning. Ms Chew asked me for my name as I forgot to introduce myself.. Quite nervous at that time. After that, everything went well.

Ms Chew gave comments on our presentation.
First was Yen Peng. She was talking smoothly and there was eye contact. But, she spoke a bit fast. Ann Qiao was trying to communicate with audience. As for me, my talking speed is ok but I lack of eye contact. For Pui Mun, she was slow among all of us. Overall is Ok but some slides were funny. We lack of giving out the impact of War atmosphere to audience. I was satisfied.
Before ending our Moral class, we had photo sessions.


After Moral, we rushed to FDM class. Luckily, the previous group was not finished their presentations so we took this opportunity to do rehearsal. We started our presentation around 2pm. We were the last two groups. Hui Tin, Tiong Yi, Pui Mun, Jin Lian, Ke Xin, Kai Sin and Hui Kian came for our presentation. The first group is Jenny, Phoebe, Pei Tieng, Yin Nee and Siew Han. Their recommendation is not to accept the offer. Yin Nee presented the joint venture to set outlets in another institution in Taylor College rather in TARC. They were creative to conduct marketing survey. When CK asked about the analysis, actually it was not the real one. Anyway, their presentations are quite good. CK praised them.

Chin Kai was the first presenter. He showed the return on investments if Zubino is sold to WCB. CK was amazed the figures. This is because Luis would obtain 1,500% if the shares sold. I heard from Shir Lik that Chin Kai was presenting very different from earlier. I heard that he explained that Luis should retain the shop because he as co-founder might have a chance to make Zubinos became famous. Example, Michael Dell was the co-founder of Dell; Bill Gates was the founder of Microsoft. Our idea is to encourage Zubino to wait for Initial Public Offering (IPO).

Shir Lik and Koh Lung went well for their presentation. Yen Peng did not talk in speed compared to Moral. I think we didn’t keep track the time. Ann Qiao was trying to convey her message on branding to the boards without referring her notes. When it was my turn, I started well. But when it came to Ethics, I forgot a word-confirm. It was like this, “Recently, the UK Food Organisation…” I repeat this sentence twice. The sentence “conduct a survey” kept appearing in mind. For the third time, I apologised. This time, I used the correct word. Haiz… I had prepared my presentation and didn’t expect any errors. I was quite disappointed.

CK spotted a mistake on our slide. Carl Martin should not have any shares as he was just representing KPE. He just said that we did well. Actually, our class was the best because there were new ideas. All of us were happy. CK said that he has in mind which student would score A for this subject. For me, I just wish to pass. If asked me who deserve an A, I think Jun Loong, Wai Kwan, Yin Nee, Jenny, Hui Kian, Hui Tin, Chin Kai, Yen Peng and Wan Ling would get it. Before leaving, we had photo sessions.


Again, Pui Mun and I rushed to Canteen 2 to have our lunch. We ate Wan Tan Mee. Fortunately, Pui Mun and I reached the hall on time. Mr Andrew taught us about the deductions and tourism industry. He would tell us jokes while lecturing.

When I reached home, my legs were very painful. I think I had enough walking with those high heel shoes. Haha… That’s how my presentation ended. I will treasure this moments.

Evangelistic Talk

Hi.. I just went to the evangelistic talk last Saturday.
There were many new youngsters attended the talk and it was quite successfully.
This was also my first time to attend this kind of talk.
Pastor Jay Koopman shared his life story to us- How he experienced through a bad life.
He used to involve in selling drugs, abuse, etc.
Luckily, Jesus came to save him and he was forgiven.
Now, he turned a new leave and spread God's good news to all youngsters.
Telling them to accept Jesus as He sacrificed for our sins on a cross.
Easter day is around the corner. Let's celebrate together.

Revival Evangelistic Meeting

There is a talk about Revival Evangelistic.
The speaker is Pastor Jay Koopman.
Date: 4 April 2009 (sat)
Time: 7pm
Venue: Wisma FGA, Kuchai Lama (near Old Klang Road's market)
All of you are INVITED!!

For your information, this is my first time to attend such talk.
Those who are interested, pls let me know..

