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hi, anybody wanna sell his/her acoustic guitar to me?

$250 is as far as im willing to go.


i need some music to soothe this frazzled mind.
come on guys, save a blog.

if u see this

happy birthday greg.


come back soon to celebrate!

next wed - mission.

hey guys,

mandy's velvet on wed.

if you're name is tan tan tan sim ng seow cai.
come. must wear dark colour. must look HAMSUM.
must buy PLAAASENT. must not publicly embarass the birthday girl.
okay guys?


side note: i know some of u hate/quit clubbing. so be gentlemen and inform her if u're not going okay? maybe your non-presence will free up the real estate in velvet for some other hot chick for the benefit of your fellow friends.

nei ge nei ge

hey guys,

have u guys recovered from your v-day sexcapades?
is there anything going on today?
dont shy leh. say say say.

do u see anything behind the smoke?

zhiguang we still miss you.

okay guys, here's some new years party pics.

Friday the ninth

thanks guys for all the laughs,

ppd blinking into trees, greg walking into pillars.
and jh oh jh. the classic.

"uncle four pork chop noodles and one zhu pa mian for me pls"
u guys rock.


love, -enigmatime

the things we can do with herd mentality

sentosa

guys guys guys

it's hard to get everyone free so please do try ok
Isaac and Jh can't make it on saturday so we try sunday
but i don't wanna waste sms sending out so just say whether you can make it or not
cai doesn't want to go unless everyone goes
so if sunday isn't a good day either, i don't mind just going with ian mark greg to toss a few

competition's coming up so let's try for gold instead of just playing for fun alright?
3 weeks.

challenge me
challenge accepted.

p.s. 3km warm up run

KKK

That's the in-thing running around my house these days. No, my family is not white-american. Neither are we racist. We don't discriminate, we merely differentiate. :)

Anyway, move aside Ku Klux Klan, there's a new Klan running the 'hood. Make way for Kitty Kat Klan.

Thank to my sis and her ingenious boyfriend, my new network is KittyKatKlan. Marvelous. Absolutely marvelous.

my lunch

my lunch for the day. maggi mee, hash brown topped with sio ba (roasted porku/babi/pok--rk house), some fruits.. and banana milk. and im eating alone.. while reading the book never eat alone.

australian open here i come

hey guys, frigging tennis game yday.
played like shit.
cannot do anything at all.
lucky my partner damn steady. win all the points for us whilst the opponents aim me.

anyway, that was at 10pm yday. at 1045, at 7-2 with my partner serving at advantage kr, the frigging lights went out.
now i gotta stay back for the continuation at 9 tonight. which totally spoils my schedule.


will be late if i meet u guys today. met up with isaac just now. he's seriously a chick magnet. bern if u read this, u're one of them.

the world according to (some) singaporeans

Found this on mrbrown and just thought it was really funny

wawaweewa

Jagshemash,

Today, I finally caught Borat. There's not many shows that will make me laugh in front of my computer but Borat made me laugh my balls off. It was so retarded (retired) that I'm embarrassed that I've watched it.

I'm still surprised that he's alive today and didn't get killed by those Americans for all the retired things he did. Sacha Baron Cohen is what you get when you rolled Johnny Knoxville and Rowan Atkinson together. He is honestly, a British Jackass. And he's got balls of steel. Respect.

So, from everyone here in Kazakhstan, I wish you all sexy time and enjoy many many romantic explosion. High five!

just us.

One meal a day

GENTLEMEN.....

Which portion is bigger? 2 $3 bowls of laksa? or 1 $4 bowl of laksa add hum ($1) add noodles ($1) to make $6 laksa?

I went for my career foundations class last week..and the tutor told us about a genuine case whereby an NTU undergrad was being interviewed by the MD of Goldman Sachs. The interviewer asked him "as the last question I would like to ask you what your friends think of you"

and you know what the fella said? he said "my friends think I'm God. because I know everything" He said it with a poker face. Up till now, 2 years after graduation, he still hasn't found a job.

