That Time When We Are Stressed Out

It is time to start!

                Five weeks passed and I am sure you are waiting for my next post to know something about what is Business Mathematics since 28^th of September. After a few more weeks after the previous post, I finally have some ideas to talk about the course I am currently pursuing.

                Before I continue my writing, I would like to apologize to all of my beloved readers to let you waiting for a long time. I am really sorry since after my previous post, I suddenly encountered a lot of series events and I had no even anytime to sit and write my post.

Young Motivator Programme

                At the beginning of the October, I attended a programme named “Young Motivator Programme”. This is actually a selection program for the students in UUM to go to the UTHM for the next round which will be participated by all the public universities representatives over the Malaysia. The most interesting thing is my friends and I do not even know that it is a competition. We just took part because of the merit marks given. We think that it is just a normal counselling programme.

                The programme was held in the Islamic Centre. We were shocked when we were told that we needed to deliver a speech based on the title given to us on the spot for 3 minutes. Unexpectedly, I received a big hand after the talk.

                Unsurprisingly, I was selected into the semi finale of the programme. After that programme, I entered several organization under the UUM. For your awareness, there are 18 Chinese organization in UUM. I took part in 2 of them that are Bei Sheng and Bei Fang Qi Dian Jiu. Bei Sheng takes part in giving useful information to the Chinese students and also organizes some motivation and interaction programme for them. Bei Fang Qi Dian Jiu is responsible in developing the hidden potential among the Chinese students in Music.

                I also attended the Student’s Body Day in UUM from 3^rd to 5^th of October. There were 36 clubs altogether in UUM which were registered and not academic-based. I participated three of them including the Archery Club, the Chess Club and the Music Club. The role of the clubs, as you can see from the name of the clubs was to promote the culture and arts among the UUM students.

Mid Semester Break

                One week of Mid Semester Break after that really made me relaxed. This was the first time I really enjoyed a holiday. This was because we were told that we would be given a lot of assignments after the break, along with the Mid Semester Examination. These really made me stressed out. In addition, the assignments given in a few weeks ago will also be due in two or three weeks after the mid semester break and need to be presented.

                To let you know, in university life, assignments are rather important for you to score high pointer compared to final examination. In all the subjects I took in this semester, 4 of them have a 60% weightage of assignments. One of the subjects even has a 70% of weightage for the assignments. This proved that assignments are the most important item that we must score in university.

Young Motivator Program Again...

                After the mid semester break, I attended the semi finale of the Young Motivator programme. I was asked to clean the stable in the Ekuin Centre of UUM. First of all, I had to lead the horse out of its stable and tie it at the pole so that it won’t escape. Next, I had to clean the container being used to serve water to the horse. Then, I need to clean the faeces and the urine of the horse. Finally we will prepare the new straws (known as sodas) for the horse. The whole process was interesting and my teammate and I had a good time there.

                However, I was a little bit sick on that day. Due to the over sweating, I was terribly cold when I was in the SAC hall. As a result, my mind was also frozen and my performance during the talk was bad, I guess. As what I expected, I did not proceed to the next round.

                This experience actually shows that you must be both physically and mentally fit if you want to be successful. Sometimes, you need to work hard so you need to be really healthy whenever you want to achieve something.

Brief explanation of the Subjects

                Oh ya, before I forgot, I still remembered that I promised to you that I was going to share my life in academic aspects apart from the extracurricular aspects so that you will be more understanding on what Business Mathematics is. Now I am going to give you some brief explanation on the subjects I took for this semester.

                For Calculus I, basically it talks about the Differentiation and the Integration and we will play with one variable only. For Science students who would like to pursue your studies in this course, it might not a problem but for Accounting students, you need to be prepared with trigonometric sense (that sin, cos, tan will mess up your life again).

                Whereas for Data Exploratory and Generalization (or Statistics I, easier, I also do not know why do the management put such a long name instead of Statistics I or Descriptive Statistics), we basically learn how to describe a data with proper graphical display, together with the correct measure of central tendency, dispersion and the shape. This is a really hard paper for me since it needs a lot of critical thinking.

