diversity

Things are starting to pick up and I can feel the hectic-ness of this coming few weeks already. I have tests every other week and not to forget an assignment to finish during that same period. My assignment is on company evaluation. I don't know why the lecturer chose to assign the same company to every single group rather than having a variety of choice. But in any case, we are suppose to evaluate CapitaMall trust. The very company building many of our malls here such as tamp mall, j8, imm, atrium@orchard etc. Interesting but challenging at the same time. The very industry segment it is in i.e. real estate investment trusts (REITs) is not something many people are familiar about.

This brings me to the point of educational segmentation in the tertiary stages. In primary school, we learn the same things across the board but as we move further, the specialisation of courses makes me feel that I am not in touch with the world as a whole. While I am well versed in many financial terms and aspects of our financial being, I am not as familiar about say health sciences and sociology. If I talk finance to people who do not take finance, the jargons I use seem so alien and foreign to them. Same goes the other way round to me when I hear about engineering concepts or soci theories.

So the solution? A dear friend said its networking. I think, how true. It is the best and efficient way to know people from many different backgrounds and learn new things of all the different aspects of life. At the same time while they are affecting me, I too hope that I can affect them by making them more financially aware and literate. Alhamdulillah I feel blessed having friends who are potential lawyers, doctors, teachers, asatizahs, policy-makers, researches and many many more. (: