"You can be the engineer and I can be the architect"I rate myself a 7/10 productivity level today "working from home". What I did mainly was sorting out the slides for next week's lecture and I am on my way to finish them. Perhaps a bit ambitious for a start, so I TAKE IT EASY later. At the end of the day, there are some accomplished and some undone tasks. There is always a tomorrow, but this is not procrastination, just maintaining a work life balance.
Now, the highlight of my day is supposed to be speaking with JL over the phone about our research. I spent one hour on the phone and one idea follows on to the next and they are so stimulating. I just like the style of JL. He is always clear and know what he knows and what he does not, that makes him an excellent communicator. When doing research, especially this is about knowledge, the more you need to know what you are talking about because you are trying to convey a message and they could be quite abstract. In JL, I see some mathematical genius in his gene that I longed I could have, still you think about it, Research is also as good as doing a business. You don't just know one thing to start a business. A business could fail because of poor marketing or management, so a pure marketeer or manager cannot start off business, he needs someone of a different skill.
I would say, my relationship with JL is a bit like an engineer and an architect. I obviously use some mathematical application in my other research, just that the level I knew is not as advanced as that of JL, owing to his clarity and excellent illustration and explanation, I know what he is getting at and from there, I follow on with suggestion and brainstorming which sometimes lead to something constructive. As an architect, I set the way forward. As an engineer, he built up the pipes and structural framework.
The firework between us is great and I am enjoying every minute working with JL. An idea arise today in our teleconversation, all because of something I only briefly suggested to him few weeks ago. He is really very sharp. Like I told my School Research Director the other day, looking for someone to do research with, is like finding someone that you can live for the rest of your life. JL makes me feel in every way a right person for research collaboration. Hope this develops well as it will equally benefit both our career progressions.
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Hi Kai Hong,
For so many years i still failed to ask what kind of research/aspect of economy you are specialised in.
I mainly do investment funds performance these days, with some work together with former colleagues, also trying to get one paper sent out about Singapore housing market. Regarding the "aspect" of the economy, it should be about the "housing/investment funds markets" type aspect. Not sure if answer your questions. :D
Very hot topics amongst netizens in sg is about the performance of Sg Government investment fund losing billions and the rise and rise of HDB prices. Not sure you have any take on them. Maybe you could write on them but could be a political mine. I can show some articles written by netizens if you are in interested but I personally find some of them shallow.
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