had a full day lecture on interviewing skills today.

boy,was i lucky to be given the chance to be observing people being interviewed and got myself interviewed as well. luckily i was quite prepared for the question,all thanks to sharon with whom we discussed a bit about it during the break.

question: "what are your strengths and weaknesses?"

guess what?

now that you mentioned it, i forgot what i said when i was at the interview!!! lolz.

*took me quite a while to remember what i had said*

i suppose i mentioned something about being a treasurer in the basketball team, about being able to manage the stress of collecting money from so many people (added in by the lecturer) and paying the coaches fees as well as booking of the courts. and my weakness is self blaming at times when things dont go my way. haha. then i try to resolve by talking about me handling with a difficult customer (which is like no link) and learnt to take things lightly, after being consoled by my supervisor. but i guess i didnt explain this part well enough and so i confused my observer into thinking that my weakness was about not able to handle stress. haha.

but anyway, i felt that i didnt talk good about the weakness. perhaps that is my weakness. :p i intended to say that my weakness is not a good speaker at first lo then later on decided not to. lolz.

not bad. though i was nervous,the others said i did pretty ok. which was surprising coz i expected it to be bad since i couldnt even remember what i had said and the funny thing was what came out from my mouth wasnt from my mind. :X perhaps like i mentioned in my previous entry,things are not always as bad as we thought it to be. it is just our brains which cause us to be negative about the situation at times.

glad i had the opportunity to speak up in class. at least i gotta learn and i suppose we all benefited from the workshop.

=)

p/s: went for the IM lecture in the evening. and guess what? we did the test again!!! haha. did the chapter on Glosten-Milgrom question. and we can solve it. =) was not as difficult as we thought. but realised ms koh is much kinder to the PT students. maybe because they had a hard day at work. or perhaps like what sharon said,she expect more of us since we are professional. professional students.