Ahh, exams are coming to an end soon. By next Thursday I would have completed my last paper for this semester. But my heart is heavy. Why? Because I have a irritatingly painful corn(or I think is plantar wart) under the ball of my left foot. I don't even feel like training my run for IPPT on 9 Dec. It just seems impossible to pass it. I foresee that I'll either go to the military Medical Officer for an excuse letter if possible or suck thumb and just do my best for the IPPT. 

Here's what I plan to do though. Try a bit of running these couple of days to see if the pain affects my running gait. If it's really bad, I'll seek the MO's advice armed with my National Skin Centre referral letter. It shouldn't be a problem talking to him about it because I didn't purposely caused an injury to myself so that I can be excused for IPPT. I guessed I was training too frequently and pawing my feet during jumps training. However above all, I'll just follow what God has in His plan for me during these few crucial weeks. I am still keeping my faith on my dream of clinching a medal from SEA Games in high jump. Wild and far I know, but it keeps me going, and believing. 

Today's service by Pst. Kong was smashing. He started with the time horizon before a professional becomes one. It takes 10,000 hours. Yeah It's just about the lifespan of a light bulb. SUCCESS= Talent+ HARD WORK. 10,000 hours of it. 

Then the second part of the word was built on Caleb believing in God all the time. One important message for me to bring home was, "Prayer is what will make your dream come to pass."

Earlier on before the service I attended the water baptism on the rooftop of the church building. It was sweltering hot before the actual ritual because everyone squeezed shoulder to shoulder under the big white tent. And so, Xiao Hui went and came back as Ruth. Peng Bo (or we call PB) left as PB and returned as Nick. Guo Lei departed and emerged as Gary.

And seriously, Ruth really draws a resemblance of Joanne Peh. But Ruth is like a mini version. Haha.

Took part in Citibank FX challenge yesterday. I only had 4 hours of sleep before i had to woke up at 6am. 

Some details:

Prelim Round (NTU)

2 sessions in a round. 50 teams. Top 8 teams advance to finals at 2.45pm. Bank 33 clinched top rank. uh, that's my team. 

Finals

3 sessions. Only top 10 will be awarded prizes. The 2 people in the best team gets intership at citibank trading section!

So my team was really doing great in the session 1 of the finals, where we needed to deal with 2 currencies. We were up 1.4mil in profit/loss. The session 2 saw the addition of another currency. We lost all that profit because we tried to split our focus evenly on all 3 currencies. That situation didn't change till the end, when we saw a slight increase in our P/L in the 2 original currencies. So all in all, we were up 300k. But not good enough for the top 10 since the last on that list was 1.7mil. Winner locked in 5.7 mil. In conclusion, our fiercely discussed strategy worked in an environment of 2 currencies, but not 3 when the flurry of news breakout made things worse.

Good exposure. Great workout for my heart, which raced crazily during the sessions.