KPMG...

Attended a tea session hosted by KPMG at hyatt hotel today. Felt quite nervous cause it's quite a "da chang mian" to me, cause i'm a kampong boy. Felt dwarfed by the super smart ppl around me (ppl like ivan and huang jie) and of course, the numerous partners, directors of KPMG in the room. Not to mention that the soon-to-be MANAGING partner of KPMG was in the room also.

Had a tax partner and 2 audit partner on the same table as me (together with 4 other NTU students) and they were knowlegable and gave lots of advices. Was quite inspired after hearing them talk but I know that the journey up the ladder will be damn damn tough. There was a sort of Q&A session for the managing partner and the tax partner at my table prompt me twice to ask something so here goes me, standing up, taking over the mic, and prayed that I don't tremble, "Hi. I'm Simon. I would like to ask what is the differentiating quality between KPMG and the other 3 accounting firms?"

Haha... Hope no one noticed my trembling, or the super fast speed which I plonk back to my seat. The food was not bad but I didn't eat much. Cannot be that the partner is talking and I keep eating right? And the partners took turn to talk and eat amongst themselves and I end up eating 1 small chocolate brownie and 1 small slice of strawberry cheesecake.. sigh.....

Tiring weekend

Whew!! It was supposed to be a weekend where I mug 24 hrs each day for my projects and stuffs but it ended up me doing nothing.

Hmmm.. My gf's grandma passed away on friday suddenly and it was quite a blow to my gf then. I rushed over to her house to comfort her and attended her grandma's wake on saturday night. (Before that, I had a floorball match in NTU. Though we lost quite heavily, we played quite well in certain periods of the game.) Her grandma's body was cremated today (Sunday) and my gf was lamenting the short duration of the wake. But like I told her, she cannot do anything cause she is not the eldest child of her grandma.

On sunday, i woke up late and went to the IT fair. It was SUPER crowded. Trust me man. It was as though they are giving away FREE MP3 players or xbox. Sigh... After today's trip to the IT show. I make 2 resolution. 1) Do not become a super fat person. I suspect that IT fair suck out all these fat people from their home in Singapore to congregate in the exhibition hall. There were tons of them and their favourite parking space is in the middle of the narrow walkway. To make things worse, they are sweaty and as u brush past them, you can feel their "moisture" on your arm. Yucks.... 2) To continue to do push up and build up my shoulder. This is because shoulder is your most potent weapon to push past the crowd. Haha.... Ended up not buying anything cause the queue too long....

After that, went to Johor to eat seafood as part of the celebration for my sis 21st bdae. The food wasn't too bad but it will be a long time before I go back there to eat again. The reason?? The SUPER long queues at both the malaysia and singapore custom. Not to mention the queues for the buses. Grr.... It's basically queuing to wait, waiting to queue. I hate queueing and waiting!!!!!

There goes my weekend. Someone lend me tut to copy leh...

hahaha....

After digging to a depth of 100 meters last year, Russian scientists found
traces of copper wire dating back 1000 years, and came to the conclusion
that their ancestors already had a telephone network one thousand years ago.

So, not to be outdone, in the weeks that followed, American scientists dug
200 meters and headlines in the US papers read: "US scientists have found
traces of 2000 year old optical fibers, and have concluded that their
ancestors already had advanced high-tech digital telephone 1000 years
earlier than the Russians."

One week later, the Indian newspapers reported the following: "After digging
as deep as 500 meters, Indian scientists have found absolutely nothing. They
have concluded that 5000 years ago, their ancestors were already using
wireless technology."