Time I was with EY....

Browsing through the data in my external harddisk... then I saw some pictures of old days with EY. Hmm... ever since I left them, I never forget this office. It's only after I left the office, I learnt the friendly environment. It's not comparable to the one I currently work with....

One is which our seating.... all seniors in EY will have a cubicle, personal extension, large space to put files. Compared to DT, small desk, shared extention. Senior even sits at pool area. -_-

My working place and my very good neighbour - Cynthia

Besides working, IAFG (Inter-Accounting Firm Game) is considered the one and only big event for my ex-firm, as well as for other firms. It's time where we fight against each other. EY consecutively grabbed the champion 5 years in a row, except for year 2006, we lost badly.

Not playing the game? Be the cheer team. :) Cheers and songs roared.

During off-peak period, we'd organise trip on our own.... Not to say off-peak as there were no off-peak...

Hongkong ~ May 2005

Bukit Lamba ~ May 2006

Taiwan ~ September 2006

Sentosa ~ November 2006 ~ One and the only annual trip cum annual dinner (more for annual dinner) I joined..... (for your information, I didn't attend any annual trip nor annual dinner before this.. hehe..) At first I thought we would be staying at Sentosa, who knows, after the treasure hunt and awesome activities at Sentosa, we were put to budget hotels at GEYLANG! Those hookers are just doing "business" right on the street and the hotel (call it motel will be more appropriate) is also the place they "rest". Gosh.... such arrangement was merely made to suit the budget. Budget constrained.

Sentosa made this exception... This was screened at Music Fountain before the show began..

From left: Melvin, Hwee Ling, me and Alex ~ ppl I trust.

And always... people come, people go....

Farewell with Shita ~ 2005

Farewell with Jia Chuen ~ June 2006

And finally, my farewell. Together with Chin Teck, Tin and Jesslyn ~ November 2006

Old days... old days.... 回不去的从前......

Nightmare

Nobody could be as this unlucky as me. Within six months, I'm auditing this Company twice. If it's a nice and tidy company, nevermind. To the contrary, the account is messy, management changed due to fraud, audited FS for YE 2005 and 2006 have not been signed off and I'm doing 2007 for 4 months. Arghhhhh.... what's the point? Prior years mess has not been cleaned up and what's the point I'm doing this 2007?? If the holding company could accept a report with one long list of outstanding matters and one whole chunk of unresolved accounting treatments, by all means! By that could that also mean that they don't mind using the unaudited figures (if they think the company is peanut to the group)? Then, what's the point of engaging us again? Waste of company's resources only (and waste of my energy and efforts).

This was the one and only engagement I'd ever worked this late at client's place. In January 2007, me and my assistant, including my manager at later stage worked until 1am or 2am+ for continously 2 weeks non-stop. Because of the bad screw up, it also caused me firefight for other engagements within my portfolios badly. What a nightmare to me. Never in my past 3 years' record. And now, same problems, same issues and same nightmare..... what makes the difference is I'm not willing to work till so late anymore. I'm burned out..... Please be considerate.... for one having messy companies for the whole peak period, if not messy then shitty client, how far can this person go?

Is there anything fair in this firm? No covers from the managers. Even work until die, nobody cares (yes, they care if you're partner). As what my manager said: "ppl are not interested in knowing the problems you face, they only care whether you have the solutions readily presented to them." If anything happened to the engagement, they push the blame all the way down from manager level, as if manager is not part of the team. Then the blame will stop at senior's level, which is always the case where I'll be eventually the victim and the scapegoat.

No fair judgements... The words highlighted in blue was like a wet blanket to me... and I suddenly woke up... This is the world. The dark world. Can I have some power to fight against the dark force, like Harry Potter?

Fortune teller

My mum learnt this from my aunt and was trying this on me... to see whether I got 劳碌命, haha.

How does it work? It basically works from one's birthday and it's very easy.... Here it goes..

