It's been a while since i ever type a post in a blog. It feels weird. Typing my thoughts while hearing the blasting music. It feels weird.
Anyway, here I am. A new blog. The previous one was at www.osamastrikesback.blogspot.com
Decided to stop using it as i found it troublesome to maintain it. Preferred a simple template. Which You can obviously see in the background.
Guess I will update a bit of what has happened over the past few months. Firstly, A levels. H2s- AAB. H1s-CE. Didn't do that fantastic. I guess thats what happens when one does last minute work. Remembered entering Saint Andrew Junior College (SAJC) and telling myself to work hard and study consistenly. But alas, i guess things didn't turn out that way. Luckily i still did well enough to study business in Singapore Management University (SMU). I know this year was really competitive. So many people applied for business. However, i can't help but just feel that people want to do it because they believe that studying business will gurantee you a successful career and a quick path to riches.
Guess it's all due to the recent articles in the newspaper. Like how many percent are guranteed jobs and how many earn 5 thousand and above as a starting pay.
I decided to study it for a few reasons. Firstly, I can't deny that I was sort of affected by the fact that so many people were applying for it. Secondly, I thought business couldn't be that hard to study. Haha. Seriously. But I must say that over the past few months, I developed an interest in business related issues. Like the business matters stated in the newspaper. For an example, what happened at Stern Bears, rising oil prices and the reasons leading to it ( rising prices of crude oil and the lower supply of it ), Singapore's inflation rate expected to be 5-6 % this year. All this stuff somehow seem more interesting to me and adds as a boost as i recently been very interested in issues related to investment. Bonds, common stocks, preferred stocks, municipal bonds, dividends,dollar cost averaging and etc.
My only worry is that my new found interest in it is somewhat of a short flame. Whereby it's short lived. My interests always changes so randomly. So it's a bit scary..
Nonetheless, it interests me alot. Been reading a book called " The Intelligent Investor " by Benjamin Graham. Ironically, I was prompted to buy this book due to a marketing scheme. It said " By far the best book on Investing ever written - Warren. E. Buffett. " However! So far the book been great and i been learning alot. Read 5 chapters so far ( out of 20 ) and it has been mostly dealing with the correct mindset that a investor should have and the strategies a defensive investor should have, etc.
My only complaint is that its actually a old book as the writer Benjamin Graham died in 1976 so it's actually the 1973 edition with additional information from this person called Jason Zweig. Another point is that this book deals alot with America's Wall Street. So it mentions Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and S&P ( Standard & Poor average) alot. It sounds alien right? Well, it's just like Singapore's Straits Times Index.
Alright, enough of all this. It's pretty boring to alot of people.
Anyway, i been in BMT (Basic Military Training) for 7 weeks and it's been tiring yet slightly interesting. my 2.4 timing improved too:0 i'm now running 10.23. Much better than my sch life of 12 minute plus. :0
My two aims during this 1 year and ten months in National Service(NS) is to learn more about the business related issues that i'm interested in and.... to get and maintain a good physique. Haha. It sounds vain but that's how it is for me.
Will update next week when i book out again. I would have finished my 24 km route march:)
See you then:)
