Well, It's that time again to Update!

Yep, I have a test tomorrow, so what better way to procrastinate than writing in my blog that I pretend more than like 4 people read.

Anyways, the past few weeks have been pretty fun with trips and nights out including a random holiday (vacation) in the middle of the week. A bunch of us IG's (International Graduates) went to Langkawi which I believe is in the south indian ocean just off the coast of Malaysia by an hour south (flight). It was fun as we stayed in a resort (yay paycheck!) and spent most of the time relaxing at the beach, drinking at the swim up bar, going out drinking, eating, and parasailing/jet skiing (seadooing). See the following few pictures:


















Yes, I ate at McDonalds in the airport while waiting for the 3 hour (80% on time my a**) Go Air Asia!!

Other than the island trip I have stayed around Kuala Lumpur for the past two weekends. I love the hotel but it is getting kind of old to live in a hotel, and I never thought I would say this, but the room service is getting old! Also, I'd like a home cooked meal sometime.

The world markets seem like they are in a shit storm as the governments around the world are bracing for a recession that is surely here. I hope my job stays safe, as that is what the bank is telling us that our jobs are sound and that Standard Chartered continues to lead the way in the markets we operate in.

I just can't believe how poorly some of the UK banks are doing now, especially Barcleys. With its recent acquisition of Lehman, you'd think they would have been reacting stronger to global events, but it seems they need to borrow from the UK gov't, seen here: Bloomberg. Poor guys.

Well, leave comments, I'll try to update more frequently.

My 30 Hour Trip, and SLU things.

I guess I'm officially all moved out of Saint Louis now...thanks to the help of Marty, Nnana, and my sister (Jessica) I loaded everything that I hadn't given away into my Mom's truck and drove it home, well Sunday drove to St. Louis, and Monday drove home with my slight hangover and 3 or 4 hours of sleep. Seemed pretty normal, getting things done with no sleep and a hangover. I even saw Julia in the BSC while getting my normal sausage on a plain bagel to help nurse my hangover.

It was nice to be back in St Louis for the brief period of time Sunday night. Went to the west end, met up with some friends, drank like normal, ended the night at lacledes, etc... Oh, and I heard I have readers to my blog! That's exciting.

SLU seems to be getting better. I mean they have an in and an out section at Au Bon Pain. I was yelled at this morning for walking in the wrong way! There is so much space it's amazing, now that I won't be a regular there anymore.

It's great to read in the paper that SGA is so open to giving out money that you may not even have to be a chartered student organization to request money if the new Finance Committee has its way. Normal Joe Diversity Student can throw an event for him and his friends and have the activity fee pick up the cost. How great!

I hope someone requests money to bring me back to SLU for a weekend to enrich the lives of my friends. I would only stay at the Chase of course. But what's a few bucks right? Ah well, not too much with the increased revenue from the hundreds of Chinese students now attending and paying activity fees! Perfect I say.