Ivan Seah

Cineleisure. I am penning down my thoughts while waiting for Lyn to fit her dress.

Results day has always been special for me, today’s is different, it’s up another notch – I have graduated! Results were better than expected. Moderation indeed played a huge role in making that happen. Today is also Dads birthday; what’s more, Yusheng now has the license to trade! What more could we ask? Everything at the moment seems to be falling well in place for our clique. Kai Chong’s high risk move to complete two exams within a fraction of the allocated time paid off. Damian just finished his 3D2N honeymoon at Perth and is home bound on the plane now as we speak, I’m wishing him best, I believe he’ll do well. He will be surprised I’m sure.

Secondly, I’m very grateful to the members of BLP for their first class hospitality extended to Jianlong and myself. I have imposed much hassle on them with (1) the late night illegal dumping mission; (2) a 5D4N stay because my house was scheduled to be vacated five days in advance prior to my departure date; and finally (3) them seeing me off to the airport despite carrying a huge burden of vacating their own house in mind. Here’s a big thank you to them.

I will continue when I get home, no promises, I tend to lose the kick to blog when I’m home.

She didnt like calling out to a rabbit that doesnt respond, Mum bought a dog!  I felt very very relieved after having taken the Options mid-sem examinations.  It was formatted in such a way,  the three hour paper consisted of 30MCQs and one short question; the exam weights 40% of my course mark.  I will gun ACF next.

Moments like these are not to miss.  The first is a double rainbow.  The second, contains heavy clouds in hues of orange, as though heaven split its divine palette of colours on accident.

It is once again the end of a week with much accomplished.  Yesterday was fun filled because we went for ktv, had korean food for dinner, and watched public enemies before calling it a night – well some of us did, but not all – the lions had poker programme at on-going till the wee hours.

On the movie: Mr Damian Lim slept half way through with his chipped contact lenses mid-way through the show (a hardworking man needs his share of rest too, is it not?), he gave the show a 7.5/10.  Bin was very kind to accomodate four behind on his skyline, he rated the show 8/10.  Chong, dissatisfied, could not get over the death of John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), hurled non-stop curse at Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale), who was an FBI agent appointed to lead a manhunt for Dillinger.  As a J.D fan, and this being a real life story, I gave it an 8/10 because the show has successfully immensed the audience into Dillinger’s love and felon.

Onward within the next two weeks will be the grand arrival of Mr Lee Yusheng for his convocation.  Till then.

King George told me, “The rain will fall, the grass grow green, and life will begin again”

I teared three times in this movie. Its two and a half hours long, it original, its 5/5.

This will be my new lunch for most of the semester, fast-to-cook nice to eat, no msg organic Ramen!

It is a gloomy Sunday; there is only rain.  I went to Caroline’s house this afternoon to have my International version of ‘Options, Futures & Other Derivatives’ checked against the prescribed Australian textbook, thankful to find that only one chapter is mismatched.

It is a wonderful way to welcome the beginning of our last semester.  Kai Min and I had our first experience of Yumcha in Sydney.  I was surprised how big the restaurant was when I first went in.  The food from the waitresses’ trolleys came in fast and furious albeit quite disappointingly, some were served cold.  Nonetheless, I was personally very satisfied with the quality of food served; except one, of which Kai Chung ate what seemingly looked like a chunk of beef lung and spat it out gracefully.  $106 was the bill for four.

We had our own affairs after lunch: Damian and I to school, KC and KM to window shop around city.  Our bus ride from city reached 10mins before 2pm, which is the closing hours of the school bookstore on a Saturday thereby allowing Damian to claim and purcahse  the pre-ordered Appliced Corporate Finance textbook.  Whilst waiting, I worked my camera on a tree along the facade of the Australian School of Business, of which I felt the former represented the latter – in the sense the tree providess an identity for ASB.  We studied with Jamie in the library of Law for 4hours.  We then called it a day.

The update will be ridiculously short. We sang a well worth 5.5 hours ktv session for AUD$12 yesterday. Food – dinner at the Korean-Japanese hybrid restaurant wasn’t up to my expectations. Movie – if not for Krispy Kreme – “Drag me to hell” would have had sucked even more. My rating is for that movie: 1/5.

I came across an article on CNBC and found an interesting fact worth sharing:

• Oil has historically traded at 8x to 10x the price of natural gas;
• One of the reasons it usually stays within that range is the law of physics: On a thermal basis, it takes roughly six times the amount of oil to generate the same amount of heat as natural gas;
• Prices as of 17 July 2009 shows that oil is going for a hefty 17x the price of natural gas, far outside the historical norm;

Therefore,either oil is overvalued right now, or natural gas is incredibly cheap.

“Commodity traders, rejoice!”

I woke up the second time today. The first, hunger woke me up 4am this morning, ate fruity loops without milk and went back to sleep two hours later. I missed dinner entirely, as a result of jet lag fatigue. I got back with milk from the mart not long ago, decided to run through my wallet for ticket/receipt waste, and found this name card from Anthony, of whom I sat with throughout my flight back to Singapore last semester. We know talk is cheap, his wasn’t. I went to his corporate website and checked his profile: http://www.talbotolivier.com.au/people/consultants/anthony-kain

Honored, i so felt.

Gonna jet, 1230 @ QVB for fish market. Good luck to those in their job hunt after graduation!

Post-exam activities:

1. Yusheng, Damian and I had our suits tailored at Pennisula (Damian’s recommendation).
2. Chng and I settled for chicken rice in place of the  unfound MacPherson Kway Chup stall.
3. UNSW peeps had a short gathering at Levina’s house at Tanglin, super fun, super big, super late.
4. First ktv experience in the Ten Dollar Club at HomeTeamNS, where we coincidentally met Yusheng and witnessed his bowling prowess. Despite feeling weary from the late night activity, we stopped by Thomson’s prata house for supper.  Amer, Brendan, Damian’s cousin was quick and funny welcome arrival of a sexy babe.  He exclaimed loudly,”WOAH” when she alighted from her friends car.  HAHA.  Brendan, Damian’s elder bro shared the same sentiment.  Damian said,”Jellies in a lousy plastic bag”.  He did not comment further.  Thanks for the bangbus ride guys!
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