Advanced Financial Accounting

Today I sat for the 1 exam every accounting student in SMU dreads, Advanced Financial Accounting. It has been proven year after year to be the toughest, most challenging and demanding course in the accounting faculty. Being an accountancy student I too had to come face to face with AFA one day. After postponing it for as long as I could I finally subjected myself to the experience of AFA.

Unfortunately for me as I studied more and more accountancy subjects I realized that accounting is not my cup of tea. By year 3 I was 200% sure I didn't want to do anything with the field of accountancy, be it as a degree or as a career. However I stuck to my degree, Bachelors of Accountancy, and forced myself through the accountancy courses. Though I stuck on and went through the courses, I lost all motivation to study. Just getting myself to pay attention during the seminars was a fight of mind over body. Not surprisingly the grades I have been getting for accounting subjects are nothing great. I made peace with this and my motivation fell even more.

With such a mental state regarding accounting and its subjects I can safely say I was not at all looking forward to doing AFA. Alas I had to face my fear and take the class this semester. How I sat through the seminars and the 2 class tests and the final exam I cannot explain. I am just praying I clear the module so I can graduate with my Bachelors of Accountancy degree. The job market is bad as it is, without a degree I can just forget it.

Coming back to AFA, I have to admit it is not all that bad. I enjoyed the finance part of it. I just hated the accounting part. Writing journal entries, making consolidated statements, etc.. just not my cup of tea. I had my final exam today. It was the longest and haziest 3 hours of my life. I have no idea what I did or what I didn't or how I did or how I didn't. I just know I am done with the exam. Now I just pray what I did was enough for me to pass the module and add AFA into my chest of past experiences.

My Solo Dance

Drona

Date Watched: 23rd October 2008
Venue Watched: My Room
Watched With: Me, Myself and I
Ratings: 5/6
My 2-cents worth: An interesting concept and story that held me interested after the first half of the movie. Sit through the first half and you would enjoy the movie.

Golmaal Returns

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Date Watched: 16th Novemeber 2008
Venue Watched: My Room
Watched With: Me, Myself and I
Ratings: 4/6
My 2-cents worth: The only comedy I found was Tushaar and his dumb act.

Dostana

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Date Watched: 16th November 2008
Venue Watched: Jade
Watched With: Mummy
Ratings: 4.5/6
My 2- cents worth: Good movie, with good comedy.. But the whole guy angle was overdone according to me. Priyaka looks dammm ****ing HOT!! Oh and John is delicious in his teeny weeny undies and swimsuits. I love the song desi girl! Its got amazing beats and rhythm.

Karzzz

Date Watched: 29th October 2008
Venue Watched: My Room
Watched With: Me, Myself and I
Ratings: NA
My 2-cents worth: Looking back at the original movie Karzzz doesn't hold a candle to it. The story and the dialouges are lifted wholesale. However the characters and their acting doesn't match up. Its entertaining, at the most a comedy, watchign Himesh enact the role of Rocky. What was disturbing was watching Himesh romancing Urmila, that too him as a 20 year old "rockstar" and she as a late 40 year old "queen"...

Fashion

Date Watched: 8th Novemver 2008
Venue Watched: Prince
Watched With: Shaffalika, Shreosi and Param
Ratings: 4.5/6
My 2-cents worth: Priyanka sizzles together with Kangana in a wonderful story. Very realistic and well directed. Though it stretched at parts making me restless. The twist at the fashion show was too sad. The twist could have been better and more positive. Oh and all the girls look extremely hot and are dressed in gorgeous outfits.

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Illuminate Beats- Dance medley

Dance to the medley of 3 songs by Roger, Ritin, Urmila, Talisa, Nirali and me for the SMU Indian Cultural Society's Diwali celebration 2008..

Something humid, something cool..