                For Discrete Mathematics, it is almost like the basic mathematics. We will be learning 2 parts only basically, that are Logic and Proof and also the Coding and Graph Theory. For more about the parts, you can go to my another sub blog with URL link www.discretecrowinx.blogspot.my. This is like the application of Mathematics in Computer Science and is very useful for logical thinking.

                Malaysian Nationhood Studies and Ethnic Relationship are two common subjects that all the IPTA students must study. Both of them are almost the same in terms of the syllabus. They talk about the formation of Malaysia and the process for Malaysia to achieve independence. The differences are just Malaysian Nationhood studies focus more on the history while the Ethnic Relationship focuses more on the building of the ethnic relationship through the understanding of the independence process of Malaysia.

                Business Accounting is basically the same as the pre-university Accounting, so there are no worries for Accounting students in pre-university. However, for Science students, you need to work harder since it was not easy to understand the basic accounting concepts in one or two days, I admit. The lucky thing is you can choose to not taking this subject if you are in Business Mathematics (it is elective), I just take it because it is the precondition subject for the next paper I plan to take in Semester 2, that is Financial Management.

Closing

                These are all basically the brief explanation on the subjects I took in this semester.

                I think it is better for me to stop at here by now or else, you will be sleeping afterwards. Thanks for reading and see you in the next post.

                Enjoy your day!

2017-11-02

5.05pm

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QuSac - An association for all SQS students

Introduction

Again, one week is over when I am typing this post. As my post goes more and more, I am going to be more specific, come narrowly closer to my course, that is Business Mathematics.

Orientation, add drop session and the first two academic weeks went very fast. It is already more than 20 days I am here, in UUM, as a Business Mathematics major student.

Week 3 comes

Week 3, em… I am already adapted to the UUM life but still have no idea on what to write about my course, haha. Maybe I need to wait for two or three weeks before I could be able to write something that can contribute to all of you, not making you sleep by turning this blog into a Maths lecture.

Therefore, about what I learn in my course, I will only share them to you after Week 6 for my Semester 1, please be patient. Alright, in this post, I actually want to share with you on Quantitative Sciences Association (or we know it as QuSac), an association which takes care and plans programs for SQS students.

My own experience in getting into QuSac

The moment I know about this association was when I saw the Whatsapp notice that got viral in the SQS Whatsapp group when somebody repost the news. This was the negative impact of spamming a group with unnecessary messages. The interview was almost over when I noticed and I quickly rushed to the QuSac room after my last class on that day.

Luckily, the door was still opened to me. The interview was not like an interview but was more likely a chat between me and the interviewers. We chatted happily. I did not even feel any stress. Maybe, this could be the result when we face anything with an usual attitude.

I could feel that the interviewers were confident of me after the interview, even though I was late for around 15 minutes. I really thank them since they are really understanding.

Being selected

Unexpectedly, I was selected as the exco of QuSac! And, now we are going to do something like ice breaking to SQS students in the upcoming week. These are my personal experience in my interview for QuSac.

Indeed, I told the interviewers on how diligent I was when I was in Matriculation. By becoming the head of 2 and taking part of 4 out of total of 5 volunteering activities being held in my Matriculation college, I think I succeed in making their trust to me and select me as an exco.

What is QuSac?

Now, let me have a short briefing on what QuSac is. QuSac is actually an association which actively organizes a lot of activities foe SQS students, for example Ice Breaking and Student Interactive Day. Apart from that, QuSac is also focusing on the academic performance of SQS students and forms academic programs which can improve their performance. QuSac actually plays a role like the association in the other school in UUM.

That is all I can talk for QuSac. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for my next post!

2017-09-28

1.00 pm

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That Perturbing Moment

                Happy belated Malaysia Day to all of my Malaysia friends! This post was initially planned to be released on 16^th of September but then was postponed because I had an outing on that day. I was too busy to write a post.

                Well, in this release, I am going to share my own experience to all of you on the “add drop session” in UUM that was the event that happened exactly after the orientation week. Perhaps this also happened in the other universities. Only other universities may use a different name or different progress.

