Welcome to the World of Actuary

Today, the club held a talk at Dewan Al-Ghazali. We've invited En. Jefferey Zain who is an appointed actuary to give us an insight into what it's like and what it takes to be an actuary.

The program was a success. Almost 200 students came.

For those who came to the talk, in the beginning, some of them might have think twice whether or not to continue pursuing the goal to become an actuary. En. Jefferey stressed that the exams, the professional papers, which you have to take to become a fully pledged actuary, are very hard. He, himself, have failed many, many times before he got to where he is now. After been through it all, the hard work and the effort he put in to achieve success in his career, he doesn't really recommend students to further their studies in actuarial science, that is if money is your biggest and only motivation. After all, there are other ways to earn big money. Even so, becoming an actuary have its pros. It is rewarding. When asked whether it was worth the effort and the hard work, he said that it was and he is very happy with it and found it to be satisfying.

And as En. Arwin have mentioned to his students, Microsoft Excel is very, very important. In the actuarial deparment, you would find yourself doing lots of spreadsheet for almost every thing. So, if you plan to excel in becoming an actuary, you must know how to use Excel.

That is some of the things that he said.. There was a lot more valuable inputs.

the guys're listening intently.

a thumb's up from En. Nazrul.

Actuarial Road Tour 6

Last Friday, the club had the annualy-held event, Actuarial Road Tour 6. This time, we went to MRSM Langkawi and MRSM Berseri, Perlis.

Saturday morning, we head to Langkawi, from Kuala Perlis at which we're staying. Since the event only took place until about in the afternoon, we took the opportunity to spend the rest of the day and went sight-seeing or shopping (for some of us) all around Langkawi. We travelled in smaller groups though.

On Sunday, well, I'll let the pictures speak for itselves.

An introduction from En. Arwin.

Our Pengarah Program..

The students giving their cooperation.

Nazrul interacting with the students for their participation.

Well done on Nazrul's part. The students seemed to have a good time.

It was time to get the program going on outside.

The students were then divided into smaller groups. They were supposed to only communicate between themselves to find their group members by gestures and no talking at all. These must have belonged to the Orang Utan group.

I'm assuming this is the Fish Group.

The groups then moved separately and find a place to have their activities. Some on the lawn..

While others on the pavement..

or even on the benches..

This group here prefer the greeneries and sat on the field, under a tree.

This group was comfortable enough to have it on the tars.

At the end of the program, a post-mortem was held for a review, as always. A few concerns were voiced out, but then again, no program has ever been that perfect. Hopefully, the next time would be better, and history wouldn't repeat itself. Overall, they did a good job. We even get lots of positive feedbacks from the schools. Apparently, the students were fond of us and enjoyed the program, so well done, facilitators.