My Diary

Thursday, 20th March 2009
I felt very tired for the whole day. I didn’t sleep well last night due to my nose block.
During class, I learned about currency options and netting for Advanced Finance Management. Since the college reopen for this new semester, CK and SL became Permanent United Nations as they didn’t attend Dr Wong’s classes anymore. Dr Wong noticed them and started to take attendance. I thought Monica would be one of the members in PUN but she started to attend this lecture class and I saw her today.

After the class, I had Moral class. There were no tutorial questions to be discussed throughout the course. We just have to spend one and half hours to listen presentation from our own classmates. Today, HKian, HKim and KXin presented on the topic “Discrimination”. There slides were attractive as they put in some pictures, animation and comics. While they presenting, I chat with AQ about my brother who is in Kota Kinabalu now. He represented KL for table tennis competition in K.K. His team mates are NNgee, Nigel, Nicholas and Ah Weng. Their team managed to obtain third placing; NNgee and Nigel obtained first runner up for double event. My brother lost in doubles and Single.

After Moral, we had discussion for FDM but just CK, YPeng and me. KLung wanted to go back to his hometown, AQ has not started her writing for our assignment so she went back to complete it while SL went back. Actually, there was not much issue to discuss. Once they started the discussion, I was just listening to their ideas and comments from the beginning to the end. It seems like I was doing nothing. So charm… L However, I did my part for finance and ethics. If my work compared to theirs, it likes a very big gap. They put a lot of efforts in it as they did their research here and there. Honestly, I always admired them as they were knowledgeable. I wish I could be like them. Since I could not give my helping hand, I wish to learn something from their ideas and comments.

CK commented on my part for 15 minutes before attending my tax lecture class. For my ethics, I thought Luis Zubino started the volunteer programme but it was organised by his staff. I interpret wrongly. Understanding the English words seems difficult for me. I tried my best to do my part. Haiz.. Besides, the food product was not explained in an ethic manner so CK said he would do the amendments for me. How I hope that there is no changes in my parts. Anyway, it’s good to have someone to correct my work. In this way, I could learn from my mistakes. Basically, I finished my part. During discussion with CK, I found out that my mechanical pen went missing from my pencil box. Then, I remembered that AQ borrowed mine. Luckily, CKwas kind enough to ‘lend’ me his. Did you notice the word ‘lend’? Yes, I was not sure whether he said he gave me one as he has four. But then, I inserted 3 sticks of pencil nip without having second thought. How careless I am! I realized this when I had tax lecture.

For this small mistake, I could not concentrate in my class. Anyway, I decided to return mechanical pencil to him once I get my one. About tax, Mr Andrew taught us about the business income and expense.

Ok.. That’s all. Apart from that, there were some jokes. Jun Loong mentioned about KLung’s name. Some teachers pronounce his as ‘Lung’ in English. Haha.. Sound funny, right? Our group always have a CEO, Chairman, Secretary, NED… We always named ourselves differently. CEO is CK, Secretary is SL, NED is YPeng, Chairman is KLung, AQ and me are directors. Although KLung is Chairman, he said himself as those people who arrange chairs. Haha..

Something happened to WLun. He told us that yesterday was his bad day. His car was spoilt so he wanted to repair it. (No wonder I didn’t see his car parking in front of the college) He wanted to make a call but no batteries. Then, he wished to withdraw money from ATM. At that time, it was raining so he ran to the canteen 2. To his disappointment, one ATM was spoilt and another ATM was not able to withdraw to money. Not only that, a person fetched him to withdraw money from CIMB bank at TBR. To his surprised, CIMB was no longer in TBR. I heard that Koh Lung helped him in the end.
Ok.. That’s all. See you.

During holidays..

