Visit to Phyllis Caring Home (Sem 1, 2016)

Visit to Phyllis Caring Home

                

               Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter had organized a visit to an old folk’s home named Phyllis Caring Home. This meaningful activity was organized to cheer up the old folks and let them feel loved as well as care from all of us. It was held on 9th of April 2016 (Saturday) from 9am until 3pm at Jalan 12/12 Petaling Jaya.

            Before departing to Phyllis Caring Home on 9^th of April, all SCSC members gathered at Sunway University at 9am and departed at 9.30am. There were 37 members and 12 old folks from Phyllis Caring Home during that day. Upon reaching the old folks’ home, members started their tasks which had been allocated earlier. Some members were assigned to clean up the home and others would then accompany and talk to the old folks. The old folks were very happy as there were so many of us who have visited them and they felt grateful that they can share their stories with us.

                 SCSC members had been busy with the preparations for this event such as planning games that were suitable for the old folks, souvenirs and entertainments to cheer them up. When the entertainments were carried out, the old folks were very excited and curious of what we had prepared for them. Members sang classic songs and played “Snake and Ladder” game with them. Everyone joined the session and the greatest part was that the old folks sang along with the members. Some of the old folks told the members that the songs had brought flashback of their past memories.

                As for the foods, SCSC members decided to cook fried mee hoon, vegetables and fish ball soup for the old folks and also ordered “tau fu fa” for dessert, taking consideration of their health. During lunch time, all the old folks were anticipating the members’ home cooked food and all of them were satisfied with the food. Most of them complimented our chefs, Mudz and Yuen Jing for their great cooking skills. While having lunch together, the old folks continued to share their past stories and chatted with the members happily.

                Time passed by so fast that the visitation had come to an end. We hugged the old folks and took group pictures with them as part of memories. Before that, we gave the souvenirs that we made ourselves which were paper cranes to each old folks.

                In conclusion, this visitation to old folks’ home should continue to be conducted in the future to show more support to Phyllis Caring Home. This event helped to make the old folks happy and to have positive thoughts during their daily lives. “Life still goes on”, this is the reason that keeps each and every old folks live every day.

Address: No 5, Jalan Othman,

    46000 Petaling Jaya,

    Selangor, Malaysia.

Contact: 03-7785 2997

Written by: Wong Siu Mei (Joanne)

Edited by: Ong June Min

SCSC Team Building (Sem 1, 2016)

SCSC Team Building Sem 1 2016

Date: 11^th – 13^th April 2016 (3 days 2 nights)

Venue: Three4nine, Semenyih

Organizing Committee

Project Advisor : William Chang

Organizing Chairperson: Joey Ong Xue Jing

Organizing Secretary : Mahmud Mustafa Kamal

Organizing Treasurer: Joanne Wong

Organizing Logistic: Seraphina Au

Organizing Vice Logistic : Bryan Tan

SCSC organises team building every semester. Every team building has its own theme. In this semester, the theme is “Together”. Why “Together”?

T – Teamwork (All members will learn how to work together as a team after the team building)

O – Organized (Members will be more organized and understand their roles as the committee member of SCSC)

G – Grow (Members will be more willing to work together and learn together by helping each other to grow)

E – Efficiency (Members will learn how to finish task efficiently under time constraint)

T – Tolerance (Members will learn how to tolerate each other, as everyone is from different backgrounds)

H – Happiness (Members will get to experience the happiness of staying together in SCSC)

E – Effective (Members will learn how to use limited resources but provide the best outcome)

R – Respect (Members will get to learn how to respect each other’s idea and background)

Along with all these criteria, overall, the main objective is to bring all the SCSC members together.

There were 33 of SCSC members who have joined in this teambuilding. This 3 days 2 nights event started from the gathering and briefing at VUMBA room at 8am. After that, the ice breaking started at 9am. Throughout the whole ice breaking session, members are able to get to know each other more and also learn about the objectives of each games as well.

After the ice breaking session, here comes the birthday celebration for January, February, and April babies J

After lunch time, the team started their journey to Semenyih!!!

After 1.5 hour ride, the team reached Three4nine homestay, Semenyih by 2pm. After checking in and settled down, the team started to play the first game, “Guess Who am I?” at the basketball court. This game is basically known as “Picture Charade”, it helps to enhance the members’ creativity, speed, organisational and strategic skill.

After Game 1, the team proceeded to the 2^nd game, “The Huntsman”. The objective of this game is to advice the members to be more observant and trust themselves more. Besides that, this game is also a game for the team to find their own rooms for the 2 nights. So, after the room allocation, the team had two hours of resting and shower time.

Dinner started at 7pm at a restaurant nearby.

After dinner time, it was time for Game 3, “Believe it or not?” at 8:30pm. There were four games in this session, which are The Human Chair, Mix and Match, Human Knot and Trust Fall. The Human Chair game was aimed to enhance the members trust, concentrate and respect each other. This game took quite a bit of time as it required all members to sit on each other’s lap in a circle and lay down for 5 seconds. For mix and match game, it’s basically about encouraging the members to learn how to communicate with the team and encourage strategic critical thinking. For the Human Knot, it is basically about teamwork, leadership skill and communication. All members held hands in a big circle with others members and committee then jumbled them up. Then, members are required to entangle the knot until everyone are free and form a big circle again. For the last game, trust fall, is all about trust and teamwork. Every members did a great job in this game. Even though some of them were afraid, they still managed to cope with their fear and trust the others.

The night ended with fun and laughter at 12am. J

The second day began with a morning exercise which are led by some of the members. Due to some members who arrived later than the gathering time, they had to lead the team to have their morning exercise dance and tie up their hair until the end of the day. Hahahaha. Everyone enjoyed themselves in the cute and fun morning exercise.

