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March 2006 - Posts

Friday, March 31, 2006 5:34 PM

Ode to Sunil

This is dedicated to Sunil. Next week starting Monday, Sunil will be starting a new chapter of his life, in Barclays Capital, in Investment Trading. He was the earliest guy to submit his thesis ;-) Received a call from him to say goodbye. How
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Friday, March 31, 2006 2:54 PM

Network and being connected

Have you heard of Friendster? Well, embarassingly I haven't. Very sotong and sua-ku, isn't it? Was just introduced to Linkedin www.linkedin.com . It is a business version of friendster, an online professional networking service. A very
posted by Helen | 3 Comments
Friday, March 31, 2006 11:33 AM

Thesis vs CP - the saga cont'd part 2

For earlier post Why Thesis Requirement For 1st Class Honours? Thesis vs CP (Consulting Practicum) on the blog: see  http://cs.bschool.nus.edu.sg/blogs/bbablog/archive/2006/03/29/126.aspx From: J. a BBAH student   I don't think
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Thursday, March 30, 2006 5:31 PM

Emails from students who are away

Today, I received emails from two students who are away. It's really nice to hear from them. One is in NOC (NUS Overseas College) in Biovalley, Philadelphia, attending Wharton/UPenn (several BBAs in NOC Philly) and another in SEP (Student
posted by Helen | 0 Comments
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 4:46 PM

BBA – Then and Now

From: A/P Lau Geok ThengAssistant Dean, Undergraduate Studies I was a BBA graduate from NUS – two times. I got my BBA from the then University of Singapore. Those times, we just do seven subjects in year one, eight in year two and eight in year three.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 4:41 PM

Why Thesis Requirement For 1st Class Honours? Thesis vs CP (Consulting Practicum)

From: Michelim I am currently a 3rd year BBA student on the NOC (NUS Overseas College) program and studying part-time in Wharton/Upenn. My grades currently qualify me for 1st class honours if I were to obtain an A- (the requirement) in my honours thesis.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 4:34 PM

Outreach @ NJC

Just returned from an outreach talk at NJC. I went without harboring any expectations. It was the last talk of the day. The turnout was good at LT1, almost filling the full capacity of the lecture theatre. Think it's about 400 - 450. For NJCians in
posted by Helen | 0 Comments
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:55 PM

Yummy new desserts on campus

Eunice and myself decided to go over to YIH today, complete with a jerky bus ride and a mountain of stairs just for lunch at Munchie Monkey cafe, because we found out that they introduced new desserts last week! And its only today
posted by Chelsey | 1 Comments
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:26 PM

Case competitions - contd

From: Reginald Lee, BBA3 Hi everyone! It's too bad that case competitions is not as well-known here in BIZAD as it is in other schools. I'm so lucky to have been selected by the school to go to Hong Kong last October and Copenhagen just three weeks
posted by Chelsey | 4 Comments
Monday, March 27, 2006 4:38 PM

Case Competitions

Ok, more serious stuff now. Something more heavy-weight and serious in nature. Just returned from Cerebrations 2006 organized by the MBAs. Sat through presentations by two groups (caveat: only two groups, not all). While I was sitting there, I couldn't
posted by Helen | 3 Comments
Monday, March 27, 2006 9:19 AM

From Jeanette Wee, our very own MSU finalist!

(Photo from http://www.msu2006.com.sg/) Hi to all fellow BIZADers! I think it's really cool that BIZAD has it's own Blog! I must say that BIZAD is definitely the most happening faculty in NUS! I'm really honored to be part of this year's Miss Singapore
posted by Chelsey | 1 Comments
Monday, March 27, 2006 8:34 AM

Contest Entry #2

From: Yang Sue Ann, BBA1(Sue Ann was also very excited about StarDust!)   I have witnessed singing talents during this year Stardust '06. Ranging from girls with powerful lungs, to guys playing the guitar and dudes moving to the the groove.Stardust
posted by Chelsey | 0 Comments
Sunday, March 26, 2006 1:22 PM

StarDust - part 2

Was busy concentrating on some serious number-crunching, when I was gently reminded to turn up for the annual StarDust event on Friday evening. (Must admit that I was feeling reluctant at first, as I was so engrossed and focused on my work. How wrong
posted by Helen | 1 Comments
Sunday, March 26, 2006 1:00 PM

