The Wannabe Economist

Hi Zhng

Happen to search on Swissotel Vertical Marathon & saw your name. I join this event in Yr2004. Guess you are kind who like to take challenges.

Coming in Nov11-12, there is a event called Let’s Take A Walk 3 (LTAW 3). It is a charity walk cum fund raising event for an elderly home called SWAMI. There are 3 categories, 100km-team , 50km-team & 10km-individual.

Guess you will form team to come experience walking round spore in less than 33hrs for the 100km. For more information, do check http://www.raleigh.org.sg/letstakeawalk

Btw there is an overnight walk training this weekend. Come & join us. Do help us to spread this event around.

Thank you & enjoy your wonderful week ahead.

Anyone keen to join the team cat for the full walk?

To my one and only toot toot kueh,

I is LOVE you, xu bao!

Manchi is famous!

Step 1:

Put about 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window.

Step 2:

Then send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door.

Step 3:

Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours and then analyze the situation.

• If they are counting the bricks. Put them in the accounts department.
• If they are recounting them. Put them in auditing.
• If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks. Put them in engineering.
• If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order. Put them in planning.
• If they are throwing the bricks at each other. Put them in operations.
• If they are sleeping. Put them in security.
• If they have broken the bricks into pieces. Put them in information technology.
• If they are sitting idle. Put them in human resources.
• If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has been moved. Put them in sales.
• If they have already left for the day. Put them in marketing.
• If they are staring out of the window. Put them on strategic planning.
• And then last but not least. If they are talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved.

Congratulate them and put them in top management

Well, my mom says I’m special on the inside…

Quoted from “John Tucker Must Die”

I think someone sang this song on Singapore Idol. I thought it was quite nice, but it didn’t stuck with me.

Then at TNW 2006 i heard this song again. And yes it stuck with Mrs Chongky and i for days.

Corrine Bailey Rae, “Put Your Record On”

They all say she is good. Even live.

Till It Happens to You

Like a Star

Trouble Sleeping

As we move on in life, priority changes.

Inevitable.

I have come to a stage where i should seriously give some real push in my studies. A budding economist i am, but i am sad to say that i don’t quite know economics. If you ask me about dance or maybe finance, i might be able to tell you more. But economics, i’m afraid not.

Wait a sec… i think i’m rather ok with game theory.

The thought of going to yr 3 in less than a year scares me. I strive to embark on senior thesis then, but judging from the state of my studies, i might as well do another 2 modules instead. At least i would graduate with a much better GPA. There simply no way for me to say i want to do senior thesis when i myself know that i’m in no state to do it.

I have been putting thoughts into my life. I try to weight things. There are just something that i don’t see good reason for me to continue doing. Things that i spent so many hours into it and get little in return. Since i began with the understanding that the returns are bad, i can’t complain. But i would expect better treatment.

It’s obvious to myself and many other that i get to do so much not because i am well-liked. But rather my implicit partner in crime is well-liked. Anything she gets i get a share. That’s how i get to where i am today.

Frankly i am rather sick of this. Not because i detest living under the shadow of someone. But i seriously think i deserve better treatment.

Not like this. Where i wasn’t informed of a lot of things. Knowing how thoughtful they can be.

I try to be good in everything i do. Think i have failed a couple of time.

For rugby, i have only played one inter-house game in JC and attended SRU prelim skills award course for teacher. Basically it introduces the basic coaching of rugby and it sort of qualify me to teach touch rugby to children behind 12.

For soccer, i had attended FAS referee training course and passed the exams. That was 2 yrs back. Till now i’m still pending my practical session and one yr of assistant referee experiment to be granted CAT 3 ref status.

I hate it when i didn’t see things through.

Need to lose some fats… urgently.

I’m starting to screw up my semester. I haven’t been listening in class, nor did i complete the assignment for submission.

Too tired. Too burnt out. I need a rest.

Judging for the agenda over the next few days, the rest might come later than i would like it to be.

Alrighty… going to bed now. A bit hungry… after working on CAT assignment.

I might still be sound asleep now, if Mrs Chongky didn’t do all sorts of funny things to wake me up from my nap.

I was agitated at being interrupted and wasn’t at my best mood… and i regretted that right after i woke up completely one hour later. By then Mrs Chongky is already asleep.

These two days of course and one entire week of studying is not joke.. fatigue has finally caught up with us.

I guess i need to get more rest… though looking at the time now it’s not that much anyway.

Long day ahead tomorrow. Course; dance; assignment; revision for quiz.