After a light breakfast, the team building continued with Game 4, “Feel the Society”. This game is basically to let the members feel and understand more on how the disabled people feel. Overall this game trained them to be more understandable, respect and trust. After the meaningful game session, lunch was served.

After lunch time, we proceeded to Game 5, “Let’s get WET”. It’s a water game session!!! All the respective games were fun. Everyone enjoyed themselves in each of the games.

After the fun and tiring water game, they have their rest time, shower time and dinner time. The second dinner of team building was BBQ at home. A joyful dinner time included four pillar heart-to-heart talks as well. Members all bonded well as they get to know about each other better. Chit chat and jokes surrounds the house and everyone got closer to each other just like family members.

After dinner time, the last activity of the day was sharing session. In this session, everyone was required to share with each other about: “Would you rather lose someone/something or forgive just to sustain someone/something? And why?”. With this topic, members shared their highs and lows of their life. It was a heart-to-heart and emotional talk, which makes it the best part of team building, as all members get to know more about each other and bonded everyone better.

On the last day of the teambuilding, there was a souvenir giving session. The souvenir brings out the tagline of SCSC, “Just Different”.  Every members in SCSC are all different, each of them have their own strengths, this is the reason why SCSC need all of us. Without any of us, SCSC isn’t complete. Everyone treat each other like “OHANA”, no one left behind.

In conclusion, this team building was successfully done and achieved the objectives. After this team building, all members got to know more about each other and understand the importance of togetherness. The team building committee members want to thank every members for the cooperation and understanding throughout the 3 days 2 nights team building. J Appreciate.

Written by: Ong Xue Jing (Joey)

Edited by: Ong June Min

Industrial Visit to CIMB Bank (Sem 1, 2016)

On 8^th of April, SCSC had organized an industrial visit to Alliance Bank. At 12.30 pm, all of the participants gathered at the foyer and departed to the headquarter of Alliance Bank in KL. Once we have reached there, we were welcomed by the person in charge of the company and all of us were led and gathered in a function room for briefing and introductions.

            The head of human resource, told us about the history of the company and also the achievement of Alliance Bank in the past few years. After the short briefing, all participants were divided into five groups. Each group were taken to different parts of the company to have a tour and understand more on how a bank functions. The departments includes ground transaction & SME banking, financial market, investment market, Islamic banking, and branch banking.

            After the one hour tour, everyone was gathered back in the function room once again to continue the briefing on future career development programs offered by Alliance Bank. We were being told that Alliance Bank do provide internship program and management trainee program. Alliance Bank’s internship program is an awarded program as their interns are able to have hands-on experiences regarding the banking industry instead of only doing paper works. As for their management trainee program, it is an intensive 12 months development program which aims to provide graduates a chance to develop their skills and acts as a stepping stone to get into the workforce.

            Before ending the briefing, a short Q&A session was carried out. We had also filled up the M100 survey form. Souvenir appreciation was given to Alliance Bank as an appreciation of their time and effort. Lastly, a group picture was taken and the visit officially ended at 4.30 pm.

Address: Menara Multi Purpose,

     Capital Square,

     No. 8, Jalan Munshi Abdullah,

     50100 Kuala Lumpur

Contact   : 03-2604 3333

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllianceBankMalaysia/?fref=ts

Website   : www.alliancebank.com.my

Written by: Then Wan Sze

Edited by: Ong June Min and Marcus Ong Beng Chye

KPMG Industrial Visit (Sem 1, 2016)

On 1st of April, SCSC had organized an industrial visit to KPMG, which is one of the professional service company that provides Audit, Tax and Advisory services. It is the one of the Big 4 Accounting Firms. KPMG was established in 1928, with approximately over 1,900 employees nationwide.

On that day, our members and fellow participants departed at 1.20 pm from Sunway University and reached KPMG which is located at Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya at around 2 pm. When we arrived at the KPMG, all of us had been welcomed and led to a meeting room by the person in charge. The introduction is then started by people from People, Performance and Culture (PPC) to introduce the history of KPMG and founders. Besides, he had also briefly introduced the head of every department, positions available in the organization and the hiring requirements as well as the job scope for Audit, Taxation and Advisory Departments.

Besides that, they had also invited two speakers who are from Audit and Tax departments to share their experiences and working life in KPMG. One of the speakers from the Audit department gave us a surprise, as she has been one of the members of SCSC member and she’s now the senior manager in one of the Audit department. She told us about the different strategies she used to deal with the different clients. There was also Q&A session where students are allowed to ask more in depth questions related to the working experiences and environment in KPMG.

There was a short break with light refreshment at around 3.30p.m. When having some delicious refreshment, visitors could have personal interactions with employees there. During that time, participants had opportunities to ask employees from PPC department questions about the internship offered and other career related questions. The visit ended at about 4.40pm. Before we went back, SCSC had prepared an appreciation gift for KPMG for their kind hospitality. We reached Sunway University at around 5.45pm.

It was indeed a valuable experience having had the chance to visit KPMG. After this visit, all of us had better understanding about the firm’s working environment and the positions offered. This would certainly benefit us on our future career plans. Lastly, we would like to thank KPMG for giving us a chance to visit them as well as the participants for joining this industrial visit.

Address   : Level 10, KPMG Tower,

       First Avenue,

       47800 Petaling Jaya,

       Selangor, Malaysia

Contact   : 03-7721 3388

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KPMGMalaysia/?fref=ts

Website   : https://home.kpmg.com/my/en/home.html

Written by: Tee Jia Yi

Edited by: Ong June Min and Marcus Ong Beng Chye