When we met he made me hot with his cool cool talk

We went for dinners and went on walks,

Leaving our name written in chalk

His kiss, his touch, his look and his hug

His love, his care, his passion and his lust

His laughter, his anger, his mischief and his stare

His eyes, his lips, his chest and his hair

Feeling danger, excitement and almost like a tart,

I fell into his arms giving him my heart

Something humid, something cool,

His charisma turned me into a fool

Poverty

The rich are happy, the poor are sad
The rich party as the poor stare
The rich waste but the poor starve
The poor slave as the rich laugh

Why this divide of rich and poor?
The world is all's to share and love
Love thy neighbour, love thy friends,
Love the poor.... give them a hand

They deserve a chance from you and me.
Don't turn your back to their pleas

Illuminate- Diwali celebrations in SMU

For the 1st time in the 8 years of SMU history Diwali will be celebrated. SMU Indian Cultural Society (ICS) is organizing "Illuminate". Illuminate will be held from 22nd to 24th October at the Big Steps at the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University. I will be dancing for the "Beats" events on Friday at 3.30pm. So come down and check out the dance!!

Who am I?

A Wednesday!

Date Watched: 4th OCtober 2008
Watched With: Mummy
Venue Watched: Jade
Rating: 6/6
My 2-cents worth: A brillaint movie, the best of the year! Embellished with great actors and characters the movie gripped every second. You are riveted to the screen and holding your breath as the scenes unfold. The movie never disappoints and that is the best thing a story can do.
DO NOT MISS THIS MOVIE!!

The Bunny House

Date Watched: 4th October 2008
Watched With: Preeti, Param and Yasin
Venue Watched: The Cathay
Rating: 5/6
My 2-cents worth: Hilarious movie that makes you pounder just how dump a person can get... But having said that the story is not insulting to "dumb blondes" but heart-warming. Great movie to get relief from our stressful lives

I

I is the lion

I is the wind

I is the sun

I is king

I is pink

I is blue

I is me or is I you?

I is dance

I is music

I is the girl who laughs like a lunatic

I is the voice

I is the words

I is the thoughts of the world

I is the cupcake

I is the cookie

I is the sister

I am the mummy

I is whoever you want me to be,

Your dream, your reality

But who is I, who is me?

I is all I want to be

Vote for me

I got an interesting message in my youtube account inbox. The following is the message..

Hey there!

I watched the video you uploaded and wanted to let you know about the Bollypop competition that Verizon and Saavn are putting on. It's your chance to be in a Bollywood movie!

You can enter the Bollypop competition by uploading your video to http://www.bollypoptv.com and clicking ‘join now’. Better yet, we can upload your video for you. Let me know if you would like us to do that. You can e-mail me directly at bollypop@saavn.com.

The entry with the highest rating will fly to India and get a role in a major Bollywood movie, so tell your friends to vote for you!

Here's a link to the contest's promo on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qhnzLAvDRw

Please feel free to forward this to friends and shoot me any questions you might have. Thanks and good luck!

Priya Patel
bollypop@saavn.com

So basically I decided to try my luck and have entered the contest. Now I need yor votes to hopefully get me closer to my life dream of walking in the path of my passion of dance. This is the link for my profile at BollyPop.com http://affiliate.kickapps.com/38708/madancer

My Dance Videos

If you want to enjoy my dance video you can check out the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/user/icharuamadancer

Feel free to comment and rate the videos

Welcome to Sajjanpur

Date Watched: 28th September 2008
Venue Watched: Prince
Watched With: Parents
Ratings: 5/6
My 2-cents worth: It is a nice movie with a real stroy. Village life and the characters are well potrayed. But there was a kick missing in the movie. However I loved Illa Arun's portions, especially the wedding part. Overall a enjoyable movie. The language might be a problem as it is typical village talk.

Shaurya

Date watched: Can't remember
Venue Watched: My room
Watched With: Me
Ratigs: 5/6
My 2-cents worth: Lovely movie with a real story and characters. The corrupt army officer is really repulsive yet believable. Love Rahul Bose in a strong role.

My Sunflower

Fascinating is the sunflower
Bright as the sun,
Whom it follows around

Standing tall and proud,
Drinking up the warmth
Be it in the open fields,
Or the pretty vase in my house

Fragrant it may not be,
But it has its own beauty

A natural wonder, a bright marvel
A creation of mother earth,
That is the sunflower