Very quick post. I’m due to leave in less than 9 hours now, so I’ll let the pictures do the talking. I went to the Royal Botanical Gardens again on Friday, but this time with Ethan. This is after both Des and I cut our hair, when I felt renewed and energised again after my [...]

Everything is unraveling. I am being propelled to the great unknown by my own undoing. Is it natural to feel fear? It’s pre-Melbourne jitters all over again, except this time I’m throwing myself right into New Zealand’s phenomenal South Island. I am excited, yet, a billion things are about to affect me emotionally all at [...]

Melbourne is prolly the only Australian city with the most erratic climate and temperament. Winter set its foot and draped the city with temperatures never more than 20C, and when spring has supposedly tempered its way through in September, it still felt like winter up till October, even though the occasional warmth graced by the [...]

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, [...]