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2007/3/18 An Obey song - The Donkey, the Man and his Son”Check out the links below for the basics of the song from Ebenezer Obey. My new spin on it though is that the lesson from the song is independent thinking. Go your own way, live your own life. Ko s’ogbon t’o le da, Quote
2007/3/17 77 days to the big DanceThere only 77 days to big the dance in form of the CFA exams. And I have to kick myself into high gear. Taking a weekend away for bachelors party and 10 days for honeymoon and wedding plus time spend with parents, I have about 60 days of serious studying left. Considering that on average one needs 300 hours to do well on the CFA exams, this means I have about 5 hours a day for 60 days of studying to get done. Study Strategy - SQ3R. At this stage, learning is incidental, passing is fundamental. Therefore I am going to focus my efforts on mastering what is required on the exam. SQ3R - 1) Survey - look at the chapter from beginning to end, note highlighted words, headings and sub headings 2) Questions - read the questions, practice what you know, and what you need to know - goal is to figure out what you need to focus on 3) Read - go through the chapter fast once 4) Reread -focus on the things you need to know clearly 5) Recite - take notes, practice some of the questions that you think are important.
Today -- Statistical concepts
Skills to acquire:
2007/3/6 My Japanese Name
My japanese name is 中島 Nakashima (center of the island) 一樹 Kazuki (one wood). 2007/3/2 A seattle experienceThere are a couple of things I heard about Seattle that stuck with me, even though they might not exactly ring true in my experience, these things are uniquely Seattle. Of course, everyone knows about the city's obsession with coffee and the rain, but that plugs in later in the story.
First, it is a BYOB (Bring your own Bitch) town and second, in Seattle, people are nice but they are not friendly. Let me explain, Seattle is a BYOB not because there are no single guys or gals here, however simply because for some reason the two groups just don't seem to connect.
Second, people are nice but not friendly not because everyone is super busy like New York, but because the local are friendly in clicques and the imports dont connect for some reason.
I think because everyone goes through the spells of hot or cold in thier emotions which correlates with the weather condition in Seattle.
Yes the weather.
A b-school classmate (shoo, I should call to see how he is doing at Ford) told me how depressed his sister was in Seattle, because of the weather, other people told me you either hate it or love it, because of the weather as well.
Cold, rainy and dreary in the late fall and winter, I could see how someone would be depressed here. However, once that warm spring break through, you simply can't imagine it is the same place, bright and sunny, green and lush, it is like paradise. What a contrast.
Of course, if you are an optimist, during the winter you can tell yourself it will soon be spring, when that gets old, you console yourself with the fact that we are not in a snow storm, and when that gets old you go to Stevens Pass or Snoqualmie Pass and go skiing and tell yourself, how wonderful it is that you can go skiing within an hour of the city. And when it is all said and done..hopefully it will be beautiful spring again.
Now to coffee and books and rain.
Tonight was one of those dreary rainy night, I am in my bed under the blanket, studying and playing with the computer from time to time - hence this blog, then I went out for Coffee, and of course brought my book with me, after ordering my venti, no foam, extra caramel macchiato from my local starbucks, I proceed to engage in the nicest discussion with a stranger ( a really hot barista) this winter, about books, coffee and business cycle and the social security time bomb (the barista like everyone else here seems to be well read and up to date on the social issues without being morbidly liberal). Anyways, like all good conversations in Seattle, we parted ways both enjoying the conversation, but knowing very we would probably never see each other again, what an opportunity to make friends, alas, we a nice not friendly.
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