First summer coming to an end...

As much as I've hated, Summer is coming to an end soon.. It is the time for me to close my chapter for this summer break and to open another chapter for the coming term.

After my trip to Sri Lanka, I went for my internship in Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). As much as I want to talk about the work that I was doing, I should watch what I'm saying because I'm warned that they are confidential.. However, I must say that I have enjoyed myself during this duration, doing things that I've not done so far in my life and making a lot of friends and seniors from SMU and NTU. Apparently, I'm the only Year 1 (To be in Yr2) during this summer internship.

I must admit that there are times that I've regretted to take internship so early, but overall I feel great about it because I've learnt a lot, both technical and soft skills. I get to do programming, get to work with biometric and cryptography, get to organize events, get to .... But most importantly, I get to know my personality better. Healer(Idealist) & Architect(Realist). Sometimes I really wonder how come my personality can conflict so much. But I'm pretty proud of both personality.

BOSS bidding during holiday is quite amazing.. Although it is not the first time that I've started bidding, it is still very challenging because there are so many factors to consider and each BOSS is definitely a different experience. Like what my friends have said, I should do an analysis programme to decide the bid amount, but there are so many factors to consider! Probably I should learn from my friend to use regression model to decide the bid.

The internship has finally ended.. Manage to ask for leaves to go for Asoc Camp and SISS Camp. I kinda regretted to take internship this year. I could not help much in these interesting camps. And also, it is super troublesome to apply for leaves... No-pay leaves somemore! Fortunately, I'm still able to go for the camps, at least. Help to take photos and do up a video during Asoc Camp and help as a gamemaster during SISS camp... I must say the quality of both camps have improved tremendously compared to last year one. I'm really impressed by them.

Just came back from Chow's wake... It was super shocking for everyone to learn that he has died due to a car accident just yesterday. I've just met him in school yesterday when he just came out from Asoc Day interview... Life is so unpredictable & fragile... Most of his friends were there at the wake and I'm amazed to see so many people gather at such a very short notice.. Chow is a good guy and he has contributed a lot of fun and laughter in school. We'll always remember him.

Probably I should stop now and continue next time. There are so many things that I want to talk about for this summer.. Yap! I have 2 more weeks to do that. Let's do it this way.

Top 10 Things I miss in Sri Lanka

I have enjoyed my stay in Sri Lanka during this Project Alchemy trip.. I'm very glad that the project is still able to pull through even though there are some notions of LTTE suicide bombing in Colombo on the day when wenduan and me, the recce team, reached the place.

Just had a msn chat with the team.. After some reflection, I do miss many things that have happened during the trip. Probably I should just list the top 10 of them, not in any order:

1) Friendly Sri Lankans
2) Food and Tea
3) 5 Litre Water Bottles and Cream Soda
4) Intellectual Games
5) Cementing and Painting
6) Sri Lankan Language
7) Beach
8) Tropic Inn
9) Three Wheelers and Traffic
10) Facilitation Sessions

Will be updating them during my free time..

Asoc Gala Dinner 2006

After weeks of preparation, Asoc Gala Dinner has finally come to an end... This is my first time helping out in such event and I have learnt a lot of this. Through this event, the Asoc Exco has become closer.

The dinner is a pretty decent one and I find it as a good gathering for everyone in the School of Accountancy family. After clearing up the place at Noble house, I went to Esplanade to join my friends who left after the dinner. It is a good chilling moment, at least for me, after weeks of struggling in school and projects.

Most of us have our plans for summer after this dinner. Some are going to take summer terms, some are going abroad, some are going to work and more. Going to Sri Lanka soon the next morning. It really sets me what I want to do for this Summer break.