Discount available for STUDENTS (ALSO FOR PUBLIC)!

It is 2017 and Internet plays a vital role in human life. Most of our daily transactions are slowly rely on Internet. We surf into webs for searching information, online shopping, ordering meals and also for hitch rides.

These are discount code that you may utilise at each specific website. You may enjoy the services or ordering the goods at lower prices compared to normal rate.

1.       Zalora 

Zalora is one of leading online shopping portal which focus on selling garments and apparel. Lots of choices are available here, from hoodies, pants, jeans to accessories such as spectacles and watches.

Here is your discount voucher.

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2.       Grab

Grab is a technology company that offers wide range of ride-hailing and logistics services through its app in Malaysia and neighbouring  Southeast Asian nations such as Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand. 

Here is your promo code for first time customer.

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3.       Uber

Uber is an American technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, operating in 633 cities worldwide. It develops, markets and operates the Uber car transportation and food delivery mobile apps. Uber drivers use their own cars, although drivers can rent a car to drive with Uber.

Uber is actually offer similar services to Grab.

Here is your promo code for first time customer.

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4.       Fave

Fave offers the best deals and promos available at urban areas .It offers discounts and promotion up to 70% for meals, beauty services, massage, and other activies such as gyms, fitness studios, haircuts, manicures, local services and holidays & travel.

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5.      Shopback

ShopBack offers the cashback reward program. When the customers buys goods or pay for the services, they will get some portion of their money back. Therefore, they actually pay less than normal price.They also provide discount coupons and voucher codes for online shopping. It is currently affiliate with hudreds online merchants including Grab, Uber, Zalora, Lazada, Taobao and AliExpress.

https://www.shopback.my/referred-signup-bonus?raf=EWpaQI

Plan Data Tidak Terhad Terbaik / The Best Unlimited Data Plan in Malaysia For You!

U Mobile vs Webe

Which telco provider offer the best plan? This type of question arise when we decide to choose our telco provider. Some factors that may be taken into consideration are duration of contract, payment per month, high speed data allocated per month, coverage, and other benefits.

In Malaysia, there are lot of telco providers currently emerged in past few years. Around 2005, there might be only Celcom, Digi and Maxis. Nowadays, there are U Mobile, redOne, OneXOX, and many more.

Internet is considered important nowadays. During those old days, Internet was expensive so it might has limited usage. When the telco providers start to introduce affordable Internet plans, so Internet is important for human kind to do works, communicate, collaborate and interact. 

Furthermore, invention of smartphones has lead us to use Internet in our single daily life, such as shopping, searching for information and for watching videos. Thus, it is crucial to choose the telco provider that offer the best Internet plan.

Currently, there are 2 telco provider which provide unlimited data plan to the consumers, which is U Mobile and Webe.

U Mobile

P78 is a new postpaid plan introduced by U Mobile. As stated at the code of the plan, 78 is actually the commitment required to be paid which is RM78 per month.

The data provided is unlimited, but capped at 5 Mbps. There is also unlimited Video-Onz, but the video is limited to SD streaming only. Those people who wish to watch high quality video at their high-end devices might be unhappy due to these restrictions.

One of the advantage of choosing U Mobile is it offers mobile hotspot for 10GB, but again the speed is capped at 5 Mbps. But still, it is better compared Webe, which you have to pay to use the mobile hotspot. However, currently Webe helds promotion of free 10GB mobile hotspot for their customers.

Besides, U Mobile offers 5GB free roaming data which is quite important for travellers when they on overseas. Plus, they offer free coupons every Thursday to be grabbed.

However, some of my friends complained over U Mobile’s coverage which is poor at rural areas. They argued that the coverage is only strong at Klang Valley and few major cities in Malaysia.

Webe

Webe is one of the subsidiary under TM.

Users have to pay RM79 per month for monthly commitment fees. This fees is relatively similar to which U Mobile has offer. However, Webe allow up to 5 users to be registered under one account.

For 2^nd to 4^th user, monthly commitment fees is reduced by RM10. This offer seems attractive for families, as they can share the payment fees. If there are 5 users registered under one account, the average monthly commitment fees would drop to RM61 per person.

Luckily, Webe doesn’t cap the speed of the unlimited data. However, they do not provide hotspot to their customers. They have to pay for extra RM15 for 1GB mobile hotspot. This might be appeared to be down side of Webe.

For the coverage, most of my friends who used Webe give a positive feedback regarding it.

Similarities

Both U Mobile and Webe provide unlimited local calls and SMS to their customers. Plus, there is no contract. Customers are free to switch to other telco if there is other attractive offer from telco provider.

Conclusion

Those offer are quite attractive. It may be an indicator of healthy competition between those telco providers to strive in providing best services to their customers. Customers also have lot of choices and alternatives for their telco provider.

However, for students which usually have cash flow problems, it is advised to choose the telco which is within their budget.

Hopefully there might be other attractive offer from telco providers in the future.