The first batch 

                My batch is actually the first batch to be given the chance to add or drop online for the subjects we took for our respective course. The batch before was not given the opportunity therefore they were forced to follow whatever that was already in their timetable. They could only do manual add drop but our batch can do both manual and online add drop.

                What being planned and what actually happened are always different but it is better to have a plan rather than going ahead without any goal or direction. This add drop session really made me suffer when I had to do a lot of plans including Plan A, B and C on the eve of the add drop day.

                The add drop session will last for around 3 days and 12 hours. However, most of the students will be waiting in front of their gadgets to login to their portal and preparing themselves to grab the time session they preferred. Same went to me.

Long time planning

                On the day before the add drop session, I planned until 1 am for around 3 hours. I even missed the call from my family. Luckily, I succeed to come out with at least one perfect plan for my own after the 3-hours-work.

                With the advice from my senior before my plan, I made up a plan with the most strategic locations and the most appropriate time session. Among the advice are do not arrange the time until 5.30 pm since it is really exhausting and make sure there are as less gap as we can between two subjects.

Manual add drop started earlier

                As what I said earlier, what I planned was a little bit different from what happened on the next day. On the next day, I did not have any classes in the morning. The add drop session started from 12 pm so I still have some time looking back at my plans and do some adjustment. What surprised me was the manual add drop session started at 9 am!

                This really made me nervous. Since I was new here, I was lost in finding the exact location for the manual add drop session. Together with my friends, we quickly went to the bus station and rushed to the School of Computing (SOC), that was the first school providing manual add drop session by boarding a bus.

                We reached there around 11.15 am. It was quite late. Since the online add drop session had not started yet, we rushed here and there to search for the SOC lab. My friends reached a little bit late since they missed the station in front of the SOC. We were accidentally separated by the crowd in the bus.

Different schools responsible for their own students

                The lecturer-in-charge in SOC helped me in the manual add drop session. What surprised me was then she suddenly spoke out some words.

                “You are not supposed to be here. You are not SOC students but SQS.”

                The words made me nearly laughed. On that moment only I know that the students must go to their respective school for the manual add drop. On the same time, I realized that SOC was the only school which opened for that session on the particular moment.

A nice lecturer

                Luckily, that lecturer was quite good and still help me although I am not their student. I  succeed in getting the courses I want according to my plan. However, one of the subjects was full and the empty session did not match my need. In the end, I was only be able to register for 17 credit hours in this semester, which differs from my original plan that was 20 credit hours.

                For most of the students, I am sure you had been giving up and continued with that 17 credit hours throughout the semester. However, I am not that kind of person who will simply say, “Enough already” and continue with what had being set for you.

Determination... Success

                In two days after the add drop session, I thought of the pros and cons of having 20 credit hours rather than 17 credit hours in the first semester. Finally, on the second day before the add drop session ended, I made up my mind to go to the school that the subject belongs to and fill in the appeal form.

                I told the staff who was in-charge that day that I was determined to take the subject this semester since I desired to shorten my studies. Up to my surprise, my appeal was approved in just an hour. Although the group given to me was not what I appeal before, but at least I succeed in getting a course that was fully occupied by other students!

Moral of the story

                In conclusion, you can see the power of determination. As long as you are determined, do not stop halfway. Go ahead with it and I am sure you will get what you desired, just like life.

                That is all for today, I hope that you enjoy reading this and enjoy your day as well.

                Thanks for reading! :-)

2017-09-19

10.13 am

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(p/s: The subjects I took for this semester are Discrete Mathematics, Calculus I, Data Expository and Generalization, Ethnic Relationship, Malaysian Nationhood Studies, Business Accounting and also co-curriculum (we call it as ko k). The next post will be on the brief explanation of the subjects I took in this semester.)

Adapt, Adopt and Accept

   Well, it is another half month from my previous post. I am finally being registered as an official UUM student pursuing Bachelor of Science (Hons) Business Mathematics student on 5^th of September that was Tuesday last week after my long journey of 4 hours and a half from my hometown, Pantai Remis.

 As what you can see from here, the highway is still dark. It was around 5 am. :-)

The first day

On the first day that was the registration day, my family and I departed from our home at around 3.30 am. It was really early. We have no choice since UUM is really far from our house.

