Golf, Sex & Leadership

Today, we have a guest lecture Joseph Lee who is semi-retired, Professor in Drucker's Grad school & is a partner of KPMG.

A funny guy, he pulls a lot of jokes in his lecture. "After this class, you may not remember most of the lecture, but you would remember me as the guy who told that unfunny joke".

Here is part of the lecture which I find very useful and I will remember

What do golf, sex & leadership have in common?
1. People who often talked about it are often lousy in it.
2. Many books were written about it, but people who read it never improves
3. It takes other people can tell whether you are good at it or not.

Spring Color

Spring is here. Birds are singing. Flowers are blooming. Everything is supposed to be colorful and so should be the hair color, not just black. That's why I've decided to color my hair.

Saloon in Japan is so EXPENSIVE. Haircut costs 4000 yen (RM120) (with discount 2000 yen or RM60). The cheapest in Japan is 1000 yen (RM30). Around my school, the cheapest is 1600 yen (RM 50).

With all these exorbitant price, I've decided NOT to cut my hair and color them in Saloon. I bought a box of color from Jusco and with help of friend, colored my hair brown.

And it turned out so good that many people say it looked nice on me. Ben, Charles & me, 3 MBA guys colored our hair this term.

When they asked about my hair, I always replied, "It's Spring Color".

It's Spring

Few days ago, birds start to chirp, waken up from hibernation. Insects start to fly into my room.

Winter finally ended. The peak was almost 2m of snow. The whole walkway from dorm to classes were covered in snow. I was looking at the autumn pictures and the scenery is so much different. Winter is so beautiful and I'll miss it.


To this one




Soon the confinement would end and I'll be able to cycle to Koide and all the other places

Dean's List

Results for last term released. Got GPA 3.82 / 4.00. Wow... that's quite good I said to myself.

The ranking was
H : 4.00
H- : 3.75
S+ : 3.50
S : 3.00

But then... hey, how come I got H- for my 'Financial Accounting'? The grade was supposed to be top 10% student receive H. I got the 6th highest (79.3%) in that course, trailing the 5th place (80.0%) by just 0.7 points. Just with that additional 0.7% in 1 subject, I'd be able upgrade my GPA to 3.87, making me in the dean's list!!!

How unlucky. I'll be cursing myself for the rest of the term.

Heavy workload, MBA 1st year 2nd term

Winter term for MBA students turned out to be the heaviest in the entire 2 year course. Marketing and Economics turned out to be the 'killer' subject. We would have to read at least 100 pages for the 2 subject every week in addition to the case studies, quiz and homework.

My initial plan was to switch to Elementary Japanese 2 from Basic Japanese 5. However, 5 morning classes a week in elementary was too tough. So I skipped taking the qualification test altogether.

Hopefully I will survive this term.