stress this week!!!

report.presentation.case.amsterdam.ireland

i'm gonna do all these within a week.
starting from today. this minute!

take-away from today:
amidst the long grueling 4 hrs researching for trends and figures of real estate investment in pension funds, i'm forced to learn 2 new dutch words.

real estate = eigendom
property = vastgoen

if anybody has to read the dutch annual reports and coincidentally has to research on portfolio theory, what i teach you today will definitely come useful.
So please take out your pens and notebook and write it down straightaway!

anyway, i was talking to this german guy from hamburg today.
i think he's called van.
and i think i said something very off to him.
"so do you eat a lot of hamburgers?"
all he did was to look at me in the eye blankly. ha!

to make me feel better, i went to do my research to verify my sentence.
there it goes:
"Hamburger also refers to the cooked patty of ground meat by itself.^[2] The patty alone is also known as a beefburger, or hamburger steak. Adding cheese makes it a cheeseburger. Hamburger is actually a distinct product from ground round and other types of ground meat. However, ground beef of any form is often commonly referred to as "hamburger." A recipe calling for 'hamburger' (the non-countable noun) would require ground beef or beef substitute- not a whole sandwich. The word hamburger comes from Hamburg steak, which originated in the German city of Hamburg. Contrary to what folk etymology might lead one to believe, there is no actual 'ham' in a hamburger."
source: wikipedia retreived on 24 september 2008 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger)

how dare he look at me blankly!

well he's a nice german afterall.
somehow i just have an affinity for germans.
they seem very friendly and motivated :)

omg... i miss carl's jr so much!

maybe one of my biggest dream is going to come true...

stay tuned to know more about it!!!!!

=)

i can't stop smiling... hahaha....

there are many things i know i must achieve in my life...
they are my dreams and aspirations that maybe keep me driven in my life...

i think everybody must have a goal or dreams they must fulfill in their life.
only then, they will feel that they have a meaning in life.
a purpose for living.

and i remember i read something off a book that is very meaningful...
life is never fair.
accept the unfairness, and think of how much more blessed you are compared to many others.
instead of complaining or blaming everybody for everything, do something about it.

pay it forward.

it's always the simple things that make me smile...

and i like to smile...

howth

i'm so pleased...

they are going to set up 4 washing machines and 4 dryers in our laundry room :)

it feels good to have dry and sweet smelling clothes without any fuss...
and no more sharing dryers with stranger-turned-friends le... haha...
no more late nights waiting for my dear clothes...

well gonna learn how to use the washing machines first.
it's all in dutch.

the translator website is like one of my favorite tab now! :)
i must force my dutch friends to teach me a little dutch... hehe...
then i can be a dutch lady... yay!

so much things to read...

i'm getting so confused over CAPM, betas, alphas...
whatever is risk premiums or inefficiencies?
whatever is noisy market hypothesis?
whatever is small-firm effect?
it's all so crappy... they just keep beating around the bush...

get straight to the point...
all they wanna do is to prove that markets are inefficient but the markets are efficient...
omg... i'm getting confused confusing my readers...

project meeting tomorrow..
how can i present to the class with a confused mode?
gonna clear my doubts...
i wanna prove my capabilities to my dear dutch and canadian project mates...

yup, tmr will be good...
let me talk myself into it that all's well!
sometimes life is about lying to urself and making urself feel good... haha...
life's good!
repeat after me...
life's good!

i always believe that nobody is a saint..
everyone makes mistakes..
mistakes that i'm sure one never wants to commit..

so try hard to forgive..
over look and forget many things, many mistakes that people make..
because i believe that one feels bad enough when they commit mistakes..
to forgive is definitely a virtue..

yup, nobody is perfect.