Since I needed to settle my JPA stuff on the same day, we stopped at Jitra for a while to have our breakfast. Jitra was quite big but it is still 30 minutes from UUM. We stayed there until 8 something and then we departed to UUM.

 We ate at a stall near the LHDN Jitra. The food was a little bit expensive but we had no choice since we are rushing to LHDN and also UUM for registration. The nasi lemak were just put on the table and you can choose as how many as you want. But then, they will charge you. I think they had calculated wrongly for the bill I supposed to pay since it was much cheaper than what we calculated.

The nasi lemak looks special. It was not the usual white santan rice that we have. Otherwise, the rice was cooked with kunyit.

Reached at UUM

We reached at UUM around 9 am. The traffic on that time was really congested. The traffic jam lasts for around 15 minutes before we could enter UUM. 

There are a lot of cars in front of our car. The blue paper aside was actually the clue for the guard to determine which way we are going to use in UUM in order to reach our hostel (or we call it as INASIS)

  UUM is actually quite big. I was quite surprised when I heard from our Student Affairs Vice Cancellor Assistant that UUM is around 162 hectars wide and is the largest public university in Malaysia. There are around 15 INASIS (or Student Residential Hall) for UUM students.

  My INASIS is in GRANTT. The registration starts by giving the original documents to the facilitators (faci) there to check whether they are the right documents as what they want.

  There were 2 types of registration. One was INASIS registration, another one was academic registration. We did both at the main office. 

This is the student private file given to us. We had to arrange all the certified photocopied documents in the file according to the sequence being provided. Beautiful file right? (But, this is not for us, we need to submit to our school then)

  In UUM, we call our learning center as school, that is totally different from other universities that call it faculty. I am of course, the student of the School of Quantitative Sciences (SQS).

  Oh, ya before I forgot, we then went to Varsity Mall for lunch and printing. I went there along with my family.

This was my first lunch in UUM, with my family. Honestly, the food was not very delicious here, haha. In my opinion lah. But, different people have different views, who knows?

  My family left me at around 1.30 pm. If you asked me whether I was homesick after that, I will admit yes. But, only a few minutes, haha. Suddenly that kind of blur, like don’t know what to do for a while but then quickly became ok already. (This is why to juniors, choose to enter matriculation at pre-u level, it will help you suiting well in Degree)

Orientation

The orientation really made us tired. We almost woke up at 5 am and slept at 2 am. A lot of talks had been given to us since the first day of orientation. I am not going to tell you the talks here so that you wont be bored with my post.

Oh ya, this is Varsity Mall (vmall). Something like a shopping mall that you always see but more to mini market.

  Apart from the talks, we were also guided by our faci to surround the university so that we are more familiar with UUM. I went to my school and also had a look at the Lecture Hall. Walking and walking were really tired. Luckily, we are not going to do this later in our class. Actually in UUM, there are buses that will always board us here and there.

This is the opened hall of my INASIS. Look great right? But after I visited to other INASIS, I noticed that theirs are much greater, haha.

 The first Indian friend I made in UUM. Hi, deva…

Most of the activities we had during the orientation week were held in this hall(Dewan Muadzam Shah or DMAS). It is a hall with capacity 5000 students and we can only enter for 3 types of agendas throughout our studies, that are orientation, examination and graduation.

My portal activation was carried out here. As the university ranked 6^th, In UUM, the learning process was carried out in portal. Through one account, we can access to all types of facilities. And not forget to tell, the wifi speed in UUM is around 76 Mbps. (This is actually not my school, it is SEFB)

The one and the only Chinese faci in our INASIS. She is really kind and helpful, and cheerful also. The best thing is when the other faci had stopped leading the juniors after the MSK, she were still with us although she was also busy for the starting of the new semester.

This is the cafeteria in the campus area. Em…actually almost the same as the cafe in INASIS, haha. The faci down there is of the same school with me.

MORE…..

Library facilities

Super senior in SQS

The slot Moral. Actually, our batch this time consists of around half of non-muslims.

This is my room. Quite small compared to Matric but convenience.

