Usual Saturday night chill out place!!!...

I sent my cousin this via whatsapp...

Cousin replied: Starbie rite... I saw u d :)
my replied: kub

We usually visit Ikano Power Center (IPC) after our dinner. My mom, aunty, uncle and cousin usually head over to Popular bookstore for books. I usually chill in Starbie IPC. Starbie IPC is quiet and less crowded on Saturday night. I get to online over in Starbie while waiting for them to come over and look for me after they have done their reading at the bookstore.

Last Saturday night, as usual I order a drink at the counter and headed my usual seat in Starbie IPC. A seat that can view the whole activities in Starbie IPC. I ordered Chocolate Cream Chip Frappe...

Chocolate Cream Chip Frappe

Started to study my Project Management Exam next week... All of sudden people just rushed in and the whole place was getting noisy. Toddles were shouting and making lots of unwanted noisy. What i hoped was they leave as soon as possible. But they were not... Too bad~

I ended up settle with my earphone to reduce the noise...

Exam is coming to town

You better watch out, you better get prepared,
cause exam is coming to town.

Yup~ My MBA exam is coming to town. On the way from Australia... ;-) This semester examination schedule was a disaster. 2 exams are scheduled in a same day. 5.5 hours of exam in total~

Maybe because of my Project Manager - professional instinct, I have given the coordinate an heads-up that we have to plan the examination schedule upfront as the examination actually dropped on Diwali timeframe. Unfortunately no one bother to take into the consideration of this clash.

Few weeks back, the challenge has arose and for those whom celebrates Diwali found difficulty to have the exam especially Diwali eve. They started to panic and requested the coordinate to change the timing... too bad it's too late~

No more ranting and talking...

Let's get to work and prepare for EXAM eh~ 

MBA - not Married But Available

I was working on my MBA assignment for the past few days... It's not a tough assignment per said but it's a lot of thought to come out a reasonable assignment for gaining as many marks as possible. In fact I'm suppose to review and revise my write up and submit to my team for consolidation by today. I'm not in the mood of writing the assignment. Sigh~

Lots of my friends were surprise that i still further my study to get my MBA... This dream suppose to be materialize couple years ago but unfortunately i refused to be tied down to scarified my weekend and social night out.

Year 2013, i have made up my mind to pursue 1.5 years MBA and made my dream come true. TZ is a student now... Anyone wanna treat a student a nice meal?

PS: Can i exercise my student rights? No need to pay for my meal... Any sponsorship?

MBA : Married But Available

Gaining the Married But Available (MBA) status is not as easy as i thought. Not so much of the tough syllabus on the course, it's the time commitment to finish the assignment and preparation for exam. I was tied up with all the assignment throughout the Chinese New Year, that's why you don't see me continue blogging for a while which i have so many things to blog about.

Anyway, tomorrow is my first Final Exam for this semester. I will have to hit the book again. Will slot in sometime whenever i feel like taking a break. ;-)
 

Assignment! Assignment! Assignment!

Time flies... my 1st semester is going to end. How many semesters left? 5 Semesters to go... cool eh~

Rolled back to the time when you are in school... do you still remember when is the busiest moment? hehehe... 2 weeks before the final exam; because of assignments usually due 1 to 2 weeks before final. We should start the assignment as early as possible but ... we tensed to be lazy and only start when time approach to the due date.  Last minutes job...

I was busy with my assignment last week and next week... How about CNY... Hmmmm... for a married but available guy, there will not be any CNY. Is this true? - According to my senior. Sad right?

For me, CNY is just another holiday to catch up or relax. This year i will be doing my assignment during the CNY and luckily i was not celebrating my CNY in Penang. Instead i will be leaving for Vietnam. More time for me to sit down and complete my assignment.

Now i wanted to fast forward to look at after 5 Semesters... Hurray~ No more assignment. I can relax and gotten the married but available status.

Hey~ wake up TZ!!! too early to dream... you still have 1.5 years eh~

OOPS~ LoL

Porter Value Chain vs Porter 5 forces...

Both are tools to evaluate company strength and weakness... True or False?

The Porter Value Chain evaluates the strength and weakness within the company value chain including the supply chain of the company and its infrastructure. This is more on looking from a single company.

The Porter 5 forces analyzed the strength and weakness of the company from the Industry perspective. This covers the comparison among competitors and have the holistic view of where the company stands within its own industry.

By using these two tools, we could analyze how competitive the company is to its surrounding as well as how strong is the company internally...

