During Spring Break 2002, six students from IU, including myself, went for an Alternative Spring Break week where we volunteered at a small community of Ivanhoe, Virginia. I will tell you more about it sometimes, but there is this recipe that we copied from Phyllis – one of the coordinators at Ivanhoe – which I’d…
Wow… a lot of things happened to me this week, my third week (or was it second since there were several days off two weeks ago) as a junior analyst. While last week marked my first email contact with a client as an analyst and my first visit to a shareholders meeting (of a bank),…
Wow, it has been a year since I wrote anything online. Yeah, you read it right. I passed my Management Trainee program and got promoted as a Junior Analyst in the Equity Research Division. This will be a daunting adventure and possibly going to determine my future career path. I guess everything does happen for…
Yes, that’s right! I got a job! I just signed the contract this evening and will start next week. And what’s more, it’s actually in the field that I wanted, money management and capital market. The company is PT Danareksa, and the position is management trainee. The commitment is for one year as a management…
Today Salman and I drove to Baltimore (or close to it). We met with Salman’s friend, Feysal, and several of his friends, for lunch and stuff. We all met up at Jillian’s, at the Arundel Mills. Jillian is a combination of restaurant, bowling, billiards, bar, arcade, and some other stuff. It’s very much like Dave…
Fari and I planned to meet up again for Friday prayer at the Embassy. Unfortunately, both of us miscoordinated on the plan, so we arrived late, but we arrived nonetheless. I had an appointment with Mas Irawan, so we got to be there anyway. Mas Irawan was the person who interviewed me back in Fall…