Post-exam life update

So it has been a long time since my last blog post, and I would be lying to say my life has not been turned upside down ever since.

My last blog was after I took the hectic CFA Level 1 exam, and now the good news is: as of yesterday I was informed that I passed the CFA Level 2 exam, and with an exceptionally good mark indication as well!

I am not such a person to brag-but for once I cannot be more proud of myself. I have shown incredible discipline and diligence in the past year, because without these I could not have passed them. I remember the days when I arrived home around 6, finished cooking, eating, dishwashing by 8, started studying then, and went to bed around 11 or 12. Such a life style for a whole year.

I remember doing 1000 exercise questions in a month, crying and struggling through those endless exercises, but eventually I tend to forget about all my tears and pain in the dark moment, and look at the bright side of things and move on.

My calendar year (from Sep-Jul) post grad school: passed two CFAs in a row, now officially more than halfway done, alongside my ever first full time job. Tick!

Post-exam life: focusing on my big life main course (more details later), and the side dish is to watch Downton Abbey. I absolutely love the show: put aside the plot/drama/love, it gave me a sense into the historical evolvement of a variety of things, such as estate management, the class system. It was not so glamorous to be a lawyer/accountant at one time! But how come surveyors are quite a ‘posh’ thing? Now I know.

Also the show reminded me of my scholarship- it was awarded by Duke of Westminster, like Lord Grantham sponsored Freddie to go to Ripon Grammar School. It was essentially the money from estate management, from the land. Well I mean if you own the West End in London it is far more lucrative than owning lands in Yorkshire. Like the husband of our principal once joked with me, don’t feel indebted to Grosvenor-for the Duke this is only coffee money. Nonetheless I am eternally grateful of course :)

Also Downton Abbey gave me a break from only US shows, the majority of which are NYC-based. I was constantly amazed by the talented British casts.

God said: Let there be light. And there was light. And God said, let there be actors. And there were the Brits.