09.07.07
Posted in Random at 2:27 am by iosakwe
Oh well, the summer is over and now its back to school. This summer was fulfilling, I took Finance 3000 and learned about common stock, preferred stock, bond valuations and many other introductory concepts to finance. Upon completion, I traveled to Japan. It was a lovely trip, the food was absolutely delicious, ふとつていました, (I got fat?). The country side was stunning, lush green lakes, evergreen bamboo trees, sort of reminded me of the good old samurai scenes. Most of all, I got to meet my extend family - like I said, it was definitely fulfilling. OK, I strayed off track from the title, “Back to School” - As I have changed my major from CIS to QMM and now Mathematical Finance, I am in a fix? This semester I am taking:
Intermediate Japanese 3001, Math 3020 (Calculus 3) and Corporate Finance.
Of the 3 courses noted above, I am a bit worried about Calculus 3, as I took Cal 2 about 3 years ago. I am kind of rusty on integration, derivatives, trig functions.. so I really need to work extra hard to get up to speed. To aid my catch up process, I have removed all elements of distraction. My Mac Book Pro is sitting in my closet, battery out - I am not bringing it out until I feel much more comfy with Cal. 3. I also decided to limit weekend entertainments and hired a part time tutor. I am on a strict schedule to ‘catch-up’ and get rolling or else, its going to be a long semester. がんばります
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04.02.07
Posted in Random at 2:04 pm by iosakwe
Well, not exactly what i expected, but our new addition, Bagel, is no longer with the family. Not that she wasn’t quite a charm, I kind of enjoyed playing with her but there were a few caveats. The first and most important of all was “the housebreaking” issue. As much as I thought she was adorable, i could not stand the elimination process. Nope, not one bit, this invoked two types of feelings in me.. disgust and vexation. Disgust because the urine was so THICK, and she passed water nonchalantly on the floor, which if unattended would leak under the stove, cabinets and be impossbile to clean. This really stunk up our tiny one bedroom… and vexation because she somehow could not learn to use the wee pad, no matter how many times i tainted it with her urine.Yes I know, “Give her time”, Rome was not built in one night, but nope, I really did not have the bandwidth to squeeze in household breaking. Not with my current schedule of school and work, it would have been too much of a sacrifice and not mention disgrunt when I returned from school and work to a urine reeked apartment. I wasn’t the only one impacted, as calm as Chiaki appeared, she was in the same boat with me inwardly. The URINE, yuck :-(, the URINE. The stench it imprinted on our apartment really thwarted our typical romantic weekend together. I was sleep deprived, because I wanted to catch Bagel in the act and try to acclimate her to the weepad. The other end of the stick was my male cats, Lilo and Moshi, who were totally whacked by this. I think it was a combination of both fear and jealously. Initially they did what every animal would do if you trespass into their territory. They hissed and snarled at Bagel various times, who just returned an innocent look to them. Then the jealously sort of morphed into stress, They were not eathing at all, very unlikely of them - not even accepting Cat treats from me, which they historically never turned down. Those 3 elements put a lid on the bottle and she had to go! Factually, Bagel the bulldog, was a doll at heart and very loveable, I am sure with time, the boys would have got used to her but at this period, I prefer a urine free apartment over her. Hence, she was returned to “Pets on Lex” the following day in less than 24 hours.
Lessons (re)learned:
(A) Never act on emotions, be as well informed of any decisions.
(B) Lilo and Moshi are very very jealous animals.
Goodbye BAGEL, I am very sure that you will find someone who can appreciate your charming personality, warm loving and urine.
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03.31.07
Posted in Random at 10:16 am by iosakwe
So this saturday was unlike every other for Chiaki and I. Around 10:30am, we got up with intentions to have the laundry done, eat breakfast, watch some HBO show, nap for about 3-4 hours, wake up either go the gym or study before talking about Dinner. I called to cancel an appointment with an accountant for tax preparations, we did get the laundry prepped and dropped off some dry cleaning and then decided to hunt for breakfast. We initially stopped by Sables on 78th and 2nd avenue to get our seafood favorite, lobster salad with tasters, and then ventured up to Lexington and 77th for salad from “Pick a Bagel”. Once we got up to Lexington, we hit up the salad bar and got fixed, the waitress so kind of slow, took like 10 minutes to process my credit card, then we decided to grab soup on Lexington and 78th. Now this is when things get interesting. Half way between 77th and 78th on Lex was a Pet Store called “Pets on Lex”. So we decided to peep around for some puppies, something that we had planned on once when I finished school and when Chiaki finished her CFA exams. While in the pet store, we spotted a dock leaf bulldog puppy. We asked one of the store employees if we get in a closer proximity of the pup and that was all she wrote. She (the pup) started jumping on us and literally put my finger in her mouth. I was intrigued by her bullish characteristics, ugly grin with genuine eyes, her palate was so soft too, she was extremely friendly and immediately started jumping at me. Chiaki fell love too and asked “can we keep her?” and so we brought her home, making our current family of 2 Cats, Lilo and Moshi, and now her. We were a bit slumped on what to name her, some names we thought of was Haru, Patch, Chloe, J, Eve . Even my nephew, Jason, suggested that we make use a name that composes of our individual suggestions… But we decided that we call her “BAGEL”. why Bagel, cause we initially went to get food from “Pick a Bagel” and ended up getting a pup. Therefore, that seem to be the best choice.. So.. “Welcome BAGEL, our new addition to the osakwe family. We will see how long this lasts 
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11.20.06
Posted in Random at 5:42 am by iosakwe
Its been a while since I last updated this, many things have come to pass, I left the Department of Info. Tech. & Telecom. in June 06, and now work for the Investment Technology Group, UNIX Engineering team for about 7 months. ITG is a specialized brokerage leader in Algorithm Trading, Transaction cost analysis and a range of other services that span the entire trading process. Its a medium sized company with over 1000 employees globally. I must say that thus far, I am impressed with the environment and company’s policies, (lots of perks). I have been working 2nd shift, which works well with school and hopefully, it will augment my bachelor degree conquest. so.. lets see, what else happened since my last blog, .. I got married. My (then) girlfriend, Chiaki, and i have been together for 6+ years, and now, we are officially a unit, once school is under my belt then kids are next.. and on another plate, I am now wrapping up on Fall 07 school session… by the end of this year, this will be 2 more classes (JPN 1002 + STAT 2000 = 6 credits) completed. so I have about another 60+ credits to go making me a lower junior.
That sums up my catch up session, hopefully, I will have time to update this diary more often. Also, look out for my follow up to the LDAP article soon.
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02.14.06
Posted in Random at 9:10 pm by iosakwe
Hey there,
Welcome to my humble contribution to the Virtual Galaxy. My name is Ikenna Osakwe but most people call me Ike, especially my American friends. Currenly I am a UNIX administrator for DOITT and a full time student at Baruch City University of New York. I am majoring in Computer Science with a focus on the business side. Not really looking to delve into management but I believe the best technologists understand business processes and can mesh both to solve problems. At this stage, I actually enjoy tackling, integrating and solving problems… Possibly many years in my career, this perception will change. It’s left to be determined.
My journals will encompass different things that go thru this mind of my mine. I love technology but will also be talking about Politics, Ethics and Aspirations. Please come back and visit me some time, hopefully you can enjoy my thoughts.
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