Unpolished Gem

Yeah! I'm damn suay i tell u, the passport app didn't go through cos my hair was covering half my right eyebrow in the photograph!!! I'm so pissed! The application takes a month, meaning that there might be a chance that it won't be ready by the end of exams!!! WTH!!! And they only do collection of apps once a week on friday... delay even more. I'm dead!!! I'm gonna be stuck here!!! This is driving me nuts. And no one will travel with me cos everyone's zaoing imm after exams. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO!!! This sucks!!! And i just took passport photograph again... this time i tied up my hair but the blardy machine's like running out of ink. It still looks fine to me but Crap, if they're gonna be fussy... Wah lao, i have to go to the embassy again. This should NEVER have happened!!! Pukes. Anyway, i'm starting to Panic for the exams... and library is getting a little too crowded for my liking. This is BAD.

Firstly, THANK YOU for all the Birthday wishes, calls, presents, cards, surprises. I couldn't have asked for more. I know all of you miss me (HAHAHA! don't roll your eyes!... come on, admit it! I know i'm very thick skinned), yeah, i miss all of you too! TRUST ME... time will pass so fast you wouldn't believe i'll be back THAT soon. What would i do without you guys??? And to everyone who took time off from studying just to celebrate my birthday with me, i'm really touched, happy that i've made so many good friends here. And i'm really looking forward to spending the next 2 years with all of you. Oh, i've just discovered the best kinda fats ever. The kinda fats you actually enjoy eating. DUCK FATS. Rocks.

Bring on the mugging man. Today i tried very hard to get my IR in order but i spent more time trying to organize all the notes, looking for books etc etc etc = in short, unproductive. As we all know, being the muggers that we are, unproductive days suck. Boo boo to any more unproductive days ahead and cheers to our newfound alliance. Flor, we rock! haha! (don't tell anyone what we're doing, they'll really laugh at us and start calling us names)

Who knows? A wisdom tooth is g r o w ing! Don't know why, i just believed i was immune to it! Now, my tongue keeps flipping backwards to touch THAT tooth. Been a long while since i last did that, the last time was in Secondary school, when the last of the milkies came out. Hopefully it gives me some wisdom for the coming exams. Actually, i just hope it doesn't hurt! Or start pushing all the other teeth until everything gets out of shape! How frightful!

... for calls that don't come is FRUSTRATING. For 2 days!!! And it's not a guy lah, please. Not in that context anyway. Is it that difficult to connect an international call? Pukes!

marseille yachts at the port the freezing water the guys dipped their feet in! beautiful! the famous boulabaisse seafood curry lookalike soup that we didn't quite take to we're strong like napoleon! the arc de troimphe eiffel by night the glittery! the louvre we never got to go into Everyone's mugging their head off. Including me. haha. The library is packed to the brim! And, such a nerd i am, i'm actually sad the library's gonna be closed for 4 days! Do they really need such a long good friday break... ?!?! Yeah lah, i've officially declared myself a bookworm. But, i'm way behind what I intend to cover by now. And studying for IR is scary cos the questions can come from anywhere so I'm not even sure if I'm studying along the correct lines! I wish my productivity was Higher! Hurry Hurry study study! To all the LSEians, hang in there! On a sidenote, i'm damn pissed that this plastic envelope that I was told to buy for the Singapore embassy to send...

I just returned from a very enjoyable two day introduction to Investment banking thing and man, it was hell of a fun. When I first stepped out of the Canary Wharf tube station, I was like WOW, this is the place I wanna work in. I guess it's because I haven't seen like skyscrappers in a long long time. It reminded me of City Hall and Shenton Way. And it was so cool how all the men were wearing their blazers, they just look really smart. So, we got lots of chances to speak to representatives from the investment banks and I was assigned to Citigroup and Morgan Stanley. Excellent stuff man, we visited the banks, and it's just so nice and professional looking, saw the trading floor at Citigroup, damn exciting! And then we were talking to the people within the differnt divisions in IBanking, there is so much to learn, fixed income, equities, derivatives, private banking, hedge funds, global transaction services, risk management etc etc etc. And we were assigned to like do one cas...

Ah! I'm so happy cos I just met Uncle. It didn't seem too long ago since he was last here. But it must have been around 4 months. Even though it was just half a day, can't describe the happiness of having family around. So, we went shopping, the plan was to go to Harrods but the stupid bus decided to terminate service at tottenham court road! So angry, so we ended up shopping at Oxford Street, man it was packed packed packed. When we went to Topshop, i swear i saw more people than clothes. And Spring is finally here i think. Glorious weather except for the short showers. And then we headed to Kam Tong for dinner. Damn nice, much better than Chinatown. Time flew so fast and it was time for him to leave before i knew it. I can't wait for summer. Anw... studying's really crappy. Productivity is so low I'm not getting anywhere. All I want to do is watch Beautiful Life! Bah...