A week has passed since we received our public examination results. We were all busy looking for suitable directions for the future. Although the results were still clear in my mind, we had no chance to rejoice. On the day that we obtained the results, we were all happy that we passed the exams. Although the six of us passed the exams generally, some of us did not pass every single paper. Dwayne was among the attraction that did not pass the accounting paper. He was shocked but not totally surprised. The shock was that he actually managed to complete one whole question assuming no errors occurred though he expected that he and accounting were not meant to be ‘together’. Dave on the other hand did not go through the additional mathematics paper which proved to be one of the toughest subjects in the exams.
Of course, from the start, most of us did not know which path we would be running. Jul and Alex were already prepared to enter secondary six while
My parents at home gave me advice that reflected my character. They told me that I wouldn’t fit in the IT line as I am not a technology chaser. I would not be sensitive to technological changes and would not fit in an IT society. After some thoughts, I decided that I would join in the college’s LCCI accountancy program. The program which will run for 1 year will start in April 2003 and will end after the exams at May 2004. According to my original plan, after completing a year in LCCI, I would advance to ACCA and further on in an accounting career.
Dwayne however was unsure that which path he was going to take but he narrowed his choices down to IT as well. Dave thought that he could persuade him to come with him to the same college and enroll in the same course together. Dwayne decided to try and see the college surroundings and went downtown once with Dave to the orientation. Although satisfied with the surroundings, Dwayne made an offer to Dave which Dave refused and resulting Dwayne feeling bad about following him to the same college. Dwayne offered Dave some financial assistance in return of dragging along a physically disabled friend to college every week. Dave refused it outright where even persuasion from Dwayne’s mother did not change his mind. He thought to himself that he was doing it out of kindness and wasn’t going to accept any form of financial consideration in return. This resulted in Dwayne not going to the same course as Dave.
For me, my orientation started on April 3rd 2003 where it was held on 2nd floor of the college. It was a very huge crowd with all almost a hundred people attending. The orientation lasted for a mere 2 hours with the speaker introducing the college to us. We were all told that we needed extra curricular activities like chess and table tennis. Most of us weren’t actually interested in the extra curricular activities and were more concerned about the academic programs in stored for us. The session of orientation ended with the speaker segregating us into 2 groups, April 1 and April 2, asking us to collect text books and past year question collections from the registration counter.
I did not get to make any friends on orientation day though this would change from time to come. On the next day, official classes started and the first day of class was on accounting. The lecturer, Ms. Sith, was actually quite nice and accommodating. Before she even started, she asked around to see whether any of us were without accounting background and would require basic guidance before she proceeds with the advanced ones. She wasn’t actually proceeding with the basic syllabus as we did not have sufficient time to complete it. Our exams were only for level 3 still, so there isn’t a need for us to waste time in too much focus on lower levels.
It was in the class, I met Lawrenz, a guy who came from an outside state just to study here. He rented a room at a nearby area and lived there for the study period. It was there also I saw Carrie, one of the prettiest flowers in the whole April 1 class. Quite attractive in looks, she did not speak much to others except her close friend seated next to her. Besides that, our class only had around 4 to 5 male students while the class consisted of 40 over people. Our class was also deemed the noisiest within the college’s history as we were warned for a few times in the first few days.
Not expecting that accountancy was tough, the basics were easy especially the early days of cost accounting and management accounting. The preparation of stock movement charts and manufacturing accounts were quite fun and enjoyable. Business statistics and Advanced Business Calculations were also relatively easy as they were all basic mathematics. Slowly after a few weeks I began to blend into the new society where Lawrenz and I joined in a group with 4 girls seated at the back of us. These girls were all easily sociable and were friendly. They would always be making some noises at the back during free times while Lawrenz and I would be continuously preparing answers for future questions that the lecturer was planning to give us after break. Not like the usual me, we were always said to be the most hardworking in the class and were forecasted to be well doers in the exams.
Months later due to many complaints, Ms. Sith was changed to another male lecturer, Mr. Aw. Most of us complained that Ms. Sith was not accounting material and was all the time unsure of difficult problems. She was enraged at first to know that the comments did not come to her directly but went to the hands of Ms. Fan. Thus, she decided to give up on the class as the students did not have sufficient faith in her anymore. She was later assigned to a lecture a new module, Economics where she is the woman for the field. I did sign up for her economics class as I knew it would benefit me as a whole. As college life was going on quiet, something came to my mind again one day and……
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