My final year project

My final year project in UNITEN was different from other universities. Other universities’ students have to write millions of pages of boring thesis or project papers to pass their final year project, but as UNITEN is the best university in the whole world *cough*, we accounting final year students were required to organize a symposium and a graduation dinner for our final year project.

The symposium is actually an event where we invited some accountants as speakers to give talks about issues and challenges of financial reporting in the accounting industries. For this reason, we named the symposium the Financial Reporting Symposium, who said we accountants aren’t “creative” at all? (It’s a lame name, I know.)

Some of the speakers

The speakers we invited are big shots in the accounting industries, all holding high posts in big organizations and professional bodies. On that day all the UNITEN guards suddenly became very “hardworking” and stationed themselves at the entrance, maybe to protect the speakers from terrorists’ attacks or US missiles.

UNITEN guards - the best guards in the whole world

The symposium was held from 8am to 5pm where 4 speakers shared their views on the topics set. Topics included were difference between fair value accounting and historical cost… … blah blah blah… … Zzzzzz…

I know you will get bored if I tell you all the accounting topics during the symposium so I’ll skip this part. *Yawn*

Me and senior lecturer Mr. Lee before the symposium

Every student has their own job description on organizing the symposium. I am under the sponsorship committee where I have to beg people for money to sponsor the symposium. My job of collecting sponsors for the symposium was done so the committee asked me to help out the registration counter. As a helpful and caring person *cough*, I decided to help my friends at the counter.

The kelam-kabut situation at the registration counter

Full house

The registration counter was very busy during the morning when hundreds of students and invited guests checked in just before the symposium started. To be honest I didn’t help much during that time as the counter was packed and I can’t even find a place to sit. I just helped to pass the goodies bags to the students and guests.

After the symposium started, we at the registration counter got nothing to do so we just hang out there because all the seats in the auditorium were occupied. At first we thought of listening to the speakers from outside but it was unclear, so we ended up fooling around at the counter. We chit chatted, took photos, and when we were tired, we went upstairs to the VIP lounge to take a power nap.

Charging

We were so tired because we were busy packing up all the goodies bags the previous night. We worked until midnight and had to wake up at 7am. So, to all the speakers who saw us sleeping upstairs, we felt guilty and we are sorry.

When the symposium ended at 5pm and before we packed up, we took time to take some photos.

Can you spot me?

After the photo session ended, we went through some of the suggestion leaflets collected by the committee members. We were pretty nervous about the comments as they may affect the points for our final year project. Luckily most of the students and guests “give face” to us and wrote something good about the symposium.

Suddenly we found one comment and burst into laughter.

That wu liao person wrote: “Kanina Amy Lourdusamy (AC077455) farted all along the ceremony and made the day like hell.”

What a constructive comment.

Hereby I represent all the symposium committee members to apologize to that person because we weren’t able to contain her fart effectively.