Third Day

Its the third day of my internship at PwC and this half week has been great. A couple of memorable things so far include:

1. Spiritual Disciplines
Decided to get down to practising spiritual disciplines on a daily basis this week and its off to a sputtering start but its getting alot better with each passing day haha. Sleep seems to be the main issue with my realisation that i need to wake up earlier each day to accomplish the disciplines i set out to do. Monday and tues was 7am and this morning was 6.45am, which was still a tad bit of a rush which leads me to conclude that i'll have to wake at 6.30am tomorrow morning pwah.

Even with 3 days, the effort is paying off with my days having clarity and purpose like never before. The draining and absorbing nature of my job (its great fun though which i'll elaborate) also drives me to seek God more as i desire to restore and maintain the relationship with my first love (Rev 2:4) and to die to my will and sinful nature, experiencing the resurrection power of God at work in my life each day. Awesome!

The one thing i still need to work on is writing my journal and that'll be my goal next week. Procrastinators are the leaders of tomorrow.

2. Internship
Great job lousy pay, thats my internship in a nutshell. My job deals with mergers & acquistions and my department does all the work to close the deals, like commercial, financial, legal, tax due diligence etc.

My boss is a rather no nonsense, very professional guy and its rather intimidating to be working under him. However, the plus side is that he made it clear that there wont be any sai kang and ill do the work like the rest of the team, so its great.

My first task while waiting for a project to come by is to do targeting. Basically research on companies with strong fundamentals that might be of interest to private equity investors (ppl with tons of money and want to make more money) and pitch these investment ideas. Its kinda like a marketing tool, so if they bite, they'll prob use our services to close the deal and even if they dont it kinda lets em know we're around and hope they'll call us if they ever need M&A services. So i've spent my last three days doing nothing but trawling thru Thomoson One Banker looking for needles in a haystack. Its awfully draining work but i love it. The research, the analysis; i was born for this hahaha. i cant believe i actually look forward to going to work each day.

So i thank God for this perfect match and i hope to learn whatever i can and be a shining light in the workplace.

Now the only thing bugging me is to find the right timing to ask my boss whether i can take one week no paid leave to go for Retreat man, otherwise Johann will be awfully lonely hahaha. So if ure reading this say a prayer cause he is one serious and stern guy >< .