First post of the year!

As vice president, I get to write the first article. HAHAHA! Next one will be our president’s turn. Miss Chan Suet Li. She is a better writer than me so please keep your eyes open for the next one.

Why did I choose to study finance? To me, a major reason is the glamour associated with the word. Think of the word “Marketing”. What image comes to your mind? For me, it conjures up scenes of people on the street giving out flyers, hardly a great dream in my books. As for “Management”, the word makes me imagine a stuffy middle aged guy in an office doing paperwork and yelling at a secretary (who is not very beautiful). How about “Accounting”? Probably the same image as “Management”, but minus the secretary.

On the other hand, when you mention “Finance” I think of a group of cool-looking men and women dressed elegantly in black, holding laptops and making decisions that will affect the world. We all look up to Wall Street, which is the financial capital of America, and perhaps the entire world. I do not think that any other field of business receives such recognition. Besides, even now our club has a beautiful secretary, Miss Crystal. This makes me feel superior to the management guy with a plain secretary.

Of course, we now live in tough times, and Wall Street is no longer looked up to as a bastion of wisdom which is fit to lead the entire globe in commerce. Yet the importance of finance in our world today is no less than before. It must be more carefully regulated and scrutinized, of course, but its study and application is no less relevant than before the subprime debacle and market meltdown.

Although the future of the world of finance is uncertain, of one thing we can be sure. That is, to rise to the top we must depend on our own efforts. So from today onwards, let us strive to make this club a stronger one, as preparation for our future debut on the battlefields of finance.

Billy