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Life is never a bed of roses and I am constantly reminded of that. Although things look to be picking up this year, there are always the inevitable disappointments just around the corner. I am referring to the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Economics Society of Singapore Essay competition which Pin and I submitted a joint entry to in 2005. I managed to scrap a decent 1st place in 2003. However, our joint entry last year only gave us 3rd place, even though I felt it was a much better piece.

Although the competition is for university students, and both of us have yet to enter university, I feel that lack of knowledge is a poor excuse. I had let my mind atrophy in the army, and could have done a lot more to brush up on my economics knowledge then. A full analysis of this loss has to be done to see what some of the takeaways are. This can only be done once we have seen the top essay and after we have talked to the judges. Regardless, I can do a lot more to improve on my writing skills and economics knowledge.

Update: Pin feels that we did well considering that the two people ahead of us included two doctoral students and one MAS scholar. He thinks an appropriate comparison would be with last year winners. However, the topic is very different from last years, as the macro nature of this years topic seems to favors students with a stronger economics background.

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