It's 3 weeks into the new year and I can safely say that the resolutions or goals that I promised to undertook are on the verge of being broken. I guess it requires a lot of discipline to stay true to the goals. Issues like fitness seem to have been forgotten but I would be given a grim reminder when May comes when I have to take my IPPT.

The new semester started 2 weeks ago and it seems that 2 months have passed as I had to juggle studies, toastmasters and an investment competition which ended yesterday. I would say that the competition was an eye-opener as I did not know pretty much anything about mutual funds and I had to read up on mutual funds. I thought our group sucked at the prelim rounds as we gave a bad presentation but we were shocked to hear that we qualified for the finals.

We worked harder at our presentation for the past week and kept improving our speeches. When we finished our presentation, we got one of the loudest applauses and we did pretty well for our Q and A except for the first question which I fumbled. When the results was announced, we were disappointed to learn that we did not get the top 3 and the reason was a certain percentage was allocated to how well your stocks performed and the stockes I picked performed badly for the past 2 weeks.

That important component overided our presentation component and effectively gave us 4th place. I could understand if I lost to a good team or if I had performed badly but if we gave a good performance and we lost out on the decisions we made 3 weeks ago, it just seems to unacceptable but LIFE has to go on.

After the competition, I rushed off to COT and was just in time for the event. I would say it's the best COT I have attended as the speakers were good and the content was good on which they spoke on and I took home a few pointers to ponder on.It pretty much sums up my Saturday.