K, it has been almost a month since i last blogged and this only means it is time for me to write some entries.

Well, i finally landed a job at MAS. Good pay and a very reputable organisation. Think i shld be satisfied considering most pple are still struggling to find one. And no, i won play punk again. Got a torrid time after rejecting GIC and the hedge fund offer. I m basically done with interviews

so, i have about 2 weeks of hols and i m gg round asking my frens wat they will do if they have these them nw. Most said they will just slack at home, which is exactly wat i am doing nw. but i' m getting bored liao.

oh, happy that michael came to visit me last week. Within one day, i brought him to chinatown, little india, orchard, bugis and suntec. amazing rite. I am definitely the tour guide to bring pple around singapore. We had enjoyable moments. really miss those days at maastricht when we party all nite.

My current craze is to learn sign language and play tennis. Wow, u noe wat, roger federer is same age as me but yet he is alr a 3 times wimbledon champ. his movements on court is so angelic, with masterful strokes and all. He defn belongs to one of the great.

back to singapore

just gt back from a five day trip in malaysia. feeling totally re-charged to run the next leg of life. Still having a lot of problems finding the job i like.. haiz... totally depressing. and i don think i wan to talk about it.

k, period

Chronicles of Life

Just came back after attending the ROM of Lili and her husband. Lili was my JC fren and she is now married.. aarrghhh.. pressure starting to build up arh... and I gt no GF.. wat is happening to me man? Haiz..

Hmmm.. has been almost 2 weeks since i last blog. So wat has happened since then? Here goes
20 May (fri) - went to the BP selection tests. One whole day of interviews and we played a trading game. Competition was as usual tough with BP flying graduates from Peking Uni and Tsinghua.. Wat chance do I have again? So tiring... but anyway, thus far, only aaron gt selected. and i most prolly will be rejected again.

21 May (sat) think i went over to kang ming house to learn piano. he taught me Lover's concerto and till date, i m still trying to master it. abt 50% there.

22 may - went to church and continue to study for my CFA...

23 May- CFA

24 May - Learn driving

25 May - Learn driving

26 May - went for my video shoot for convocation. I mess up my lines so badly till the director had to do several takes for the interview

27 May - gt back my results and guess wat.. i gt my first class honours.. totally unexpected.. i thought i screwed up this sems.. and i really did.. got quite bad results and yet by some miracle i still manage to achieve the honours. Really got to thank God.

It has been a long time

Yes yes, I know.. received many complaints.. How time flies? Haa.. My last blog entry was in Nov.. haa.. almost 7 months since i blog.. Guess i m just nt that faithful enough.

For the sake of overseas friends and genuinely true frens who is interested in hw I have been, i shall try to blog at least once a month. Hope i can keep my promise.. hehe..

Ok, so here it goes.. shall try to sum up the last 7 months of MIA.
Starting from internship at JP Morgan, where i had a fairly ok time. I didnt perform as well as I shld have been. Made some careless mistake which really entirely my fault, no one else to blame except ME. but luckily, my managers, esp Tow Peng, was veri accomodating and kind to look past my mistakes. I seriously thought he is one of the nicest manager around. Many of my colleagues also echo that sentiment. I seriously wish him every success in his career.

Next, oh, I won the SGX-NTU Financial Games championship for 3 years in a row. Clap Clap.. haa.. As a result of this achievement, we were featured in a Business Times (one of Singapore 's top business newspaper). and the article is no small one lor.. half-page with photo some more.. wat an honour man! Once I fugure it out, I shall try to put the article on line. So as a result of that, gt many congratulatory messages, blah blah.. Can feel the school was really proud of us. Well, they should be.. It is not everyday the dull NBS get some favourable news report.

School was as usual quite boring.. Got to make some new friends, Yunting, Aaron and Kang ming Became quite close to kang ming. haa.. 2 alpha romeo guys.. only natural we became quite close.. haaa... he was my project mate from portfolio management class and happen to stay quite near me. Hmm.. then, gt to noe yongjia and fonz (2 very talented KPMG scholars) from the P&G roundtable discussion. P&G asked us to chaired a 'live' debate with their directors on global leadership. Prestigious as it may sound, it quickly turn out to be a recruitment pitch for them. It did nt become a debate but some means for them to showcase the global leadership of P&G. Nonetheless, I got to really interact with their directors, even shared a VIP seat with professors and their CEO in the dinner after that. A lil bit proud of that. and so subsequently of course, I applied for a job there. Wah cow, this time, I was really confident of getting the job there. from 100 over applicants to the final round of interview of just 4 candidates. Since i already on favourable terms with their directors and answered all the questions pretty well in the interview, I was so damm sure they will offer me a contract. But no, they didnt, they offered to this china girl... Come on lor!!! Another china person stealing my job... Aaaarghhhh!!!

Eh, I thought was talking abt school, why did i ended talking abt jobs? maybe becoz school is boring so nothing to talk about.. hehe.. ok la, gt to know some year 1 gals, Cristina, Huiling, Xiuzi wahahaa.. Uncle preying on mei mei??? heee.... no la, i took accounting 2 module and so happened to be in a year one class lor. heh. erm, who else did i noe? oh, i went for some HR outing.. haaa... my frens from the HR specialization organise some rock climbing outing and Dan Wen invited me.. haa.. saw some chio bus.. but... haaa... i forgot their names liao.. didnt follow up.. whahahaaa.... Den, i picked up tennis... I was sooo inspired by Roger Federer.. He is simply awesome. Played in school with jason and a fren called ... (i forgot the name liao.... whahaha.. so terrible) haaa.. i wanted to do some sport every weekend one.. but became too busy in the end to do them....

