Industrial Visit to PwC

SCSC organized an industrial visit to PwC on 19^th August 2016. Participants gathered at new building and boarded the bus at 1 p.m. We departed from Sunway University at 1.30 p.m. After a half-an-hour journey, we arrived at PwC which is located at KL Sentral. Upon reaching there, we were welcomed by Mr. Kent Tan who is from human capital department. 

Then, we were separated into groups to move to meeting room at 10^th floor. Mr. Mahesh, ED from Assurance was the speaker that day. He has been working in this company for 16 years. He talked about the brief background of PwC and the services they provide as well as the working experience of himself in PwC.

After that, we were asked to fill up M100 survey form and have some refreshment provided by the company. In the meantime, we had the chance to ask questions and talk with the speaker and employees from the company. During the tea break session, participants also got to ask about career opportunities. A token of appreciation was given to PwC for their hospitality. A group photo was taken before we proceeded to company tour.

At 4.30 p.m., we were divided into 4 groups to have company tour. Each group was brought to different departments to have a look around the company. We finished the company tour and visit officially ended at 5.30p.m. We reached Sunway University at 6.30p.m.

All in all, the industrial visit to PwC was great and the flow was good. We would like to thank PwC for their hospitality and not to forget about the 38 participants for their participation for making it a successful one.

Written by: Chang Li Xuan

Edited by: Ong June Min and Tan Soon Liang, Bryan

Industrial Visit to Baker Tilly Malaysia

On the 5^th of August 2016 (Friday), Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter (SCSC) organized an industrial visit for Sunway students to Baker Tilly, which is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. The firm is listed in the 6^th largest Accounting and business advisory firm in Malaysia. Participants gathered at the NUB foyer, Sunway University and departed at around 1.20 p.m and reached Baker Tilly in Bangsar South City, Kuala Lumpur at around 1.50 p.m.

When we arrived at Baker Tilly, we were brought to level 10, which is the head office. The person in-charge, Stella, and her collegue were waiting for us and gave warm welcome for us. First of all, the speaker of Baker Tilly, Danny, was very nice and funny. The speaker introduced the history of Baker Tilly and shown some past event they did to explain about their culture. Besides that, the speaker also briefly talked about the hiring requirements and the partners of Baker Tilly and Ferrier Hodgson. Furthermore, Baker Tilly also invited speaker from Ferrier Hodgson, which is the forensic accounting department and corporate advisory services, to explain about the working content and the daily working style.

After the Q&A session, we split into different groups to visit the office. At the end of the session, our representative lecturer, Mr.Teoh, presented an appreciation gift to Baker Tilly representative. Before we left Baker Tilly, we took group photo with the Baker Tilly’s speaker and person in charge from communication department. Finally, we left Baker Tilly and reach Sunway University around 5.30 p.m.

It was a precious experience by having a opportunity to visit Baker Tilly. We would like to thank you Baker Tilly for hosting us on this informational industrial visit.

Written by: Tee Jia Yi

Edited by: Ong June Min & Tan Soon Liang, Bryan

Australia Week-Good Onya Mate! (Sem2, 2016)

On 2nd September 2016, Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter (SCSC) organized an event called Good Onya Mate! in the conjunction with Australia Week. Good Onya Mate meant well done friends. Australia Week is one of the major events that happens every year in Sunway University supported by Australia University Programme (AUP) with the collaboration with Australian High Commission Malaysia. The objective of this event is to create a platform and promote the Australia culture in Sunway University to let student have more understanding about Australia through fun facts and local dialects in Australia.

Highlight of the event 

Interesting Facts of Australia
Good Onya Mate! have two interesting activity at their booth on the event day. One of the activity was Interesting Facts of Australia which exhibits about fun facts of Australia. The purpose of this activity is to let people know more about Australia in the aspect of Cultural, People, Geography, Animal, and Ecosystem through the fun facts. One of the example in geographical aspect is Australia is the 6th largest country in the world.

Organizing team used interactive and fun way by putting the facts inside cardboard where it can be pulled out to show the answer.

Aussie Slang Challenge
Purpose of Aussie Slang Challenge is to test student’s knowledge about the local lingo in Australia. The team conducted this activity by preparing 60 pieces of forms containing 10 questions, with 3 different sets of questions. Question inside will be dialect that are normally used in Australia. Every participants will be given door gift when they participate in this game. 
Organizing team had prepared 3 prizes to encourage students to participate in our event and to test their knowledge. The response from Aussie Slang Challenge was unexpected as students actively participated in our activity. We were glad that we managed to attract so many of students to participate. 

