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August 2019

I originally intended to write this on the first week of august but got delayed due to a spike in workload.

Interest Rate Cut

On the last day of July, the federal reserve announced a widely expected interest rate cut (read: Why the Federal Reserve Cut Interest Rates). The rumors of an interest rate cut have been going around for some time, with the stock market fully pricing in the cut. The problem was that many believed the cut was going to be higher than the 25 basis points and thus many indices went red after the announcement.

Protected: Checkmate

Day 200/365

July 19th, 2019, Friday. Today marks the 200th day of the year, or 54.795% for the mathematically inclined and the ocd.

500px

As mentioned in a previous post, Flickr has changed their user policy ever since being bought over by Smugmug, destroying the popular 1TB free storage plan which was a dream come true for amateur hobbyist photographers on a budget. The rationale was to improve Flickr from its current photo dumping ground into a better photo sharing site where photographers can present their best works instead of being bombarded by a torrent of subpar photographs, which is the unintended consequence of having “unlimited free storage”.

Protected: Figments of my Imagination

July 2019 – End of Internship

First post of the year and also the first post in almost seven months. Any longer and maybe the site would be forcibly shut down due to inactivity, mental note to self to check back occasionally to keep the site alive.

Internship

So what has happened in 1H19? Well, internship has came and gone, rather smoothly in fact. I was fortunate enough to end up in a nice department which gave me the opportunity to gain insight of the operation of the company from a different perspective. My assigned tasks were not overly demanding or time consuming, which allowed me to have spare time to work on my pet project(s).

Without going into too much detail, this project provides a automated digital platform connecting multiple parties and linking together various existing procedures. The advantage of this platform is all the information is easily accessible to the stakeholders involved and a significant amount of time is saved by avoiding the need to access multiple files to get the same information.

Kind Souls II

This is a continuation of my 3 part story (read: Part 1). It has been over a month, school has been busy, the weather has turned really chilly and the specifics are starting to fade. As such, this story will be a relatively short one.

Kind Souls

The time now is 1am in Amsterdam. I’m sitting in bed, piano ballads playing, typing away on my tablet, definitely not a pleasant typing experience. This is a result of insomnia thanks to a combination of evening coffee nap and an overnight train from Munich last night.

It has been a little two months since I arrived in Europe and the past week has been spent travelling around different cities. It may not have been a very long trip , however I have observed significant differences in areas such as culture, behavior of people as well as the feel of the city. Given this rare burst of unexpected mental clarity, allow me to share 3 stories of my personal experience revolving around the central theme of kind souls.