citibank FX challenge 2008

last fri was a big big day for me.. it wasn't exceptionally fun but it was definitely an overwhelming experience.



in the last lesson of the day, tififi n i played with the new camera during TA lect.. poor BC Low, hv been getting lousy attendance ever since he finished with the charts n started theory lessons like "trader's mentality". lol!



as it was friday, there was the usual friday gang gathering... this time at spgg's ktv room. $28 per room inclusive of 12 drinks n unlimited tidbits. awesome right?! the female server was v smiley so she made me smiley too! but the guy server looked perpetually pissed n kept harrassing us for our admin cards. we r really sp students ma! irritating! =(



i was taking the photo n tiffany left to talk to some pool manager whom she owes $$ to. wahahaha!

[frm left: cheeleng, jessica, sengwang, junhong]

soon aft, weiying ended her minister's dialogue so tiff n i left to meet her.. by then, we were pretty late for the smu briefing of the citibank challenge tt chris cheong selected us to represent sp for.

sp in total sent quite a no. of teams n said teacher thread on quite alot of toes to get us there.. anyway, i'm grateful he fought so hard for our interests although he kinda forgotten abt the losers which upset me quite abit. sobs. who said winning wasn't impt?



the briefing was boring but educational i suppose. its sorta like yet another FO lect!!! n the dinner was just plain, old sandwiches... anyway, on our way back to cityhall, tiff n i got pretty lost n we stumbled upon the lights festival at the art museum..



the light changes... pretty hur?

anyway, we hopelessly lead ourselves to dhoby ghaut station (we didn't even know we were lost until we saw dhoby gaut instead of cityhall).. 0_o" anyway, i met up with junhong who was really sweet to send me hm, it being the 1st day of the 7th mth n all... we also sorta got into a small dispute for which i'm really sorry. but i dunno if it matters much now.. sighs.

in case u need to know, i didn't sleep tight or well at all.

got up moody but still had to drag my body to cityhall to meet jerry since all the 05 girls were in the 7.30am shift. we hurriedly made our way down to millenia walk just in time for chris cheong's emergency briefing n the start the 10.30am competition...



the game involved buying n selling of 3 different currencies of fictatious countries in accordance to fluctuating news broadcasts. the prices moved super fast as in real forex trading n it helped tt i had a gamer partner whose eyes n hands moved so fast n so in-sync it shocked me.

perhaps tt was the main reason why our profit of $732k clinched us the 3rd place in our round n a place in the finals. *proud*

n by total coincidene, i met weiming at starbucks. yups, it was surprising as some may know, we hv eased off the daily smsing for quite some time already. but my new hair got positive comments again. so cheeleng, i not aunty hor!!! :P

oh wells, i didn't win the competition but sp did take hm alot of awards including the acknowledgement as the best performing sch... winning all the other polys n more notably, the 3 local unis too! (3rd-10th placings were all finance students which made chris cheong rather happy.)

but in his happiness, he neglected the ppl who failed to emerge victorious n jerry was pretty crushed so i was left alone amidst happy ppl, feeling quite sorry for myself. i called a gazillion ppl but none were free to spend time with me except darren who took me to imperial treasure for xiao long baos n sent me hm before the ndp preview crowd cld flock the mrt stations. THANKS DEARIE!!!



on monday, 4th aug 2008, my paper published this... the circled bit is me! haha.. i know cannot really see lah.. but it really is me hor! this was round 2 n i was sitted at the lucky bank 6. =D