Saturday, September 01, 2007

NYC training, last outing, 31th Aug 2007

Dinner at Hard Rock Cafe Times Square. Probably the last outing for us before we hit the desk.

















We are seated together. The rest are seated on another table.

Our home for 2 months. Affinia Dumont. From here we start to fly away to different parts of the world to face some uncertainty. I'm sure the class will shine in all areas of the bank. The next regional networking is in Singapore. Great! Time for me to host the guys with beers, spices and singapore babes and guys maybe.

NYC training final week, 26th - 31th Aug 2007

This is the last day of training.. This will be the good old times for us class of 2007 to remember. The days when you slack, drink, sing, eat, sleep, joke, maybe read, maybe listen in class, surfing the net, and you get some decent money to do all that.. plus allowances... vacation's over as of today, back to some serious business of generating alpha.. or maybe just taking more beta..
Well, thats class. Except that people normally are furiously burrowing in their little laptop hole while the instructor speaks on topics like credit derivatives. well, i'm sure the topics that we speak about on MSN with friends are on market conditions, i'm sure the online retail shop that we visit is amazon, looking for some finance books. and im sure the video we are watching on youtube is on how to value a CDO. Afterall, we are good boys and girls.


And so the final case study begins, which is really nothing more than pure fun.
Phil the english man who speaks with the queen accent.

Will from willip, whose fund goes up and down.

Taku-San the married man

Manshu, the negotiator from the other team


Soo who enjoys the '30-30' relationship with us.

Mariya the russian new yorker

Saiko who says she will buy presents for 70 colleagues

Tae Ho the K town host

Xingpeng the nationalist who bought his cambridge master degree, the rich man who says AX and Tiff & Co are crap brands, wants to invade my tiny country with his great chinese army.

Shintaro (my left) who speaks chinese to me, who wear only burberry black label. showed me his black label boxers. and stays on a tiny country according to xingpeng. but shin will ask xingpeng "who won the war?"

Reece Porich the breakfast.

Deeper deepa

Jorge who clubs in his spanish way..

Benjamin the poker master. Henry the big party animal (far left) Tiffany who likes to feed people fruits (behind laptop)

I like this one.

Right outside the asset management room

The lobby

Meal place

We have something like this for snacks. Today was strawberry fondue etc.

Champagne for celebration


Tanasis the hotel magnate from Rhodes Island. maybe a spartan..

Shuyi, give me a break, shuddup.. Charles charlie chuck


Daniel, the funniest, most sacarstic comedian ive ever seen. (Right) Zach the smart guy with a EQ score he denies is true (middle)







Networking night at Libation Club. Also the last day for the global markets guys.. The night is wildly crazy. Tonnes of dancing, karaoke and alcohol.