DP-IC Exam: Done.

It's finally over but I feel so pwned. I'll try my best not to think about it. In general it wasn't really what I was expecting. I thought the exam had a lot more calculations than the last year's exam and that just threw me off totally. During reading time I was going double-you-tee-eff at all the tables of numbers. Another thing that I wasn't expecting to be tight is time. I wasn't totally out of time but it was for sure tighter than I thought it would be.

Time for a short break and then off I go to the FSA modules!

PASS ME SOA!!!!!

Lehman Brothers: GONE!

Haha! I knew it!

Lehman set to go into insolvency
Page last updated at 23:34 GMT, Sunday, 14 September 2008 00:34 UK

Preparations are being made for US investment bank Lehman Brothers to file for bankruptcy protection.

The firm was pushed to the brink on Sunday after UK bank Barclays pulled out of talks to buy most of Lehman.

If no new financing is found before Wall Street opens on Monday, Lehman will have to seek so-called Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7615712.stm

Man struck, killed by train in Coquitlam

Last Updated: Saturday, September 13, 2008 | 1:49 AM ET
CBC News

A man is dead after being struck by a train in Coquitlam Friday night, RCMP said.

RCMP in the city east of Vancouver received a 911 call about 8 p.m. and emergency crews were deployed to the Coquitlam Central Station of the West Coast Express, Cpl. Brenda Gresiuk told CBC News.

The unidentified man was walking along the tracks pushing a bicycle in an isolated area when he was hit by the CP commuter train, which had no passengers on, Gresiuk said.

"[The location] where the collision took place is not really an area where passenger traffic will normally be seen," she said.

"The person had made the way on to the tracks. We don't have a lot of information right now. Police officers are trying to identify the man and contact next of kin."

The train tracks at the station were closed Friday night and the CP rail line was being rerouted around the site of the incident.

The West Coast Express train normally runs eastbound from downtown Vancouver's Waterfront station to Port Moody, Coquitlam Central, Port Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows, Maple Meadows, Port Haney and finally Mission City stations.

I was really surprised by two insanely loud train whistles while walking up Mariner at around 7:55pm tonight--I was sure of the time because I checked my phone after departing the train bus tonight. I guess this is what happened.

People who don't sit on the bus

You people annoy the crap out of me. Stop being so polite because you are just in the way. You should just sit down so the rest of us can move to the back.

And the lady who once told me there is a queue for getting on: thanks for the effort. I haven't been naughty since :).

DP IC studying is PITA.

Dragonball Movie Poster

My gawd I wanna puke:

The ugliest wtf movie poster you will ever see.

Hot linking appears to be not allowed :(.

Final Assessment Revisited

While waiting for my FA results (five weeks and 1 day), I came across a very interesting post on AO:

What's the point of the 4-day deadline for the FA, just to annoy us? Can't anybody just buy themselves whatever kind of extension they want by not turning anything in the first time and then re-registering once they're done working on it?

The point of not turning anything in, of course, is so the person doesn't have to wait 7 weeks.

I don't really mind the 4-day deadline. Just the part where anybody can buy themselves an extension. I don't care for that part at all, but can anybody tell me how it isn't true?

That's certainly a very interesting view that did not dawn on me; it's probably because I'm anal about money. Of course, this requires some inside knowledge of how the FA works exactly. Anyways, this problem can be remedied easily by increasing the pool of quality FA assignments--I think the current FA is quite well designed and written.

Stop being so lazy SOA.