Summary

U Mobile	Aspect	Webe
High speed capped at 5 Mbps	Data	Not capped
Good at Klang Valley and cities only	Coverage	Good
10GB per month	Hotspot	No (but currently there is promo 10 GB)
RM78	Payment/month (before GST)	RM79, but might be reduced to RM61 if sharing line
Terer Thursday Data Roaming 5GB	Other benefit
Unlimited data, call and message
No contract

SCKLM 2017: MY FIRST FULL MARATHON

Banyak benda baharu telah aku buat dalam 6 bulan pertama 2017. Jadi cleaner, promoter, volunteer acara larian, dan juga lari Full Marathon.

Standard Chartered KL Marathon(SCKLM)  adalah antara beberapa acara larian yang dianjurkan di tengah bandar Kuala Lumpur. Banyak acara larian di sekitar KL, tetapi tak banyak menganjurkan Full Marathon.

SCKLM 2017 merupakan edisi yang ke 9, dan aku rasa banyak memori pahit manis sepanjang larian kali ini.

Pendaftaran

Pendaftaran bagi larian ini telah dibuka pada sekitar bulan Januari. Acara larian pula dianjurkan pada bulan 5. Menjadi sesuatu kebiasaan pendaftaran bagi acara larian yang berprestij dibuka beberapa bulan lebih awal. Antara contoh yang lain, pendaftaran bagi Penang Bridge International Marathon dibuka seawal bulan 5.

Slot pendaftaran pula agak terhad. Hanya 4 hari pendaftaran dibuka sebelum ditutup. Acara 5KM merupakan acara yang paling cepat ditutup pendaftarannya, diikuti !0KM, 21KM dan 42KM. Nasib baik sempat daftar.

Persiapan

Dari segi training, agak sederhana. Rasanya sebelum larian, banyak lari di tasik Shah Alam hampir setiap hari dalam 7-10KM. Mungkin aku hanya fokus dalam frekuensi, tetapi bukan intensity dan jarak.

Tambahan pula, sekitar Januari hingga Mei, aku tak sertai sangat acara larian di Shah Alam, kecuali Larian Kitar Semula. Rekod larian terjauh yang direkodkan ialah 16KM, dari Seksyen 6 ke Seksyen 18.

Hari Larian

Disebabkan aku dari Shah Alam, maka aku kena gerak awal ke Kuala Lumpur. Sekitar pukul 7, aku sudah bergerak ke PKNS Shah Alam, solat dan menaiki bas RapidKL ke Pasar Seni.

Dari Pasar Seni pula, aku menaiki bas GOKL ke Bukit BIntang, dan berjalan ke Pavilion. Berbekalkan tiket wayang percuma 4 keping, aku tengok cerita The Circle dan Shockwave dengan kawan. Niat nak tidur dalam panggung wayang, tetapi terbantut sebab cerita itu best. Badan agak kurang rehat sebenarnya.

Selepas tengok wayang, terus aku bergerak ke Padang Merdeka. Aku terus menyimpan beg di luggage station, dan makan sandwich daging ayam black pepper mask sendiri 3 keping, air Lucozade setin, air isotonik dalam 300ml, air kopi 500ml dan sedikit air masak. Semua sekali ditelan 40 minit sebelum larian bermula.

Acara bermula 4 pagi bagi kategori Full Marathon.

Untuk 20KM pertama, pace larian aku amat bagus( bagi aku lah). Aku dapat solat Subuh di Checkpoint KM19 pada pukul 5.40, menunjukkan pace larian bagi 19KM pertama bawah 6minit/KM. Bagi seseorang yang training tak cukup, aku rasa itu agak ok.

Segalanya indah sehinggalah KM24.

Kaki aku sudah mula rasa sakit, lagi-lagi di bahagian lutut. Mungkin muscle cramp. Pada mulanya sakit itu aku rasa pada KM17, tetapi ketika itu aku tahan dan hanya sekali mengambil semburan painkiller.

Lama-kelamaan sakit itu berlarutan. Pada mulanya aku ambil semburan painkiller setiap 2 Checkpoint sekali. Bila dah tak tahan sangat, setiap checkpoint yang ada sediakan semburan painkiller, aku guna untuk kurangkan rasa sakit yang mencucuk-cucuk di lutut dan betis macam paku yang ditusuk jauh ke dalam daging. Oh ya, checkpoint tersedia pada KM 4 dan satu checkpoint bagi setiap 1.6KM seterusnya.

Di checkpoint, kebiasanya ada air mineral, medik(rasanya 2 checkpoint satu pasukan medik) dan air Lucozade( 2 checkpoint sekali). Sesekali ada pisang. Ada juga seperti power gel, disediakan 2 kali sepanjang larian.

KM 39 merupakan kemuncak rasa sakit yang aku tanggung. Masa itu, aku rasa dan guling sahaja menuruni bukit, sebab kaki sudah tak boleh jalan. Masa itu aku sedar, timing aku sudah lari lebih 5 jam. Tapi aku tak kisah. Yang penting, larian kena habiskan.

