some updates

have been back to sunny and humid singapore for 1 week alr. nice to be back as i get to see my family, dear, and my frens again ha. home is still e best as we are surrounded by our loved ones. tt’s why i will never consider relocating for good. on e other hand, [...]

farewell dinner

3 more days and it’s time to leave london. so fast! 3 weeks training is really too short man. how nice if it is 3 mths. haha. but of cos, 3 weeks is still much better than nth huh.
after our ops training today, we met up with other asians from equities to hav a farewell [...]

lion king musical

managed to buy discounted tix yest for lion king musical tonight! haha. each tix was only 19.50 pounds, which was quite a bargain. or at least it was within our budget.
so jus now after class, we went straight to covent gardens for e show. was running late, so jus anyhow grabbed a sandwich from a [...]

edinburgh getaway

had been thinking of gg to edinburgh to spend a weekend even before we left singapore for london. but it was only a few days ago tt we gt down to booking e transport and accomodation! ha. almost decided to cancel e plan as a colleague said tt it was freaking cold in scotland and it [...]

last day of business fundamentals training

yea today was e last day of our business fundamentals training. for e past 2 weeks, we hav had learnt, or rather relearnt, e basic finance concepts, played a trading simulation game and taken 2 exams! we jus had our 2nd exam this morn, after only abt 4 hrs of sleep. shagged man, worse than [...]

sunday outing and mugging

last sunday morn was spent at buckingham palace. or rather, outside e palace haha.
there was e change of guards parade at 11.30am, so we reached there at abt 10plus 11 to try to get a gd spot. it was really crowded and our spots werent really fantastic. but well, it was kinda disappointing cos there [...]

circus skills on fri and outlet shopping on sat

e first part of training was over and we will b having our first exam this coming mon! training so far was okie. learnt abt basics of financial mkts, stats, probability, accounting etc. and also hav to play some trading simulation game in teams of 3 or 4 ppl. but it was kinda tiring to [...]

2nd day of training

first half of today’s training was another series of talks by guest speakers ha. it was being held at UBS office at finsbury avenue, actually pretty close to e office we went to yest. breakfast was provided and so we had some coffee and pastries. nt bad at all.

today’s talks were on personal branding and [...]

training has officially started

training officially started yest and all e graduates gathered at UBS office at 100 liverpool street at 11plus am.
first thing to do was to collect our per diem! yes we were given allowance to support e high cost of living in london ha. shiok man, was richer by 315 pounds. but well, that is like [...]

another day in london

today was our 2nd day in london. it was a beautiful slp yest and i slept till 9.30am or so. had some breakfast of digestive biscuits and apple, then met up with e rest at 10.30am. first activity: notting hill carnival! it was one of e biggest carnivals in london and it happened to b [...]