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Nothing interessant since my last post except revision and essay to write but tomorow the last 4 weeks in Nottingham will start. It is pretty exciting.

Yesterday I went to dinner with my flatmates and their girlfriends in a Thai restaurant for my birthday.

It was very nice because it is very cozy, the waitress are very wellcoming and the food is good.

So if you want a good thai restaurant in Nottingham, i advise you to go to http://www.tarnthai.co.uk

Thank you for the dinner !

I am leaving Nottingham in 6 weeks so i feel like blogging to share my last months of Erasmus life.

The Corporate Finance lecturer said a joke yesterday. It was funny during the lecture but i am sure it won’t be funny there. He presented the question like a question which could be on the exam.

“You are long call options on Megabank and you have delta-hedged your position. News breaks that the CEO of Megabank has fallen in the Thames and drowned. The stock price has also fallen. Are you going to borrow and buy stock or sell stock and lend ?”

He took randomly a guy in the class room. “So what is the answer ???” The guy was really stressed and pick up a answer randomly as well.

The lecturer answered “No … send your CV, the CEO is dead it could be a good opportunity for you !!!!!”

I woke this morning, and the landscape was white. I snowed yesterday night !!! I should have taken a pic of that but I am writting this article on night, so we cant see anything.

With the fucking weather I did not want to go to the lecture … Outside, i was actually a mix between snow and water, so it was like walking in 5 centimers of water …

However, what is cool with snow is when the lecturer can go to Nottingham. Indeed, the corporate finance lecture was cancelled cool

See you

I read this morning a bad new, I have a new competitor for my website Weriam : Google.

It is very sad to wake up in the morning and to see that somebody did the same thing as you, while you are working on it since more than one year. People say that the competition is good and i already had other competitors.

Anyway I went to the club “Halo” for the 1st time, yesterday. The club was not full but it was OK, the most important is to share good time with friends. We had also a nice salsa show by the salsa society team.

Pictures available on facebook : http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=76778&l=44fdb&id=719297038

Today I launch the subscribtion to the waiting list for my website weriam.

So you can request an invitation for the alpha version of weriam. Just writte your email there :

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Friday night was very cool coz i went to one of my favorite place Pitcher & Piano (it is a church, which was turned into a bar !). I went there with a bus (I used to take the cab) it was not a good idea because i went to the wrong direction but after a 20 min of walk, i found the place. I stayed until they was closing (2am … quite early) they was cleaning the place !!! and we finnish the night in Dogma

I slept all the Saturday morning, as usual ! But it was a great day because i played basket-ball in the evening with my flatemate Awral. It is so nice to go back to support even if i don’t have a lot of stamina ! Awral kicked my ass in one to one but i have a better shoot ! After a shower and a dinner, i went to play cards.

I organised a snaking party on Sunday, where I cooked French creps and where we played Guitare Heroes World Tour. Indeed, last week, my flatemates bought Guitare Heroes, with Drumps, Guitare, Bass, Microphone. It is really fun to play this game ! The drawback is when fucking friends of my flatemates are playing until 7am and when they have a bad singer, who is screaming.

I finished my exam on Saturday at 3:30, it was so great. I am waiting for the results now (2nd of February).

After the exam, we directly had couple of drinks with my flatemate, it was nice.

Saturday night was the after exam party, and the good-bye party.

1. We start to go to the house party
2. Then everybody went out but it is the start of the problems ! We wanted to go to Ocean, it was closed. We went to Oceana, the bouncers said it was not possible because some friends did not wear shirts, others did not have IDs and i did not have to good shoes. However, some friends went inside. So the group was splited. A 3rd group did not leave the house … So we went to Halo, which was closed because somebody was killed last week here !!! Finally we went to Gatecrusher but it was too late. We finnished the party in Dogma, a bar, which was nice but not the best.

I want to say good-bye to all the erasmus and no-erasmus international friends, who are back home now. It was very nice to meet you guys, I hope to see you one day, i don’t know where … but don’t be pessimist.

See you

At 4:30pm I will do my 3rd exam, I started to do my revision around 10am, it was so hard to wake up earlier. I don’t know why but after sleeping 9 hours I am still tired. I need to take some vitamins …

So I am almost ready for the calculation part, however for the analyse of the calculation and the course question, i am not actually ready but it is not important. It brings less marks.

See you.

Here we go, it is my 3rd exam … i did the half last tuesday. Small reporting about the previous exam :

I said I studied the SMEs and Networking, but during the exam I did not feel like answering the question I studied (Networking) … so i answered a question I did not study. Crazy Max as say one of my Chinese

So tomorow, what to say about the exam. 50% of the mark was a housework and I got 67%. That’s mean I need 14% to pass !!! that’s coooool. But don’t worry (I say that for my family), i will do the maximum for having a good mark.

I actually like the subject because it talks about exchange rate, forward, futures, option, money market … quite interesting and many figures to use. I know I am crazy but I like manipulating figures and maths.

See you for the next report.

Today, i will study the entrepreneurship theory … I really like the entrepreneurship but, i don’t like theories. It is too boring !!! But I learn in a lecture that we are not born entrepreneur, so we must learn some theories to become one.

Like with the HRM, we have to choose 2 subjects over 8.

1. I choose “Entrepeneurs and Networking” because my own experience shows me that it is very important to have a network to launch a startup.
2. I choose also “Role of SMEs, Myths and Common Mistakes” because SMEs is what make a country developping, in comparaison to the big famous companies. SMEs have a key role in our society.

To finnish this post, i will give you an update about my HRM exam. I lost 5-10 minutes in the beginning of the exam because i was expecting to have draft papers and i did not understand that we have to do it directly in the paper. I think I did well for the 1st question but for the 2nd question, time was missing.