500m terakhir, aku cabut kasut joging, sebab masa itu kaki dah melecet dan tak selesa. Akhirnya aku Berjaya juga tamatkan larian berkaki ayam dengan timing 5 jam 2 minit.

Post-mortem

Pada pendapat aku, aku tak cukup training. Kerana itulah aku cepat mengalami kecederaan.

Antara improvement yang aku rasa aku boleh lakukan pada masa depan:

1. Cuba latihan LSD(Long Slow Distance). Sekurang-kurangnya kena pernah lari 75% daripada jarak larian pada hari sebenar.

2. Pakai seluar dalam pakai buang. Sedikit sebanyak mengurangkan melecet di celah peha.

3. Cross-training

Walau bagaimanapun, aku perasan sekitar 20KM pertama, aku berlari agak selesa. Tiada rasa sakit di dada.  Mungkin ada beberapa teknik yang aku amalkan berkesan:

1. Minum air kopi

2. Minum air isotonik

3. Makan protein sebelum lari(daging ayam)

4. Tidur cukup.

5. HIIT(High-Intensity Interval Training)

Aku rindu SCKLM. Aku rindu suasana, geng-geng buskers tepi jalan, pom pom girl, orang asing yang motivate aku suruh habiskan larian. Semuanya.

Jumpa lagi tahun depan!

(Running)-Review: QY8 Earphone Bluetooth

This time, I am going to review about QY8. This is going to be my second time I reviewed a Bluetooth Earphone, after Jabra Sport Wireless+.

Unboxing

In the box, there is the earphone, QY8. QY8 has round shape at the body. Seems like a snail shell shape. Mine was black. Maybe that was the only available colour.

There is also a short charging cable, with has length of a span. Seriously, it is very short. Perhaps it is for reducing resistance in the charging cable, hence ensure faster charging.

It comes with small, medium and large size of ear tube. And also, a less useful guidebook.

Overview

The manufacturer claimed that the earphone can last about 4-5 hours for every single full charge. Compared to my previous Jabra which last for only 2.5 hours, it is quite promising. I can use this for my upcoming Full Marathon, perhaps

There is big circle at the right side of your earphone. It is multi-function button, I called it. Press it to play and pause the current song.

There is also buttons to adjust the volume of your QY8. To jump the next track, you just have to hold the volume button, either to move to next song or replay current or previous song.

To turn on the Bluetooth earphone, just press the big right circle of the earphone. After that, open your device Bluetooth menu, switch on your Bluetooth, and connect with your QY8. Easy right? No need to install any 3^rd party apps.

To switch off the earphone, just hold the right circle button until there is voice “Thank You for Using” heard.

Real-life test

Firstly, in term of sound, my previous Jabra Sport Wireless+ has a better balance in term of bass sound. Which means, Jabra produced better sound compared to QY8. No doubt. But, it’s okay la for me, as long as it produce sound (and the most important part is, it works). It produce an okay, not bad sound. How should I say this? Let’s say that you are currently writing using Stabilo mechanical pencil. You would say that this pencil is awesome. But, then you try to write using a Pilot mechanical pencil, then you will say that Stabilo pencil is, okaylah.

In term of battery, it really works for about 4-5 hours. Maybe those Full Marathon runners might consider to buy this earphone. My advice is, just set the device at medium-low volume. The device (might) works for a longer period.

QY8 can works normally around 8-10 metres away from the device, before it starts to loss signal and voices cannot be heard from the earphone. It is normal.

I should say that I am slightly really disappointed with the QY8 for one reason. The device will fall off from my ear after I run for about only 500 metres. Sweat and the absence of ear hook at the earphone, has cause it to not properly fixed to my ear when I run. I have my personal reason to be disappointed with QY8. This is because the main reason I bought QY8 because I read various review about the device that it can properly fixed to runners’ ears when they run, without ear hook. At the end, it was all crap. However, I am going to share with you guys tip to fix this problem at the last heading of this post.

Comment

There are 3 main reasons I bought QY8. Firstly, it is a Bluetooth earphone. Again, no more cords.

Secondly, it is cheap. After my Jabra device cannot be used, there is no necessities for me to buy super-duper expensive electronic device for my running activities. Just bought a useful, long-lasting, value-for-money device. I am done with those expensive gadgets. Sometimes, they are overrated.

Thirdly, the reviews written in various platforms claimed that it could fixed at runners ears during they run. However, it isn’t.

To fix this problem, I bought a cheap ear hook (search for: ear hook for Bluetooth device, and sort with lowest price) for Bluetooth device at Ali Express. It only costs about $0.25 for 6 pieces (around RM1.20, so RM0.20 per piece). I pick for ear hook with 5.5~6.6 mm. Remember that the manufacturer might sold ear hook with various diameter, so please check your Bluetooth device’s diameter, and buy the correct ear hook for your device.

