24th birthday in phuket

it was a much awaited short getaway to phuket with dear, from 14-17 nov. our air tix from air asia cost $360, while hotel at mercure patong was abt $300 (3 nights, no breakfast). air asia flight was great! it flew from terminal 1, it was on time, e flight was smooth and e crew [...]

dialogue in the dark

some budget is set aside every yr for grad connection events, with e aim of connecting graduate trainees of both IB and WM of each batch. yest was our batch’s first grad connection event. supposed to b a BBQ, but due to e potential bad weather at this time of e year, e event was [...]

turning 24 soon

in another week’s time, i will be one year older. yest went shopping at ION orchard with dear. cos she wanna get me a casual bag for bday present ha. we reached there at abt 5plus pm. we had heard gd reviews abt e takoyaki and decided to give it a try. joined e long queue and [...]

FXMM Ops BBQ

last sat our dept had our annual teambuilding event. actually nt so much of teambuilding la, more of jus a gathering for e whole FXMM operations dept. abt 20 ppl turned up at e BBQ event held at command hse, our wealth mngt campus. my 2nd time there, but was still in awe of e [...]

IPPT cleared for 2009

had been dragging my ass and delayed taking my IPPT till now. window closing in 2 weeks so i mus die die go and clear it. woke up at 6.15am to make it for e 7.30am session at maju camp. now e static stations are no longer in e multi purpose hall, they hav been [...]

UBS dragons at 10th CCG

today is e big day for our dragonboat team. for e past few mths, we hav been training hard every sat jus for today’s corporate community games (CCG). we reached bedok reservoir at 8plus am and e whole place was full with ppl from diff corporate teams. gt barclays, bank of america, RBS, exxon mobil, [...]

new gadget

hav always been wanting to buy a GPS for e car cos i am really bad with direction. i only noe how to go to e usual places. many times, i took e long way jus to get to those unfamiliar destinations. at other times, i couldnt even get to e places i wanted to [...]

another weekend

after working late (ok 8plus pm may nt b considered late for some, but it is definitely late for me! ha) everyday last week, weekend was very much look-forward to! sat, as usual, was spent dragonboating in e morn. then off to meet JC pals for lunch. didnt noe there exist this place called teachers’ [...]

overtime

e past few days had been working till 8plus pm. goodness. how tiring man. and thus i only get to eat dinner at 9plus everyday, kinda sad huh. suddenly gt quite alot of work to b done cos one of my colleagues was on vacation. yr end is like tt, everyone starts clearing their leave [...]

a lazy sunday

weekend always seems to come very slowly but pass very quickly. today is sunday already so fast. yest morn was spent dragonboating, as usual. 2 more trainings to corporate community games (CCG) race! though we hav trainings every sat, our performance is still not very satisfactory. dunno we can beat our competitors in e heats [...]

the lure of plastic

i am nt referring to plastic surgery, if tt is wad u are thinking ha. i’m referring to another plastic – credit cards. before grad, i hav been wanting to apply for credit cards. tt is one of e things on my to-do list when i start earning money. 3 mths into my job, i hav since [...]

my first traffic offence

how sian. i was slapped with a $70 fine for making unauthorised u-turn. my first traffic offence, and i hope it will b my last as well ha. $70 gone like tt very heartache man. $70 can b much better spent on topping up my fuel tank (still gt change lo), a rather nice dinner [...]

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 [...]