Ending of Uni! =)

this post is specially written as a memorial of 3.5 years of studies in Monash University. Just took my final paper exactly 12 hours ago. Now it’s all up to July 15th 2010 for results day! Actual date of results release is 16th July.. But we always get it the evening before. lol. it’s just how it works.. It is one of those things of Monash..

• How do I feel now?

I wanna say the load/burden has been lifted off my shoulders. But somehow I feel something so bigg is just coming.. But yeah for now I really feel that light.. Strictly at this time of moment only… I’ll re-comment 2 months later.. Ohhh and I’m quite sleepy and dead tired, BUT I just wanna spend my time for myself now.. here i am… (this is how u spend ur time by yourself? sadly happily yeah.. haha)

• What can i say of Monash in this 3.5 years i’ve gone through?

Monash Clayton is GOOOOOOD! Best year of my life! (up to this date) That was 2009. I shall concentrate more on Monash Sunway. To be exact it’s only 2.5 years that I’m in this campus. Been seeing it going thru it’s biggest change I can say. Started with sharing space with Sunway College to having it’s own campus, the Monash University Sunway Campus. And it’s still growing! I really wonder how more it will grow.. I guess only time could tell.. Anyways, it feels real good to be studying on a campus itself! Not so much when sharing with some other college. More sense of belonging.. haha..

In all my years here, and all the subjects I did, some lecturers and tutors are very good but only a handful of them. And the rest u know lar. So i would conclude that the quality of education provided is just so so. This is solely based on the majors am doing.. not Monash as a whole. but i guess it’s a guideline? haha..

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Some things that will remember about Monash Uni:

1. Slackness. super slack. never been more slack in my studies ever. but it’s an awesome life of slackness. just not at times of assignments and exams. really gotta work so much more in these times due to so many weeks of slackness.
2. Last minute studies. seriously i’m that good in doing that now, after 3.5 years. not as in good in studies itself, but good in doing/learning in the last minute of it. it’s so bad. yet it’s so satisfying somehow. u may not fully comprehend what i  just said, but it’s alright. nothing too important to note there.
3. Pool games with pool kaki (sadly there wasn’t any game in last sem due to schedule prob.. oh wells)
4. Arriving 15 minutes after class commences. with a 95% confidence interval, two-tail normal distribution, which means in rare cases, i’ll either be on time for class OR super late.
5. Driving to Monash. trying to get free parking. trying to find nearest parking spot so walk less. paying the parking ticket at ticket counter.
6. Getting ID checked. there is a way in no matter u got student id or not. it really doesn’t matter.
7. Paying fees at the financial counter on the LAST day of fees payable before any penalty/fine.
8. Deleting monash emails without reading. just couldn’t be that much bothered about it.
9. My student id somehow had access to most (if not all) places in uni that requires card access! somehow the management messed up a lil there when i once applied for access just to one room. only had it in my this last sem! but had alot of fun with it tho! haha.. how privileged it was..
10. LASTLY (i’m sure this is not the last bits of it) the fun times and funny things and jokes and sarcasm and meals and lepak hours and falling asleep in lectures and walking around campus during night time and so much more.

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• Recap of my studies in this 3.5 years

I’ve been majoring in econometrics and finance. But most subjects are econometrics tho. Cause i dropped finance later in time. why? just not interested in it. To sum it all up, in all these years of uni, I’ve been learning about building models, building more models, building much more models. Then improving on models, different assumptions, different distributions, different formulas, different forecasting method, different statistical tests. hrmmm did i miss out anything? haha…

• Relating what i have studied to what i’m now interested

Can’t see any relevance. Not only no relevance, I’m going against what i’ve studied. haha.. this is so interesting.. Let me explain more.. What i’m actually interested now is the forex market.. i guess u can really say it’s an interest.. not really about making big money out of it… but am really playing on this thin line of worshiping God and worshiping money.. what i’ve studied in 3.5 years tells me that i can understand why is the market trending.. but it tells me that i CAN’T actually know/predict when will the market change trend.. that is what my 3.5 years of Monash told me… now, i believe that the market is actually being controlled.. and I CAN actually know when the trend is changing.. even to the precise points… really finding this very entertaining and mind-blowing.. Can u imagine if the whole market is really being controlled? if u can, can u imagine if u can also find out whenabouts are the trend change and all? how cool is that? Am looking into it now… =)

Be blessed!

Ancora Imparo = Still learning. Always is! Love this motto…

BBK-RJBC Camp 2010

Just had church camp over the past weekend. It was an awesome camp!! filled with: God’s presence. Good fellowship. Delicious food. Nice chilly weather. Good ping pong session.  Cold and hot showers. Laughters.

Camp was held over at Chefoo in Cameron Highlands. Nice and relaxing place. Away from city life. Away from super hot weather. Definitely an awesome choice of place for camp! It was a 4 days 3 nights camp.

What did I do there? Praise God. Worship God. Studying the Word of God. Knowing God better. Knowing God’s people better. Fellowshipped with fellow campers. Makan-ed. Prayed. Games. Activities. Ping pong. Basketball. Badminton. Guitar-ed. Had fun. Had more fun. Had more more fun! haha…

The theme for the camp is “Live by faith not by sight”. I really learnt a lot from this camp! The Word came at the right time as well. Am really going through challenging times! Something really really big. Something beyond what I think I can comprehend. But I do believe that He won’t give me something that I couldn’t handle. And also that He will watch over me, teach me, and guide me through this situation I’m in.

The camp really do teach me to submit more to God. And to rely more on Him. Not just to rely, but to seek Him first in all things! These words are surely easier said than done. Often we only really seek Him when we arrive at a very dead end after trying our ways. Definitely had first hand experience of life application of the Word in the camp. Mind was really troubled by some things during camp. It’s really easy to say submit all of it to God. But it’s really hard to actually do it yourself. Believe me. At least it was true for my first time. But managed to submit in the end. Hope I really learnt from this and it would be easier in the future. A lot of times before this, words remains just words. Hate to say it. But its very true of a statement for me. This is one of the times where i really put into practice something that i learn.

Really felt closer to Him after the camp. Maybe I’ve been a lil stagnant for a lil too long. And it was surely refreshing to be back on track. hehe.. Thank You. Surely it has been a great camp. Seeing and meeting so many people who have passion and enthusiasm for God. It really helps to encourage each other in our walk with God.

Am really amazed with the team I was leading. Yup, I was leading a team! I was being suggested to be team leader. Something I’ve not really done before. Have no idea at all what I’ll be going through or how am I gonna do it. Just thought might be a door opened for me to grow. So yup accepted it. And I can say I really did learn a lot on how to be a leader! Found out so many things that I should do as a leader. Was really a pure naive thinking accepting to be leader when i don’t know much. But am glad I made that decision. Really opened my eyes to many areas that I would have missed.

Had a picture with my teammates. Really great people they are. Leader from RJBC. Doctor. And there is a public figure as well in my group. How awesome is that!! And their humbleness and their knowledge of the Word of God just amazed me! Really great to know them and have a shared experience with them although it was just for a few days long.

My team: Heart of Christ (we got 2nd place! woohooo!)

Another thing I realized is that, it is so easy for one to lose sight of the real joy around when your heart is so into winning an event. Really do think that enjoying the bond together and work with each other is far more important than to win the event. Only realised it after. Shall be mindful of it the next time.

My final thoughts for the camp is that it is definitely a camp to be cherished and remembered!

Amen.