There is a total change when you used the ear hook. Before this, I run for about 0.5 km, and then has to adjust the ear hook. Now, no more distraction. I can run for 10 km without holding QY8 all along my run to make sure it is fixed to my ear. However, you may feel a little bit pressure at your ear after a long use of the earphone. Please adjust your ear hook to ensure that you feel comfortable when wearing it, or at least less pressure felt at your ear.

Actually, I just found out that I bought the earphone from OEM manufacturer. That could be an explanation why it is very cheap, and has no warranty. There is other brand such as QCY and JESBOD which also sell similar product.

I bought QY8 at Lazada. However, you are advised to visit all online shop available such as Ali Express, Mudah, Lelong, and other shop available near to your house such as Low Yat, One Gadget and others. Perhaps, you may compare the price and buy the QY8 at the lowest price.

Cara-cara pasang Booth

Kebiasaannya, booth akan digunakan dalam sesuatu majlis promosi. Anda akan selalu perasan booth ketika anda bersiar-siar di pasar raya, ekspo-ekspo dan sebagainya. 

Pada post kali ini, saya akan berkongsi cara-cara memasang booth.

Biasanya dalam satu set beg booth itu, akan ada 3 dulang, 4 batang penyambung (2 ada alur dan tiada alur), “baju” booth dan kepala booth.

Dulang itu ada 2 yang ada lubang di bawah, dan satu tiada.

Akan ada klip dekat tengah-tengah baju booth itu. Pasang dulang yang tiada lubang di bawah, dan pasang dekat klip itu.

Ambil satu dulang, terbalikkan dia, dan pasang pada bahagian bawah booth itu. Pastikan baju booth yang bahagian bawah itu masuk dekat bahagian dulang itu.

Pasang dulang yang terakhir pada bahagian atas.

Pasang batang penyambung dari atas melalui dulang atas. Penyambung itu akan berhenti dekat dulang tengah, kerana dulang tengah tiada lubang d bahagian bawah. Ketatkan penyambung. Ambil kain dan lap dulang atas, batang penyambung dan booth secara keseluruhan.

Akhir sekali, pasang kepala booth di bahagian atas penyambung.

Voila, anda telah berjaya memasang booth! Selamat mencuba.

(Running)-Review:Jabra Sport Wireless+

I got the chance to review Jabra Bluetooth earphone. This is my first purchase of earphone Bluetooth. 

Before this, I bought corded earphone, but I faced common problems; there will be problem at the cord after few times usage. So, I decided to invest plenty of money on a new Bluetooth earphone. But does it worth my penny? Let’s read the review.

Unboxing

Jabra Sport Wireless+ Bluetooth Earphone come with earbuds. There are few size that could be tried. You may try any type of earbuds that fit with your ears.

Also, it comes with free subscription of premium account of Endomondo for 3 months. There will be special code included in the box, which would be essential when the user redeem for the premium account.

Enter the coupon in the activation of special coupon section in Endomondo, and voila you may enjoy free Endomondo premium sccount for 3 months. You may have to pay for the subscription after the promotion period.

There would be an armband equipped in the box. However, it is so small that your phablet might not fit into it.

Features

Since it is a Bluetooth earphone, it connected with devices such as smartphones and laptop via Bluetooth connection. There is volume button for the users to manipulate current volume of the sound. To jump from one song to another, just hold the volume button for about 3 seconds.

To connect you device with the earphone, switch on the earphone by pressing the multi button at the right side of the earphone. Let your device has the Bluetooth switched on. Discover Jabra Sport Wireless+ on your device. After your phone discover it, connect it with the earphone. Wear the earphone, and follow the following instructions that would be communicated through the earphone.

There is also FM Radio feature equipped. However, I personally rare used this feature, as my earphone cannot receive the signal from radio perfectly. There would be unclear voices heard through the earpieces.

The earphone is claimed to be waterproof and sweat proof.

Real-life test

The earphone can play music continuously for about 2 and half hours for every single full charge. Mathematically speaking, it may be suitable for runners who participate in Half Marathon who run with pace average 7 minutes per kilometre. However, it might not be suitable used in Full Marathon event, by taking into consideration that fast runners will completed the run by 3 and half hours.

Sometimes, the earphone cannot receive the signal from the main device accordingly. Therefore, you should turn off the earphone, switch it on again, and retry to connect it again with the device.

Comment

I bought this device from Lazada for about RM245. Such a high price for a piece of earphone.

So far it works perfectly. I am not expertise in commenting about the bass and other aspect regarding the sound projected from the earphone, so I am not going to comment about it.

However, one day the device cannot be switched on. I am highly certain that it is due to the battery is not malfunctioning. I used it the device for less than one year, only about 10 months.

Currently, I am not using the device. I am looking forward to repair it. But due to tight budget, I might deferred it in the future.

