Maybe i should come back to the bloggers' world....
missing in action for 6 months.
hahahaha...
where am i now?
kuala lumpur.
how's life recently?
great.
more updates coming soon....
Monday, July 06, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Last day in UTS
From Left: Caroline Dobson, Eleanor Resciniti, me, Carole Fawcett and Lakmali Dias.Yesterday was my last day in UTS School of Finance and Economics.
Have been working there for almost half year.
Taught me a lot abt the Australian office culture and their culture itself.
Imagine working sharp at 9am and leave sharp at 5pm.
No OT, no extra work.
Imagine drinking wine while eating thai food.
Using UTS credit card to pay for my farewell lunch at Capital Thai.
Eleanor taught me a lot of things.
She's really nice and patient.
She always treat me some aussie mentos "XXX" during late afternoon when everyone starts to feel tired on the workload.. haha..
Caroline just joined us from Bloomberg weeks ago.
She's a funny mother of a 7 months old baby...
Carole is my school manager. She is the one who approves my payslip every week... I'll definitely miss the time when i have to hand in my time sheet and check my bank account during the pay day every fortnight..
Lakmali is another nice lady from Sri Lanka.. Imagine that she is already a grandmother of two grandkids. She used to make warm apple vinegar drink for me whenever she heard me coughing during work.
Bye bye to my first office job.
in an Australian office culture.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
死也要做完。
死也要做完。
吐也要吐出来。
5/11 - Thesis final presentation.
7/11 - Bond Portfolio Management Assignment due.
11/11 - Bond Portfolio Management Final.
14/11 - Derivative Securities Pricing Final.
20/11 - Thesis SUBMISSION date.
Thesis writing progress - 70% ...
Final exam study progress - 0% ...
hate the weather.
hate my running nose.
hate that there is only 24 hours a day.
吐也要吐出来。
5/11 - Thesis final presentation.
7/11 - Bond Portfolio Management Assignment due.
11/11 - Bond Portfolio Management Final.
14/11 - Derivative Securities Pricing Final.
20/11 - Thesis SUBMISSION date.
Thesis writing progress - 70% ...
Final exam study progress - 0% ...
hate the weather.
hate my running nose.
hate that there is only 24 hours a day.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
First exam supervision.
Did my first exam supervision last night.
Well... what can i say about this first time experience?
Last week, Lakmali (one of the staff who was in charge in the exam supervision thingie) asked me whether I'm interested in doing some exam supervision during the mid term exam week when i was working in the school office.
Well....
1. I've never done any exam supervision before.
2. It sounds interesting coz not much ppl get to do it.
3. and..... $$$ matters.
Of course i say yes!
hahaha..
Anyway,
after having a busy working day in the morning.... plus a very late sleep the day before...
Imagine cutting number cards for a few subjects for the whole morning...
photocopying exam papers... (imagine hundred of students)
and key in some assignments marks... (imagine few hundred copies)
plus running my regression until some 1am the night before...
It was a bit tired.
The exam starts at 6pm and luckily it was a 2 hours subject.
I never knew that doing exam supervision can be that boring.
Imagine walking around, standing, doing nothing for 2 hours.
Never knew 2 hours can be that long.
But funny things do happen.
There is a student who asked me whether she can use pencil or pen for question 4..
1st thing to clarify is that... I've no idea what paper she is doing.
And who cares it's pen or pencil?
hahahahahaa...
but, to make sure...i do read through the instruction on the cover sheet....
before i told her that you can use whatever you like! hahaha..
for your information, it was a postgraduate masters subject midterm exam..
Luckily it seems to be an easy paper as people starts to leave their seats 45 mins before the exam ends. and when the clock ticks at 8pm, there was only around 10% of the students left sitting in the hall.. so we didn't really take up much time on picking up the papers... i left the exam hall with one of the lecturer and a phD student who was also supervising with all the exams paper sheets.... it took about 15 mins to walk back the office from the exam hall.... so we kinda like chitchatting along the way... it's kinda weird to chat with a lecturer n a phD student on the way... hahahha... and the topic was... masters course in sydney and US, the lecturer was a US graduates. and the topic was initiated by the questions from the phD student on why were there so many chinese student taking masters but only like less than 10% angmos doing it? hahaha..... i did the counting when walking around the exam hall.... its was around 25 angmos doing the exams in a hall with 240 students. and half of them are chinese, and the other half are indians....
well.... maybe.... sydney is just another asian city?
I have another exam supervision on wednesday night. 6-9pm.
and my own mid term paper is on friday 6pm.
Well... what can i say about this first time experience?
Last week, Lakmali (one of the staff who was in charge in the exam supervision thingie) asked me whether I'm interested in doing some exam supervision during the mid term exam week when i was working in the school office.
Well....
1. I've never done any exam supervision before.
2. It sounds interesting coz not much ppl get to do it.
3. and..... $$$ matters.
Of course i say yes!
hahaha..