So, what is Porter Value Chain?  What is Porter 5 Forces?

Examination preparation

Let's get started to study on the Exam...


The final exam for MBA semester #1 will be starting on Feb 19th... So I need to kick start on the study. It's so different in Exam Study nowadays with the technology... which totally different from the convention way (using books only). When i was a student in Canada, I only read books and notes. Now, YouTube have given a short cut to learn the subject.

No wonder the Y and Z generation learn things so fast~ 

How will 2014 be for TZ ?

2013 was an enjoyable year on travel but a tough year for my career... It's a wake up call for me too. Because of this call, I have finally decided to pursue the MBA Master of Business Administration after years of dream but no actions. Now I target to complete within 1.5 years and looking forward for the graduation. It's too early to say whether i could finish by what have been set in the program. This is due to unknown factors in my coming job scope and many more changes yet to be known. All these factors were unknown in this challenging year. Anyway, MBA is NOT Married but Available. LOL

Time flies and my MBA study for first semester is halfway through. It's interesting to go back to school and learn something different. I hope i have the opportunities to apply what i learn in the near future.  Moreover, i met an entrepreneur whom has only high school cert yet he is running the operation side of the business. Sometime when we discussed about business operation, it was amazed on how he could handle the operation by learning from experience people surrounding him. I really salute him. 

Year 2014, some people has a great start like how US stock market. But the US stock market investors are not sure whether the champagne can continue to flow or not... Just like those people whom has a great starts. Are they able to maintain throughout the year whatever greatness they have?

For those whom started with not getting what they hoped / wanted... DO NOT disappointed. There are always some reason why you don't get what you wanted or hoped for... maybe there is something which is better waiting for you in the near future. Who know eh~ Just like what i have been through on year 2013... trying to get a job / career in Singapore but ended up so many disappointment, if i got a job in Singapore, i might not be making my mind to pursue my MBA. So, when  my current company offer sponsorship of the MBA and i quickly applied and went through numerous interviews and got selected from 60 applicants.

So now i'm sharping my knife and to the world...  I'll be BACK...

Wake up wake up

I usually woke up @ 8:00am and go to office at 9:30am. This week i have to wake up @ 7am and leave my condo @ 8am. Need to go for the class in PJ new town. And the class starts @ 9pm.

Okay, gotta go now. If not i will be late for my PMP class. Ciao~

One more Certification for TZ

It's the month of July 2010... my plan is to get one certification this year... I only left another 5 months. So need to start studying again and get this done.

I was taking out my PMBOK (Project Management Book of Knowledge) to study and realized that they are so many chapters to study. Given i have a busy schedule recently, i think i need to rearrange my schedule and focus on getting the certification.... Yes! I must get this certification before end of the year.

After i got this certification, I would have APICS CSCP and PMI PMP in my card... so what would be my next plan? hmmm.... haven't had the solid plan to share yet.

Anyway, wish me luck eh~

You're talking with a APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional

Hehehe... finally I received my APICS CSCP certification ... ;-)

How much should i charge?

BTW, i could place APICS CSCP in my business card in the future :p

Post Exam

Hurray... Finally i have finished my CSCP examination... I have been preparing for this examination since two months ago while waiting for my new job to come... Now have to go back to my job searching (this will be another topic by itself)... :p

Anyway, when the clock struck 6pm yesterday evening, it's gave me the relief as i finally done my CSCP exam... guess what? the exam is 4 hours long with 175 questions... i never took such a long hours exam with so many questions to answer... My brain juice got drained after the exam... I was so tired... Now, what i could do is to pray that i pass this examination and get certified... :p

What's coming up? What and when will be my next exam ... hehehe... end of first quarter of year 2010 or beginning of 2nd quarter... depends on how fast i could got myself prepared... :p

Oh! Stay tune with my Flashback year 2009... It's was a fun and enjoyable year for me... Till then i gotta hit the bed as i was too tired to write anymore...

Ciao!

Study Study...

my exam is coming ... my exam is coming... :(

Another 18 days to go...

Since November i have allocated 2 hours per day but now i need to allocate more hours to focus on my study... So i might not be able to blog from time to time... i only could blog on my best effort. Sorry my fellow readers. This exam is very important for me. Just bare with me for another 2++ weeks.

Study Study TZ Study

Don't be lazybum... another 18 days to go

Quick Quick go and study

Okie folks ... Gotta to hit my face to the book again... Sayonara.

