Celebrating Excellence!

The day before yesterday, we were invited to a special dinner held by ICAEW Malaysia

which they called it a night of "Celebrating Excellence"

It is mainly some sort of graduation night for the first batch of ICAEW students and also giving out an award to one of our senior colleague who was awarded a WORLD PRIZE in her audit assurance paper.

The dinner was held in WESTIN. Wow! Sounds nice isn't it? We were so excited!

We reached there about 7.15pm and it should be started at about 7.30 pm

but as usual, VVIPs are always late. And you know who is the VVIP for the night?!

MR TONY FERNANDEZ!

Back to this first, we had our cocktail served right outside the ballroom.

They serve wine, champaigns, fruit juices etc and when we were there, there were not much people so we thought, u know??? ICAEW...not many people taking it so its a small dinner...

And as time strikes about 8...we start to realise the crowd! So packed. And we, the MEOW MEOW (CAT) students actually didn't really know what to do?..

We knew we were suppose to socialise out there but .... we just don't know how to make the first move cause they are all the high rank people.

People from all firms, from CIMB and other financial institutions etc.

ANyhow, some of them were quite friendly.

Some people from PwC came to us and we start chatting.

As well as CIMB's associate director...

We waited waited and waited and the dinner finally starts at about 9pm

This is the grand ballroom. Very nice and well decorated. and do you know how much they pay per table? 2k! Gosh!..but the food was really awesome! I can't afford to list all the names of the food here as they have all sorts of wierd and long long names but it was really really nice!

We chose to sit with out future classmates and they were really friendly AND FUNNY!?

We were so lucky to choose that table compared to another bunch of colleague where those people sitting on the same table didn't even talk to them at all! fiuh.....

One more thing i would like to highlight:

MR TONY FERNANDEZ

started his speech at about 930? and ends it about 1030.

It was a long long speech but definately not a boring one.

He is so down to earth. He did not wear any suits or coat or tuxedo like others.

Not branded stuff but just a simple shirt and pants and of course,

his AIR ASIA CAP!

Everyone loves his talk! He shared with us his history and though us:

DARE TO DREAM

LIVE UR DREAM

n

DON't BE AFRAID OF FAILURES

After his talk, the dinner continued.

Get to grab some pics oni.

This is Kamini and one of my future classmate, Jovy from PwC.

The BDO Gang with the WORLD PRIZE winner , Yu Chen(second from right).

FYI: She is a law graduate and taking ICAEW now and scored a PRIZE.

FYI: there are two world prize winners in this picture. hehe..one is from CAT.Thats all. The dinner ends at 12. Wow...first time having dinner till so late.

Enjoyed it? YES!