Had a fun talk with instructor about HK girls. Stemmed from my continious eating. And "bye bye fat" (aka underarm fat). All the Hongkie chicks seem to care about is being pretty and marrying a rich man. I thought of doing that, but realised that it was too high risk, with no chance of diversification. On the other hand, the skills you gain are pretty transferable. More than being a trader anyway. But I'm not aiming for that anymore.
Isn't that sad? I mean, eating is one of the things I derive the most pleasure from. I get really depressed if I don't eat. I found that travelling by myself through Borneo. I was pissed off at them, and a little scared and worried as I had no idea about where to go expect that one name of the village of where I was heading to, but I was really happy most of the way, except when I was hungry. I like the small things in life.
On the subject of transferability of skills, I have finally figured out that it is very important to gain transferable skills. Actually, that's the problem with engineering. You may learn a lot, but it is oh so specialised. I mean, a chemical engineer would find it hard to be anything other than a chemical engineer. Barring chemical engineering lecturer, reseacher etc. Whereas lawyer, what you mostly gain is critical thinking and speaking skills. Can go into role in management, politics, journalism, blogging, TV . . . . This, inevitably got me to thinking about me. Math and Compsci skills are transferable. Accounting skills are transferable (not as much as the others though). Most of all, language skills are transferrable. My next focus then.
What is not that transferable? Finance. Economics. I mean, I admire that Econ give you a new way of looking at things, but to be serious, it's more of a philosophy than anything else isn't it? It's ridiculous to think that one can REALLY do a cost-benefit analysis. I mean, you give me your desired outcome, I give you a report. Possibly to argue it either way. And a third way if you shall so desire. Finance is just bs in a financial way. And the math skills cannot really be attributed to finance, math is math. I suppose it's a inter-disciplinary area of study. Actually, can it really be called a subject? Can business really be termed as an academic subject? Actually, my friend is probably very correct in that it is a vocational subject. So in actual fact, what business schools really should be teaching their graduates is how to think so that they make the correct decision in the correct situation. Now that's a difficult to teach. I'm not sure b-schools even try.
Isn't it also funny about first impressions? Don't judge a book by its cover. Once again found proof if this fact.
Mad need sleep. But I'm getting much much better at not sleeping. I've done about 6 hrs in last two nights. That's three days. Today's the third night.
Night!
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