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January 23, 2008
Update from the Northern Hemisphere
I’ve been slacking on the blogging department in the past few months, especially in the last half of 2007. So a bit of an update for everyone about what’s been happening up here in London.
First, I’ve changed job from CIBC to Credit Suisse since last October. Still doing pretty much the same kind of work (C# development), similar area (credit derivatives) but not that similar (lower in both technology & business stack, which was what I wanted). I’m enjoying this current contract, good team & good piece of software too. And I’ve been learning heaps about the business.
In order to get closer to work, I moved house to Canary Wharf, Yep pretty boring location, or no soul as other have said, but ultra convenient for work. It’s 5 minutes walk to work and I’m not under the mercy of The Tube anymore, well except when I’m going out but that’s somewhat tolerable.
Since arriving back from Indonesia/Australia trip, I’ve been making a lot of weekend trips. Namely to Bremen, Hanover, Wales (to watch the World Rally Championship, UK leg), Amsterdam, Oslo & I just came back from a long weekend in Iceland. Each and every location is unique and fun on their own respective quirky way, that’s including Bremen :)
During Chrissy & New Year, I went to Egypt for 2 weeks with Intrepid. You can tell that I’m loving this company ;) That was my second (or third) trip with Intrepid. While Egypt is very touristy, somehow Intrepid can structure the trip to make it really cool & adventurous. Highlights of the trip are spending 2 days & 2 nights doing nothing in the Felucca and the desert safari. The desert is absolutely stunning. Photos are uploaded here: http://vhadiant.sharpcast.com/ and more here by Hieu: http://hobs.sharpcast.com/albums/image/49035_210603721359401
Iceland was amazing, cold & dark, but stunning. After the hot desert of the Sahara, I went straight to the snowy field of Iceland. Incredible, I’ve been enjoying the past few months here.
Now for the scary part. I’ve made up my mind to do the CFA Level 1 exam this coming June. To help my study I enrolled myself on 7City's CFA preparation weekend course. It’s a full Saturday, 9 – 5, course starting this Saturday, which coincidentally is Australia Day. Doh’
Now that I have received all the materials with me (CFA curriculum & Schweser notes) and as I skim through the mountain of readings, I’m wondering what on earth did I get myself into? CFA Institute reckons on average you need 250 hours of study for the exam, of course the more the better. I definitely need a lot more than 250 hours as I have no backgrounds in neither finance nor accounting. And to make things worse accounting is a big part of level 1 exam.
Tough times ahead.
Posted by vhadiant at January 23, 2008 06:22 AM
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