Sigh, NTU's reputation is really going down the drain..filled with rapists, peeping toms, and msn password stealers threatening feeble girls for photos of their breasts, I wonder if there's anything I CAN DO to make NTU a better place.

Happy studying all..till friday when the shadows call again :)

can't sleep

Hi guys, I can't sleep. and its 5.56am.

Thought i would just do a bit of blogging, and let you guys know whats driving me these days. I really enjoy finance. No, not the money side, i mean wages do matter, but money is but temporal. you can't carry money into your grave. so thats not what i long for. I know you would know about this, but i dropped Geography in JC. it was my best subject and my favourite. I dropped it so i could hang on to my physics, which i felt was a safer choice.. I could go into engineering. wrong move. i liked physics, but it didnt bring me to engineering. During the army, i developed a love for presentations during my S2 training. I felt that talking to people is a skill, convincing people is a skill. But i was still lost. I didnt know what to do with my life, or what would happen after uni, all i knew was that i would go to smu.

In smu, FA (yes fa...) was the first finance topic i ever took. and guess what? i really enjoyed it.. Chua's finance also prodded me deeper into the world of finance. Not just finance, but corporate finance. I watched these shows, Family Man, Boiler Room, Wall Street and Barbarians at the Gates. Family Man was a show that showed nicholas cage as a senior investment banker in a boutique firm. All he cared about was work work and work. He would work on christmas and boxing day and everything. until one day, he woke up, and he found out he wasnt on his regular posh bed and room. he was a father with a family..

Boiler Room was about a young intelligent man who was conned into a firm trading scam stocks called JT Marlin. They would call up potential "whales", sold them huge amounts of stocks and the stocks would crash. Such things still happen in the markets nowadays btw.

Barbarians at the Gates is my all time favourite. It was about the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco. (They sell oreo cookies and a lot of other things). It was 1987 and Nabisco was facing a crisis. henry kravis from private equity firm KKR (kkr is the most prestigious PE firm in the world. super elitist) recommended the idea of an LBO to the CEO, Ross Johnson. henry kravis owned buyouts at that time. he was the one who created LBOs. However, Ross Johnson took his idea and banded a few friends (people from shearson lehman and amex) together and tried to buyout the company, without henry kravis. kravis launched into an allout offensive to bid for the firm and soon, a bidding war arose. I will leave the end out as we will be watching the show soon. (we = poh ian greg youyi flea) anyone else wanna watch let me know! sch library course reserve viewing room.

Anyway, to cut a long story short. My aim is to enter an investment banking firm as an anaylst. learn as much as i can, the rudimentaries of deal-making and valuation. talking to clients and how to pitch a convincing deal. after i've done learning, i want to move to a PE firm. possibly a firm like texas pacific or bain or even kkr. Im dreaming, i know. but i deserve to dream. Everyone deserves to have his own dream. Because only when you dream, then u know what you truly want.

alright, thats about all the details i can bore you with about my life. this is me. take it or leave it. thanks shaun and ian for dropping by my place tonight, it was a really good chat. felt like jc/eunos coffeeshop/lorong sarina/burnfoot terrace/jalan ishak/telok kurau once more. good night folks.

Random pics

heres some random pictures just to make this blog more colourful..

This was just yesterday. At the dinner after the cognitare business case challenge. It was a L'Oreal acquisition case. Pretty simple case, but we went kinda out of point. Thankfully we still made it to the finals.

Here is Felicia and Youyi. Also known as Flea and Josiah. The other 2 members in my team. Poh's missing cos he pangseh the dinner and go find lee...

This is Rachael Yamagata. I think shes really hot.

This was last year's christmas. I dont know why? but christmas always seems to pass so fast. faster than everything else. Maybe because christmas is the most enjoyable time of the year? and fun times always pass the fastest. - at the ugly/pretty/golden tree.

Finally. this is what i made for my new year's eve dinner with cell group. Potato Salad Italian style! A lot of effort and hard work went into this.. Anyways, parting note. About exchange matters next year, i really hope everyone will get to go to where they truly want to go. Italy, Spain, France whereever.. we can meet up in summer! or visit each other and can bunk in and save money.