砂漠のJeffire

Jeffirean Stories

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Ah Jeff is a tired soul today.

Ah Jeff went to bed last night around 1am, and woke up at 5am to do data entry. He received a shocking email but had to chuck it aside because work was more important. He was very tired but since he had to leave home around 9am for a meeting at 10am in school, he decided to stay up for breakfast after finishing around 730am. After he finished his breakfast and the newspaper, he fell asleep unknowingly on the sofa. He walked sluggishly to his bed and looked at his sleeping dous and fell asleep snugged with the cute dous.

He then had a nightmare about his groupmate and meeting a Professor, and woke up at 930am. By then he was quite late so he rushed for a quick bath and then packed up and rushed to school. However, it was more important that he visit his Professor for the BSM to Taiwan to pass the cheque, so he only reached the 10am meeting at 1030am.

The meeting lasted till 105pm and was quite constructive. Ah Jeff had another meeting to go to, so he walked back to the School of Business. He had another somehow constructive meeting which finished earlier than expected at 230pm. So he went on for the next meeting at Starbucks @ The Cathay. He ordered a Grande Vanilla Latte (substituted by soy milk instead of milk) but was very regretful because the drink sucked. There was no vanilla taste! The drink diluted so much within the short 1.5hrs there that it tasted so cheapskate. The meeting however was very progressive and the members all walked back to school together.

Then again, Ah Jeff had another meeting at the library. The demands for this meeting was extremely high because the data collection was a big challenge. His groupmate was frustrated, likewise for Ah Jeff, because he had to dig through 120pages of regulations to sieve out basic regulations for listing on the 4 stock exchanges, namely SGX, HKEX, TSEC, and SSE. Do you know what do these acroynms stand for? These are 4 big stock exchanges of Asia excluding the super big Tokyo bourse.

The meeting lasted from 4+pm to 8pm, which by then, Ah Jeff's groupmates had left with some hope and some other frustrations with their data mining. The software used did not provided the required results as best as they wanted them to be. Ah Jeff was very lucky to meet another old friend in the name of Dominic. They gossiped while Ah Jeff typed a resignation letter which he wasn't sure to hand in or not. Since it was on the way, both of them walked to the train station and took the northbound train.

Bidding each other goodbye, Ah Jeff proceeded to his workplace to confound his biggest fears. Unfortunately, even though he managed to raise some issues about the shocking email he received in the morning, there was no concrete resolution due to the absence of the sender of the email.

After the debacle, Ah Jeff remembered that he had yet to sit down and eat a proper meal since his breakfast in the morning, so he decided to eat at the nearby Kopithiam so as to put his discount card to use. Unfortunately, he was too distraught to decide on a tasty meal while his usual stall, the Korean stall, was teeming with a queue. He then finally ordered a "lo mai kai" (glutinous rice with chicken), finished it with disgust and went to the ShopNSave on the side to get a drink.

His final memory of the day after reaching home was writing this....

*ANSWERS*
SGX: Singapore Exchange
HKEX: Hong Kong Exchange
TSEC: Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation
SSE: Shanghai Stock Exchange

Did you get it right?

-我想忘了你...可是听不到...-

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