Alone together

On love, power, sex, self-esteem and independence.

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I signed up for Tinder in Jan-2015 and unexpectedly, also met the Monsieur through Tinder. Like many other tools, how useful the platform is depending on how we use it. My experience on…

About Broken Heart

“Why did you choose what you do?” asked the Monsieur. I was surfing on my computer while he was folding his work shirts and cleaned his wardrobe.

I looked at him. “You meant why I chose which job to apply for when I had no clue?”

What would I do if I weren’t afraid?

I remembered the years of the 1990s when I grew up in a small village in Vietnam. In those years, one of our childhood’s trophies were Coca-cola — the soft drink. The soft drink was considered a “treat” to kids, reserved only for special occasions such as weddings…

100 Bullet Points For An Investment Banking Analyst

In 2013, when I first interned at GS, I was given the below list as a hand-out, titled “100 Things I Learnt as An Investment Banking Analyst”. This article was written by another former GS analyst, containing the concise advice for the…

I became an investment banking associate

It was in the middle of a busy afternoon last November when I had back-to-back calls on a live transaction. After I just hung up on a colleague, my dealer board rung of an internal number from Paris.

Yes and No

Growing up, I said “Yes” to everything that comes my way. Every opportunity, every offer, every introduction, every meeting, every invitation, every event, every employment, every phone call, every book, every school of thoughts, every request. This approach has taken me far. My life exposure, LinkedIn work…

“This, too, shall pass” — A Brexit short story of what happened.

It was 4:32 am on Friday 24-June-2016 when Southampton has just declared for Leave. Although there were a few more counties to go, the result had now been apparent. The Prime Minister looked out through the bright glass…

23 things I learnt by 23

The following list is in no particular order:

1. Everyone’s deepest desire is to be loved…

Power is like a lady

Last month, I purchased a Netflix subscription. I then certainly did what everyone else presumably did when they first had their Netflix account: Starting to watch “House of Cards”. In compensations for my late-night hours finishing all 5 seasons in one week, the show and the notion of power…

True Love

At 00:24, I finished watching The Danish Girl. My brother and The Monsieur refused to watch it with me so I watched it on my own. Admittedly, I have cried. Since I last watched Les Miserable the musical for the fourth time last year, no other performance has made me cried like this one does.