Time is going very fast, now is already week 6 =.=. Is everyone agree with me that time is going very fast? Maybe wake up tomorrow I am 30 years old already. Our class still in the same situation, one of the reasons is that we do not know each other very well. We seldom propose our opinion during the class, most of the time we just listen to the lecture; it is also known as culture of Asia. It takes time to develop interaction culture in the class. I hope we can achieve it.

I would like to share about the interaction with Korean student last Thursday. It is such a good opportunity to talk with them. Before that, I felt very nervous because I did not know what I could talk with them. In fact, my English is very poor. Luckily they welcome us with enthusiasm; I felt that they are so happy. They speak English sound like speak in Korea, sometime it is difficult for us to understand. We began with introduced our self, after that we asked them how they get to know Berjaya UCH, they said that their professor suggest them to come Berjaya UCH. They come here for internship, most of them are studying preschool education teacher, and one of them is studying stewardess. They come here for four months. Some of them are beautiful, it break my previous opinion about Korean girl, before this, I did not see any beautiful Korean girl in our school. “Beautiful” here is in term of outlook; but the real beautiful woman is determined by connotation. Many organization hire a women based on their outlook especially male interviewer. It is not fair for all the women. Back to the topic, we introduced a lot of Malaysia’s food for them, some of the local food they ate before met us such as Roti Canai and Nasi Lemak. I found that Korean did not like Nasi Lemak because of the smell. But they liked Roti Canai. They also introduced some Korea foods for us and they said that they wanted to cook Korea food for us. I thought they were jogging, last Saturday, they sent message for Sin Men mentioned that they wanted to come to our house cooked Korea food for us and swam in our apartment on Sunday. On Sunday, we brought them to buy some material, after that, they began to cook; we bought some Roti Canai for them. They cooked too much; therefore we could not finish it. We kept it for dinner. We talked a lot with them, all of us were very happy. After that we went to swim, the most important thing was that they wore bikini, they were so sexy^^. We had a nice day, so we forget to read the case that Ms Nurdiana gave us, we read it on Sunday night but didn’t answer the question.

            Last Friday and Saturday, Thomas, Huai Huai, Jv, Wong and I attended a conference called as FYI (Financial Youth Intelligence) conference. This conference is all talking about financial especially invest. There are a lot of speakers within these two days. I learned a lot from them. The first speaker was Jonathan Quek, according to jonathan-quek.com/about/, he has achieved many award during his university time in INTI International University. He is the founder and CEO of True Asia and director of three private companies & ventures; Capital Asia Group (Malaysia), SilverMalaysia.com, and Financial Youth Intelligence (FYI). He explained the differences between the old day money (USD) and the money (USD) we use today, as we know that US’s economic is still the main country that affecting the whole world. The USD before 1961 for example mentioned about one silver dollar, meaning to say that one dollar equal to one silver, in the past, the criteria for a country to print money must be based on how many silver and gold they have, called as the relationship between gold & silver and money. In the past, the inflation rate will be closed to zero. In 1961, US president announce an information said that they would break the relationship between gold & silver and money temporary, means they can print money as long as they get approval, the one who approve it is government, in other word, they can print money as many as they want called as “fiat money”.

As money become so much, the value of money will decrease, it is what we call as inflation. So called “temporary” is already become forever, until today, US still printing money. Once US began to print very much of money, other country has to follow as well, because all of them want to do business with US, as one country do not want to print money, the country’s money value will become so high, nobody will willing to do business with that country. Jonathan believe that once a day, the relationship between money and silver & gold will be applied again, otherwise money will be too much and no value at the end. It is one of the reasons why we should invest our money in gold and silver. He focuses much on silver, because the demand of silver is very high, and another reason is that the price of silver is under average price now.

Following speakers talked about the investment of property, equity (shares), trading and etc. Most of them were sharing their experience which was not relevance in now a day situation, because of inflation, for example property, in the past, they found the apartment which was lower than two hundred thousand Ringgit Malaysia as a target, now a day, we cannot find an apartment which lower than 200K. In my opinion, investment is easy as we have money; the important thing is that we do not have so much money to invest especially property. What we can do now is to do analysis on stock, we can begin with small amount of money, of course it cannot earn a lot of money or may lose money, but it can be learned as an experience, in the future, we can invest bigger amount and the probability to earn is higher. The last speaker for the first day was Richard Duncan, he is a financial sector specialist for World Bank in Washington D.C. I felt proud to listen to the top people. Unfortunately, I could not capture any single knowledge from him, because he spoke speed was so fast and sound like no comma and full stop. I should watch more western movie in order to improve my listening skill.

The second day of the conference was also excellent, the first speaker was Jyne Lim, she is Asia Pacific Harmonica Triple Champion, and she began her speech with playing harmonica. After that I felt that she is my idol. She is still studying her degree in Taylor, she is a top student who get CGPA close to 4. She said that everyone must have passion toward our own goal. Dare to visualize our dreams, write or draw it out. Distribute the entire job you have to do. Strive against limitation. Grab opportunities & challenge them, we should get out from comfort zone in order to move forward. The second speaker was excellent, his name is Michael Teoh, and his topic for that day was communication. His most outstanding performance was that he interviewed by CNN, not only one, but twice. He was awarded Malaysia’s Most Enterprising Youth of 2010 by the Deputy Prime Minister. His communication skill was very very professional. After that, there were some speakers, but i was so tired and information overload. I did not learn many from the rest of the speakers, it was my wastage.

At the last day of the conference, I felt that they were trying to promote their event rather than sharing their knowledge. They promoted a four days three nights camp called as Success Mastery Getaway (SMG) for RM1200 with original price RM3200. It is so expensive for me, but many of them register it since they were giving discount for early bird at that day. After that I actually thinking their main purpose is to sell their product or educate us? There was a previous case that cheated investor who invested in gold; I scare of this case happen again when I invested into it. Even though they know it is unethical to behave in such a way, but they still doing it.

I had a meaningful weekend on last week.