What I've been doing for the whole semester...

Journal articles reading... Imagine reading the boring papers... it just keep you asleep.... plus you gotta keep the reference.. and summarise some papers... and you tend to forgot which important point is from which papers... Modigliani and Miller (1958), Jensen (1986), Easterbrook (1984), Shleifer and Vishny (1997), Rozeff (1982), Miller (1985), Lintner (1956), Warther (1993). Nguyen and Harada (2001), Dewenther and Warther (1998), .....
Calculations... Econometrics is never easy... regressions models... binomial distributions... maximum likelihood... time series model... cross-sectional models... estimating equations.... White test... heteroskedasticity... auxilliary regressions.... Granger causality test... univariate time series model.. Ramsey test... Jacque Bera test...

Presentation preparation...Reading and understanding... It's even harder when you gotta expressing your thoughts on something you don't know... i hate presenting academics paper.... I don't even understand the methodology they used to prove the tests.... and i tend to get caught up on the questions from the lecturer...

Proofing... Never ending proofing... Taylors expansions... utility functions... Allias paradox... derivations... two fund separations... absolute risk aversion... stochastic dominance.. value function...portfolio frontier... law of iterated expectations... Jensen's inequality... Von Neumann-Morgenstern Expected Utility.... Zero beta Capital Asset Pricing Model... Arbitrage Pricing Theory... One Factor Model..

Graduation

Some updates on Graduation Day!!
Malaysian gang... Emporio, millenium, landmark and ex-windsor...
5 graduated on thursday... from left, lay peng, jenna, khaishien, jenai and mew...
Housemates and graduates...
from left, harvey, me, peggy, pancy, kelly, keith.
Malaysian gang..... @ UTS Tower building. ..

thank god.

got my results back today.
the lecturer is really kind and generous!
one of the 4 questions that i thought i'll be getting 0/25, he gave 4/25.
and i got a total of 74/100, while average was 75/100 for 7 people in the class.
wasn't that bad, right? haha... kinda relieved.... dont know why i worried so much!
but the lecturer said he was kinda disappointed on my result as he expected much higher.
well well... gotta do better next time lor.. cant help with my bodoh-ness ma.... :P

btw,
its GRADUATION DAY today!
many friends from Malaysia came back for graduation.
rushed to tower building right after class at 5pm to take photos with some friends.
and rushed back to class again at 6pm...
it's good to see everyone dressing up for graduation.
flowers, teddy bears and testimonials everywhere...
and the weather is cooling n windy... which is good.
hahaha....
will have some photos update soon! :)

Busy May

7 May - Research Proposal on Corporate Governance due.
8 May - Applied Portfolio Mgmt 3000 words individual assignment due.
12 May - Referee Report due.
15 May - Presentation on Corporate Social Responsibility.
20 May - Econometrics Quiz 4.
23 May - Econometrics Assignment due.
29 May - Presentation on Advanced Corporate Finance AND Financial Decision Under Uncertainty Assignment 2 due.
6 June - Applied Portfolio Mgmt Optimizer Assignment 3 due.
7 June - Applied Portfolio Mgmt Final Exam.
10 June - Econometrics Final Exam.
12 June - Financial Decision Under Uncertainty Final Exam.

Haihh.... finals right after assignments... and we don't even have a study break!

Egg hunting

my blog seems to be TOO depressing recently.
let's put some color on it...!!
hahaha.... it had been a while but these are the pictures during easter egg hunting last month...
which is my last outing with MASA...
and we accidentally wore just red and black... haha... what a coincidence!

Stupid me.

I thought it had been a week and I should be okay with it. But, I still cant get rid of the hard feelings abt the stupid mistake I've done for my midterm exam after attending today's class. Attending the lecture and looking at the lecturer just made me recall that day and that question. I'm sure i can get 20/25 out of the ques if I was to do it now.

and this........ really hurts, because the truth is I'm getting 0/25.

A friend of my class told me that, "People made silly mistake. Some people made silly mistake like drop off a train and died. Your mistake is nothing. Don't kill yourself for that. "

Haha... I know its really not worth thinking abt something that had already occured. Life still goes on. But I just can't help to think abt it whenever I saw Taylors expansion (Its a mathematical term which is my stupid mistake for the exam and it tends to appear everywhere in the textbook) in the rest of the chapters.

It's just too hard to accept me being SO stupid and silly.

That question was so easy! Why did I think of it in such a different way??!!??!!

What's the point of studying so hard and barely get a pass? Geez... I don't even know if I can pass it. What should I do if I really fail it? Then, my honours gone. and I can fly back malaysia during the break and never come back.

God. Please help me to get rid of this stupid feelings. I need to go on!!!!!

Still got a research proposal and a 3000words assignment due next week.

Sh*t!