and finally its over

the spring break, i mean.. holiday is always too short! it's almost one week through the spring quarter already.. life is back to normal again.. only now i so look forward to the beautiful spring weather around here ^^ it's 19C outside right now, and let me tell ya, it is just perfect! heard its super hot back home.. not to my surprise cuz songkran is coming up already.. how i wish i could have more days off.. hehe.. anywho, recent updates: a big warm welcome to all sasin exchanges! now we have maybe as many thais as japanese ieie.. haven't met everyone, and will certainly need some time to remember everyone's name.. but it sure looks like another fun quarter here at the cereal bschool :P

finally, spring break

off to london~ it was snowing hard when i was still at o'hare.. was kinda afraid the plane would be canceled since we were supposed to have a snowstorm later.. but in the end it was about an hour delay since the visibility was bad and taking off was difficult i guess.. so much for spring! haha.. anywho, arrived in london an hour late as well.. and immigration is, as always, terrible.. 10-km long queue and took forever.. to make matters worse, cingular doesn't work in UK.. yah the americans don't like to conform with the rest of the world hehe.. so it was not possible to get in touch wt hui and tell her about my delay.. 1.5 hrs later i got through and went straight to the payphone.. man it's expensive.. 50p would last like half a minute or less.. coin-sucking machine haha.. well, turned out hui was already waiting at south ken.. feel so bad i made her walk back and forth.. the tube ride took about 40 mins.. by then i felt really sleepy already.. and so we arrived at hui's place.. she had to rush something out.. chat chat a bit.. then whoops, off i go (to nap).. heehee

corp finance poetry

"equity is soft; debt hard.
equity is forgiving; debt insistent.
equity is a pillow; debt a sword."

i quote this from my finance II lecture notes* it is claimed that this is the only known example of corporate finance poetry.. i didn't know such kind of poetry exists till today, hehe. but it really helped me loosen up a bit while intensely going through all the materials.. man, it is tough! anyways, from the poem, sounds like equity is the good guy here huh.. but debt can be good too - the tax shield and all.. gosh i can't write about this! here's my thought (i decided to play with it a bit):

"love is soft, yet hard.
love is forgiving, yet insistent.
love is a pillow, yet can become a sword."

no one's the good/bad guy here.. you can never tell when it will hurt or heal.. try it, and you will see both sides of the coin.. learn it, and you will understand the balance in life.. at the end of the day, you will realise the bad exists so you can fully appreciate the good :)

ps. i think finance made me gone crazy! hehe..
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(*)Stewart, G Bennett III, and David M Glassman, "the motives and methods of corporate restructuring: part II," 1988

Bulls vs Nets

ไปดูบาสมาจ้า จะสอบอยู่อาทิตย์หน้าแต่ก็ยัง spirit แรงกล้า ทิ้งหนังสือหนังหาไปดูกัน ความจริงเรียกได้ว่าเสียตังค์ไปแล้วเลยเสียดาย อิอิ.. ครั้งแรกที่ได้ไปดู แอบตื่นเต้นนิดนึง ที่นั่งก็ไกลสะใจอย่างที่คาด.. แต่ก็เอาเนอะ สมราคา$20 ไปสายอดดูตอน kellogg แข่งกะ gsb เลยอ่ะ เพื่อนคงแอบด่าในใจ หนอยแน่ไม่ยอมมา support โรงเรียนเรา.. ก็รถมันติดอ่ะทำไง แต่อย่างน้อยก็รู้ว่าเราชนะ เย้ๆ.. นั่งดูๆไป เหมือนจะบันเทิงกับเวลา time-out หรือไม่ก็ break มากกว่าตอนเค้าวิ่งโยนบอลกันซะอีก เหมือนไปดูโชว์ แถมมี promotion แจกนู่นนี่ มีเกมเล่น ก็บ้าตามเค้าไป เอาให้ได้บรรยากาศ ขนาดเค้าเล่นเวฟกันยังเอาด้วยเรยยย อินจริงๆ.. พอได้มีโอกาสไปนั่งใน stadium ก็พอจะเข้าใจทำไมอเมริกันถึงได้บ้ากีฬากันนัก เป็น culture ของเค้าเลย แล้วทุกอย่างก็ลงทุนทำซะดี เงินอัดฉีดสุดๆ อ่ะ..ต้องพูดถึงเกมมั่ง ไม่ได้ดูนานแล้ว ใครเป็นใครก็ไม่รู้จัก ก็ลุ้นๆตามเค้าไป สุดท้ายชนะก็เย้ๆๆกะเค้าด้วย แต่ชอบตัว benny จัง เดินวนไปวนมาแกล้งคนดู เอาหัวโขกๆ หรือไม่ก็กระโดดให้ตกใจ ขำขำดี.. หลังจากเกมนี้ ตั้งใจจะหาโอกาสไปดูอย่างอื่นด้วย ทั้งฟุตบอล เบสบอล อะไรๆที่เค้าบ้าๆกัน มาอยู่ถึงนี่ต้องเอาซะหน่อยเนาัะ.. anyway ถ่ายรูปบรรยากาศ(จากแสนไกล)มาฝากค่่าาา..

inside united center

คนดู ไม่เต็มแต่ก็เยอะมากแล้ว stadium เค้าตั้งเบ้อเริ่ม

flying benny

สามสาวขอแชะหน่อย ^^

gloomy sunday

"seasons come,
seasons go
the sun shines,
the wind blows
people laugh,
people cry
no matter where,
no matter why
life is joy,
life is pain
so learn to fall,
and walk again..."

kelloggarhythms

read: kel-log-ga-ri-thms, and it's the name of our acappella group :) friends at kellogg, you prolly have seen us performed a couple times at school.. in fact we just did after TG earlier today (if u missed it!) it was Katie's last time as our music director, and next quarter Erica will take charge! i will be helping haruna and sheila as assistant music director too.. and also da webmasta~ despite the fact that i have never done a single webpage before.. hopefully my limited computer skills and a bit of creativity will guide me thru.. last week i just installed the noteworthy composer program onto my laptop.. now i can compose/arrange music and do playbacks and stuff.. this is not like garage band or those hi-tech mixing program though.. it's pretty much series of notes on page - five lines and black dots with tails! :P guess i'll have to bring out however little music theory skills i learned way back and put it to use soon! would be cool if i compose my own songs huh? (that's a bit farfetched..yeah..)

anyways, the other day we recorded the national anthem.. it was our plan to find opportunities to sing outside of kellogg! if they like us, we might get to sing for the cubs game or something.. wouldn't that be awesome!?!? we attached this photo too - support the cubs! yeah! (ps. i've never watched a single game before in my life.. oops..)