I'm back to Metropolitan KL

Hey everyone, I'm back... I'm back... to the polluted metropolitan KL. After this trip i really, seriously need to start my exam preparation... hmmm another 32 days to go... :p

I need to send my car to the mechanic in a short while... the air con water leaked into the car... now there's a flood inside my car :(

Anyway, stay tune on my Penang / Taiping trip photo eh~

Study Once, Study Twice... OK?

To all the readers that study for exam. Study Once, Study Twice, you should be OK for your exam :p Give yourself confident to take your coming exam eh~ Just Do It :) Medie007, Jerry all the best to your coming examination... mine will only be 2 months later :p

ALL THE BEST TO YOUR EXAM

1212 - an important day for me.

Anyone care to buy 4D for 1212? If you win don't forget to treat me eh~ It's an important day for me and it's might be a turning point for me to invite myself back to the corporate world.

I have been struggling to try to get myself back to the corporate world but i think my opportunities is just not here yet. While waiting for the opportunities to arrive. I decided to sign up an certification examination to upgrade myself to be Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP). Many of you were asking what is CSCP?

The APICS CSCP brings your company's entire value chain into perspective. By giving you a truly end-to-end view of the supply chain, you become the expert, not just within your organization's walls—you become the global expert.

From manufacturing to service, in business and consumer markets, the increasingly important role of effective supply chain management affects all organizations. Customer expectations are high—with the APICS CSCP, you can ensure that your company not only meets, but exceeds them.

So, my trip to Penang last week was the start of my preparation for this CSCP examination. Today i got the replied from the registration office. I officially announce to have my exam on 1212 this year.

Okay... gotta go back to study. For readers that having exam in the next few months. All the best to your study eh~ Let's study and strike our goal eh~ We can do it!!!! ....

TZ in class

In an hour i will be attending a whole day class. I signed up for a certification course again and this certification course required me to attend classes every Sunday for the next 4 Sunday. So... 

no Movie on Sunday 

no Hi-tea on Sunday 

no Gym on Sunday

no dating on Sunday

no Afternoon nap on Sunday unless i sleep in class. Blek~

no Party on Saturday night :(

no Gossiping on Sunday (yaya... as if i gossip)

etc....  

Anyway, just 4 weeks and i will be back to my normal Sunday activities again. Hopefully i will stay awake throughout the class and try to get as much information as possible. :)

Hey, gotta go now otherwise i will be late for my first day of class. Ciao!

Study~ Study! ....

Another one more day is my trial exam... wish me luck eh! .... :p

Relaxing with Aromatherapy...

I was a bit stressful errrr.... not too much just more stressful then just sitting @ home blogging and waiting for my unknown start date project to trigger again... sigh~ sigh~ sigh~ Since i joined this SAP class 4 weeks ago... I have been undergone some level of stress but not the stress that i couldn't take... Nothing can compare with my previous work. With my regular gym session... the stress disappeared after a nice jumped up and down from the step board... sweating my stress away... :p

For the past one week i have been using my new bought RM5.00 Aroma pot... I bought this Essential oil from Body Shop two months back and haven't tried out the Aromatherapy with the essential oil ... Reason being i was looking for a reasonable price Aroma pot... guess how much an Aroma pot that Body Shop sells? It's RM70+... how ridiculous.... Finally i managed to get it from the RM5 Japanese shop one week back... 

Every night i light up the Aroma Pot... feel so relax and turn my room to a nice, quiet environment to study my exam... :p hehehe.... once a while i was so tired and dozed off ... 

Exam is coming!

Last Friday, I finally submitted my enrollment to a certification examination to become SAP consultant... I got an instant confirmation reply from SAP Malaysia and stated my exam will be on July 31st 2009 i.e. 3 weeks from now ... :p

The exam is a multiple choice examination with 5 folders of study material and each folder have about 300 pagers of material to be studied... The trainer taught us has advised us to allocate at least 4 hours per day... I was being lazy and in addition with lots of activities (i.e. gym) after the class ... At the end of the day, I only spent 2 hours per day. hmmm.... now i started to feel the heat... so much things to cover yet and left 3 weeks... sad sad sad .... :(

The examination is a multiple choice question... The questions are from different sections of the reading material which carried different weightage ... hmmm what need to focus more? I think i should go and ask the trainer tomorrow morning for some study tips... It's important to know the weightage so i could maximize my score during the exam... Anyway, no short cut to gain the certification... So what is the keyword to pass the exam?

STUDY STUDY STUDY!!!!!!

Gotta go and hit the book again... Ciao!