Wednesday, August 31, 2011

University of Manchester : Mathematics with Finance

University of Manchester

Mathematics with Finance (BSc)

- Degree awarded : BSc (Hons)
- 3 years
- Tuition Fees : £16700
- Aimed at mathematics students with a particular interest in financial systems
- Has a greater component of Accounting and Finance
- Topics presently covered include Financial Reporting and Investment Analysis


Bursary :

- AAA (including Maths and not counting General Studies), will be awarded a School Scholarship of £250 per year of study in Manchester

- AAA (including Mathematics, Further Maths but not counting General Studies), will be awarded a Manchester Success Scholarship of £500 per year of study in Manchester.

- International Mathematics Scholarships worth £1,500 for each year of study for all those who satisfy the mathematical component of their entrance requirement

- International Mathematical Excellence Scholarships for international applicants who have demonstrated overall academic excellence; these awards, which are in addition to those above, making a total of £3,000 for each year of study

Entry requirements :
- IELTS with an overall score of at least 6.5 (including a Writing score of at least 6.0 and no other component less than 5.5)

- A* (Mathematics) AB

- A (Mathematics) AA including aa in modules C3 and C4 of A level Mathematics

- A (Mathematics) AB including Further Maths A level

- A (Mathematics) AB plus A in Further Maths AS level including ab in either order in modules C3 and C4 of A level mathematics


-Interview required

-Aptitude Test required




Monday, August 29, 2011

More and more changes

Yesterday was a perfect morning.
A light breeze was blowing. No sun and no rain.
My parents planned to visit UTAR today.
I was reluctant to follow.
Not that I hate hate that place but I just simply dislike that place.
I dono why.
It's like if you said you want to visit that place it actually meant that you are doomed to that place.
I just don't want to study in UTAR.
Nobody seemed to understand why.
Nobody seemed to understand my feelings.
I want to fly okay.
I don want to stay in this....... place.
Many asked me what's the problem staying at local.
Yes! Studying at local is like shit to me.
I don want to stay here.
Nobody seemed to understand that.
Why am I not Paris Hilton?
Why din I get a scholarship like she did?
Why din I have parents like her?
Why din I have family like her?
The thought that I am doomed to this place forever is killing me in every single way.
My heart twitched when I think of that.
Consolation doesn't help.
I gave up on my US, then now my every opportunity to study overseas?
I gave up on Sunway because she was the one to say overseas' uni is better than a local uni in every way.
Then I found KDU's Manchester twining programme I was delighted.
But it took me several days to accept day.
And now?
I dono how many years do I have to take to convince myself to accept the fact that I cnt go oveseas and I have to stay in UTAR for 3 years.
That's a problem for me.
Okay!
I just cannot accept that!

And then the counsellor at UTAR introduced a better course than actuarial science, ie finance maths.
She said as long as I scored an A for A-levels' Maths, then I can have a try on this course rather than actuarial.
She said Actuarial is something rather dead and limited.
And you don have many choices when you come to work.
Finance maths is something wider and flexible.
That was what she said.
And I knew it.
My mom wanted me to take that course now.
And we all know a random course like that is rather hard to find in Malaysia.
That means I have to go Utar.
And they don allow any transfer or twining programme.
I really dono what to do now.
And now my mom couldnt stop the hastening. She wanted me to find details bout this course which made clear that she wants me take that course.
I dono if it is a good decision to make if I give up everything and opt for UTAR.
I dono if I am doin the right thing if I opt for Manchester.
I know if I insist to go Manchester they will eventually allow me to go.
What should I do now?
Nobody seemed to be giving the right advice or the right consolation.
Every word anybody said hurt me in every single way.
It's not like I have much time to spend on this problem.
I cannot miss the intake.

I wish God can help me.
I wish someone can help me.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Random poses : Her first day of trip

I miss MED.



This' Melissa.

Sunway's chatime.

That's me.

Me.

Melissa.





Sunway's Manhattan Fish Market.





That's us.

I am cute! :)

Changes

I'm struggling through a very hard time now.
It's rough and harsh.

I cannot accept the fact that I had to once again change what I thought I am going to pursue.

I think many people go through this stage, just like me now.

Few years back I was still talking 'bout mass communication.
Then under some circumstances it changed to business and accountant.
But eventually under the influence of the entire class, I made up my mind to apply Law Degree.
I did a lot of convincing work to get the permission to allow for Law degree.
I convinced not only my mom,
I had to also convince myself that I am capable to pursue this route, a route that I had never in my life think of it before.
So, I got permitted.
And I completed all my applications
and from no where my mom had to put a pause sign in my life and asked me to stop and changed my direction.

The reason was taking Law was something that you would not clearly see your future after you completed the law degree, unless you are so committed to become a lawyer, which I was not.
So there is certainly no point to waste three years taking something that doesn't promise you a bright future. Plus the money 'invested' will be wasted.

My mom said I should consider something related to business.
But I was facing my trials so I din put much concern in it.
Then after my trials were my finals, the most important part.

