Back in action

Simple updates on the time i "disappeared" from blogging

Just a year has passed and there have been some changes in my life..

1) Most of my frens w know tt I have changed jobs from Auditor to a Fund Accountant at a Bank. Hanging on to my second job now as the economy has been rather bad. (Horrays to Employers as they get to choose us and Boos to us for having to put heart and soul in finding a job) Hope it recovers soon.

2) I managed to experience snow. yes real snow in Korea. Have been saving up for a year before I put my plan into action.. The lowest temperature i experienced was a whopping low of -13degrees. No kidding.. I was at Yong pyoung ski resort on the mountain top.. It was freaky cold.. I could feel my nose and mouth chilled by the cold... and constantly checking if my ear was in place. The Most happy thing on this trip were to:

*1- drink rice wine (soju) during snow.. U can imagine the instantenous warmth from your throat to your stomach when u sipped the wine.. not disturbed by the horrible sound we have to make when we sipped down the wine.. to prevent the side effect of soju..

*2- eat icecream in the cold weather, something I always wanted to do as a child.. whenever I see TV showing Japanese/ Koreans licking icecream.. while it was snowing.. It was a childhood dream come true..

3) I also withnessed firecrackers, fireworks in the ulu village of malaysia. I must be as thrilled as my relatives who in years have not seen firecrackers... I must say Singapore has become so developed that the kampung life has indeed gone into history..

4) I have sat on Asia's steepest wooden coaster in korea. Yes it is true. You will never imagine me on rollercoaster.. for someone who has height phobia, it is really an accomplishment. It could not be done without my fren, Winnie's encouragement.

5) I have gone to korea's style spring.. haha if you get wat I mean, My fren and I overcome our shyness and went for the spring.. Which was v special. Imagine soaking urself in Green Tea spring.. 39degree spring.. herbal spring... We also went to the saunas-60degree for a minute... Wah hot..... but imagine urself in temp of 3degree outdoor...going through all that was comfortable..

6) I am planning to learn swimming this year, something I have never managed to master in my studying time..

Attached are some pic taken at Korea and Malaysia. :) Hee you can go facebook and see more pics.

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Aspiration for 2008

It's been a long time since I am free on wkend to enjoy my freedom.. Working as auditor has really strained my energy n time.. Don't think is worth the efforts to waste so much time working in lieu of frenship, family n own time.

It is true that when u gain something, u w lose something. But it seems to me that I am losing everything while gaining audit exp...

Hai cant help but feel helpless. seeing so many ppl come n go esp from my v own batch, quiting and moving on to a new job seem like a pleasant thing to do...

It is even more sad to hear this fr my senior himself tt " In order not to feel that I have no life, I will stay up and watch 2hrs of DVD everyday." After hearing his words, i cant help but feel sadness...

It is even worse to hear abt the long hrs during peak. (Heard fr senior tt I need to prepare myself to work beyond 12am from 7Jan onwards, some days I w work till 2,3am..5am..finally till next day..) What sort of life is that? Worse than a coolie, work 24hrs a day is crap.... Will try end work as early as poss...feel there is no pt working so hard.. this is not even abt efficiency..How can one work efficiently during the wee hrs?

However, I am comforted by having supportive frens and family... Squeezing time for frens and family plus my "work"on weekend is not easy... It cant be done without determination... perservance and .lots of slogging of working papers...

Aspiration for 2008 would be to find a job that I will like (shorter hrs) in a bank or in finance positions.. Got lobang must intro k? Be healthier in both mind and physically. (Been drained almost dry now.) Spend more time with family and frens...

Personality test

I'm" a O12-C58-E79-A83-N93 Big Five!!

My job

Paiseh so long never update my blog le...

My job be taking the bulk of my time... getting tired and now sick with sore throat from working late.... But its been a great experience learning alot things n all abt accounting.. all abt stretching our limits.. din know I could actually work till 2plus everyday after coming back from client.

Din know I could master the act of communicating with the client. how my baby talk or foreign talk to them eventually turns to communicating on the same level. Its funny how impt effective communication is, we may think our msg is clear but the other party may not understand at all.

It is also amazing to see how tolerant I can be towards demanding clients. The golden rule is really smile and be fast by passing all the hurdle.

I guess my job is no easy feat. But the thought of gaining experience from it is worthwhile.

Hai let's just say it is a wrong foot forward. We have to move forward somehow.

Age_charracter Calculations

What i got from Mel's age_character calculation. Thinks some are very accurate: tends to delay,loves to joke, easily hurt, stubborn etc...

JUNE
* Thinks far with vision
* Easily influenced by kindness
* Polite and soft-spoken
* Having lots of ideas
* Sensitive
* Active mind
* Hesitating
* Tends to delay
* Choosy and always wants the best
* Temperamental
* Funny and humorous
* Loves to joke
* Good debating skills
* Talkative
* Daydreamer
* Friendly
* Knows how to make friends
* Abiding
* Able to show character
* Easily hurt
* Prone to getting colds
* Loves to dress up
* Takes time to recover when hurt
* Brand conscious
* Executive
* Stubborn
* Those who loves me are enemies

My job

This entry will be an update on my job.

Training
The training at Penang was really fun.... We could go shopping after training and not alot stuff was taught over the course.

Training at Singapore was quite stressful as alot concepts were taught. But I guess is better to suffer at initial stage then suffer later.

UPdate on my assignt
My lst assignt was quite ok as the 8companies are dormant co.. Nothing much was enquired... Just mere cut and paste.

