Rubicon Competition

I’ll be away from this Friday til next Sunday (30th Sep) in Frankfurt, Germany for an international finance competition. Alicia, Nancy, Veron and I were lucky enough to get into the finals consisting of 20 teams, which earned us a trip to Germany to represent NUS. Aiyah, if only I was in Singapore and could [...]

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Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go to Amsterdam

I just got back from my first (and longest ever) presentation in Universiteit Maastricht! I went solo for about 40mins talking impromptu about bonds and the different pricing mechanisms and stuff, and though my classmates came up to tell me that i did a good job, I thought i could have done a whole lot [...]

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Lisbon

Heya! I just got back from Belgium yesterday. Went to a town called Bruges(said to be the most beautiful city after Venice), and Brussels, the proclaimed capital of Europe. I bet you know all about Belgian chocolates – I think it lived up to the hype (there were more chocolate shops than souvenir shops), but [...]

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Spain / Portugal Trip – Valencia!

(Continuation from previous post)
Valencia, renowned as the birthplace of paella(the ubiquitous spanish rice dish), was the 2nd stop on our 5-city trip. Its not as touristy as Madrid or Barcelona, but has one striking piece of modernist architecture that was really beautiful – the City of Arts and Science (Ciutat de les Arts i les [...]

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Spain / Portugal Trip – Barcelona

Hola! Sorry for the lack of updates recently, time has been a rather precious commodity here and blogging time had to take a backseat to going for classes, planning for future trips, nights out, cooking (at least trying to be useful when my friends cook), doing the dishes, laundry etc etc. I’ll definitely try to [...]

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