Just a quick update to my personal life.
Currently, I'm a final year student at Nanyang Business School and I'm currently on exchange at Singapore Management University.
I must say the experience thus far has been really awesome. The first week has been pretty chill where all the Professor merely briefed us about the project outlines and course outlines to give us a sense of what we should expect in the course. Also, I managed to finish forming all my groups for all my modules and I must say I really enjoy the company of these group mates. I can already forsee that its going to be an awesome experience, genuinely.
Also, I'm currently interning in the Treasury department at Temasek Holdings. Its definitely exciting to work during school and in fact, this is the first time I'm doing this so I'm definitely looking forward to how I'm going to juggle effectively between school and work life. To be honest, never in a million years have I ever dreamt that I could get into such a prestigious organisation like Temasek Holdings. Its really another milestone in my life since my internship at American Express. But this just goes to show that I can go on to achieve great things if I try hard enough and that anything is possible with hard work.
There's always the debate saying that hard work can only bring you so far, but I am always very against that idea per se. I think hard work can bring you very far and consistent hard work can help achieve a breakthrough in your capacity. I strongly believe that if one is serious about working hard, he/she will succeed one day. It doesn't matter how long it takes, so long as you get there one day. You can't be impatient with these kind of things. You must be willing to endure the seemingly endless journey ahead and make yourself believe that you will make it at the end of the day.
I'm also working on my Final Year Project over at NTU. It seems to be flowing very smoothly and we already got the whole picture on what we are working on, so I think it should be fine at the moment :)
At the same time, I'm busy with full time interviews for my graduation job as well. Hopefully, I will be able to be offered a job soon so that I can focus on my other priorities :)
It seems like I have many things on my plate and I must say THERE REALLY IS !!!!!!
Having said that, I think its a challenge in my final year and I think if I survive through this, I will definitely be a lot, a lot, a lot stronger and I'm definitely looking forward to this challenging, yet rewarding experience up ahead.
On a side note, I just received notice that I got into the Dean's list for the 2nd year running!!! So I'm really happy about it. I'm really proud about it because I have really worked hard for it and to be able to receive this recognition is really a feeling like no other. But of course this is no time to be complacent, its my final year so I must give it my best shot as this will be the end of the first phase of my education life, before MBA that is. So yeah, that's about it for the updates, I will update again as I go through half of my semester at SMU :) Good Luck to everyone out there in whatever you do too :)
Cheers,
Aaron Bay Mingde
