The Finance Scam

I've just sat for my finance quiz just now and a bit pisssed off cuz' it was relatively easy to OWN it. . But I didn't tho'. WOoT. DAMN!. Wasted ne =(. Hmph.

But I wanted to blog bout a scam that's happening.

WANTED :

male, around 18, bout 168cm, specs, slightly bald

So this is what happened during my quiz. We sit for the quiz in week 9 of uni (this week ) in our tutorial class. Evbd sits for the quiz in their tutorial. Only thing is, evbd has different tutorial times. Some on Monday like me which is today, Tues, Wed, Thurs and the like. So I guess we are the unluckiest ones because we have tutorial on Monday, and the earliest class of the week summore, which is at 11a.m.

But anyway, the uni can't do anything about it. The best thing they can do is have A FEW variations of the quiz, probably about 4/5 maybe? Thing is there are bout what? 40-50 tutes ? So yea the probability that u n ur mates (from other tutes) getting the same quiz is QUITE THE HIGH lorrrr.

So how do u find out about the other tute questions ? Maybe ur such a cheat, or maybe since u don't hv any other frens in other tutes, this is what YOU do. Or what he did at least.

You pretend ur a NEW member of the tutorial class. You sit down in class, and you ACTUALLY sit for the test, with hope of handing up later. And you know la, you put ur hand on ur forehead, try to cover ur face so they don't suspect u and all. WAHH so HARDDD ARHHH this paper.Cool eh ? But wait, there;s a catch.

Erm you actually don;t belong in the tute. How do u fake that ?

Well simple. You put a fake name and a fake student ID. So that when your stupid tutor marks ur answers, he won't be able to record whoeva it is' marks because, well there;s no such person. But you, you get the questions already. You know what is being tested. And you think that you'll get away with it.

SCUMBAG!

Babes, not everybody is THAT lucky.

Well he for one is not, kena caught di.

If neva study then just do the paper LAR, like me. At least I'm honest. Fail fail lor. Next time mai do better. OK maybe not fail la. Just didn;t do as well as u thought. But that's not the point.

Haihh no comments. But to actually hv thought of that method of trying to con ppl. HMM.

I have absolutely no respect for these nutters.

Have you given a thought about cancer before?

Have you given a thought about cancer before? We know and we hear of so many people dying in the world each day due to this disease. Yet you feel so hopeless sometimes, if there was only something you could do bout it right? Maybe just play a lil' part.?.

Yea, ur like 1 person out of 6 billion in the world. What could you possibly do to change the world? But altho' it seems so insignificant what you could possibly contribute towards the welfare of cancer patients, every bit counts.

It really does =)

And so last friday, the 15 of us, let me see..Su Yin, Jo, Ka Ho, Mandy, Priyanka, Ajith, Alex, Zong, Dickson, Nazreen, YiHong, Wai Ken, Judy, Hon and I joined the Relay for Life organised at the Village Green in Uni :)

And if ur wondering what this is, (no clue?)..you're not alone, because most probably don't anyway...

This is what Wikipedia said about it..

Relay For Life (often shortened to Relay) is a fundraising event of the American Cancer Society, and is now held in many other countries. It is an overnight event designed to spread awareness of cancer prevention, treatments and cures, celebrate survivorship and raise money for research to find more cures for cancer.

Each of us are supposed to raise funds prior to the run, held in uni. And after the run as well. Till now actually. 18 hours of overnighting in uni. WOOHOO! Our target :100AUD each we're supposed to raise. And I'm sure we've all hit the target already =)

I realised that Relay for Life is not just a UNSW event. In fact this is the first time the R4L was organised by a uni (youth) in Australia. It's also not just an Aussie event. It's held all over the world, I so thought it was UNSW until I found all of this :

It all started with the American Cancer Society (ACS) with one man in 85'..

Relay for Life in Canada..

Relay for Life in NZ

Relay for Life UK

Relay for Life in Australia of course (the one we joined :D)

Hey, even Malaysia got okayy.. don't messs..

A report in yesterday's The Star about the upcoming R4L in Bukit Jalil, June 2-3

And the Relay for Life : when you combine charity with FUN = you get an AWESOME!!! event. A memorable night, but too bad I conked out half way :s. But I would definitely wanna participate in it again next year. Without a doubt.

I'll let the pictures tell the story.

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Ok wait I'll help narrate :)..

Yea, the regos before the event..:)

Cutting the ribbon

Little kids. Toddlers. OH so cute. You just wanna squeeze all the cuteness outta them and keep some for yourself :p. AS IF!.

Naz the sailor-woman, salsa dancer, dunno what else this garl can do la. My running slash jogging slash walking partner..

Some people had tents. Whereas our team had none and so we just lied under the stars.

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(Or no stars )

Just before we started the event, we did what they called the Survivors Lap, celebrating cancer survivors - where all the participants just jalan-ed the entire lap

Runner material...:p

They think they're flying or sth lols

At night when it all turned dark, they were still selling candle tributes and other memorabilia

The whole theme of the night : the run : and just celebrating HOPE for cancer patients

The band at night

That is where they wrestled in Jelly. That is jelly btw altho' it doesn't look very much like it.

Hehe, we made so much noise that evbd who lived in the residential colleges and nearby housing was complaining..

Haha then it was time for a drag queen contest, and for some reason or the other, there have been a LOT of transvestites/cross-dresser thingy here in Syd. A common culture perhaps? It started with the Mardi gras haihhhh..

What does World Peace mean to you?

Shake that thang..

