Last Sunday on the 1st November, Ethan and I woke up to mist descending upon Melbourne. It was a strangely beautiful sight—this mass of grey snaking around the buildings and obscuring visibility—but it did made us contemplate whether to proceed with our plans of bushwalking that very day or not. Funnily enough, a check on [...]

It has been a long week. Or what appeared to be like it. My exams unfortunately didn’t go well—an Investment paper last Thursday was easily the worst among the three, even though it was an open-book exam, we’re still so constrained by time. My subsequent two papers on Friday, Empirical Studies in the Equity Markets, [...]

I’m still too incessantly busy to piece together a proper travel post, but pictures and some smaller details would have to suffice. So on the 6th September, a Sunday, I got up at 4.30am (had only 2 hours of sleep) to get ready for my Mt. Buller trip organised by my accommodation—we had to pay [...]

I forgot to write about this before, but I had attended two workshops organised by RMIT some weeks ago. One was a “How to Find Part-time Jobs in Australia” workshop where I did utilise the knowledge I have gained to try looking for some jobs but I decided against it in the end—as it is [...]

Despite all the turmoil of being thrown to the deep end of the pool where I’m very much left to my own devices, when I’m feeling more settled with the roller coaster of emotions (which pretty much boiled up on the recent weekend) finally dissipated and I can take a step back and gauge the [...]

Yesterday I was still in that awful concoction of homesickness that led to an intense bout of depression – so despite having befriended Alex (having a new friend is always an achievement in a completely foreign country) and inspected an accommodation at Walsh St, I walked towards the direction of CBD, and passed by: Flagstaff [...]