Oh, Andrew( my german fren) visited me ard mid March.. he chose a damm good time lor.. that week he came was my fyp deadline. but still, being the NICE friend that I am, i accompanied him on some occasions. Even introduce some chio bus to him lor.. haa.. We went to sentosa, attended a jazz concert. and had some dinners. Actually, i wasn't that good a host... but was too busy to be one.. sorry andrew if u are reading this.. next time when u come to singapore, i will make it up to u man but only if u come at the right time.. haa


Wow, this is getting longer than i thought it will take me. Didnt noe my life was actually quite interesting.. haa.. wat else did i do? why suddenly i can't think of anything... mb, becoz i m really boring.. haaa... oh, i m learning salsa with yongjia.. haa.. yeah baby! can u believe 2 left feet person like me can actually dance.... haa.. and i think i m doing quite well so far.. haa.. this is the first time i am given the liberty to hold so many gals' hands and put mine round their waist.. haa.. no la, this is not the reason why i m joining salsa dance.. there are other reasons la.. for u to figure it out... haaa

K la, shall end it here... talk more abt myself next time.. hopefull, won be ano year.. haa

Wow, it has been almost a month since i blog.. too hectic schedule...

Anyway, the dreaded exams finally finished yday.... nontheless cant help but feeling time is passing soooo fast... half a year ago, i was having one of the best time of my life in maastricht and just a few weeks ago, i was whining and complaining about studying for exams.. this time round, had all the exams sandwiched in one week(normally it is spread over 3 weeks)... despite all that, i wasnt feeling as stressed before.. but there was still the pressure to perform... sometimes, it gets to me.. success can be a vicious cycle.. u have to keep working hard to maintain the high standard of success u achieved previously. I really hated studying for exams (yeah, i noe this statement is duhzz) everybody feels this way.. but i just want to vent my frustrations here... haa..

Went to town with huifang and Roy for shopping immediately after exams.. Want to shop some shirts and buy a pair of shoes for my attachment. Yeah, cant believe it.. i m only left with one more day of holiday... my attachment starting from tomorrow will be all the way till school reopen... haiz...

k, i have some reflections(food for thoughts) here... exam time is when i realli start thinking .. and question the many fundamentals of
1) One need not be smart to achieve success. George Bush aint smart, u can see it from his speech and debates but yet he has just won elections again. He also wasnt a top sudent in school.. Conclusion - u don need good grades or great intellegence to succed in life. To quote from MYSELF.. haa.. "NOT ALL PRESIDENTS ARE ROCKET SCIENTIST" (note the many undermeanings)
2) Your life is like a company.. how u manange your life is like how u manage a company... your personal finances are like accounts and financial statements. People perceptions of you is how they see this company of yours. Your public persona is like the goodwill and reputation of a company. Physical terms wise, just like a company that needs to constantly streamline its operations to make it more lean and efficient, a fat person also has to exercise often to get rid of those excesses.. yeah, ELWYN INC is a CORPORATION that will be the fortune 500 companies one of these days.... ohno, i m starting to dream again... of cse, only had 5 hrs of sleep last nite... cant believe that i sleep even less than during exams time.. haa..

oops.. getting late.. has to rush off for church.. don wan to be late again....

I m the blurest guy around

let me just share with u all the blur things that i did over the past few weeks. You will be amazed..

1) Left my Dean's List letter in the lib and it has been there for 2 months. I was dg my FYP (honours project) during the June holiday, and somehow, i left it in one of the bookshelfs. The thing is that i didnt realise that i left it there. I thought i just lost it in the house, believing one day it will reappear by itself. Then, 2 days ago, my fren inform me that he saw my letter in the the lib. I was simply shocked that the letter was still there(2 whole mths) and that luckily, a fren actually spotted it for me.
2) I went to my attachment organisation on wed only to realise that i came one week too early. The appointment shlould have been next wed.
3) Last week, i have had this damm unlucky and blur incident. I boarded the train to school and after a couple of stops, i realise that i left my thumdrive at home. Now, this thumdrive is impt to me that day as it contains my assignments that needed to be hand up later. So, as i was late, i try to flag down a cab outside my house, but couldn't get one. In the end, i decide to walk to the Mrt. Took me about 10 minutes. But, as i came to the MRT, there was a long q, and so i have to call a cab. Very clever rite, Call a cab only after i wait 10 minutes and walk some distance. There is more to come. Later, as the cab brought me to my school, i immediately rushed up to print my assignment, BUT my thumdrive is nowwhere to be found. I had left it the taxi. I was like come on, this cant be.. I went thro so much trouble to bring my thumbdrive to school, only to lose it. Luckily, later, the call centre could still remember me and the taxi later re-route(with passengers inside) and return me the thumdrive.
4)I left my identity card in the bank
5) lost my organiser(notebook) in the bus
6) during one of my presentations, i cited wrongly the names of my groupmates

Sometimes, i dunno whether to laugh or scold myself.
well, think this is just me, accept it, elwyn

Suggestions to reMAKE, reUSE, reDO, reINVENT and reENERGIZE myself

All ideas are welcomed to change me.. Think i have been slipping into the monotony of life and school work... help me change that.

Bush is a Blank

did u guys see the first television presidential debate.
Came back last nite from Jesz bday party and manage to catch it on CNA.

John Kerry look so much more convincing. He brings his points across with conviction and purpose. But look at Bush, he lacks style, slow in his thoughts and lost in his own world. He must be thinking that as he is still holding onto leads, the onus is on Kerry to seize the initiative and make a difference. All he has to do is to play it safe and not make major errors. This is exactly wat is being played out. Kerry probably emphasiez the word 'difference between them so many times' that it might have been thought both are from diff planets. Verdict: A for Kerry and B for Bush in terms of style and delivery

Content wise. Kerry drives home a lot of real truth abt the inept and many colossial mistake made by Bush adminstration.. eh, gtg.. write more next time