During this holidays, what did i do? Eat, sleep, watch tv, play games, going out, etc... for whole month.. But i still have coursework and homeworks..
My coursework is to read books.. The world is Flat, The art of war-sun tzu, STarbucks experience, Blue Ocean Strategy and one more..(forgot the name)
THe world is Flat contains 571 pages and the writing is small size.. I read until I wanna sleep..
Haha.. But, the book is quite useful. It told me about the current issues we are having.. Now, everything is using IT. The importance of IT for all the industry.. IT helps us to obtain all the information that we want.. Companies can outsource their call centers to India.. About India, I thought that they only expert in medical field.. after reading the book, i realised the development in India is very rapid.
For art of war, I just read the book relating to biz.. This book is quite interesting.. About the strategy of war to implement in biz..
Starbucks experience-- relate to how they conduct their biz using 5 principals :
1) Make it your own
2) Everything matters
3) Surprise and delights
4) Embrace resistance
5) Leave your mark
Starbucks is a successful company.. they treat their employees very well and put them on the 1st position..
BLue Ocean Strategy is about the new biz strategy..
Explaining the types of strategy such as 4 action framework, strategy canvas..
I spent 2 weeks.. but i have not finish yet.. Feeling tired sitting on the floor..

Last week, my ACCA results came out.. Everyone was anxious for what they obtained..
As for me, I'm quite satisfied.. I failed one out of 3 subjects.. Actually, I thought i would pass one subject.. there are 4 classmates passed all.. They are superb.. One of them may obtain book prize.. He is our genius guy.. Anyway, congratulation to them...

After next week, I have to go back to college. This would be my last sem..
Ok.. that's all..

During CNY

Today is the last day of CNY.. So how did you celebrate during CNY?
For me, My mum and I went to visit my mum's siblings in Serdang. My grandma and grandpa already passed away 2 years ago. I really miss them. I missed my grandpa's accent. He talked cantonese like a singing tone (it's a Gou Chow Style). I think I would not able to find another person who can talk like his slang. None of them could learn from him.

There were kids everywhere in the house. Every year there is a new baby. Haha.. The atmosphere was full of crying babies. Anyway, I just see them once a year. Not only have babies in the house, there were a few of cousins about my age. However, I don't really get close to them. It sounds like we were out of touch. I just talked with my elder cousin sister, Pui Yee. She went to UK last year and took a lot of pictures. Wonderful buildings, variety of flowers, etc... She was studying in TARC too. How I wish that I could go to UK this year but no financial support. Haiz..

On the next day, Cynde, my brother and I went to watch a movie, "ink heart" in Mid Valley. It's a fantasy stories. How can a person read a storybook and appear real things from the book?? Haha.. Anyway, fairy tales... Do you really think Cinderella, Snow white, Sleeping beauty would live happily ever after?

On the following day, I organised a house visiting trip. We gather at Sfoo's house at 10am. Those who join this gathering were ksoon, ksheng, kyeow, team, ykee, des, myee, cfai, khoe, sfoo and wleong. Did i miss anyone?Hope not. Hehe.. After that, we went to Des's house. We played cards.. While they playing, I visited yhui's house. Pinky was happy to see me.. It jumped on me.. Haha... I didn't see yhui for a long time and we chat for 2 hours. I'm happy that she could get an internship. At night, we went to have our dinner in Syabu Syabu. After dinner, they went to my house. Almost every year, they would come to my house. Wonder why? They can take this opportunity to play table tennis.. Last year, william played with me.. We really had a great time.

On the fourth day, sis Yuen visited my family and we had our lunch at lot10 by using vouchers. Haha.. I felt lucky that we could get those free vouchers by buying YTL's shares. So to those who are interested, buy this YTL's shares. For your info, I'm a shareholder as well. Haha.. While having lunch, ksoon told me that he wanted to play ping pong at night. So i said ok..
At night, I waited for him and others to come... I knew they would 'fong fei kei'... But then, only sfoo arrived at my house and I had no choice to follow him. Vwai, yling, wleong and ksoon already reached Cowboy. Vwai and yling just came back from Perak.

On the 5th day, I joined ypeng's group for house visiting. I wish to see snee and wteng as both of them are working now and no longer study in TARC. After that, I followed wleong's gang to csheng's house. His house looked new... There were a collection of mini cars.. csheng taught us to play 'sam ka' manjong. csheng's parents invited us to join them for dinner. However, sfoo forgot to bring his wallet so we ended up to have our dinner.

On the 6th day, I learned to play gimrany(spelling correct?) cards with my family. My mum was very good. She always the winner. My brother was better than my mum. He could win a few sets straight although he is a new learner. Haha.. I had a great fun with my family...

Ok... that's how I spent my CNY for a week.