Buying the Bluetooth can be a high risk decision. If you are high risk taker, plus you have surplus of money to be spent, and you might take steps to take care of the earphone, you might decide to buy one. However, if you are a risk averse, you might decide to look for alternatives at the market, such as cheap Bluetooth earphones, or corded earphones. Remember that cheap goods do not mean they don’t have high quality, and expensive items are long lasting. 

ICAEW, CFA, Redza Minhat and Spectacles

Hello guys. It has be a while since I update my blog. It has be a busy holiday. I really enjoyed myself procrastinating; playing video games, surfing Internet, scrolling social media.

I’m going to share about ICAEW(Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) and CFA(Chartered Financial Analyst). For your information, I am not taking those courses, so there might be inaccurate and missing facts. But I tried to keep it as accurate as I can la.

I don’t know where I should start. Okay. Let we start from the holiday.

Going back early

When I was having my holiday, suddenly I became addicted with my phone. I stuck with my hand all the time, as if there was glue that keep it together. So, someone retweeted a tweet in my Timeline that there is CFA Summit in the upcoming weekend. But, since it requires me to prepare the CV if I want to have a seat at the event, I decided to not to do so. Although I kept wandering what is CFA is all about, so I just ignored the advert.

I volunteered myself to be part of the helpers during my college open day. I had to back in Shah Alam earlier, since the event was held on Saturday. Oh I don’t know why I volunteer for it, since I has option to stay at home, eat nice foods, watching television.

Maybe the fact that my phone has problem on detecting telco signal in rural areas has cause me to so. Enough with that.

‘Less’ expected moment

So on that day, I was assigned to take care of ICAEW booth. At first, I was reluctant to do so. Firstly, I am not an ICAEW student, so I know nothing to do so. I want to take care of ACCA booth, since I know about it, and I have idea about it. Or, at least, just give me la to take care of IPAC booth. Secondly, the booth was at the end of exhibition, at quite isolated. I gambled that it would not be able to attract even single visitor. Thirdly, the booth is too simple. But, the answer is no, and I have to take care of the booth.

So, I was told that there would be 2 abang from ICAEW that will assist in promoting the course later. It was Mr Andrew, a Chinese guy and Mr Aman, an old but rock-styled Malay man from ICAEW that came on that day.

Brainwash Session

In a simpler word, for the whole day, I was mentally tortured, or brainwashed, to take ICAEW in the future. At a certain point, I thought of going back in time and take ICAEW instead of ACCA. I thought that I took ACCA at first place as I only exposed about it. I made an inaccurate decision which was due to lack of information.

But I learned something on that day. Sometimes, what people are saying is not important. You should decide it by yourself. But first, in order to make a reliable and true decision, you need to know all the option available. Therefore, you need to extract and examine all information available before you can make a decision. And hey, at least I get a little information about ICAEW. If you are reading my blog, I would like to say thank you to Mr Aman and Mr Andrew. This younger generation sometimes are too lazy to search for those kind of information.

Make my CV

That night, I sat on the chair in my room. I clear my mind and I spoke to myself, that I had the opportunity to get know what CFA is about. I just need to submit the CV.

The dateline to submit the proposal was just less than an hour more. I booted my laptop, open Word, google sample of simple CV, and email the CV when it was just about 20 minutes before 12. I just hoped that the CV would be accepted, and I would be given the seat for the event.

Why this post suddenly become serious?

Email

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday has be past. No email from the organiser. Maybe luck was not at my side this time.

On Wednesday morning, or afternoon, I realised that the organiser has be replied my email, and fortunately, I got the seat for the summit. Alhamdulillah! I was (not so) quite shocked that Redza Minhat would be a moderator for the Roundtable Discussion. Wow.

For me, he is one of the role model among of Malaysia actors. He never fail in portraying the characters that he played. KIL, Kekasih Elektrik are one of those movie and drama that he has previously act. He also proves that, you can be anything you want, as long as you strive for it. He was graduated from MMU with Degree in Business, but acts and write scripts in free time. Two different separated bidang, but he managed to do that. Enough with those biography.

Spectacles

On that day, I had no transport to go to the INTEKMA. So, I asked help for my housemate’s help to send me there. He sent me there by motorcycle.

After that, I registered at the receptionist counter, and had the breakfast. When I was enjoying the nasi goreng, I felt like there was sensation of pain at my left head, and it make me uncomfortable. I thought I wore the spectacles improperly, so I put off my spectacles and wore it back so that it would fit to my head. But then, I realised, it was broken! Maybe it was broke during I put off the helmet, I guessed.

You had serve me the best duty for about 4 years. Rest in peace, Spec.

Forum

The event started about 9.15, when the MC began their welcoming speech. Then there were series of speeches, certificate award and photograph sessions. Around 11.45, there was Roundtable Discussion with the panellists, when Redza was the moderator.

Well, I hoped that I got the chance to take some pictures with him. But, he was already gone during the lunch session. I was quite disappointed. I thought of making my first vlog for it.

After the lunch session, there was talk session which I had forget what it was. Damn.

