Saturday, May 26, 2007 7:50:00 PM
I heave a sigh of relief as I submit my individual report this afternoon. This marks the end of my one and only summer term in my University life. It's definitely an experience but not to the extent that I want to ever do it again. Left with 4 more modules to complete next semester before I say GOODBYE to student life. I'm not sure if I can adapt well to the transition to the next phase of my life. Anyway, I will worry about it when the time comes.. But now it's time to enjoy the little personal time I have to myself. Had actually planned for a local weekend getaway by booking a hotel for one night over the weekend but all the hotels between the $200 rate has been taken up. At least for those I'm interested to try out.. Hadn't expect hotel rooms in Singapore to be so hot in demand. But then Jo did remind me that sch hols are just starting. And moreover, it was quite a last minute thing. Well my weekend is not ruined cos it's been postphone to 2 weeks later!! =) Cos it's the nearest weekend that showed available rooms when we checked. Probably going to book the Robertson Quay Hotel or Hangout @ Mount Emily.. Both are affordable (mind you.. we are poor students. Can't exactly afford Ritz Carlton yet), chic but each has its pros and cons. Reviews on Robertson implies the service is so-so and the rooms are small.. But it does have a reasonably sized pool (impt!) and it's near the Singapore River.. so we will not end up feeling bored cos we are right smack in the entertainment hub! =)Hangout @ Mount Emily is abit far and out of the way but the rooms are much much cheaper, and according to Jo, the rooms are nicely furnished (plus pt!) I can always use the money saved and go for a good buffet with my cupcake! Hee! still have some time before I make a decision. If you guys have any good hotel lobang.. Let me knw ok?!Today I went shopping and it was a blast! There are sales going on everywhere and it's so tempting to just keep buying stuff. Haha! Got 2 Sloggi (s) from BHG (ex-Seiyu) and a Aikira ear-clip headphone. I'm listening to songs with the new earphone now and the sound quality is equivalent to the Sennheiser one that cupcake bought for me. AND IT HAS A MICROPHONE!! omg... and how much is it?! A mere $6.90!!! You all say I got a good deal or not??? Haha.. So happy that my "harvest" today is good.. Have't felt such satisfaction from shopping for a long time le. I have one more day before internship starts. Shall stay home and treat myself to D.I.Y spa. Chill, relax and enjoy before surrendering to slavery again.
Friday, May 25, 2007 11:26:00 PM
Oh man oh man... The portfolio paper this afternoon just killed the remaining cells in me that still yearn to work in the Finance industry in the future. The prof gave an extra hour for us to complete the paper and yet when 3 hours were up, everyone was reluctant to leave the room. Throughout the paper, I can hear frantic flipping of the books/notes and deep sighing. Some couldn't take the stress and had to take more than one toilet break.. Although I could finish the paper in time, I did not feel the statisfaction that I will do well in this paper at all. I'll thank my lucky stars if I managed to pass.
Now I only have my individual report to pull my grades up. It's due tmr 12pm and I'm still not done with it. Deep sighz..
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:34:00 AM
I'm currently high on RED BULL - my second can as this week drags on.. Just completed my presentation for StockTrak and boy can I say Jo's last min computation on our performance attribution using a bogey portfolio saved our asses. It was so stressful to figure out how to do the computation at the last min at like 1.30 p.m. Muacks!! to Jo who had to make do with only 2 hrs of slp. Sighs.. The summer hell week is so much worse than the usual term hell week. This is like hell weekX3.
Both Jo and I are staying back in school to do some self revision for our quiz this friday.. We still have an individual report to submit.. Boy do I wish this week could just pass faster.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:12:00 AM
I'm delirious! I had a presentation today where my group was the last to present, sat through a boring 4 hours class just listening to other people present and I have to complete my part of the StockTrak report (I just completed a good draft like half a secong ago). I still have an individual 2 page report to submit for the Harvad case which I have not done. I have a final quiz this friday I have not started studying for. And internship will commence on Monday the weekend after till 17th Aug. My last semester in SMU will start on Mon 20 Aug, the weekend after.. again.. And the mad cycle of a smugger will start all over again.. The only consolation I get is that I will be breaking this viscious cycle by Dec. And then what?! I will leech on to another cycle? Called the career cycle? Oh well, life can be so exciting isn't it?
