IE Singapore Trek

Hey Prasad~ I see what you did here! I laughed when I saw it! Anyway, Veronica opens the info session above~

Today we organized a quick info session for this trek we're planning for the latter part of August. Essentially, the IE Singapore Club was planning a one-week career immersion trip to Singapore, where current IE MBA students would be able to network with recruiters, (prospective) companies, other MBA students from various b-schools as well as current IE alumni based in Singapore (over 100 strong, I understand).

This was the promotional ad shown on the IE Newsletter~

Of course, the itinerary was a mix of both networking and leisure-related activities (drinks, social events as well as cultural and food-related excursions). We also presented a number of companies already within our network (that ranged from advertising, finance, FMCG, telecoms, technology, energy, etc.) that we could tap into.

The info session was rather quick and straight-forward. We finished all our slides within 15 minutes and opened the floor for a Q&A session. From there, we got Pierre to share (rhymes, doesn't it?) his experience working in Singapore.

The turn out for the event was quite good~ as we received more participants at the info session than expected. Also, many seemed extremely keen to travel as well (like high likelihood of participating). It should be an interesting / fun trip if this entire group is indeed going!

Pierre shares how Singapore serves as a regional hub for Asia~ and what working there was like for 4 years

After the info session, I got to meet Vagner from Brazil from the November intake. He indicated that he was going to Singapore no matter what in August (many years ago, his wife used to work there for 3 years). He mentioned that he was going there during the 1st week of August~ right about the same time Raajesh and I will fly there. We'll likely hang out during that time together with other IE Alumni.

What's that sound?! Hail!! And to think it was extremely sunny just a few hours earlier.

On a side note, I just wanted to share something really random. I experienced hail yesterday. It was kinda weird~ since the weather has been gradually becoming warmer. I've found less and less of a reason to bring a jacket out to school and am slowly phasing out my woolen clothes.

I was studying in my room when I suddenly heard something like rain from my window. It sounded a bit too strong for rain so I looked. To my surprise it was hail. I opened my window to verify~ and soon enough a bunch of ice cubes came flying in. The entire episode lasted for about 10 minutes... I seriously dunno what to expect with the weather these days.

Anyway, gotta get back to studying for Economics. Midterms tomorrow~