What I got from the summit? Info about CFA, CFA is hard, free food, broken spec, and networking.

ICAEW and CFA

ICAEW has higher standard in qualifications and more recognised globally. But of course, they have tougher questions. When ACCA’s questions are more to technical skills, ICAEW is more to solving the case study given. 

There are 3 level of ICAEW-Certificate (ICAEW CFAB), Professional and Advance level. Both Certificate and Professional level has about 6 papers to be taken, and 3 papers in Advance level. However, students mostly will take those papers when working.

Meanwhile, CFA is for those who are strong-hearted. Most of the students are pursuing their study by part-time. You work during weekdays, and you have to attend classes during weekend. 

You might sacrifice your leisure time during weekend with your friends, not attend your cousins’ wedding ceremony, sleep less than 4 hours a day, to catch up and study 7000 pages of learning materials.  There are also lot of complex formulas to be memorised.

There are 3 level of examination- Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3.

Level 1 Examinations consist of basic knowledge and comprehension questions focused on investment tools.

Level 2 Examinations test your analysis skills and focus on valuing the assets.

Level 3 Examinations test how you apply the standards in a portfolio management and compliance context.

Well, for ACCA students, you may pursue your study in CFA, but first you have to complete your ACCA first. CFA set the requirement that the holders should have at least 4 years working experience. Therefore, you should work first, like 1-2 years, before you start study the course.

In my opinion, CFA is a little bit different compared to ACCA. When ACCA affiliates works in tax, audit and finance sectors, CFA’s holders work in finance sectors. CFA’s syllabus is more on how to manage the funding provided in the company.

During the summit, most of the students who attended the event are pursuing in Degree in Actuarial Science. Some of them are from Finance, and Maths. But I could say, none of them that I met, are studying accountancy.

I personally might consider to take either ICAEW or CFA in the future, maybe. I don’t know, since I learned accounting and tax before, so I prefer to take ICAEW in the future. They have quite similar syllabus with ACCA. But, pursuing your career in Finance sector, is quite interesting. This sector has lots of potential and job opportunities to be filled.

This got to only happen if I have enough source of finance during that time.Heh.

For further information, you may surf those website:

ICAEW: https://www.icaew.com/

CFA: https://www.cfainstitute.org

IPAC Education: http://www.intec.edu.my/main/index.php/professional-accountancy

TBS and MERLIMAU

(This post was mostly written in the bus. Maybe there is wrong structure of sentence in front. If there is, I apologise in advance).
(A lot of bebel in front).

Let me bebel first.

This last 10 days was a hectic period for me. Starting from attending Sea Games Training for Volunteers at UKM, then be a pom pom boy in Shah Alam Night Run, I suffered (temporary) insomnia. I hardly sleep in the night, although I yawned several times. During the class, I heard (almost) nothing. Ummm not hear nothing, I hear the sound of lectures projected in front, I responded in class like usual, but at home, I realised I learn nothing in class. Hallucination all the time perhaps. I couldn’t even attempted those published financial statements questions. Hmm maybe I should get some rest.

I realised that I hardly sleep in night. I will lay on the bed for an hour, but at the end still don't fall into dream. To fix this problem, I sleep early, around 9.30.Okay this is quite an awkward and rare routine, as I usually sleep around 12-1, to complete my homework. As now I sleep early, most of the time I sleep without even attempt the homework. But thanks to my ‘beloved and caring’ housemates, I manage finish all my homework, by referring to theirs. Haha, that’s what housemates for.
Okay, let me start my story.
It was Friday afternoon when I rushed to go home. I mean hometown. Why? I just found out my sister was going to attend her graduation ceremony on the next day. With help of my friend, he ditched me at the bus stop after the class. As I prefer to take bus from TBS, so I had to take bus to TBS first, before I bought bus ticket that took me straight to Batu Pahat.
From PKNS Shah Alam, I took RapidKL 750 bus and dropped off at NU Sentral. Then I took LRT toward Masjik Jamek station, changed the LRT lane, and took the LRT toward Putra Heights, before stopped at TBS station.
Maybe it was my first time experience to take LRT to TBS. When I reached Masjid Jamek station, I was clueless, as there is no board of information that shows the direction of LRT, that caused me to miss the correct LRT. As for that, my travel plan delayed for 15 minutes, as I had to wait for another LRT.
When I reached TBS, I realised that I had miss the bus that was supposed to leave at 2.30. I had to take bus which was scheduled to leave at 3.30. Again, my travel plan delayed for about an hour. Pfft.
I reached Batu Pahat around 7pm. It was a tiring and hectic day.
On the next day, my parents and I went to Merlimau for my sister’s graduation ceremony. Well, I believed that it’s okay if no one visit my graduation ceremony, but not my siblings’.
Actually, I had nothing to be told about the ceremony. I just want to mention about the ceremony tentative.
Okay, the tentative said that all the graduates have to enter the hall by 1.30, and the parents or family members by 1.40. But, it was 2.30, and the ceremony not even began yet. Too much waiting here. I don’t know, if the people in the hall has already done their Zohor prayers.
The VIPs finally arrived around 2.50, and the ceremony began.
There were series of speeches delivered by VIPs for about half an hour if I not mistaken, or maybe longer. Why too much speeches? It was already evening. This is s period when people reach weak stage. Graduates and audiences have suffered too much, waiting for VIPs and now for speeches that I don’t know the contents, but I’m quite sure audiences don’t even paid their attention to them. Haish.
Let me summarize my point, and give some tips:

1. If you are accidentally take LRT towards Ampang, but you are heading to Sri Petaling, you can change the LRT lane at Chan Sow Lin Station.
2. At TBS, there are bus tickets seller counters, and self-service ticket machines. In peak hours, you may buy bus tickets at the deep part in the TBS. Near to 7-11 and Fipper stalls, there are still ticket booths, and usually they are quite lengang, because most of TBS users don’t realise their existence. Pergi kaunter belakang, atau use self-service ticket machine. If I not mistaken there is one or two machine at the second level.
3. Your bus ticket shows your specific gate for you to wait for your bus. Follow the instruction. Kalau dia cakap tunggu dekat gate 10, jangan turu  dekat pintu pelepasan 14-16.
4. Goods sold at TBS are quite expensive. It is advised that you buy chips, drinks or jajan before you reach TBS.
5. VIP yang bagi ucapan semasa majlis graduasi/apa-apa majlis, seharusnya peka dengan sekeliling. Janganlah bagi ucapan lama sangat. 5 minit cukuplah. Biar padat dan bermanfaat. Bila panjang sangat banyak merepeknya. Audien kan dah ngantuk petang-petang.
6. Janganlah majlis graduasi ni menyeksa mental orang dengan terpaksa menunggu VIP. Orang lain pun ada komitmen dan hal lain. VIP pun janganlah menyusahkan orang lain.
7. Kita tolong orang,orang tolong kita.
8. Sometimes, it is better if you just hold your tasks for a second and sleep.
Post kali ini banyak sesi luahan perasaan saja.

(Running)-Review:Mi Band 2

Mi Band 2 is the 3^rd wearable gadget and 1^st smartwatch released by Xiaomi. I define it as a smartwatch as it has advance features compared to conventional watches and it shows current time!

Mi Band 2 was officially released on 7 June 2016. It is the 2^nd generation of Mi Band, after Xiaomi released Mi Band and Mi Band Pulse. Let we start to sneak deeper on this product.

Before Mi Band 2

Mi Band 2 is the first wearable band launched by Xiaomi which can show current time and date. Previously, Xiaomi has launched their first wearable smart band, Mi Band. It can count your daily steps, record your sleeping pattern, be as an alarm clock and unlock your phone instantaneously. It shows all the details by connecting with app Mi Fit, which is available at Apps Store or Google Play.

However, the negative side of Mi Band is it doesn’t show current time. There is only three dots on the panel of the band that indicate you has reach 33%, 66% or 100% your daily steps. That’s mean you have to wear a watch that shows you the time and another steps-counter. Feels like an idiot huh?

After that Xiaomi launched Mi Band Pulse, which is almost identical to its predecessor, but equipped with heart beat sensor. Now, it may record your heartbeat. But still, it still cannot provide you exact time.

Now, with the launching of Mi Band 2, Xiaomi has produced a rich features wearable band with extremely low prices compared to other competitors. Seems like the development team has identify the weaknesses in the previous model.

Design

Mi Band 2 now has 0.42 inch OLED screen, which shows you specific detail on the watch. It is a major improvement, compared to previous model that has only 3 blipping points.

There is capacitor button inserted in the current model, which is used when users cycle over the modes available at the watch.

The strip of Mi Band 2 is has hypoallergenic properties. It is smooth to be touched and comfortable to be wear, even for people with sensitive skin.

The default colour of the strip is black, but you may change the colour of the strips by buying the strip separately. It is available in 4 colours, which is black, orange, green and blue. However, you cannot fit the new tracker into older Mi Band strip.

The new design of Mi Band 2 looks so elegant. In my opinion, it perfectly blended if you wear the band with the black strip. It shows a mysterious identity of the wearer, but at the same time looks elegant and modern.

Features

Finally, Xiaomi released a watch! Look, I mean now Mi Band 2 can provide you current time and date.

Steps-counter feature which is a Mi Band feature is retained. Now, you can see how many steps you have walk over the day through your watch. It reduces hassle, and save time.

Next, the band show distance covered for the whole day. You may change the units, either metric or imperial.

There is also calories burned panel. It shows you amount of calories burned by analysing your movement and steps over the time.

Again, a previous feature brought from previous model is retained, which is heart beat tracker. You need to cycle over the mode, lift your wrist up like you are reading the watch, and it will track your heart beat.

Lastly, there is battery mode that shows you amount of power left before you have to charge the band.

