Thursday night was crazy. In a quest to do up a good report for CB (Consumer Behavior) project, I sat at my desk and worked from 9pm till 5am, wanted to save my word document but it HANGED!!! I started cursing & shaking my head in disbelief, started talking to the laptop, asking it why it was doing this to me on my day of freedom, I shook it hard, hoping it would revive.

As usual, it kept silent and still.

I pulled the plug on him at 5.15am. Started red0ing my work, saving the file every 120 seconds, saving it into my external hardisk every 30minutes. I slept from 7.30am to 10am, continued working on it from 10am till 4.15pm, drove to school, binded the 46page mother-troublesome report, dumped it into prof's pigeonhole at 4.45pm, and went home to sleep for 15 hours straight.

Pure unadulterated bliss.

And the December holidays finally beckons for me. Which isn't much to begin with since I will be starting my marketing internship at Lexus on the first week of December, meaning that I won't be able to go to Hong Kong and Shanghai with my mum. But hopefully, the internship will be a good experience for me; make some friends, suck up to the boss & ultimately get staff discount for cars. haha.

Anyway, I think this has been a pretty good semester for me. Managed my work better, grew stronger relationship-wise, and I was really blessed with good project mates for all my modules this semester.

These have been some of the stuff that have kept me busy for the past 10 weeks.

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CAT Project: Pawnstar



Not quite the "jumbo-jet" that we set out to do, but at least got "yacht" lah. We developed an Excel program that pegs "live" gold & currency prices, manages pawn accounts securely and set optimum interest rates.

A project that we slogged it out till 6am in the morning, doing up macros, reports & powerpoint... We probably over-did the project, but in a really good way. Our project captured most of the class' attention, got people interested and ask questions, all of which we had an answer to.

To see us repelling all the arrows shot at us brought lots of satisfaction to my heart.

All the nitty gritties... They were worth it.

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FIM (Financial Institutional Markets..Correct?)

Again, had really good project mates for this one. Made up of all accoutants except me. haha. Very disciplined bunch, we finished our project with 2 weeks to spare, which freed me up to do the marketing projects. And it was interesting how I wanted a formal serious presentation and the accoutants wanted a video and a more "rah-rah" presentation format



I ended making quite a sad video but it evinces my mood at that time; confused about continuing with Finance as a second major or to drop it. I like marketing too much & finance seems like a burden to me. It doesn't help that Finance modules have all the dean-listers and the poly grads that speak Finance as their mother tongue

In comparison, I speak Finance like sputtering Japaneses learnt from playing Winning Eleven.

And I can't see myself working in the Finance industry in future. Those jobs are just not for me. I don't want to wake up every morning doing the same old routine; brushing the same old set of teeth, going to work in the same old car, doing the same old work, different numbers but the same old formulas...

I want a job that challenges my creativity, not my efficiency.

So during the course bidding, I told God that I will leave it to Him. I bidded much higher for my Arts & Science mods and much lower than my friends for the Finance mods. And lo and behold, I got outbidded for my Arts mods and I got all my Finance mods. So I guess God has spoken. =)

And oh, I made an interesting observation at TCC when we celebrated the end of our presentation with expensive food. I footed the bill first & ALL the accoutants paid me back in EXACT change. Not $10 or $10.30, but like $10.32...

I believe they are trained to do that and I think they can compound interest rates without financial calculators but I'm just saying it's a far cry from what my other business friends will do.

My business friends will either round the sum to pay me or more often than not, they will talk their way out of paying.