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Confessions of a Cat-holic (204)
Maybe I was too attractive to be true. Maybe my profile was too athletic, so I was taken as a jock. Maybe my physique was too fit. But I...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Mar 1, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (203)
At Morgan Stanley, the interns were spoon-fed with insider gossips and unspoken tales of Wall Street legends. It became known to us that...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 28, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (202)
An athlete's training was drastically different from the mind of, say, musicians. A well trained athlete should be physically fit while...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 26, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (201)
I needed this internship as much as I needed my boyfriend. Eddie was the prime reason why I wanted to try New York. I wanted to get a...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 24, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (200)
Oh, and I forgot to say that by working in sales and trading, I was officially and automatically entitled to block Edmond from all kinds...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 23, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (199)
Here was another thing I didn't like about Hong Kong's financial markets. It was that the general public had a very skewed perception...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 22, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (198)
The way Vic Garber said it with a cunning grin on his face induced some bad feelings within me. I had a feeling that this internship...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 20, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (197)
I chose to be a bit conservative. If they didn't have an opening for me just yet (I was replacing a senior salesperson on maternity...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 18, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (196)
Jaywon commented that I ate a lot. He said other girls would have eaten like a bird in front of him on a first date. Whatever he said,...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 18, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (195)
I didn't need the prestige of IBD to live an extravagant baller life playing golf and sipping red wine in a yacht club on the weekends...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 15, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (194)
I handpicked Intel, Ford and Delta Airline; two of which were no longer in operation; yes, they both went bankrupt. That was how good I...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 15, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (193)
So I told Edmond that he was too dull, in the bedroom specifically. I wanted him to explore more, be more adventurous and go into the...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 15, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (192)
Seeing his determination and perseverance despite all the discomfort, pain and suffering in his pursuit of happiness and fortune, I...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 14, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (191)
The HKCEE exam tested on perfections and nuance that left the majority end up in mediocre grades while the IB rewarded research mindsets...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 14, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (190)
Honestly speaking, the HKCEE exam was very demanding and SPCC's internal exams were hugely out of CE syllabus and unnecessarily esoteric...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 14, 20224 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (189)
Having seen both sides of the world, I somehow agreed with the communists that capitalism really was kind of evil. America rewarded the...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 13, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (188)
Vanessa was the other research intern at HKU's journalism department freshman summer. She went to New School (also known as Eugene Lang...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 13, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (187)
I was taken to the COO office by the HR of the fixed income department. She was a young lady named Amanda. Vic Garber was the guy who...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 12, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (186)
Fun times, he emphasized again. He was saying that the night life was unforgettable in Hong Kong. He was around 40s then and had a family...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 11, 20223 min read


Confessions of a Cat-holic (185)
I thought the bootcamp thing was just a name tag, like super day, nothing too ominous. I had also been warned by an NYU graduate who came...

Amanda L © Leung Yuk Yiu
Feb 11, 20223 min read
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