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Browsing entries posted on April 2007
Our Paper T7 Lecturer
I am currently in the final Level of my CAT course, now studying all the Advance paper in the scheme. Among the 4 papers that I will attempt this June, Paper T7 is the hardest. This paper; Planning, Control and Performance Management has the lowest passing rate among all 10 papers in this technician scheme.
We also have one of a kind lecturer for this one of the hardest paper. One of a kind? Imagine having a perfectionist as your lecturer. Imagine a lecturer that never stops talking even when she ask the students to do the practice questions during class. Imagine a lecturer that only gives 5 minutes break in a 3 hour long night-time class, and wishes to extend the time just because she’s too slow to finish the chapter.
Or maybe that is how a lecture suppose to be in other college? I can’t comment much on her, since I never go to other college, and I don’t get to know how is their lecture suppose to be. For a small institution like this one I am attending, this Paper T7 lecturer is so far the lousiest. She treated us like kindergarten school kids. How honoured.
Thanks to her, I remembered so many interesting stuff she said, that doesn’t even help me in the syllabus at all.
I remembered how she drew the “£” sign and says that it is called “pound”. She said that CAT is a British qualification, that’s why we used the £ sign instead of RM or $$. How nice of her…
I remembered how she explains the word “variance”. She say it comes from the “vary” which means different.
I remembered how she explains the word “seasonal”. She say it comes from the word “season”, and she say that there’s summer season, winter season, autumn season and spring season.
I remembered how she explains the word “scorecard”. She asked us whether we watch the Olympics or any badminton matches or not. And she say that the person flipping the scores of the player whenever a player score is the scorecard. Seriously, what does Olympics have to do with Management Accounting?
And guess what? I don’t remember anything she taught on the textbook. I have to go home, read everything and even go on the internet for further research. With or without her, it’s the same. I might as well just self-study at home.
There’s one time that she wants to extend the time of the class just because she can’t finish discussing a practice question in the textbook. She asked, “Who will read the rest of the answer at home?”. Nobody raises their hand. Then she say, “Then I have to extend your time until I finish explaining the answer to all of you”. I quickly raise my hand and say, “Yes I will read those at home”, then I walk out of the class.
She’s so organized, and she teaches like a robot. With a really flat tone in her soft voice, this class of 25 students can fall asleep really easily. It’s a night class for goodness sake. I can sense her enthusiasm in teaching, but she didn’t transfer the enthusiasm to us. She’s just plain bored.
I think she must be honoured because she is featured in my blog.
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My New Monitor
I replaced my overheated LG Flatron with a Samsung SyncMaster.
Samsung SyncMaster 732N plus
Design wise, it looks cool. The design kind of reminds me of the mini version of Samsung’s HDTV. I like the glossy black frame. Downside of the glossy looks? Well, finger stains. That is not so much of a problem though, because a special cloth to wipe the frame is provided in the package.
Technical specification? 5ms response time, 2000:1 contrast ratio, 300 cd/m2 brightness, and the downside is that it doesn’t have a DVI-Digital input. At first I was planning to get a monitor with DVI-D, but I changed my mind in the end because I don’t have any plans to upgrade my old school GeForce2 card. I am not much of a gamer, and even if I have a monitor with DVI-D input, it’s not like I am going to use it.
Connecting the display panel to its stand is a rough job. You have to push it so hard to the monitor stand. Well, I eventually got it on to the stand. Anyway, unlike Dell’s monitor, there’s no adjustable stand on this monitor. The height can’t be adjusted. It can only be tilted, and that’s the only adjustment can be made. Too bad this monitor can’t be turn around. I kinda miss how I can turn around my CRT when I was still using it.
So far I am quite happy with it. I guess Samsung never disappoints their customer with their displays. And guess where this monitor is made from? Seremban. And the box states that this product is strictly for sale in Malaysian Market only. 
Note that this is NOT a sponsored entry.
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I Got Paid by TLA!!!
I just received a cheque from Text Link Ads. Well, I have A LINK sold and it was in placed on my site for like 6 months. I actually have the intention to accumulate more earnings before requesting payment, but last month, the advertiser decided to pull out 
So I thought there’s no more advertiser interested in buying links, therefore I requested the payment. And today I checked my site, and found out there’s another advertiser buying the link space. Gah, I should have waited. I can save the bank charges if I have accumulate more earnings in a single cheque, and besides, I am not really in need of money. 
I received within 2 weeks. I would say that the postage nowadays is quite fast. TLA says they sent out cheque 1st of every month, the envelope is stamped with a date states 3rd April, and I receive it today, 13th April. Not too bad. My previous snail mail all the way from the States takes almost 2 months! And this is within 2 weeks. Perhaps Google is less efficient than TLA? Or is it the delay in Pos Malaysia? Heh, talking about efficiency in Malaysia…
The cool dual coloured cheque from TLA
I “painted” (no photoshop on this PC) away my street address and my earnings. That is for you to guess
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Americans are SMART?
How smart can American be?
Name a country that starts with “U”?
U-goslavia.
How many sides does a triangle have?
There’s no side…. One?
What religion is a buddhist monk?
Muslim..
What is the currency used in the United Kingdom?
Queen Elisabeth’s money? That’s all I know…
How many kidneys does a person have?
One.
Watch this video for more stupidity. And laughs of course.
Seriously, how can a buddhist monk be muslim? It’s so obvious that Buddhism is the religion of a Buddhist monk.
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Free Wifi Across Miri City Centre!
Looks like the politician isn’t about all talks.
According to the news in The Borneo Post, Mirians are able to enjoy free wireless internet until the end of this year. That’s more than half year to enjoy the free connection. Speedwise, its only 384kbps. But hey, that’s enough for everyone to check mail, chat and surf the web while on the go.
I myself haven’t tried connection. I don’t have any mobile device to do the testing It does seems promising, since it’s new. So, for those who wanted to try out the free WiFi Internet Access, go to these location;
- CentrePoint Area
- Old Market Area
- Wisma Pelita Area
- Resident’s Office Area
- Jade Centre Area
- Mega Hotel & Surrounding Area
- Dynasty Hotel
- Somerset Hotel
- Ming Cafe
- Pacific Orient Hotel
- Miri Hotel
- Imperial Hotel & Surrounding Area
- Bintang Plaza & Surrounding Area
- Park Hotel
- Gloria Hotel & Surrounding Area
- Sarawak Tourism Office Area
- Tamu Muhibbah & Tamu Khas Area
Pelita Commercial Area and Boulevard Commercial Area is in their “Coming Soon” list. Now how cool is that? Too bad they don’t have coverage in the Airport area, or any residential area. I believe they are focusing on people that travels a lot rather than home user. Maybe they realise it’s a big problem if they encounter full time leeching home user hogging their free service as soon as they roll out the service in residential area. Good move I’d say. I mean, look at how fucked up is TMNet, and they still don’t want to upgrade their facilities, until they resort on shaping up the bandwidth usage.
Why wait now? Register your free account and start surfing. Gah, how I wish I have a laptop to test the connection and do a full review
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