Miss Singapore Universe Finals! - part 2

Now sitting at my usual haunt every Sunday afternoon outside Mc Donald's in Serene Center. Having been blogging for the past two days, busy crunching some numbers. Just two days and already there are exciting updates which I can't wait to share
posted by Helen | 1 Comments
Sunday, March 26, 2006 12:58 PM

BBA Alumnus Speaks

Earlier received a letter forwarded to my email box. A nice surprise. It was from Francis, an alumnus who is now working in Beijing, China and his candid views on “NUS Business Graduates Start Well” which was published in ST Forum
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Friday, March 24, 2006 4:00 PM

Graduating Class 2006 - part 2 Latest News & Updates

Reginald will be with us for another year (hurray!). He's starting his summer internship with Merrill Lynch (it's almost as good as having the job lah!). Brian will be joining Boston Consulting Group (wonder whether he knows Siu Lun who is his BBA senior).
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Friday, March 24, 2006 3:45 PM

Graduating Class 2006

Just got new news from Career Services. Hey, looks like everyone is going somewhere... & more to come....The list will be refreshed and is getting longer.......... (They may all be burning midnight oil, in their final lap of putting the finishing
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Friday, March 24, 2006 3:31 PM

Contest Entry #1!

From: Grace Yan, BBA2 SEP totally rocks! Am not saying this for the sake of doing so (neither is this a publicity stunt) but I bet all of you who have been on SEP or are on SEP will agree with me! Am in Lund University in Sweden and love every minute
posted by Chelsey | 12 Comments
Friday, March 24, 2006 1:31 PM

Glam guys ;)

  Just in case you were at the BIZ shuttle bus-stop a while ago, wondering what new video we are shooting, its actually for the 3 glam guys in the L'Oreal Brandstorm 2006 competition! L'Oreal Singapore sent a production team here this morning to
posted by Chelsey | 0 Comments
Friday, March 24, 2006 1:04 PM

Campus on 938LIVE!!!

Are your voices heard?  Not if you had not attend the Campus on LIVE earlier this morning.  We had the host of the ever-popular, Campus on 938 LIVE, Mahesha Thenabadu, here with us today in Hon Sui Sen Auditorium in a lively discussion
posted by Eunice | 1 Comments
Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:04 PM

Waffle Shop

Earlier was ice cream, now waffle. It's now 10pm. Getting hungry? Time for supper snack. Heard that David has started out a small waffle joint @ PGP. Understand that it is just newly opened, 2-week-old, I think? BBA hostelites, check it out.
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Thursday, March 23, 2006 5:20 PM

Win an ice-cream date!

No lah, not with me of course. With a friend of your choice. (Or you can ask Prof Lau) We’re giving away 3 sets of $20 ice-cream vouchers to the 3 best blog entries from you! (I'm sorry, blog posts from Dean, aik or Helen don’t count) So if you have
posted by Chelsey | 3 Comments
Thursday, March 23, 2006 3:57 PM

Dean Speaks

You know, some people just argue that NUS b-school students are brainy without practical and street "smarts".  I think this is crazy and that our BBA's are brainy AND street smart. Now if we can just get everyone to realize what a great place it
posted by Dean | 3 Comments
Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:15 PM

NUS Business Graduates Start Well

Thought I'll share this with you, in case you missed it. It appeared in ST Forum last Saturday 18 March: ==================== Following your interesting articles on graduate employment on February 28, March 8 and 9, NUS Business
posted by Helen | 0 Comments
Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:04 PM

Miss Singapore Trivia

It's going to be lunch time now. Don't know why I'm always doing this doing lunch time, guess it's the time of the day when I can have some breathing space. Thought I will try something different this time…..Hope to venture into a different topic
posted by Helen | 3 Comments
Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:01 PM

Star Dust? Is that the stuff comets are made of?

Probably, but Bizad is having its own version tomorrow (Friday) night at 7pm in LT13.  The judges promised to be nowhere near caustic; in fact, they might just be all ears, and let their pens do the talking. Come and have a good time and take pictures
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 1:58 PM

Off To A Start

Just can't wait to start..... Stealing time from lunch, and doing this while munching with char siew pao on one hand, and tau hua on the other. From being someone who have not accessed a blog before, to now being a blogger, the process itself is quite
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