As another year comes to a close, I don’t have a lot of enthusiasm for blogging, but tradition dictates that you reflect on the previous year…

I really had high hopes for the future back in June. I thought I had a good chance of passing the Level 3 CFA® Exam. I thought I’d finally get a new job. I thought I’d get to travel and enjoy life…

I’ve lived in Shanghai for over three years now and in that time I’ve drank a lot of coffee. I hardly ever drank coffee before I did my Master’s degree. But during my time as a graduate student I got into the habit of both studying and taking studying breaks in cafes and having a mocha. Now I’m well known in certain cafes in Shanghai for always ordering a mocha…

I’ve been in Shanghai a few years now and I’ve drank more than a few beers. It is time to share some of my hard earned knowledge and carefully taken photos with the Internet…

The CFA® exam has come and gone. I will write more on this later, but I took time out of my study schedule to report a whole bunch of intellectual property theft and four months later some of those files are still online…