On the first day of Christmas...

I got too drunk to go to church...I'm definitely not on god's good list now  =(

 

Christmas quotes:

 

“Maybe we shouldn’t go for mass tonight. It’s Christmas and with all these terrorists running about….you don’t wanna tempt fate.” ~ Dad

I swear I was so surprised he didn’t burst into flames when he stepped into church.

 

“Justin Timber ‘Tasik’!” ~ Lainey and Lauren

I should stay closer to saner people.

 

“Yeah Baby!” ~ Justin Timber ‘Tasik’

My only contribution to the karaoke session

 

“This is my sister. She is #4 prostitute in whole of Kazakhstan” ~ Borat

Can’t believed we started watching Borat after listening to Christmas carols the whole night

 

“Eh, can you help me toast my ‘walnuts’?” ~ Yoong Yue

I don’t think I wanna elaborate any further on this one…

 

“Is the Christmas ham fattening?” ~ Lainey

Nope. Absolutely no calories in that. Seriously. As lean as the celery sticks you chewed on the whole night.

 

“That is the smell of RM1,200 of ham” Lauren

Thank god I didn’t get into yue’s car

 

No quotes from the party over at Tropicana. Can’t possibly articulate the chaos that was from 1 – 5am. Suffice to say that I will always remember how Barry tried to be a penguin, Faizal mimicking Travolta, Yu Jin getting it down with the Village People and all that karaoke action…lol

 

Now we wait for new year’s eve…

 

"A man who fears nothing loves nothing, and when you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?" ~ Sean Connery from First Knight

 

James Brown ~ Sex Machine (in honour of the godfather of soul...)

Jay's Birthday

Seems like December is turning into quite an eventful month, and this is even before Christmas and New Year's Eve. Should be interesting...

Anyways, Jay turned a year older last Wednesday and we were at Bodega to celebrate. Didn't suppose anyone was up to going to Velvet on a work night so it was a more chilled out night instead.


Birthday boy Jay flanked by Lauren and Elaine


Lauren waves to get the cameraman's attention while Jay and Julie are oblivious to my attempts at candid shots (man I love messing around with yy's SLR)


Sarah and a rose from god knows where...


Lainey and Julie, inseparable most of the times from what I noticed


Sze Yoong and Carmen


My man-whore YY pimping it up and earning his keep. Still owes me my cut for this week's work...man I'm gonna have to exercise my pimp hand soon. My money's due!



Me and Lainey

So yeah, pretty alright night though I left early on. Sigh work can be such a bummer at times...

"Become like bubbles in a glass of champagne, floating upward in unexpected, elegant fluid ways." ~ John Maeda

Bryan Adams ~ Everything I Do

EY Annual Dinner & Dance 2006

So 1,000+ EY staff around KL jammed up Sultan Ismail and the entrance to Shang on last Friday, 8th Dec. Much to the annoyance of YY who wanted to get home lol. Sorry bro. Blame the firm not me. In any case, we managed to get there by 8:30 even though the event was supposed to start at 8. 30 minutes late not too bad what right? My bad for leaving my ticket at home and we had to backtrack to get it. Suef was greatly pleased she could arrive expectedly late again....pffft.

It was kinda strange to see everyone there as we're usually all over the place at different clients and what not. Was great to just hang out with the guys and girls and not talk about work. Entertainment was a lil off but we all had fun in our own ways lol...Heck and there were free flow drinks so that kept everyone smilling.


Top L-R:Jess, Kin Han, Mel, Gerri, Carol aka Boss...no i'm serious that's my dept.'s head partner, Voon, Sheena. Bottom L-R: Andrea, Suef, me, So Nia (basically all the Business Advisory associates and senior associates)


L-R:Katherine, me, Mel posing in frt of Kin Han, Andrea, Ming Chong, Siew Han, Ka Vee who looks serious but is actually near piss drunk, Jess

For some reason our department's two tables were very vocal throughout the night. Was quite amusing. Prolly not so much to the people we bumped into but heck we just told them we were from Audit...lol

"The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous." ~ M. Fontey

John Mayer ~ Covered in Rain

Awww My Boy's All Grown Up...

Happy 5th Birthday Twitch! Lol...we all need pets so that we can take silly photos of them when they obviously rather not. I have claw marks and teeth punctures to testify to that...all in the name of silly pics. So here are pics of my fat orange furball in Christmassy mood.


Curiosity killed the cat...or at least got him caught on camera


Take 1...cat tries to run...


Take 2...cat is really pissed off and has already drawn blood from J's hand...will not dare bite mom tho...


Take 3...finally wisens up that we're not gonna let him go till he sits still for 3 secs...

"Age is no guarantee of maturity." ~ Lawana Blackwell

George Michael ~ Last Christmas

This is kinda true...

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." ~ Bertrand Russell

 

Innuendo ~ Nanti

Justin is Screwed...

Situation: Not adequately prepared for exam on Sunday.

 

Estimated Time to "Death-by-Exam": 40 hours (give or take variance of 3 hours)

 

Problem Faced: Subjective self evaluation of only being 50% ready for paper. Hence Expected Score = 50%.

 

Additional Note #1: Take into account that total score is 240. And that total time allocated is 6 hours. 

Evaluation #1: Will have exactly 1.5 minutes per question (360 questions / 240 mins = 1.5 min/q).

 

Additional Note#2: Take into account that Guaranteed pass rate = 70%. Probability of passing given achieved score is between 60%-69% = 70%. Pr(passing | achieved score is between 50%-59%) = 40%. Pr(passing | achieved score is < 50%) = 5%.

Evaluation #2: Given that E(Score) = 50%, Pr(Justin passing) = 40% (die...).

 

Additional Note#3: Take into account that there is a probability not considered in previous data that questions are MCQ with 4 choices per question. Wrong guesses are not point deductible.

Evalutaion #3: No. of questions likely to be unanswered = (0.5)(240) = 120questions. Pr(of guessing correctly) = 1 / 4 = 0.25 = 25%. New E(score) = 50% + [ (0.25)(120) / 240 ] = 50% + [ 30 / 240 ] = 50% + 12.5% = 62.5%. Given that new E(score) = 62.5%, revised Pr(Justin passing) = 70%.

 

Additional Note #4: Take into account that Justin overly evaluates personal abilities and that final results are biased upwards in a range of 10-15%.

Evaluation #4: Pr(Justin passing) = [ (70%-15%)+(70%-10%) ] / 2 = 115% / 2 = 57.5% .

 

Question: Given that global passing rates have averaged 30% (however statiscal calculation did not exclude candidates that registered and did not sit for the paper), what is the chance that Justin will pass?

 

Conclusion: Let us assume that if we included that true passing rate for candidates who sit for the paper is adjustd upwards by 10% to 40%. We do realise that passing rate is not a nominal figure as given above but rather on a bell curve. We therefore would like to use subjective evaluation combined with objective figures that it's a flip-of-the-coin situation and it is equally likely for Justin to pass or fail. We also note that in all honesty that given he spent 15 minutes blogging about this and not furthering studying efforts, coin is slightly biased to failling now. Justin is screwed...

 

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." ~ Malcolm Forbes

 

Third Eye Blind ~ Jumper