Monday, June 29, 2009
"Once you pop, you can't stop. Unless you're the king of pop." -- Peter Helliar
I know it's rather insensitive to make a joke of someone's death, but this was just too good to resist? To be honest I never thought I'd live to see the day MJ dies. I guess that was pretty naive of me, since many great singers die before they should.
Anyway, exams are over!! I've been catching up on little nonya, the singapore hit drama series from last year. It is such a roller coaster ride of emotions, I often find myself shouting at the TV. But I guess it's a singaporean thing right? We all grew up watching those channel 8 7pm drama serials. I miss singapore.
Dan
12:50 pm
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
2 more days to the end of exams!! Why haven't I been prepared for this!! But I guess its a good thing. How have the exams been? Alright. I've sat for 3 papers already, and I have a hunch that I will not be doing as well as I expected, but I'm surprisingly not as depressed as I thought I would be because as it turns out, everyone had the same problem! I was commenting to my friend after today's paper, that it's the first exam in uni, that I've left at least 1 question blank in all exams so far. I wish it was because I ran out of time, but sadly it is because I didn't know how to answer the question. Singapore mentality is screaming just write something, but you have to know where to start at least.
Also, I have a strange feeling that the dean sent a memo to all lecturers to set this years papers harder, because they have not been anything like the past years. I guess its not like the lecturers have any obligation to set similar papers, hence I'm preparing for the worse on Thursday where I'm expecting a hard paper.
Having said that, there is some therapeutic feeling I have studying economics. It just flows. I don't know how to explain it, but I would be more than happy to explain bidding strategies in auctions. It's a sad life I know, but economics is interesting!! I was looking through the economic subjects offered to third year students, and I wished I could take it all. Well, not all I guess, but definitely more than my fair share. I mean how fun would it be to study regional economics, health economics, behavioral economics, environmental economics, social economics, labour economics, history of economic thought!!! Sadly, I'll just have to be satisfied with experimental economics and industrial economics. If only I didn't do a double major, I would expend all my modules on every economic subject available.
Just a random thought, the uni should award me extra marks for my motivation toward economics. Sadly, incentive compatibility constraint will say otherwise, and that my motivation to study economics is enough, such that the lecturers need not provide any incentives to induce me to want to study economics. So by this logic, I should reveal that I have no motivation to study economics, and get the uni to pay me to study!! Ok, back to studying.
Dan
11:28 pm
Sunday, June 21, 2009
One more week of exams!! I'm quite thankful that my last two papers are the subjects that I'm more comfortable with. Though I must say that after studying all that finance, I found myself a bit thrown off economics when I came back. Does that make any sense at all??
The holidays are coming! And I can't wait, there are so many things to do. Trips to plans, musicals to see, things to clean. I've been putting it all off till the holidays, and I think it'll be interesting to see just how much of it all will be done during that one month.
And for everyone who thinks that life is boring, go to swap-bot.com and you will discover this whole new world of... well I don't know how to describe it, but I think it's pretty fascinating. Just a step in the door to my understanding of how girls can spend so much time on the computer/internet and not touch a computer game at all.
Dan
12:21 am
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
I was reading the Straits Times, and they were covering a story on the latest cases of Swine flu in Singapore. I feel terribly sorry for the whole family whose day activities was broad casted to the nation. I know that the flu is contagious, but I think that the family should at least have the right to contact those whom they were in contact with, rather than have it plastered across the national paper.
Having said that, I can't believe how irresponsible that family is, taking the flight after showing symptoms (Singaporean mentality speaking). Does everybody think that they are immune to Swine? Like out of the millions of people what are the odds of getting the flu?? Then again, if it were me, I would have done the same thing. After all, job and school are so important in Singapore, it's hard to imagine anything that can ever change that. Even during SARS, and the schools were closed, people were out enjoying the free day. But that was not the aim of closing schools!!! It was to keep you home.
Sigh...
Dan
11:37 am
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Random thoughts going through my head whilst studying for corporate finance. Ok, maybe not so random, since they've been provoked by several stuff.
Swine flu!!! Melbourne!!! Sometimes I think that people have a higher chance of getting the Swine in a plane on the way back from Melbourne than staying in Melbourne itself. Which is why I'm not traveling anywhere on a plane this winter. Also, I don't think the government is too smart quarantining anyone the moment they show symptoms of the Swine. I may not have the Swine but after being quarantined for a fever and muscle ache with others who have the Swine, the end result maybe that I have the Swine. Wow, that's a lot of Swine for one sentence.
Graduation!!! I've been slogging my ass off for almost 2 and a half years now trying to get ready for honours, and when the crossroad is finally round the corner, I'm starting to think if that's what I really want. Of course right now I say that if I'm offered I will definitely take it, but whose to say that will remain the status quo in 6 months time? The thought of working is strangely enticing. Or maybe its the thought of study that has now become seemingly repulsing. I think I'll make a great honours student though, so Melb uni quickly offer me that place before you lose me to the working world!!!!!!!!
These are the effects of pressure studying for exams.
Dan
10:20 pm
Sunday, June 07, 2009
I hate my neighbours. They don't understand that in Australia walls are made of some kind of wood that allows you to hear what goes on in the other apartment, and they play their music so loud!! Especially those people with those 5 speaker sound systems. Just my luck for getting such irritating neighbours. Or perhaps God is trying to teach me to love my neighbours in a very literal way.
On another note, swine flu!! You can't go anywhere without hearing it now. A cough, a sneeze, and you'll be given the stares. I'm surprised it took my parents this long to call and realise how bad the situation is here. I guess news travels slower than swine flu does. And, I'm shocked that the Melbourne state officials refuse to accept the fact the Melbourne is in bad shape, and criticise other states and countries who ask people returning from Melbourne to quarantine themselves. They want to blame it on dumb luck.
What can I say? I think I better start thinking of a plan in case someone in the exam hall coughs or sneezes near me.
Dan
12:19 am