To be honest, I din put exactly much effort in it which I supposed to be putting in.

Then after I graduated from A-levels, my mom and I went searching.
And the final answer was Accounting and Finance, or so I thought.
Then came the American Degree Programme which touched my heart so damn much I was so committed and prepared to go there.
But many problems came in and I had to stop my dreaming.
Eventually we went back to Accounting and Finance in KDU cause they offerd a twining programmed to Manchester.
I was allowed to go Manchester because of its football fame and Manchester appeared to be many smart people's second choice of university.

Then my results were released and I got my AAB and everyone was like 'Omg that is a very good result!'
Then I was pondering, this world is fake enough. I don feel happy hearing people said that.

As compromised, I got my AAB so I was allowed to go overseas to study.
But then things got rough because I'm not the kind of 'Paris Hilton' girl.
My father worked in Ipoh and it's not like a very very very big co and he has to feed another 4 people and with all the tuition fees here and there, we actually don left much.
It's not like we are poor poor but we cannot lead the 'ohh I'm hungry I want to order Dominos' life anymore.
Not to mention trips.

Then today, just now, my mom called me to her room and said we had to talk, and it's like seriously we had to talk.
She said after days of pondering and considering and planning and thinking, she thought that I should forget bout my Accounting and Finance, and opt for a better choice, ie Actuarial Science.
That was certainly a very big turning point.
I was like ' seriously? we are talking bout this now? '
The reason was Acc and Finance is just another common business course that everyone can take and it's not something worth to take.
She went on by saying something that hurt me in some way but yet so true.
It's not like we are paris hilton rich so whatever is invested for my future must be worth it.
Something more special and extraordinary and will lighten other's eyes.
Something more pro.

Yes! I was frowning my eyebrows all the time and brooding over what she said.
She continued to say something that surprised me.
Her friends thought that my results should take something more 'grant' or more pro.
I shouldn't waste my Alevels to take some common business course.
And we all know what happened when a group of ladies gathered round to discuss something.
Whatever the conclusion is, it has a very very big effect and it always is true.

So my mom said I should take Actuarial Science.
She has faith in me.
She said this is definitely something that I am capable of.
As long as I changed all my bad habits and learned to be more responsible and diligent, I can just sigh up for this course immediately.
THAT IS something we don hear everyday.
My mom praising me?
Something must have happened.

And now I am confused.
The last time I had made up my mind to go for acc and finance and now.......
I don like all these changes along.
It stirred up my mind, confused me in every single way, and the worst is I will never learn to make up my mind.
So it's definitely not my fault I'm always the last person to finish an order.

She asked me to think bout it but come on, we all knew that it meant ' I'll give you time to digest and then when you finish your digestion I'll bring you to the registration department. '

She said it's for the best.
I know she does everything that is good for me, in the present and future.
Because she's my mom.
She loves me, in her own way.
But sometimes, I cannot just accept the way she planned for me. I need to learn to make my own decision.
I think this is a situation like we went early to a shopping mall and there's too many parking available and we kept changing our parking places.

I hope someone can talk to me and help me through this.
And the only way to convince myself to accept this new path is my first BMW car that I'm going to buy when I had the money.

Disappointment

Recently, I had this great sudden urge to go to USA.
And my recently meant 2months ago.
I just had this great fondness for USA.
I think it's all 'bout the glamour.

But then I tried to convince everyone that I'm going there to learn their way of thinking and studying and managing things.
Deeeep down only I myself will know that it's all crap.

But I really want to go there.
To start a new life.
To learn new things.
To change and renew myself.
To become a better me.

Then Engyi gave me a good excuse.
She said I desperately wanted to go there maybe it's because I want to stay as far as possible away from Soda.
She'll be in UK living her UK life,
and I'll be in US living the NYorkers life style.
It's all bout glamour, isn't it?

And I tried to scratch bout every good thing bout US.
I knew I still have some pretty good convincing skills with me.
I knew if I could list out at least 20 good things bout studying in US,
my mom will definitely permit my US study 'trip'.

I did pray God for help.

I still have some conscience in me.
I don want to feel repentant in the future.
What if something went wrong?
Like.... I don't know.. Maybe Malaysians will start to have this bias thing bout US and I don get employed just because I graduated from US.....
Or maybe things go rough in the future or whatever it is.............I dono!

And then if I really choose this USA path, my alevels will be reckoned a waste.
It's not like 'I want to go and I will go now'.
It's not that easy.
Many problems have to be resolved.
Financial problem, time management problem, face problem, behavioural problem...

Plus not many people agreed and encouraged this path.

I think God helped me to figure out certain things.
I have to learn the hard way myself.
I'm not from a rich family that can send me overseas whenever and wherever I want.
Sometimes certain things just don't belong to you.
When you fail then you have to start asking yourself if this is what should be in your life.
I reckoned USA is not.
It's really very sad and disappointing.

It took me few days to finally give up.
Give up is a bad word.
So I thought maybe I couldn't study in US but I can work there in the future.
That's not the end.
I dono what awaits me in the future but I'm certain that US will be part of it.

