These days, the side of my cubicle is better known as Wall Street. The other day, after a group speculative purchase of the stock F, we calculated that we were holding nearly close to half a million dollars of the stock itself. We said in jest that we could hold our own AGM here ( Read more... )

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Dinner and Dance UOB 2007

Hilarious affair. All of us were given $50 to rent costumes. Most of the bank went on the theme of Chinese dynasty wear but my group were made to dress like Cowboys! which is really the better of the two. So here are the pictures.

Me and Nick


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snow man in Singapore


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Caught a rainbow on the 1st day of the year.


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2006 is easily the best year I've had since 2001. I can't remember much of the years between 2001 to 2003 except the fact that I was denied my place in the honours program (on hindsight, getting out of school earlier was a really good thing) and the prolonged emotional mess I was in, which I must add was absolutely unnecessary for personal growth.

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Another day of mulling over my stock losses. It has been like this for the last few weeks. The $50 loss has by now ballooned into a $5000 deficit and I wonder if I have learnt anything new.

Sold too early, bought too late. Either ways, I seem to be always on the wrong side of things. My colleague, B, said "maybe you should be my reference point. ( Read more... )

I straightened up and looked out of the window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of all I had lost in the course of my life: times gone for ever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again

- Norwegian Woods
Haruki Murakami

We did an impromptu photoshoot that morning. Baby had a new haircut and she looked as ruffled as Peking. As Baby is born in the year of the dog, I've always joked that I have two puppies in the house. On the other hand, Baby would say that she has two Leos in the house as Peking is born in the month of August as well ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot lately about the direction of the global markets. Just where are we heading and how long will this euphoria last ( Read more... )