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Just want to summarize the courses that I have taken during these 2 years:

1. Economics Analysis
2. Financial Statement Analysis
3. Asset Valuation I
4. Asset Valuation II
5. Derivative Securities
6. Spreadsheet Modelling
7. Mathematical Techniques of Finance I
8. Fixed Income Securities
9. Risk Management
10. Trading Workshop
11. Financial Engineering
12. Mathematical Techniques of Finance II

and I have sitted in the Hedge Fund course and attended 4 lectures of the Real Options course.

I personally like: Economics, Asset Valuation, Derivative, Trading workshop and Hedge Fund more!

最後一課

Last night I had my last lecture for the MFin programme. The time passed quickly. Dr. Carverhill could only cover a few concepts in the 3-hour lecture. I originally thought that classmates may exchange contact information or plan some after-exam activities or people who have not spoken to each other would start to have conversation. But the lecture time passed so quickly that none of these happened!
Ame Ame, don't always day dream please.

I expected to see someone, but he didn't show up. But I finally saw him when I was on my way to MTR station. He just managed to get to Admiralty. I smiled to him and he said hello to me. So, this marked the completion of my MFin lecture life! Cheers.

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NB: Pain has not ended. I still need to take the last exam this week and to do the group project next two weeks.

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But I have planned lots of celebration activities after the exam!
8/26 Watch Hello Kitty Musical show
8/27-31 Lots of meetings or outstanding tasks to be completed @ work
8/31 Celebration
9/2 Dinner with Family & Join Church's 160th Anniversary Concert
9/8 Big Big birthday dinner for Dad
9/8 Albert's little niece on board
9/9-15 Tokyo business trip
9/22-10/7 Block Leave!!
11/27 HKU Congregation

讀書是很快樂的

人是有求知欲的.在學習的過程中,如果單靠自己看書,固然可以有很多得著,但是透過上課,做功課和考試,這過程更有趣和有挑戰性.在香港土生土長的我,更竟然有點喜歡考試制度,如果考試成績好,更有無限的滿足感.
快要完成港大Master of Finance的programme,既期待畢業的一刻,又有點不捨得,因為這個programme所學的東西都很有趣又有挑戰性,但又不會太困難.兩年的學習過程是很快樂的.希望還有機會再讀多啲書!

2/3 done

Finally taken 8 courses. 4 more to go. The tension becomes less after adapting to the way of lectures, courseworks and exams. Will need to decide what to major in, either Risk Management or Financial Engineering. If chances allow, may take double major. Seems that most classmates will try to graduate this year. I may make it next year due to several reasons and limitations.

HKU FBE Prize Presentation Ceremony 2006

My photo with Acting Dean of Faculty of Business and Economics, Richard Y. C. Wong 王于漸





A group photo with some other Master classmates and students

我的師弟結婚了,大個仔啦!

原來我最近take的Spreadsheet Modelling的lecturer竟是我師弟IS的舊同學(即都是我師弟). Oh my God! He is already an assistant professor and I am still a Year 2 student for Master degree! 哈哈.

又被人利用

New class starts. The module needs us to form groups to do homework. Lecturer asked us to form groups of five. My usual group may turn out to have 5+1, and I know that another group may only have 4, so I want to join that group. However, even without my consent, the cheap classmate by default thought that I would join his group and told lecturer that we wanted to have 6 persons due to synergy blah blah blah (bull shit) and include my name in his group! The cheap guy will ride on others' success and get the marks for him to pass the course! I really don't want to talk to him at all.

What I can say is: cheap, Cheap and CHEAP!
God, please help me to get away from Satan! Please save me!

Cheap people

I learnt two cheap guys recently:

1. A master classmate
- an ex-colleague
- he joined our group project once and then sticked to us forever
- relied on others to get marks
- no contribution in group assignment
- pretended to be knowledgeable
- disturbed others during lectures
- could not follow lecturer's progress and asked about fundamental things while lecturer was teaching new stuff
- very thick skin
- even asked me to help look at his own assignment (and I found that he has not given a thought to the assignment at all)

2. A new colleague
- thought I was the secretary / admin staff when he came for interviews
- pretended to be gentlemen, but actually was a salty-pig hand
- always touched on females' shoulders unnecessarily
- not capable in doing his work and asked irrelevant people how to do his work

I don't know why there are so many cheap people these days! Let me learn how to deal with them. If I succeed, I think my people skills will improve much!

以前有拔尖計劃就好

如果以前有此計劃,我便可較早大學畢業...
今年有512人是會考6A或以上.
當中有25人更得到10A呢!

Few bad things happening

1. My boss is a smart and cunning guy. He discriminates females. Also, his own promotion + company reorg have affected my career.

2. The current MFin module is too difficult. I may need to drop it even I have attended 1/3 of the lectures. This may also affect when I will graduate.

Anyway, life needs some torture. God gives us challenges for us to grow and mature. People will be closer to God only when their life is not straight and easy.

But there is one good thing happening, my sister finally gets a job and seems that she is happy with it! Hope she enjoy the new work and keep on to it!

Thanks God!

又一科

又搞掂!
Thanks God!

But the current course on "Derivative Securities" is really very hard. Futures and Options, Speculation, Hedging and Arbitrage...
And 3 projects + 1 mid-term + 1 exam happen in 7 weeks! Mad.

Exam result finally available!

I am so so so happy that I got an 'A' in the Econ subject! Very very very happy. Hope I can keep up the effort to get good grades in the next two subjects: Financial Statement Analysis and Asset Valuation.
Thanks God.

Further studies

Is it worth to study a MBA nowadays?  Or should we study some degrees that teach more specific knowledge?  How do you weigh "degrees" with "commitment to your job"?  If I want to commit more, I may need to give up the chance to study higher degrees.  Will this affect my career development in the long run?