Happy Birthday Mum!

It is my Mum's birthday, so I gave her a call tonight. I also decided to try and come home for the Easter long weekend, so I have something to look forward to.

Work

Work is going ok - the project is larger than anything I've ever worked on before - that makes it interesting and very scary. But also incredibly more structured that anything I've experienced. The content area I am working on is Structured Products which is looking to be more complicated than even Trade Finance was. Learning about the products has highlighted to me how similar investing is to gambling in a casino - currency linked investments are like betting on red or black in roullete and equity linked deposits and contracts are more like playing the pokies...
I'll be doing heaps of process design work, and I even get an analyst to boss around soon (not assigned yet - anyone from Oz interested??).

Not Work

I have met a few new people and also caught up with Simon, Pency and Colin from Sydney. Most of the people in the apartment block are on the project it seems, but I have met mostly analysts from KL at this stage. They are nice, but are very committed to their long hours and there hasn't been much in the way of socialising. I'll have to hunt down the party-people in the next week or so.

I've not gotten much of a chance to look around SG. I've done local shopping on Orchard Road and seen whatever is on the bus route to work, but I am itching to go exploring on Saturday. I am also hoping for a pick up game of ultimate on Sunday.

So unless something interesting happens, I'll probably not post again until Sunday. Hopefully I'll have something more useful to say!!