I'm glad it's over.
Since two weeks ago, a lot of things have been happening in the world (of course), especially my world. Here are things that were happening for the last 2 weeks in my world, just the interesting one for me, haha.
Tour de Paris
Sunday, 29 March
Michelle (8, 2006, PK X) and her UGM friends were coming to visit Paris. I went from my 'apartment' room to Paris at 8 o'clock and the weather was terrible, I even still remember that it was -2 degrees Celsius that morning. Luckily the weather was getting better in the afternoon until around 12 degrees (felt like Winter to Spring in several hours, haha).
We went to Eiffel (of course, this is Paris, what can you expect from a tourist, haha), walked to Trocadero, walked again to Arc de Triomphe and Champ Elysees, went to Notre Dame by train (some of them lost in Chatelet Metro, if I remember correctly, it was because they were adjusting their watch because it was Daylight Saving Time that day, the only day in my life that was only 23 hours in a day), walked across the romantic right bank of Seine river (which made them stopped every few metres because of pictures of topless ladies or kissing gay which were everywhere along the book, poster, and souvenir sellers at bank of Seine river), before arriving at Louvre.
That day, I learned a new thing, which is kind of funny to be learned in Paris, Javanese culture, "Alon alon asal kelakon" (literally means "slowly but sure"). I thought it was only a slogan, but I realized it was really apparent that day. Having lived about 99% of my life in metropolitan cities, I regarded that at first as one of the most expensive way to waste the time. I mean, they only in Paris for 2 days yet they didn't have any clear plan about where to go and what to see except posing for the camera every few minutes. (Please don't be offensed guys, if you read this post, it's going to be compliments all the time this point onwards, hahaha, so keep on reading).
However, things were not meant the same between me and them, they were enjoying their time very much, it looked like no matter what the place is, as long as I am with my friend, it's enough. It strucked me when I wrote that phrases, I just realized that maybe my metropolitan life has corrupted my heart. There are a lot more meanings for travelling than just sight seeing as much tourism site that one can, and thanks God they reminded me about that.
Monday, March 30
Not much, except classes until afternoon and I got an email saying that my application for tickets for UEFA Champions League Final were not successful. I didn't really dissapointed because of that though, maybe because it's very expensive also. Either way, if God permits, I'll be in Rome when the Final match being played there. Watching in Piazza and seeing all the crowd is more than enough for me, haha.
Invitation for Assessment Centre at JPM UK
Tuesday, March 31
It was a big day for me. Not a lot of people have the privilege to get a second chance, thanks God I was one of them. Two months ago I was being invited for an assessment center (sort of more complicated and longer job interview) for an intern position at Operations and Business Services division of a company with an initial of JPM in London. I was still interning in another company with an initial of BC in Singapore then, and the invitation came two weeks before the date, which was certainly not enough for me to apply for visa (yes, Indonesians need to apply for visa to almost every countries, haha). However, my commitment to my project was the biggest hindrance for me to push for that, so I just gave up that opportunities.
In my third week in Paris, I tried to send an email again to JPM asking whether I could apply to other location. At first, they seemed to be a bit reluctant to changed it because of possible technical difficulties in the system. However, thanks to God, they wanted to do that after I made an essay about why I wanted that location based on their request. On March 31, I received another invitation to have an assessment centre in their office in Bournemouth, UK (their headquarters for Europe operations) with transportation and accomodation being covered by them. That was amazing and none other than God could give me that opportunities.
However, there was still a bit hindrance, the assessment was dated on 8 April, which means I should get a UK visa in 5 working days.
Visitation to KBRI Paris
Wednesday, April 1
April mob, April fool day, or April fishy day, you name it. Nothing special for me on this day except planning for the trip to UK which really ate a lot of time and I went to KBRI (Embassy of Republic of Indonesia) in Paris to get a residency stamp and I finally saw the famous KBRI's Koperasi which sells Indonesian products from Kecap Manis ABC to 1 dus Indomie goreng and Sari Jahe, haha. However, 1 bottle of sambel ABC cost around 3 euro there, whereas the same product only cost about 33 cent euro in Indonesia.
Submitting Documents to UK Embassy Representatives
Thursday, April 2
I was going to WorldBridge, a UK embassy representative who handles matters related to Visa. It was very tiring to go to Paris for 2 days in a row, haha, now you know how far HEC Paris is from Paris. Other than that, nothing special except I skipped one of my class because I was so tired that I felt I was going to sick that day, so I just skipped the class for a rest.
Friday, April 3
Did not really remember what I did that day. Maybe studying for the exam for the following day, and some assignments. I believe I was busy that day, haha.
Saturday, April 4
Exam of Doing Business in Europe Today. Writing a business report in 2 hours was not as easy as I thought though, but thanks to God that it went well for me.
Sunday, April 5
This will be covered in the next post.
Monday, April 6
Started making a report for my Globalization, like it or not class. Not as easy as I thought. I read almost 12 newspapers and spent several hours of research in Factiva, NYT, FT, WSJ, Reuters, etc. for this assignment.
I am going to WEMBLEY to watch England's World Cup Qualification Match
Tuesday, April 7
Hadn't finished the report and I didn't know when I was going to study for my Theory of Finance class which is my first finance class and the course is mainly Pricing and Hedging for Options and Futures. I was struggling for that course; I think I still am.
That day, I bought a ticket for fulfilling one of my dreams. England's world cup qualification match at Wembley!!! After spending almost 1 hours of looking the best seat that the system can give to me, I finally selected mine at row 18 (around 18 metres from the field I guess) class I seat, near the left hand corner spot. I suppose to be able to see Beckham, Lennon, Rooney and Gerrard closely from there, haha. Even though it's only against Andorra and the match is still in June, I am still very excited about watching my favourite national team in one of the best football stadium in the world. I didn't really think about it anymore because I spent 2 weeks to search for a ticket to Liverpool's match but I haven't managed to get one until now. So I really know how hard it is to get one.
Wednesday, April 8
Full of doing the assignment and studying, with a break of watching the dissapointing Liverpool vs Chelsea match in the evening.
Thursday, April 9
Studying from morning until 3:30 PM and having exam after that. One of the worst exam I ever had in my whole life I guessed. Lesson learned, don't try derivatives when you haven't even formally take Finance 101, hahaha. But never mind, I took the subject mainly for learning, not for grades. After all, I never really care about my grade as long as it's not decreasing (haha, a bit paradoxical, right?). Hopefully I passed the exam, because it is counted as 90% of the final grade.
A little help of prayer from you for that will be greatly appreciated, hehe.
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