:)

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Life will always be miserable with them around

I always like to put myself in a terrible predicament.
I knew exactly what are those 'things' that would hurt my pride, pierce my heart, make me feel like i'm the lowest ranked living thing in the world, and yet I still lead myself to these things.
Sometimes, these things unconsciously made me lose my faith and lead me to pessimism.
I just looooove to hurt myself, aren't I?

I know and I'd heard it a thousand times. A comparable life kills.
But that's what humans live for.
They compete, compare and judge.

I'm no difference between those home geeks that often stare into the com and wish they were born with those pretty big eyes and a huge breast with a tiny waist like Megan Fox or Gisele Bundchen.

I don want to be a home geek . T.T

All these started when I got bored and the next min i was scrolling through her blog page.
I can see that her life was spectacular and devastating.

I am envious? Yes.

Since the day she turned out she had insidiously affected me in every way.

Haih.

How I wish I had never in my life met these 2 persons.

Friday, August 26, 2011

The day that tortured me to 'death' 11th of AUG

Today's the day that we all had to face with courage and nervousness and maybe a bit of happiness, disappointment or luck. At least I had to go through all these myself. Today's the day that tortured me almost to 'death'.

That's right. Alevels' results are going to be released on this perfect day at 8 in the morning.
At least that's what i was told. But in fact the result can be checked at 7am but obviously not many got that info so at 8 sharp the web was jamned by all the candidates all 'round the world. Plus the fact that my house's internet couldn't be accessed so I had to wait till I go to engyi's house to check at 9.

If it wasn't for that WOOMAN, I probably would go through less sufferings while waiting for my results.

I had a hunch,
ohhh,
shouldn't be a hunch,
I should say,
I am 200 perrceantt surrre that at any HOUR, any MIN or any SEC
that WOOMAN will find a nice cosy chair and take up her phone and dial my house number. ( or maybe she'll just skip the nice cosy chair part because she's just too desperate to tell me how well is her daughter's results)

I couldn't wait so I asked xinyi to help me with the internet.
I really owed her a lot as she had to stay in front of the com early in the morn and kept clicking the refresh button.
As far as I knew, no one in Ipoh could access into that webpage cause that wooman hadn't called my mom yet.
And then, I was right, I was so right.
That wooman finally called and it was before I got my results.

My heart was like 'wth wth wth omg omg omg' when my mom walked towards me and said ' She just called. Her daughter got the results.......... And she got 3As and 1B .. B for Maths..'
Every word that she told my mom and then my mom told me I could still remember freshly in my mind.

Last week she called and boasted she would die if she got a B. It's a disgrace to not get full As. And now who's calling to say her daughter accidentally scored a B in Maths and actually she already expected that she would score a B for maths. She's contradicting herself.
But since now it's a fact that her daughter got a B for Maths, she would have to stress how strong was all her daughter's As.

And there she was again, flaunting and boasting and giving every detail of her daughter's great success and making sure that we did not miss any word that she said.

How can a person be so brazen and unreasonable and in fact I couldnt find a perfect word to match her excessively evil acts.

Through her I got to know many people's results and that only made me more nervous.
My heart was 'bout to drop out of the mouth.
Thanks to her.

I was thinking that a person so assiduous like her daughter couldnt even get an A for Maths then for sure I'm doomed.

I rolled in my bed , I screamed silently, I flipped over the newspaper and pretend as if I was reading, I forgot to on the fan but yet I was feeling so damn cold inside.

And every hour passed and every half an hour I tried to call xinyi to ask 'bout my results but failed.
And I kept on waiting until almost 12pm and then I received a call from xinyi.
She shouted along the phone 'Wenjie! I got into the page! I saw your results!'
I screamed back 'OMG ! SERIOUS!'
I kept breathing air in and out heavily and finally said
'Whooh! Okay! Tell me!'
Then she shouted 'You got AAB!' with laughter at the other end of the phone.
And I went 'OMGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!! SERIOUS ANOT!! ARE YOU SURE IT'S MY NAME?!'
Omg!! Yes it's me!! I got AAB for my alevels!!
I know it's nothing compared to somebody's AAAB but at first I expected all Cs or Ds.
Well,
I din have much faith in myself. I din think I did well for Law and Econs.
And it's hard for me to score an A for econs as I already got a B for AS.
It's luck that got me a B for Econs cause I pretty suck in Econs.
Every night I pray to God hoping for a AAB and now I finally got it.
My mom and I reached a compromise that if I got AAA( or AAB ) I can choose any uni that I wish to apply to.

It was definitely the best part of the year when I heard of my results!

And after all the excitement passed, Engyi called and told me she got my results .
She tried to trick me but I had to pour her cold water as I already knew of my results.
But i'm still glad she called.

I don think my parents were very happy with the results I got but I feel that they were forced to feel satisfied with what I got.
I truly understand that .
Which parent does not hope that their children get full As especially when you have somebody like that woman with you .

So now I officially announced that my college life ended and now I have to start a new fresh uni life. A life without her affecting me.