The night rantings

Last day of class of the term. but guddamit, 2 days to exams. This 4 mths has truly been a great and enriching experience. MY gray matter feel challenged, although abit overly challenged with exams looming.

I have decided that when I speak with non-MBA people from now on, I should display the full value of my education by talking about decision tree, BATNA, regression, cost account and Porter's five forces. And when they give me the WTF you are talking about look, I should attempt to give them the snobbish: "Oh, don't you know look?" and proceed on to talk about rollbacks, zero coupon bonds, making them so frustrated until they believe my MBA education has made me smart. Although on the other hand, they could perveive me as a stoopid ediot who likes to throw around technical jargons to look smart. I should thoroughly insult their intelligence if they do not have an MBA for MBA are the smartest people and if they do not have an MBA from a higher ranked school then mine. And if they come from a higher ranked school like Harvard, I should proceed to diss the rankings system by saying that it was made by imperialistic americans who always ranked themselves first. Thus, everyone is stoopider than the students from Melbourne Business School. And if employers does not employ people from my class, I should proceed to predict that they will suffer the fate of Enron or Worldcom one day because they lack ethical and brilliant leaders. And if they do employ us, I should proceed to diss them for staying at their position as our bosses. They should know better to give up their positions once they hire us.

Okay, enough rantings. will rant more after the exams.

3 days to the dreaded exams. Argh. But good thing is that Group members for the BCG competition has been confirmed. Now begin the internal tear the other groups down and rip them to shreds to WIN!!!! whahahahahahaa. I am just excited to get the chance to pit our minds again one another in a consulting environment. Winning will just be a bonus.

So much work to do, so little time. Life of an MBA of is it a reflection of the rest of my life? Finally met up with career services. Can't say that their help will change my life, but hey at least I get some help in looking through my resume and stuff. Not perfect, but I wasn't expecting much from them. Hopefully it will get better with subsequent meeting coz the lady I met with seems quite nice.....

Looking forward to the break. "BREAK...... *Drool* Sleep, Alcohol,....... mmmmmmmm I can taste it although its still peppered with the bitter aftertaste of the impending exams.

I am so mentally drained, but the good news is that my marketing presentation went smoothly despite my brain being overclocked for the past couple of days trying to juggle the syndicate assignments. Enough of that..... lets talk abt other stuff rather than work

Went to a Lebanese restaurant with the food and wine cluband I have to say that the food was disappointing although the company of FT and PT students were excellent. But at least its another notch on the food tasting rod. We are going for Greek at Jimmy's Greek Tarven this Friday which I am really looking forward to. The Greek food there is .......mmmmmmmm...... It will be a great celebratory dinner for the end of assignments and a great way to tell myself to get my lazy butt in study for exam gear.

On the topic of errant syndicate grp members, I have heard so many horrid stories, abt ppl not carrying their weight, fights, misconducts, etc etc. Its a grim reminder that despite the fact that we are students, office politics still play a large role in a business school. And I guess to climb the ladder of success, one need to balance work, social and ethical considerations. But in all, I still think we have a fantastic class and I would not dream of going to another biz school.

OH yeah, there was a presentation by some of the graduating class who had found jobs. SAd to say, most found jobs in the same sector that they were previously from and stated that a total career switch would be difficult. But you know what, I am hope to prove them wrong. I believe, therefore I can and I will make a successful career transition. I live my life the way I want it, I value people inputs but U can all kiss my A** if you expect me to go down without a fight. If I am to fall to the monster of conformity, I will spit it in the eye before I even sacrifice my hopes for money, status and prestige. Come to think of it, I can spare the hard fight if I am just paid a humongous signing bonus, a zippy company car, nice penthouse and two cute secretaries in mini skirts. Wait, make that three secretaries, one for the breakfast shift, one for the lunchtime shift and one for the dinner shift.... I am a hardworking man. :)

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Received news this morning that my cousin and long time friend has passed away at the age of 28. He was discovered by the police by the roadside in his car, and was pronounced dead by the time he reached the hospital. the diagnosis was heart attack.

No one knew he had a heart condition. All we knew that he has high blood pressure. Although I worked in a geriatric hospital for a short while and are used to seeing such things. When someone close to you leave in such circumstances still hit me pretty bad.

I am once again reminded of the fragility and unpredictability of life. Rest in peace my friend. I am sorry that I cannot have that dinner with you when I go back.

Too tired to write anymore. Will post more on errant syndicate group members stories when I am in better shape and mood.

The syndicate work, plus the exam just over the horizon. Its like when I was running 10km or the 30km full battle order route marches when I was in the army. The last few km is always the hardest. But you head forward knowing the end is nigh.

But oh well, at least my syndicate group is harmonious. We get along well and Sally baked us muffins today. This is in stark contrast of the horror story I heard where one group member turned up late for 3hours becoz the person was out partying til 7. And upon arrival did nothing constructive but suggested lunch. And tt same person left earlier becoz of other committments. It makes me feel blessed to be in a syndicate group where everyone works.

Going to do some major shopping tomorrow for the international food festival. Yupz, I am setting up a stall selling ice cream sandwiches (the kind with bread where we eat in Singapore), ice cream floats and maybe sundaes.

And yeah, the immigration lawyer I went to see was an idiot. Made me wait for 40 mins before coming in and spoke to me for 2 min that I do not have enough points. Can't he do that over email when I sent him the assessment a week ago? Now I understand why my friend was so frustrated when he speaks with the lawyers. They are complete morons. If I think I have enough points, would I still need a consultation from you? I am freaking taking a post grad and I can read instructions from the website on my own. So if you cannot do what I can check on my own, what good are you for? stupid lawyers!

Well, Its one more month of very hard work but also another month to freedom!