At 5pm of the event day, the team has chosen top 3 winners according to their marks awarded after checking and verification. The champion was Siow Chun Ming, 1st runner up was be Eng Pei Huan and 2nd runner up went to Suriya A/L Rogunathan. 
It was indeed a very fun and interesting day as we believe we managed to bring fun and cheer elements to students while they are all stressed out with studies. We believe that every one of us definitely have more understanding about Australia through this Good Onya Mate event. Thank you again from all of us and hope to see you guys in the next event organized by us, SCSC! :)

Written by: Sow Jun Ming
Edited by: Ong June Min & Tan Soon Liang, Bryan

SCSC Bonjour Night (Sem 2, 2016)

Bonjour Night 

On 9th of August marks the night where all SCSC members reunite and interact with each other to reminisce moments of the past while creating future memories together. This event was joined by our very own alumni who took the time out of their busy schedules to join us. This event was also conducted to welcome our newbies who joined our club in the second semester of the year 2016. The theme for the night was “Never Ending Love and Passion” symbolizing the bond that all the SCSC members hold and cherish that will never end despite members leaving or graduating. The dress code for the night was black, orange and red to match our love and passion theme. Registration started at 6.30 p.m. and all alumni, members and VIPs began filling up the venue soon after. The event began with an officiating speech by Ms. Irene, welcoming speech by our club advisor, Ms Fong and an opening speech by our very own club president, Yap Yen Lee. 

Speech by Ms. Irene

Speech by Yen Lee

The night was lightened by our one of a kind concept of opening where Ms. Irene alongside Mahmud, our organizing chairperson, lighted up the candle symbolizing the burning love and passion all members have towards the club and one another. 

After officiating the event, everyone was invited to have their dinner where all members took the opportunity to catch up on each other’s lives and simply interact with each other. 

Games took place once everyone completed their meals. The games were conducted by our emcees of the night Marcus and Avelynn. 

Decoration with past SCSC pictures

A video was played in the following session, showing pictures and events conducted by the club from the year 2007 till 2016. The SCSC Board of Director for the year 2016 was introduced to the crowd after the video ended. There was also a sharing session by the alumni where they shared their memories, both good and bad in the club which brought tears and laughter amongst the crowd. Appreciation gifts were then given to every alumnus to thank them for coming and joining us on this auspicious night. At around 10 pm, a group photo was taken and the event ended successfully.

Organizing team

Group Photo 

Written by: Avelynn Michael

Edited by: Ong June Min and Tan Soon Liang, Bryan

M.A.D. CSR Event (Sem 1, 2016)

M.A.D Event (Make A Difference)

SOS

On the 20^th and 21^th of April, Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter (SCSC) organized a CSR event, named, Make A Difference (M.A.D). The objectives of this event are to help the students to release stress and to collect donations for Phyllis Caring home.

To encourage students to reduce stress, we have conducted stress ball tutorial, giving out lollipop and candies and also having a confession board with the title – ‘Before I Die’. The purpose of doing this is to encourage people to pursue their dreams during both their highs and lows. There were also experiential games for students to have a brief experience how handicaps feel and how they go through their daily lives.

During the event day, we had a booth to teach students on how to make a stress ball which would be helpful for them to release their stress. Thankfully, many students were interested and had spent time to participate in making stress balls. Besides, we also gave out some hand-made stress balls and invitation cards to lecturers to invite them to participate in our event. Most of the lecturers appreciated and liked the idea of stress ball.

Apart from stress ball booth, we also had confession board and gave out lollipops on both days. SCSC committee members approached students to draw a ‘Lucky Paper’ from a box around the Sunway University College study area. The paper drawn would decide whether they will get a lollipop or candy. Inspirational quotes were stick together with the lollipop and candy which would help motivate students who are stressed out with studies. It was such a wonderful experience to be able to see the smiles from students when they received candies.

The most attractive part in the event was the confession board. It has successfully attracted many people to visit our booth who had participated to write wishes and confessions on the board. We believe that everyone have a dream they would want to achieve, we hope that students would pursue their dreams with both passion and perseverance.  

Donations to Phyllis Caring Home

Contributing back to the society can display great sense of responsibility and awareness of what is going on in our society. During our SOS event, we also had a donation booth where we would collect both cash donations as well as daily necessities to donate to an old folk’s home in PJ called Phyllis Caring Home. However prior to the event, we have visited the home in order to go through the things that they are lacking. After collecting sufficient amount of items and cash, we have made another round of visitation to Phyllis Caring Home to deliver and assemble the items accordingly.

We have gratefully received great responses from both students and staffs of Sunway University College. At the end of our event, we have successfully raised a total of RM1,360 and daily necessities. The items donated to the home were:

Stand Fan x 2

Rice Cooker x 1

Cutting Board x 1

5 Layer Stoker x 1

Dishwasher x 20

Toilet Cleaner x 3

Laundry Powder x 5

Mosquito Spray x 3

Curry Powder x 3

Eggs x 2 Dozens

Onion x 2 packs

Banana x 1 bunch

Corns x 3

Garlic x 1 pack

Potato x 1 pack

Papaya x 2

Jacob Biscuits x 1

It was such a great and meaningful experience to be able to give back to the society, as the great Mother Teresa once said, “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving”. We would definitely visit the home again and conduct more CSR Events in the future.

Address: No 5, Jalan Othman,

  46000 Petaling Jaya,

  Selangor, Malaysia.

Contact   : 03-7785 2997

Written by: Seraphina Au Cheow Ling and Lim Ching Mei

Edited by: Ong June Min and Marcus Ong Beng Chye

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