Being a student does has its privileges. For one, I can travel to work on public transport using student rates! This is probably the last time I'll be able to do that. Most of all, if we do well enough under this programme, we will be accelerated into the Management Associate Programme selection process. So that's a pretty cool prospect and motivation to work for.
As I begin the summer break with this attachment, I am amazed about how 2010 is turning out to be every time I stop to take stock.
It started with a bang, with a trip to Hong Kong for 5 days. The semester started next and it has been one helluva semester even though we only took 4 modules. 4 insane modules, I might add. March was when we had the NTU Open House, to see months of planning coming to fruition is an unbelievable feeling, one that I never seem to get tired off. Which is why I am excited to embark on an community project under the Citi Associate Programme from scratch, and we are only given a month to put everything together!
With the exams concluding the semester, came the internship with Citibank. Till this day, I am ever grateful to be given this opportunity to expand my horizons, under a good programme. I just have to constantly remind myself that over the course of the next 10 weeks when the going gets tough.
Beyond the internship, July would be another crazy month too. There's this LSE Asia Investment Banking Conference in Singapore from 5-6 July that I am planning on going, but registration for the event is 70 pounds. But the list of speakers are certainly worth paying the money for. Then, there's my sister's graduation ceremony on July 11. I missed my elder sister's grad ceremony while I was in NS and I sure as hell won't be missing my younger sister's one!
The CA programme ends on 16 July, and there'll be an individual presentation to senior management the following week (outside of the agreed programme schedule). And on 23rd July, I'll (hopefully) be attending the Jay Chou concert in Singapore! I can't believe I managed to get the tickets given that so many others didn't managed to. And it's all thanks to Reene!
And I say hopefully attending, its because I'll be (again, hopefully) attending the LSE Summer School from 26th July onwards. After much deliberation, I've applied last Friday and will be hearing from them real soon, judging from what my friends told me, it's 4 business days. So whether I attend Jay's concert will ultimately depend on my flight schedule.
Of course, the LSE Summer school conflicts with my YOG volunteering schedule. I have yet to tell the organising committee of my intentions to attend the summer school because I've not been offered yet. I sure hope I can still volunteer in some way and capacity other than a volunteer leader. But I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Am hoping that the LSE lessons and probably a one week vacation in UK will refresh me well enough for the brand new semester in September, where it all begins again. In October, I'll be involved in my last project for the Students' Union - the Ministerial Forum 2010. This year's guest is the Senior Minister Goh Cheok Tong! Woo. Should be quite an event.
By the time the semester is over, it's pretty much the end of the year and Christmas rolls around again! Hopefully by that time, I will be able to look back at 2010 and say that it has been a fruitful and amazing year.