When I'm in school I can't wait to get it (education) over and be done with it. And now when I'm about to graduate, I start to worry about the uncertainties lying out there waiting to devour me. I am sure many people I know are facing the same issues. Why is life so contradicting and complicated? Whatever la.. I shall go sleep now and dream about running through a large plot of grassland filled with dasies and smelling clean fresh air. Lalala...
I really really can't wait for my getaway this weekend to calm my soul.
Sunday, May 20, 2007 8:04:00 AM
Jo, Xin and I finally get to chill out at ICE COLD yesterday evening after a grilling 7 hours meeting to finish up the case study and the StockTrak report. For the past week, we have been extremely busy with both the case study and the StockTrak projects. Shall not bore you people with details about these project just that my group lost about 3k for the 1 mil we are "supposed to invest for our client". So demoralising when other groups could make like 30k in 24 days that the game ran and we made a lost! I really hope I can manage my investments in real life much much better than I did for the game.
Here are the pictures from yesterday:
Snowball by the waitress reccommendation. It's got Sprite and egg white in it - giving it the sweet and milky taste. Not bad.
Xin's drink called Pink Lady. Definitely not a lady's drink with its sour/bitter taste
Jo's drink. Forgot wat this is called but it's like some mango smoothie cocktail
Beef Wrap. They kept tempting me to eat it when they know I can't. Humph. Smells nice though =)
Posing for pictures!
We are just so happy after the 7hr project meeting
The group picture =)
And totally out of line for this post. This is what I found stuck on the Lib's window pane one rainy evening.
A snail! Silly snail. I think it fell off cos it was gone when I came back from the ladies. Couldn't have slided so quickly away. I hope it survive the 4 storey plunge!
Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:40:00 PM
This is life @ SMU. It's a love and hate relationship.
Saturday, May 12, 2007 11:14:00 PM
I'm so excited!! Completed another scapbook for my cupcake =)
I just love this cupcake here from the deepest bottom of my heart. Always proving time and time again that I have made the right choice back in 2005. Who says a couple can only have one honeymoon period? Not for us! We have lots of honeymoons and it just keeps getting better. Right cupcake?
Anyway cupcake decided to create a day so special that I will not and will never forget about it.. I think it's his strategy for building up a defence for any future arguments about him not putting in effort to show his love.. Hee.. Anyway he came all the way to my house on Monday morning @ 7.40am to send me to school. I was shocked but happily surprised when I saw him as I come out from the lift. I never would I thought he would do such a thing since he's not a morning person. I felt so touched and that definitely brightened up a potentially dull morning. I felt rejuvenated just by being close to him. It's so satisfying to be able to lie on his shoulders in the bus on a sleepy Monday morning. That day, I had the energy to pay attention during the whole 3 hours Portfolio Management lesson without having to drink coffee.
That's not all. Cupcake waited more than half a day to finish my errands in school just to bring me to dinner. We ate @ Mahatten - our fav seafood place and had ice cream at Ben & Jerry. We ended off the evening with him sending me back home. I could have just drowned in happiness la.. Although the perfect evening was a tiny weeny bit scarred by a miscommunication while we were at John Little. But all was forgiven in a matter of minutes - we can never stay angry with each other for long la.. which is good =)
So you might think these are all trivial things that boyfriends do for their better halves and are usually done too often and being taken for granted as a result. But not in my case. As some might have known.. The cupcake has been busy busy busy with being a director and a vice president of SMUBE. And both of us are usually considered "married" to the school during the semester. We seldom have the time to
spend time with each other.. much less go on proper dates. So to me.. The things that he did for me on Monday were considered privileges and extremely special.
Why I still stand by this cupcake despite all the "density"? Because I know he's WORTH it. Didn't take me long to realize this =)
Taken in the bus on the way to school.
Nice view from the library project room. Can you see the old MPH building? I spent many childhood sundays there.
Cupcake waiting for food. Both of us are so hungry we stopped talking once the food arrived. 
Food! Glorious Food!!