Photo with my roommate

My friend in KMPP

  

  So, basically, that are all about my orientation in UUM. (not including talks)

  The last night of our orientation was Art Appreciation Night. A lot of performance had been carried out. Here I include parts of the performance.

Thanks for reading! :-)

2017-09-12

11.55 am

#UUMisthebest

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Preface: Life as a part time tuition teacher

“For me, the most important thing is not the amount of the money. The more important thing is the experience which is not changeable with money.”

  Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka! It is the Independence Day but my topic today is not about the National Day, haha. Waoh, it looks like I had been long time not creating a new post for this blog. (Half of a month is quite a long time for me. But believe me, I was not lazy ah, I was just too busy to write a new post)
  Alright, now we should proceed to the main topic I would like to share today.

Starting
  A part time tuition teacher might be a good choice in some of the people’s view since they think that it can assist them in building their self-confidence. Imagine that you have to prepare more than what a student prepares in order to teach your students. Remember that you did collected money from them, so it is your responsibility to give them a good “service”, haha. Therefore, you will need to be more confident to deliver that knowledge to your students, by presenting it to them.
  For some of you, you may think that a part time tuition teacher is not a really great choice since the money you earn is really less, as compared to a temporary teacher in a school, and even less than a part time shop worker.

The Second Time of My Life

  Indeed, this was the second time I chose to become a part time tuition teacher when I was waiting to pursue my studies in the next stage. The first time was after SPM. I was again determined to become a part time tuition teacher after being demanded by one of my students’ parents. The student I taught

before after SPM, as I was the part time tuition teacher also. 

  I only had two classes per week in the first week as a part time tuition teacher. After that, the classes stepped up one by one until in the end of July, that was one month before my last tuition class, I had one class almost everyday. 

  Since tuition class can only be held after the school hours, I can only organize the class in the evening and also on weekends. At night, I cannot have any classes since my residential area is too dark, with no street lamps at all. Therefore, I am not allowed by my parents to go out at night since it is too dangerous. 

  Actually, another reason I become a part time tuition teacher is I would like to help the students to be excellent in their studies. I taught them Additional Mathematics, Mathematics(My favorite subjects,hihi) and Biology(which is one of the subjects I hate the most in SPM but I don’t know why do I like it by now after teaching it).

Not an easy job

  Becoming a part time tuition teacher is not an easy job. Although it is quite flexible and I actually chose this job also because it allowed me to cancel class anytime when I need to manage my stuff, it is still not an easy job (as I did mentioned in the previous sentence). I had to make the questions for the students, rearrange them according to the difficulty so that my students can understand it and print the questions in the printing shop. Besides, I also need to prepare myself so that I can deliver the most accurate knowledge to my students. I did all of these since I did not enter any tuition center and my tuition is one-to-one tuition, something like tutor. However, my fee was quite low, that was around RM15-30 in 2 hours. I often extend my classes to maximize the knowledge and the techniques for my students.

Two different things

  Teaching and learning are two different things. Learning may require you to score well in the examination but does not require you to be perfect. However, teaching is a totally distinct thing.It requires you to be 100% equipped so that you are able to teach the students well. You even need to know more than what is written in the textbooks.

Most important thing

  After you read my post, you may question me on why I still chose to become a part time tuition teacher since the income is really less and the workload is even more than other jobs. For me, the most important thing is not the amount of the money. The more important thing is the experience which is not changeable with money. Along my journey to become a lecturer in the university, I need this kind of experience. 

  Through this job, I understood what a student nowadays need and what they think when they are learning. Becoming a part time tuition teacher made me understand what kind of teaching style is appropriate for each kind of students. Some of them may need more patience from the teacher while some of them are really independence. They will go and find the information by themselves. 

More than a teacher

  So, becoming a teacher is not only about helping the students to be an excellent student but also motivating them to be well-informed. Sometimes, I also needed to motivate them on the life after their SPM and all the necessary information they need to know.

  I think these are all I can share for now. Well, 4 more days for me to depart to UUM to kick off my journey becoming a Business Mathematics Major. Happy National Day and Aku Negaraku.

My last class was in my secondary school and it took 6 hours,haha. Really exhausting but I love this job! Now suddenly feel sad pulak, haha..