Finally, Miss Relay Pageant is crowned..

Ohhh man, they even had a drag queen dance competition which I missed out cuz I was sumwhere else or sth. Damn. :p

Firethrowers

Giant Jenga

Yess! We're one of the leaders in total count of laps..:)

Ah, really can't take pics at nite ler, what funct/ mode to use I hv no idea..

There's nth much u can do at 2 a.m..

Yea, and so later I needed a toilet break. And so we went to take pics of the uni at nite. It's a refreshing change from the day really. You get to see parts you've never seen before :)

Our main walk

Red Centre

Chemical Sciences

Some Lawn.

Red Centre, e-Spot again

Robert Webster

The Quad Food Court, where evbd goes to eat when they're hungry and have too much cash to spare.

Newly opened Q Lounge

HMM yea and so when the night was over, slept and everything.

Woohoo! Next day, especially for the unfit people (e.g Yours truly) who doesn't feel warm-ups are necessary do warm-ups before they cheong in and run only, hmmm you get..

Muscle aches, pains, crams, strains, sprains. Haih what to do? Unfit what..Got gym downstairs also dun wanna go..swt

So in essence, all you really need in life : is just..

Balsem Harimau Plus :)




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-Relay For Life represents the hope that those lost to cancer will never be forgotten, that those who face cancer will be supported, and that one day cancer will be eliminated.-

Are the questions difficult ?
Yes, some are quite.

Are you able to solve it ?
Yes.

But will you be able to solve each problem within 3 minutes or under?
Yes!
I might
Most probably not.

- Quantitative Methods A, Apr 07'.-

The Sydney Royal Easter Show

Woohoo! Just finished one exam few hours ago and that was Accounting 1A. The basic of the basics of accounting in uni. Even then it wasn't thaaat easy to me. I dunno, evbd was complaining about it when we came out of the racecourse. Yea we take our exams in the racecourse..:)

So with plenty of time, great internet connection (dunno how long this will last tho') and two more days to spare for the QMA and Micro exams this fri ,which btw I haven't touched.. it just looks like a chance for me to blog. Excuse the shortness of this post. Just decided to caption the pics cuz' I'm gonna head out to grab some food later..so ENJOY..

Basically yea, this is the 10th year that the Easter Show was held at the Sydney Olympic Park. Cool stuff eh ?

YiHong, Mark, Zolia, KXian and I took a bus to Central and off we went..
The ticket for entrance was 25.50 AUD wei.
And that summore cuz' I'm entitled to concession fees..

Being here, where the Sydney 2000 Olympics were held, makes you feel sooo small..

All the world's greatest athletes were here, stepped on the same ground as u did, just 7 years ago :)

It was something like a fun-fair kinda thing, plenty of food stalls like selling fairy floss and all..

A lot of toys(the huge ones) up for grabs..

All the toys that were being offered..But the games some of them were really tough..

Sth like the dodgem cars..but like boats and all..

Kids...
Sigh..

try to catch a duck and win somathose' big plushies but its impossible
did ya really think it was that easy ?

merry-go-round

u can make ur own bear if u hv nth else to do..

Now this doesn't look like a typical kids kindy...

I think the sheep were quite nice to touch.. But I didn't tho'..
A bit.. erm..
smelly..

Miss Photogenic Goat..

Woohoo! I've never seen a real pig before eva.

These are the pink ones u read and hear of them..

Remember the three pigs and one big bad wolf ? The straw house, the sth else,,..and the brick one as well :)

Oh random.. free tattoos ma.. Decided to get all identical ones

Are they goats or sth ? OMG I'm such a jakun O.o

Different coloured pigs..Lazy bums la this fellas. All day sleep nee.

So after watching the animals and all.., they have cooking classes, recipes etc on the best ways to cook ur meat. EHEH.

I've never even seen real cows before. They're huge.
Know what, I might actually have seen em' before at Zoo Negara or sth..

Hehe, huge cow testicles :P

This would be the Giant Slide in which u sit right up there and race down. Chiehhh, not that fun also :P

Go on rides like Hard Rock Could be more fun tho'...

They fling u up and down like that, but this wasn't really fun either. We took a more funner one but I didn't get a pic of that..
Lurv the adrenaline :D

This is called the Psycho Side Show or sth liddat..yea they do weird stuff like swallowing swords..
This one was bout the woman dancing there la..

Or some magic tricks..

Optical illusions more like..

Oh then for the night show, this was the stadium

yea its pretty nice round here at nite, only I didn't manage to get thaaat great shots of the area

somehow at night my wonderful DX-01 Leica lens is not that suited for night shots..

Or maybe im just the lousy photographer laa :(

I got this tho'..Quite hard to capture at night but I like the effects of the stadium lights. Packed and crowded like nobody's business weiii

They had a lotta stunts like motorbikes and all. Extreme Korruption.

From where we were sitting I couldn't get a good shot of the fireworks as well. That's the best I could do..:(

Eheh, after the show was over, it was empty.. heh, that was a better time to capture the magnificence of the stadium I felt..

Put it in a better light :)

Blur camwhore pics.. Oh well u think that easy meh ..:P to hold the cam with one hand, make sure evbd's face is in..Vertical camwhore photo summore :)
Oh I was wearing the black angel halo..

YiHong tried to take an emo shot but it didn't work out.. Lousy laa

Heh I took this one. Mark won Bart and YiHong won Homer.
YiHong pls remove ur big ass Homer from my room TQ very much..

And its not small btw, look at the size of the chairs that we sit in to judge :)