So I have chosen my PA company.. I hope god bless me and all my friends.. and that all of us will be able to get what we chose..

It was a fun and wide variety of companies that all of us had chosen.. from the prestigious PWC to giantic coy General Electrics.. from 'first' in industry.. Pioneer Ltd.. to people having star dreams and applying for Mediacorp radio and tv. it's such a big, fun, and funny variety..

As for me.. I chose Apollo Management and ARB AMRO.. two companies which were not in my first choice until today..

Up to today.. I was looking and thinking about the two different routes that I can take.. one is the accountancy one.. and the other is the investment line.. It actually din take me very long.. because deep inside, I knew that I was more interested in the investment line.. so despite all the facts about PWC being a practical choice and that I should try to enter there now and get a standing in the coy, since it is the most likely choice that I might take in the future, I did not put it down. i also sacrificed Credit Swiss because I think that i am not learnt enough to go into their equity valuation department, and will probably suffer there as a result, especially since I had not taken the investment module. And for the other departments, they were not within my interests too..

Apollo is an asset management company.. and their demands isn't as great.. that's the simplest reason for me to choose this company.

As for AMRO.. it came as a surprise.. but when I took a look at them, I really like the fact that they were putting interns through a product development project, which includes taking a look into the market risk and current prices of products.. and giving them a chance to come into contact with real-life product valuation.. and they have a well-structured 10-weeks course for it..

As a good friend says to me.. follow your heart.. it will never go wrong.. (den my gd fren pang seh me).. haha but true enough.. I wun have regret missing out on PWC, Credit Swiss, Royal Bank of Scot. (HH I din tua u!), National Aust Bank.. I wun regret my choices!


On another note.. as I was with weilong in weichee and lingling's room.. I suddenly had a kind of feeling.. a kind that I never really felt with friends before.. that.. we feel like a family.. not just the 4 of us.. but that.. amount the whole group of us.. I actually feel that we are like a real family.. that we are so comfortable with one another now.. really nice feeling..

And on a last note.. it was nice meeting up with 21 brothers last weekend.. haha esp ALVIN CHEW who wanted to defriend me because i never posted his name on my blog.. hahaha stupid idiot!!!! really wanted to play soccer with u last wkend de la.. but got something on ma.. i will show u robinho's skills soon k? haha.. and grats jacky.. i am.. really.. really happy for u.. grats for being so clear.. for being able to identify and think logically at a time when we both struggled.. and now you are sowing the rewards of ur choice.. grats.. n i really look forward to this jun.. =)! jiayou ah!!!...

Derrick aka "handsome boy"

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