2017-08-31
11.15 am
Malaysiaku Berjaya
Selamat Hari Merdeka
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Preface: Preparation Before The Registration

  Same as other students who are going to further their studies in IPTA in this end of August and the early of September, a lot of preparations have to be done by myself in order to become a Business Mathematics major in UUM. These steps really make me tired but nothing I can do, I can just follow whatever being instructed. However, the sacrifice is valuable since I will be a true Business Maths major student in UUM once I completed my registration!
  This is what I heard from my secondary school teacher. “A student is not the student of the IPTA if he has not being registered. The offer given is just a temporary offer. Once he is registered, then only he is officially the student of the university.” This is why I paid 100% of my effort preparing everything for the registration.
  Here I would like to share the preparations needed before the registration.

1. Checking the offer online

This is the first compulsory step everyone should do. (If not how do you know which university you are offered?” You may browse upu.mohe.gov.my to get the UPU result or go to the respective university website to check it. For UUM, I just clicked ASIS UUM in Mr. Google and I got to the website very easily. I still remembered the day before the official release date, some of my friends checked online already since there are some problems with UUM official site. Technical problems I think.

2. Announcement

After you check through UPU, if you are the lucky person, you will get the “Congratulations!” notice.
However, if you failed to get any offer, do not be sad. You can still try to appeal through 2 official ways and 1 unofficial way. The official ways are of course appeal through UPU system and another one, the MCA website. The appealing process is often opened for around 1 week but the MCA’s will only opened for 3 days, take note. The unofficial way is you must write an appealing letter by yourself and go to see the dean for the faculty for the course you would like to enter. 90% of the people who did so succeed in getting their course. This is the importance of the true attitude indeed. On the release date, I was really nervous since I did not know which university and which course I will be offered. Indeed, I hope that I was offered with my first and second choice in UPU. I am really glad when I knew that I was offered with my first choice, that is Business Maths in UUM.

3. Downloading and Printing Documents and Forms

Of course, after that, you will need to print the forms and documents needed. Just follow the steps. Basically, the documents and forms we need to print out are the Temporary Offer Letter, the Student Biodata Form, the Medication Permission Letter and the form for Takaful. Once I entered the UUM website, I was not shocked when I noticed that I need to print a lot of documents and forms since I had done before for my Matriculation. The number of forms and documents needed are almost the same.

4. Paying the Registration Fee

After that, you should pay the registration fee in the nearby Bank Islam. If you cannot afford, don’t worry, you can still pay the fee when you got WPP from PTPTN. The registration fee is around RM 2100+. I photocopied the slip and keep it for the later use.

5. PTPTN
Oh yeah, before I forgot, there is another step needed to be done by the students. I myself do not do since I plan to further my lepasan Bursary scholarship for my studies. You need to purchase a PIN in the nearby BSN and browse the PTPTN website. Follow the guide given to you in your university website. I am pretty sure that they will provide you the guide. If you want to know, you will need to pay back PTPTN after you graduated, with 1% annual interest as what I know. Therefore, think wisely before you apply for it. If possible, I suggest you to get a scholarship, it is better. For scholarship, you can go to Afterschool.my/scholarship.

6. Photocopy the documents
The next step is photocopying the documents. The documents required are SPM certificate, STPM/Matriculation/Diploma/A Level Transcript/Cert, the School Leaving Cert, the Testimonials, the Extracurricular activities cert for both secondary school level and the pre-university level and also MUET certs and your IC, your parents’ IC. These are for UUM. I am not really sure if other universities also require the same things. I photocopied everything but my Matriculation transcript has not arrived when I am writing these. (This is sad..Why not reach earlier, haha)

7. Certifying the documents
After checking all the things, the final step will be getting the certification from the Ketua Kampung/Penghulu and the Group A government staffs. If you cant get any, I suggest you to find your secondary school teachers. They are willing to help you. I myself went to the Ketua Kampung and he easily certified the documents, haha.

