Methinks

I think that I will be missing my self soon...

A new beginning awaits..... Vamos!!

conspiracies, funnies and hotties

I'm currently following Carl Icahn's Extreme Makeover: Boardroom Edition (quoted from fool.com) with a lot if interest. I was quite surprised when Yahoo turned down Msoft's offer; it was quite good value I thought given market valuations and sentiments. Now that the activist Carl (check out what he did with Motorola and BEA) is trying to bring in his own board onto Yahoo, it could simple push Yahoo to reconsider MSoft's offer, and yield Carl himself a nice profit from his Yahoo stake. Well played.

Not sure if Steve Ballmer had a part in this as well (haha! conspiracy threories...)

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Speaking of conspiracy theories, something smells fishy with Carlyle's takeover of Booz Allen Hamilton's governmental consulting arm. Carlyle has been trying to separate itself from any governmental connections in the recent past, but now, a takeover for BAH's government consulting arm? Sounds wrong??? If it's true Carlyle engineered the wars/govt projects, wouldn't their consulting arm now reap the most benefits. What a way to earn money. "Propose" a project, and let the consulting arm earn from it....

Having said that, BAH (commercial part left) is now left to fight with the big 3 in the business, without their rather exclusive govt contracts. interesting, no?

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Hilarious Stuff: some guy tried to bank in a $360 billion cheque.... sure.

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K.C. is hot =)

Musings pt III

from the ski trip ...

1. Do condition your body before going on a ski trip. It is tiring, very tiring, especially on knees and leg muscles. and arms. and abs. Conditioning means going for exercises and not lazing in halls through London winter.

2. bring your balls to ski.

3. don't feel ashamed when groups of 7-8 kids zoom past you on a intermediate difficulty slope. and kids meaning not older than 5 years old. the crazy europeans send their kids to ski before they start to walk ...

4. do take the last ski lift up, even though it's getting dark. when you have the whole vast slopes to yourself in the evening sun, the feeling is unparalled.

5. never ever throw someone else's skis down a slope. cos it just keeps going and going ...

6. be wary of frostbite

and to you, GC ...
7. hot fart rises

Musings pt II

I'm taking this Control Engineering course here, taught by a (rather patriotic) Italian lecturer whos supposedly some genius (and he sure seems like one). Anyways, he wrote this in his notes Preface.

...These lecture notes are intended for a 3rd year, 20 hours course at the EEE Dept of Imperial College London. In addition, they can be partly used as material for 50 hours "Automatic Control" course at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. (The reason why similar topics are taught in such a diverse time range is, and will probably remain , a mistery (sic) to me, even after various years of experience with students and courses from both instituitions!)

Also, in NUS, we learn control engineering via the frequency approach. And this is what he said too

.... There are 2 kinds of control engineers. There are those who use the frequency approach, and then there are the control engineers. I think you all know what type I am.

And then he goes on in his routine rigourous abstract maths approach, leaving us stunned everytime. haha. But it's a fun course at least.

Musings pt I

1) You know you're in UK, the birthplace of billiards, when lecturers use a pool cue as a pointing device
2) It's funny when 20 guys and girls gather in a TV room (plasma no less) with comfy sofas, watching Chelsea vs Barcelona with beer in hand, and not a single one is a Chelsea supporter. And we're 10mins walk to Stamford Bridge
3) A piano concert of Classical and Romantic pieces cost 2quid at the Royal Albert Hall, while a sandwich costs 3.50quid at Starbucks
4) It's not as hard as I thought to stripe a lawn, as I've seen 1st hand this morning in the gdn across my room
5) I miss the days in Singapore when I overslept, and could watch the webcast that same evening. Wait. It just happened to me today. Well, except the webcast part.

heh just when I decided to turn in early last night, I ended up sleeping past 9! My only lecture today was from 9-11 so I decided not to go and just read up the notes online. helllloooo han, theres no webcast here ok ...

Anyways, heard from Ian that NUS is giving each of their exchange students 3.5k SGD from next academic yr onwards. sigh, talk abt being born a year too early. 3.5k could really go a long way even here in London -- thats 1 Starbucks sandwich per day for a year! =)

Looking forward to the weekend!