Thursday, August 25, 2005
2:53 PM

First Week in Sch...

On Mon I had Financial Accounting (FA) class from 0830-1145. It was quite sad as I only knew 2 pple, David and Kelly, from the class and I was not sitting with them cuz we came in at different times. Somemore next week gotta form project teams le. Actually I'm glad I'm in SMU where lessons are conducted in seminar-style of abt 40 students, so I can concentrate better.

It seems that students from BAcc are pretty serious with their work, studies and grades. That's y my cousin was telling me that BAcc in SMU very competitive. Think it shud be like that in NTU as well? Never had I gone for such a lesson, where many of the students are eager to contribute in class discussions. Quite cool la... But then it's mostly the guys doing that la. And some of the guys asked quite fei4 questions la... I trust that our prof is able to distinguish the gd from the bad questions.

Prof Gan only went thru the basic and introductory elements of financial accounting. Imagine I gonna be a professional/expert in this field at the end of 4 years... Scary sia... Look at the numbers and gonna peng le. Prof Gan is old (and therefore wise.. hehz)and humorous. Though the class was 3-hour long, I was able to keep myself awake thruout. He mentioned that he'll go as fast or as slow as we want so that we can get it right. If need be, he'll conduct extra lessons for us... Hmmm... Anyway I tink he's relli nice la...

Tue was a free day so I decided spending my time looking thru which courses I shud bid for to make my 4th module.

Went to sit in International Econ class on Wed morn to see for myself how it's like. Basically first lesson was about International Trade that we learnt in JC. The class was filled with yr 2s and 3s. Quite scary manz.

Hung ard Kopitiam and library with some frens, doing nothing, since I dun have any assignments or books yet. Then went to buy my FA book and activate my EZ link card. Yippie!

Had leadership and teambuilding (LTB) lesson at 1530. Prof Kong is a pretty charismatic, nice and funny lady. It was fun spending like half the time introducing ourselves to the whole class. Later we formed groups and my group was called Everest. But then I heard that LTB is quite time-consuming cuz we gotta do a community service project as well as do an assignment about "A Leader I Have Known" as a team. Shiong...

Today had Communication lesson in the morn. Prof Singh was humorous as well, but heard that she's quite strict. Oops. Had to give a speech, with a specified target audience and purpose to the whole seminar class. I gave a speech, with juniors in Hwa Chong as my target audience, telling them why I chose SMU and advise them to come to SMU. Most of us were pretty confident. Prof Singh mentioned that competition will be pretty stiff in this class. Oh no... Later we had to write a letter to an imaginary prof persuading him/her to allot us a place in his class. Prof Singh said that there may not be breaks in the future in the 3-hour lesson cuz time is precious and we have lotsa stuff to complete. Madness.

Dunno y Blk A has Guys:Gals ratio of 2:1. Sigh. In my LTB Group, there'r only 2 gals. I forsee that I'll be the only gal in my FA proj team. Always thot there'r more gals in BAcc. Hmmm...

No lesson tmr, but I tink I may drop by sch to look out for old LTB textbook from Verts (Verts buys and sells used textbooks). I relli dun wan2 buy a new book la. Besides I bidded for Accounting Infosys (AIS) Wed 0830-1145 slot and Management of People at Work (MPW) Session 1: Mon 1200-1330 2: Thur 1345-1515 slot. Will take either, not both, if not may be too shiong for first term since both are business subjects for BAcc. I shall allow myself some time to adjust to sch life first. Hoping I can get the AIS course. Anyway there are quite a lot of vacancies so tink it shud be fine. =)