My 2nd assignt (this wk and the wk after next wk)
is more stressed cos it is my lst serious audit and it is more complicated (construction co). Hai sad that i actually forgot wat i learnt during the training... Was demoralised as I felt quite helpless... Asking the seniors was quite embarrasing as they had their work to do and I was dragging them down with my constant qns.. Should have been more independent and learnt to solve problems on my own...

After this wk's experience, (putting late hrs apart), I have learnt to study my training notes more dilligently and that worklife is different from school. In school,professors or tutors can answer your qns when you are in doubt as they are paid to teach you. In working life, asking too many qns will piss ppl off as they are paid to work for the client and NOT for YOU.

REflections time
At the start of anything(Be it study, work, proj, knowing ppl), it is never easy for us. We have to do self discovery and through time,find our directions.. We also must be optimistic abt things and not put down ourselves by saying we are not up to standard. If you never try, you won't know the outcome.

Haha stress aside, I also found that gg out on wkend is a good way to relieve stress as chatting w ur frens actually destress you, let you forget work and know how blessed one is with frens.
Hehe Had 2 wonderful outings today with zj,her bf, melvin and gladys and with rumin, zongliang, bowen and yiling.

My Views On relationship

Love

Haha after my entry on reflection, i feel that it will be adequate to talk abt r/s, something tt i have been talking to my frens and they have enquired me abt.

Sometimes i do find it funny when ppl consult me on their love life when my love life is kinda of empty, this was esp. so in JC when frens consulted me on love. Mayb is they just wanted a listening ear or something.

Love to me is never a love at lst sight thing or a happy ever after thing. U can tell me I'm pessimistic but I can assure u I'm just being pragmatic and realistic. Ppl I know ard me have their fair share of ups and downs... For couples who are still married after so long are becos divorce is not a common trend in the past and they prob stayed tog for their kids....

Then I oso realised criteria we set for our another half is never realistic cos u dun get wat u want at the end of the day. Haha mayb like wat my frens say, once u r in love, ur perception w change... But I still think frenship is more reliable than love. cos there is this much commitment u give and u dun expect to get something in return..

Now for my view on 1 - to - 1 r/s, I realised tt the world is never fair. U maybe nice to this person but this person may not be nice back. But guess I m very fortunate to have frens who care abt me, perhaps is the way we treat ppl ba. I believe we shd treat ppl w sincerity... I dun like to put on a fake front in front of others.. That defeats the purpose of frens.

But sometimes I regret tt I have such a character. Made my frens feel tt I m too busy for them and I end up losing some frens tt I know for a long time.. And at the same time, made ppl want to take adv of my kindness and step over me....

Perhaps that is life and we have to learn to understand and get used to it..

Penang Trip

The penang trip was fun but alot training stuff to remb..

We took SQ plane to Penang, ard 1 hr trip there. Was quite cool to sit plane to another country on lst day of training.. Though there was mixed feelings abt whether I could adjust to working life.. Glad to be able to share room with Fanny, was quite fun to be her roommate for the 5days at Penang..

We went to a few places in Penang.

Mon : Gurney Plaza as we stayed at Evergreen hotel, which was a 15 min walk to the plaza.

We ate at the food court, the food was not bad.. but to our despair, actually within 5min walk was a food ctr with cheaper px. ( But according to the shuttle bus uncle, food was better in the city rather than small fd ctr as serving was smaller, not very worth it)

Tue : Went to batu Ferrengi on taxi, Nite mkt.. Boyz it was a scary ride, the taxi drivers are all very skillful, imagine having to pass a taxi in the same lane.. WOO i was having a roller coaster ride.. Lucky had Grace and fanny with me in the taxi, I was talking to them to distract myself.. The nite mkt was quite gd, food was fantastic, tried the yang zhou fried rice, fried kwan tiao, (the chicken wing was super nice, hehe honey blazed, i like, yummy..), the omelete oyster was different from the one in spore... more watery, but it tasted super nice... lucky could share w my jie mei (jianyi, fanny, hui yin, kailing n shi ying) if not definitely put on alot weight..

Hhee come to think of it.. the buffet breakfast n lunch we had at evergreen hotel was superb, hehe i ate alot cakes (cheeze cake was superb), yogurt (those sour type, must add ur own topping), pan fried fish, mee goreng,.....

Wed: went to fd ctr next to gurney plaza as we had to do a ppt on thur. attached is my group pic, think is a wonderful gp.. i liked the model EY person alot, hehe drawn by talented jianyi and hui yin.... the four fruit soup was very cooling, sth like our qing teng, hehe my fave. But we had to rush back hotel to discuss our skit for thur

thur and fri : Yeah end of training. Went to Pranggin Mall on both days.. hehe tried the japanese ramen there, not bad la except for the cockroach shock( there were 2 small cock roach on the wooden divider, one of them got onto fanny's mango pudding and we had to get the waiter to remove it, lucky he was quite brave and nice to grab the pudding and remove it elsewhere and to give fanny a compilmentary pudding)

Secret recipe we had a better experience.. hehe i like the mud pie and the marble cheeze cake, super nice and big slice... hehe the mushroom sauce chicken was nice too. Shopping wise was quite gd tho i oni manage to get 2 office tops, din see anything else tt catch my fancy. wanted to get shoe but not really nice or it was open toe ( my co allow us wear covered shoe oni), saw a super nice shoe but the heel abit high for me...

hehe in general, i had a fun trip, learning and studying at the same time..

Back to spore for more training till 31aug..