Is there something wrong with my template?

For some reason, it doesn't come out in paragraphs anymore... TO me, that is... I wonder why :S

Anyway, there's only one more week of lecture, then it'll be finals... I've a lot of reading to do for Managing Across Cultures, and Microeconomics 1... Then need lots of practice for Accounting and Financial Management 1B

Yikes...

Anyway, Selamat Hari Raya again :) It's definitely some sort of experience not celebrating with my family, but it's alright :)

Masih tengah mencari tempat yang baru untuk tinggal... Tak selesa duduk sini... Tak sabar nak pindah =)

Culture? Race? Ethnics?

Coming from Malaysia, a multi-racial place that's known for the diversity in culture... Yet, racism to a certain extent, still exists... Heck, it exists everywhere, as much as we try to combat it, and integrate with each other...

I don't know how prevalent it is, in Malaysia, but from my observation since school times, most of the cliques that form, are by people of the same race... that is Malay with Malay, Chinese with Chinese, Indian with Indian... But of course, this is just a generalization, and not EVERYONE is like that...

-to be continued after I finish this darn report-

Nads said...

rasicm is always there. no matter how much we want to get rid of it,it will always be there. reality is that everyone wants their race to be a step ahead than the rest. it seldom is personal rather than for survival.

I got that comment from Nads, even before I actually got to finish this post xD *bites you* but yeah, I do agree to a certain extent :)

Actually, I had a lot to say, back then, when i started writing this post, but now, 10 days later, I kinda forgot what I wanted to say... but it did have a lot to do from observations, and added from studying Managing Across Cultures

It also stemmed up from the report I was working on, which was also for that mgmt subject, entitled Ethical Cultural Relativism: Bribery in USA and China, and in that report, we justified why bribery CAN be ethically RIGHT... go us :P

Anyhow, live's been a lot better now, finals up soon, and in a month's time, i'll be happily in my summer holidays... looking for a new place to stay.. studio apartment sounds awesome... maybe i'll rent a two bedroom apartment and rent out the rooms... we'll see

World Trade Center

BTW, i forgot to mention at the last post, that after my last class, i had break fast in Kingsford, then I had a group research project meeting right up till 10 PM in the uni's library... rawr!

Ok, back to the present :D

Today we were supposed to meet again to do up the report... Kris, Muzi and I met at one at the library... don't know if we did much progress... it was ok... i guess... but i also need to understand what am i researching better...

Anyway, we're all rather tired and stressed out with all this... most prominent was Kris and Muzi, since they're both kinda at odds with each other... hahaha... (tries to stay on the fence)

So after the last lecture today, Kris and I went to EastGardens for a movie and we watched WTC... It was ok, I guess, a bit too long for me, but me being the person who doesn't usually feel for things, I didn't really find it touching my heart or tapping into my emotions, as I heard it did to a lot of people...

Oh well, but I did manage to do some grocery shopping after the movie... Finally have more food at home, YIPPEE

Today is the day...

After my last post, I stopped doing anything and just lied down on my bed and think... What if I could drop this subject and take the prerequisite, i thought...

It won't be easy, since I've passed the deadline for dropping courses... But the thought of putting it aside, and savage my other failing courses seems like a very good idea... But still... dropping it now will fail that actuarial course... but if i don't drop it, i failed it anyway :P

Dilemma... what to do?

After a lot of encouraging words from my family, I've finally accepted that I've failed this course, and to not worry about it anymore =) More important right now, is to buck up my other courses, which has been greatly affected due to my level of stress in trying to understand actl2003...

My dad words, were like: There will always be times, when things don't go the way you wanted or planned it to be... And when that happens, just tough, no use worrying about it...

And welcome to the real world...

Hehehe... *hugs him tight* Always made me feel comfortable when things go wrong... always help me accept things, when they really go wrong... =)

Okay =^_^=

So..., on Wednesday, I attended a dinner for recipients of the Golden Jubilee Scholarship...
During the dinner, I met with the Assoc Dean of my faculty... which is also the person who recruited me for the scholarship, i heard... he told me that if i have any problems, just contact him... so i did... :)

The Assoc Dean presenting the scholarship certificate to me =]
Pics at the dinner were taken by someone from the ISS =D