8. Other preparations
Here are also some other preparations you need to do.
I) Getting all the basic necessities you will need for your hostel life. Since we are going to stay in the hostel later and I am sure ALL the first year students are compulsory to stay in the hostel, we need to bring the things we needed for hostel life later.
II) Getting the transport. You should find the transport for yourself to register in the university on the first day. Get the railway route and the bus route if you want to board a train or a bus. If not, try to investigate the route to your university so that you wont be nervous on that day. Plan your way.
III) Mentally prepare yourself. After the registration day, you are going to leave your family. So, please do prepare yourself since some of you may be suffering from homesickness. I myself also do not deny that. But, luckily Matriculation life before made me stronger.

These are all I can think for now. Any additional things you may refer to your respective seniors from the university. Anyway, UUM, I am coming!

2017-08-16
10.43 am

Less Number of Taxes or Lower Rates of Taxes?

  Before I start to compose this post, I would like to explain something. This is just an economic article, it is nothing to do with any political issue. So, please do not write anything related to political issues in the comment space since it may offend the National Law.
  Now, I am going to write this article. The idea actually comes when I read the newspaper today. The government is going to lower the rate of the individual income tax so that it will release the citizens’ burden. However, the idea is still in planning stage and has not been introduced in the parliament yet.
  Relating this, I am going to say something in the aspect of the economic theory. In economics, as what we know, the rate of taxes will be only lowered if the country experiences deflation. The reason is just simple, that is to increase the monetary supply among the consumers.
  However, in my view, our country does not show any symptom of deflation. The price of the goods is still high due to some of the firms which abuse the implementation of the Goods and Service Tax (GST). The idea of GST is actually good but the way of execution spoils the idea. In economics, inflation is actually defined as the continuous increase of the price of the goods. So, our country obviously does match the symptom of the phenomena.
  The reason given by the government for lowering the rate of the income tax really made me speechless. They said they had collected the enough amount of GST upon the implementation. I took quite much time to rethink of the statement released from the government. This is really nothing to do with the economic situation today. The lowering of the rate may make the citizens glad, most probably by this the government can get more attention from the citizens in the next general election.
  By the way, I think they should explain more on the GST amount they collect since its introduction on 1st of April 2015. How much did the government earn in this 2 years and 4 months of implementation? I think we should be able to get the rough amount even though they did not announce it (but they actually did).
  In the early of the implementation for GST, I still remember that everyone is blaming the government, since they have to pay more taxes to the government. However, in my opinion, this is really necessary to the nation for the continuous development and the sustainability of the financial status of the country. Nowadays, GST is already familiar for you and I.
  Back to our topic, is it better for us to have less number of taxes or lower rate of taxes? Both are good, it just depends on how we think. :-)

13-08-2017
2.50 pm

Introduction

  Heading to the Bachelor’s of Degree (Hons.) in Business Mathematics in UUM is not an easy decision for me, who once chose to be an accountant when I first changed my stream for Pure Science to Accounting, but then again determined to further my studies in the maths course after receiving motivation from my lecturer(maybe “s”) in Matriculation and friend who are also heading to the maths course(but he is not in the same course with me, of course).
  “Maths? What are you going to do?” This is the first perception from almost all of you when you heard that there are some “crazy” people (or probably mad) who choose to pursue their studies in Maths. Yes, I agree. The first moment when I heard that my friend (I am not going to mention his name here) is just very clear, that is “Can get any jobs or not upon graduation?”, even though I myself am also interested in Maths. The reason for me to choose Accounting at first is also very simple, that is I want to get more money! But then, everything changed when I entered Matriculation.
  I still remembered in my first class, my lecturer asked our lecture on our ambition upon our graduation in pre-university course. 90% of us chose to be accountants. But then, upon the graduation, almost 80% of us chose to be other things else, this looks funny and interesting right?
  Indeed, my interest on Maths exceeded other subjects since I was in my primary school.
The reason is just very simple, that is challenging! Maths can be very interesting, at least in my view. Okay, I think it is time to end my introduction since I think this introduction is not an introduction anymore if I continue to compose on it.
  Hopefully, this is the best choice I chose for myself.
  Oh ya, I forgot to mention, I made this blog to share my life in UUM on Business
Mathematics later and also, to share my knowledge here apart from sharing my opinion on the current issues I read on vast medias. Thanks for reading every single word here.