Today, I joined our college's trip to the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) for students taking Accounting.. It was basically an office at the corner lot of a building in Brickfields, KL.. First, we had a talk by Ms. TM about MIA and its membership.. Since it pertained a lot more towards the accountants, the rest of the students who were taking other courses, i.e. me, T, E, etc. weren't exactly paying attention throughout the talk :P But it was pretty amazing to know that the speaker had a degree in Mass Communication and yet she's working in accountancy.. She reminds me of D, my colleague when I was working as a temporary accounts clerk more than a year ago.. He had a degree in Computer Science but there he was, holding a job as an accounts exec..
After that, there was a talk by Datuk K, who must be one of the most powerful people in Malaysia.. He has overseen various multi-million projects such as developing Bangsar and KL Sentral.. He's met almost all the richest people on the planet, including Donald Trump.. And yet, he's so down-to-earth and unassuming that you wouldn't believe that he handles projects worth billions of ringgit for a living.. He said accountants hold the edge because honesty and the responsibility to disclose facts have been ingrained as the very basics of accountancy.. He even told us this really cool story about how he sold a company for RM500mil although its initial start-up capital was RM1mil! He says only accountants can make the intangible tangible.. But I honestly think that he's blurred the line between accountancy and marketing :P
For lunch, we went to Chili's to repay my debt to R :P Together with M and Z, we really had a good time.. Before we left, all three of them took some free balloons with them.. The balloons even had the phrase "Ask About Kids Eat Free" on them.. Our childish ways were further enhanced when we ran, with the balloons, to catch the bus on the way back to college..
In the afternoon, we went to Bursa Malaysia.. I don't know how me managed to keep ourselves awake throughout his 90-minute speech.. The speaker was so cocky right from the start.. He kept referring to us as "village kids" because we couldn't understand all his terminologies and jargon.. And I kept hearing him pepper his sentences with a word which sounded like 'H. S. Lee', i.e. "This is H. S. Lee a company", etc.. And the thing is, nobody else heard him say that so they're all saying that I made it all up! Grrr..
We came back at around 7pm.. I had bought a sandwich for supper because I didn't plan on eating at the Dining Hall.. It turned out that Sapphire was holding a small celebration party post-IAW, with a huge helping of fried mee to boot :P In the end, I gave my sandwich to my petsis, E because I did owe her Dunkin Donuts for the small stunt I asked her to do during Sapphire's house dinner :)
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