Anyway,
after having a busy working day in the morning.... plus a very late sleep the day before...
Imagine cutting number cards for a few subjects for the whole morning...
photocopying exam papers... (imagine hundred of students)
and key in some assignments marks... (imagine few hundred copies)
plus running my regression until some 1am the night before...
It was a bit tired.
The exam starts at 6pm and luckily it was a 2 hours subject.
I never knew that doing exam supervision can be that boring.
Imagine walking around, standing, doing nothing for 2 hours.
Never knew 2 hours can be that long.
But funny things do happen.
There is a student who asked me whether she can use pencil or pen for question 4..
1st thing to clarify is that... I've no idea what paper she is doing.
And who cares it's pen or pencil?
hahahahahaa...
but, to make sure...i do read through the instruction on the cover sheet....
before i told her that you can use whatever you like! hahaha..
for your information, it was a postgraduate masters subject midterm exam..
Luckily it seems to be an easy paper as people starts to leave their seats 45 mins before the exam ends. and when the clock ticks at 8pm, there was only around 10% of the students left sitting in the hall.. so we didn't really take up much time on picking up the papers... i left the exam hall with one of the lecturer and a phD student who was also supervising with all the exams paper sheets.... it took about 15 mins to walk back the office from the exam hall.... so we kinda like chitchatting along the way... it's kinda weird to chat with a lecturer n a phD student on the way... hahahha... and the topic was... masters course in sydney and US, the lecturer was a US graduates. and the topic was initiated by the questions from the phD student on why were there so many chinese student taking masters but only like less than 10% angmos doing it? hahaha..... i did the counting when walking around the exam hall.... its was around 25 angmos doing the exams in a hall with 240 students. and half of them are chinese, and the other half are indians....
well.... maybe.... sydney is just another asian city?
I have another exam supervision on wednesday night. 6-9pm.
and my own mid term paper is on friday 6pm.
Monday, September 15, 2008
the day.
It's a weird day in the office. Weather is extremely hot. Imagine something like 9 degress two days before and 23 degrees today.
Early in the morning, when i was making my coffee before 9am, our school manager came in the kitchen. She was looking at the paper which I just picked up from the library... and said to me,
"Lehman brothers in big trouble, isn't it?"
It's weird that she actually starts a topic like this, so finance-related issues.. normally, she'll say something like... great weather, huh?
Thank god I browse through the news when I was walking back from the library just now and replied,
"Ya, I saw it in the paper this morning.."
She, then started the topic about US economy and UK recession and asked me about conditions in Malaysia... oh god... how am i suppose to reply all these? haha...
"Not good... we relied on foreign investors a lot... we get hurts easily.."
I chinchai replied and faster take my coffee away and said,
"Enjoy your breakfast!"
haha.... its a weird beginning of the day. Work was busy the whole morning, the busiest day I've ever had in the office. Before lunch, one of the oldest professor in the school came in the admin office to spread the news.
"Do you know that Merrill Lynch is gone... so do Lehman..."
The school manager, the postgraduate head, and the old professor all standing around to talk about the issues...
Even when I'm on my way to make another evening coffee in the kitchen I've overheard some conversations about this BIG thing... Lecturers standing around..
"Have you heard about Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers?"
Well... I guess its the big issue of the year.
Heard something about investment banks not hiring this year during the dinner with Bank Negara that night from a guy. He said something like sending in resumes for a few investment banks and one replied that... "We do not have any open positions for this year.", I can't recall the company, was that Merrill Lynch?
Whatever.
Early in the morning, when i was making my coffee before 9am, our school manager came in the kitchen. She was looking at the paper which I just picked up from the library... and said to me,
"Lehman brothers in big trouble, isn't it?"
It's weird that she actually starts a topic like this, so finance-related issues.. normally, she'll say something like... great weather, huh?
Thank god I browse through the news when I was walking back from the library just now and replied,
"Ya, I saw it in the paper this morning.."
She, then started the topic about US economy and UK recession and asked me about conditions in Malaysia... oh god... how am i suppose to reply all these? haha...
"Not good... we relied on foreign investors a lot... we get hurts easily.."
I chinchai replied and faster take my coffee away and said,
"Enjoy your breakfast!"
haha.... its a weird beginning of the day. Work was busy the whole morning, the busiest day I've ever had in the office. Before lunch, one of the oldest professor in the school came in the admin office to spread the news.
"Do you know that Merrill Lynch is gone... so do Lehman..."
The school manager, the postgraduate head, and the old professor all standing around to talk about the issues...
Even when I'm on my way to make another evening coffee in the kitchen I've overheard some conversations about this BIG thing... Lecturers standing around..
"Have you heard about Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers?"
Well... I guess its the big issue of the year.
Heard something about investment banks not hiring this year during the dinner with Bank Negara that night from a guy. He said something like sending in resumes for a few investment banks and one replied that... "We do not have any open positions for this year.", I can't recall the company, was that Merrill Lynch?
Whatever.
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