Funny Critical Reasoning Test!

Some parts of the funny questions for a critical reasoning test I took today:

An elephant is grey.
A mouse is grey.
So I conclude all elephants are mice!

Actually had more but forgot them immediately after I started writing the one above =P

Anyway, some updates from me about my job apps - seems that I'm not having any luck:

1. Interviewed at a German bank for a derivatives stucturing/trading role and was told that my skillsets match a trader more than a stucturing guy so I wasn't hired! Sighz….what a waste of time - they should have stated it more clearly in the job description.

2. Beaten in a trading game last Monday, 2 good games but lost the final one badly as I was holding high cards. Must be the fever I'm having due to the lousy London weather and should have done what my instincts tell me - SELL! SELL! SELL!

3. Attended my first ever case interviews - it was fun but very long –> 2 hours of interviews - 1 about selling hard liquor in China and the other about boosting luxury car magazine subscriptions. Not at my best for the 1st one so no surprise there that I didn't get through, thought I did pretty well for the 2nd one…but oh well, luck's not on my side!

Looks like I might have to go back to Malaysia to find a job! By the way, anyone knows which companies in Malaysia are looking for traders?

Anyway, nothing better than a nice car to cheer up the day! Here's something to drool over for anyone interested in fast cars - it's a Lamborghini Gallardo in police stripes (photos taken in South Kensington):

Southeast Asia's 40 Richest People!

Just happened to read Forbes' Southeast Asia's richest list - Link

Among the 5 countries (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia) that are listed, here are some interesting things:

1. Banks seem to be very profitable, especially in Singapore.
2. Selling kretek in Indonesia's highly profitable with 3 guys making it to the top 40 list.
3. Robert Kuok and Syed Mokhtar started off trading rice.
4. Construction/real-estate seem to be a sure-fire way of making it to the Top 40 in all the countries.
5. Red Bull is actually half-owned by a Thai guy!
6. 10 out of the Top 40 richest are Malaysians.
7. 9 are Thais.
8. Singapore, Indonesia and Philippines each had 7 ppl who made it to the list.

If we pool all the assets of the richest ppl in their respective countries, here are the new country rankings:

1. Malaysia - US$16.9B (35.8%)
2. Singapore - US$10.56B (22.4%)
3. Indonesia - US$7.905B (16.7%)
4. Thailand - US$6.705B (14.2%)
5. Philippines - US$5.14B (10.9%)