It is quite impressive that entry-level smartwatch have all those features. Simple but complete for daily use.

Mi Fit

To connect your phone to the band, you need to download app Mi Fit. Your phone need to have 4.0 Bluetooth type in order the connection to be stable. Mi Fit enhances the features of Mi Band 2 even more.

By adding using this app, it enhances the features of the Mi Band 2. You may scroll the history of your step counter. It also enables the users to track their sleeping pattern. It detected your deep sleep or light sleep pattern. You may compare your sleep pattern, either you sleep well, don’t get enough sleep or oversleep.

This band can also replace your alarm clock. You can set your alarm, and it will vibrate at the pre-set time. To switch off the alarm, you need to press the capacitor button once.

Then, you may set the band to vibrate when your phone receive any notifications. You may enable or disable this feature. In order it to properly functioned, you need to switch on the Bluetooth at your phone all the time in order the band may connect to the phone and receive the signals.

Another interesting feature of the band is it may unlock your phone automatically without passcode. Again, you need to switch on the Bluetooth at your phone so that this feature can be activated. Press standby button at your phone and bring the phone closer to the band. The phone will be unlocked. However, this feature can only be activated by Android phone users which has at least Android 5.0 with Bluetooth 4.0.

This feature is very useful, especially when your hand is wet and you can’t unlock your phone. Also, when your hand is wet, your phone cannot detect your fingerprint. By using the band, just put your phone close to the band, and your phone will be unlocked instantly.

Pros and cons

There are few aspect that Mi Band clearly has advantages compared to other competitors:

Value in money

The band has a price tag lower than RM200. To be clear, the price ranges from RM 100-RM150. The price is clearly lower compared to other smartwatches at the market. One Gadget had once do a promotion and sell the band at price only RM99. The price looks low, but you get a feature-rich smartwatch. Clearly value for every penny spent.

Long last battery

Every time you charge the band, it will last for around 20 to 30 days, depend on users’ usage style. If you think 20 days is a short period, let me clarify here. Other smartwatches last around 3-7 days only before they need to be charged.

Water resistant

Did I ever tell you that this band is water resistant? Mi Band 2 has IP67 splash resistant certificate. It is splash, dust and corrosion resistant. But don’t wear it when you are swimming or diving.

Lightweight

The watch is fairly light, and make you feel convenient especially when you are running.

However there are few flaws of this band:

Not durable

I used the watch since October 2016, which means around 4 month since I first used this watch. However, the strip now seems cannot fit the tracker properly.

There is two lining in the strip, which is inner and outer lining. Inner and outer lining has to fix properly so that it can fit the tracker properly. But, the inner and outer lining now has torn, and it cannot hold the tracker fit in the socket. The tracker now occasionally fell out from the socket. It is hard to find a missing tracker if it lost especially in a crowd place, and a strip without a tracker is just nothing.

Cannot be charged with USB cable

To charge the tracker, you need a special cable and it cannot be charged by USB cable. A little bit annoying thing when you live in an era where USB cable is used at almost gadgets and not at Mi Band 2.

Limited features

Although Mi Band 2 now shows current time, it can’t be used as a stopwatch. Compared to other smartwatches, some of them allow you to read the notifications through the watch. You can even take pictures by your smartphone camera or play games from your smartwatches. But, remember that most of those features are equipped at smartwatches which have price tag around RM400-RM1200. Hopefully the low price of the Mi Band can compensate those limitations.

Cannot be sync with other fitness apps

I read on an article in Internet that Mi Band developer team has not share the code publicly. So the band cannot properly connect and sync the data with other fitness apps such as Endomondo and Strava. The band can only properly functioned with Mi Fit. I assumed that there is locked features or the band still has extra potential if it has capability to connect and integrate with other apps.

 Inaccurate algorithm

Sometimes the algorithm not properly functioned. It track my sleep pattern inaccurately. It shows that I wake up in the middle of the night, although it is not. However, I only encounter those problems rarely.

Heart Beat Tracker doesn’t function properly

Remember that I have share the steps for Mi Band to track your heart beat at the top of my post? However, it is certainly impracticable. I had read few feedback at the comment section of Mi Fit, and most of users argued that update released in November has cause this problem to arise. The tracker can only read my heart beat when I put my index finger on the bottom of the tracker, and still there is only 50-50 chance that it will be successful.

So far, the watch works properly, except when I charge the band, I have to ensure the socket is properly connect with the charger so that it will be charged. Haish too much usage of words ‘charge’. Honestly I quite satisfied with the watch. For the watch strip’s problem, just buy a new strip. Problem solved.

The watch is sold at Lazada at vary prices, around RM107.90-RM129.99 There is also several online portal that sold the band such as One Gadget and Direct D. I am not so sure that there is any retail shop that sold the watch, but I certainly confident that major of the shop will sold it at higher price.

If you are looking for simple, value in money but rich-features smartwatch, you may take Mi Band 2 into your consideration.