Our first "Mahatten" picture after eating there a zillion times.
10:36:00 AM
Happy Birthday Yvonne Tham Yu Hua!
Thank you for all the best years we have spent in sec sch together which has formed the foundation of who we are now. Thank you for all the fun, joy and laughter and being a true friend.
All my birthday blessings were in a card given to her when we met up a week back to have lunch at Billy Bombers the other day.
The front of the envelope - This time round I took more effort to "decorate" the card ok.
The back of the envelope.
And most importantly the card drenched with sincerity.. Hee
Friday, May 11, 2007 6:33:00 PM
All in A Day of A Girl Like Me
Had my mid term paper for Portfolio Management this morning. It was surprisingly not as terrible as I thought it would be. Luckily I spent some time doing up the "Cheat Sheets" which really facilitated the searching for formulaes and definitions. Hahaha.. Well hopefully can score well for this test.
Anyway, I had lunch with the cupcake at Tanjong Pagar Market which is near where he works. Actually wanted to surprise him by waiting for him at his office's lift lobby instead of at the MRT's station control. But this bimbo here :p went to the wrong building then end up walking to Amara Shopping Centre and found herself window shopping for shoes while waiting for his call..
-_- Damn lor.. I should have checked properly before I executed my "surprise" Well at least lunch was good and we enjoyed each other's company despite the fact that the food centre was disgustingly crowded. Too bad the cupcake could not be released for lunch earlier to avoid this lunch crowd maddness. I had Jap Teriyakki chicken rice set while he had his usual chicken rice. If any of you happen to eat at Tanjong Pagar market you should really try the Jap Cuisine there. It's fabulous i tell you. I think the curry sets are their speciality since it was sold out by the time I was there and it was 1.15pm. Enough said.
Evening was spent at Table 108@ Chijmes with a few BE seniors and the current Exco who were facing some issues about the club's flagging "family bond" culture. But I guess everything boils down to effective communication top-down. Suddenly I thought of something I learnt in Cross Cultural Management on how a new expat manager in a local country has only a short window period to set his tone. So if "family culture" is considered as a focal point of being in this club that I hope the top four will quickly get down communicating to the rest of the club what's on their minds and set a direction. Opportunity costs are inevitable but can be minimized if the club can work together as a team to seive out the best possible decisions. All these are in words which can be easy.. The real challenge comes when it comes to implementing our ideas.. Haiz..
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:56:00 PM
Isn't this refreshing?!
This is the nicest blogskin I have had so far.. Though I am not quite a "bling bling" person I really like the pink theme of this skin. This song I have feeded in with this blog has much sentimental value to me. Used to be a song I hear everytime I am at Tiong Bahru MRT station - I fell in love with this song but couldn't find out the title of this song then. Few years later, when I was working as an audit intern, I finally found out about this particular song from my audit client (How apt right...) This song "Sundial Dreams" is by Kevin Kern. He has produced many great piano pieces that will make you feel relaxed and bring your thoughts back to past memories. Very hypnotic.
Well.. If I were to choose a song that best describes me.. I would choose this song. This song as been a witness as I transit through stages of my life since sec sch days. I heard this song when I was wearing the "sailor" uniform at the MRT station. I heard this song when I was in poly student working as an audit intern. I bought my first Kevin Kern album because I liked this song so much I can hum the tune to sleep every night. And this song saw me through unforgetable memories as I transit to university life. There was even one time this song even became almost too painful to listen to. Von marked her 21st brithday by dedicating this song to me while we were drinking at Marina Mandarin Hotel. She still know me so well..
It has been a long time since I played this song. Now as I played it, all these memories start coming back to me. It has dawned on me that things can remain as it is but times has changed. Everyone has at some point moved on to another stage in life. So now as I am humming along to the tune, I am feeling happy and satisfied that life has brought me to where I am now. Although I may have met some obstacles along the way, I think I have dealt with them pretty well and learning a great deal as I go along.
This is quite an emotional entry huh.. I didn't intend for this entry to be like that but words just flow out as this song is playing.. Well let me end this entry with something more cheerful. Show you guys the product of my new hobby - Digital Scrapbooking!
