friday night out with ppl in my program -

Davis from Texas/Princeton and Christian from Denmark
Bob, me, Jacob (Swedish), and Olivia (from Belgium)

Henrik (from Denmark), and he's smiling because he had lunch with 5 random Ukrainian Girls

Shay, Christian, Olivia, and Jacob - Shay's one of the few people from London

Bob, Svetlana, and Henrik - Svetlana is 19... doing a master degree in finance.. bad ass...

Federik and Suzan - Federik is another dude from Denmark

Rune - another guy from Denmark.. too many of them in London.

Federik and Davis getting ready for beer relay...

Davis beating Federik in chugging beer.. American white boy beats european white boy.. haha.

Christian spinning around after beating Henrik

Vince and Mike - two ex bankers..

Davis, Mike, and Stranger #1.

that's about it

shit, Oden is out for the year. The basketball god is not kind at all...

incidentally, school started for me this week. 9-5 monday to friday with 2 hour break. gotta learn linear algebra, multivariable calculus, differential equation, and stochastic calculus in 4 weeks. ridiculous.

here are some oxford pics. the town is quite nice. lots of history behind it for sure. but i am glad that I picked lse over oxford. london's just much more interesting.

me punting

harry potter dining room


sally, emily, and me

oxford economics department

A famous bridge in Oxford

me and some friends

You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone.

You'll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I mean it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.

- garden state

my month-to-month performance for the last five months

------ me ----S&P----
Aug + 5.6% -1.51%
Jul - 17.5% -4.21%
Jun +15.8% -2.15%
May +10.53% +2.96%
Apr -2.78% +4.07%

year to date, + 3.5% vs. S&P +2.7%

haha... that's some shitty performance.... by both me and the market.. better to just give your money to hsbc and earn the 5%.

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