Say if you're birthday is 08.06.1984, then....


Is the diagram illustrative? I hope so. One thing to take note is, the adding of number will need to go for one more round in order to get a single number, i.e. 8+4=12; 1+2=3. Those numbers stay in the triangle are the affecting factors and the most critical one being the number in the small triangle, in this case it's 9. Hmm... but what are those numbers stay outside the triangle telling? At the moment, I'm not sure... hehe.... I'll need to seek more advise from my aunt. Will keep you all posted ok? :)

Okay... so what does the number tell? Here it goes......

1 - 领导，独立

2 - 沟通

3 - 劳碌

4 - 策划

5 - 方向

6 - 金钱，智慧

7 - 人缘，贵人

8 - 责任

9 - 成功，商业头脑

For my case, I got 7 in the small triangle. I got 1, 6, 7, 8, 9 within the triangle. AND I DON'T HAVE 3 !!! hehehehe..... My mum's interpretation was: I have 贵人 in my life; I'm responsible and I'll be success in my career and I'll be RICH~~ But I do have 3 outside the triangle. *Sian* We don't know what it means at the moment though....

Anyway, just share share only.. What's yours? Try it out ~~~

Pirates of the Caribbean: At world's end

Watched this movie before I went back home. I didn't expect myself to watch this movie cos I didn't watch the previous 2 episodes and why should watch this before I feed myself with the previous 2 before this? Indeed... it's expected... I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE WHOLE STORY WAS ABOUT. haha. Maybe I was just tired (since it's mid-night box office); maybe I wasn't concentrate as I was thinking something else. I couldn't really link up the story. Of cos I can't without watching "Curse of the black pearl" and "Dead Man's chest", and I straight jump to the third, "At World's End". I don't even know who is Jack. haha. Although what little I knew was the casting - Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp played a role. In addition, the little I knew was Chow Yun Fat participated "At World's End". Other than that, I know nothing....

Nonetheless, the movie did impress me in some way. I especially like the way Jack dominated the situation. But I don't quite understand why Beckett didn't fight in the end but choose to end the battle and his life that way. That's the only thing that puzzled me. Hence, it seemed to me that the victory came too easy.

I think I'll watch again after I pick up the first and second series. To gain more background information, I'm reading Fact and Fiction now.. hehe.. (yeah, I'm always serious on things I'm into)

空

Facing the screen for so long and I do not know what to write. Don't know how to organise what's in my mind.

*after 30 mins or so*

I thought I could possibly work today. Maybe went back to work after lunch, but I didn't make it. Early in the morning, I saw Kitchi's sms and my emotion burst out again... My mind was just blank for the time until in the evening, I had a talk with Miao and I had a nap, I got my mind clear and I think I know how to handle this blow.

I was told that this year is gonna be a bad year to me and my good life will only start next year. I'm bearing this warning in my mind and I sort of like always prepare for the worst to come. However, sometimes right, when the setbacks come and I just cannot take it especially when I've put in my utmost effort. I'd feel that all the efforts have gone down the drain and I'm being fooled.

Anyway, couldn't let the xiao ren to pull me down right? Couldn't possibly let them bully me and ruin my career path. I believe I'm bound to meet the good (although I've met some of those), it's just that I don't have the luck at the moment. I should not have doubted my ability because of the words from devils out of unfair judgement.

I do not think that I'm in a wrong line. But, I could possibly in a wrong firm.

泪。累。

不习惯? 习惯?

For how many weeks I've been travelling to and fro JB and SG without miss? 24 weeks?

It had once started with a lot of "不习惯"....

我不习惯：

1. 没有车的日子
2. 每天要走很多路
3. 每天要和别人挤MRT
4. 每天要带钥匙出门
5. 每个礼拜要和别人挤巴士

Because of all these "不习惯", I walked until I gave up high heel shoes; Because of all these "不习惯", I "laid" on others in the MRT because I didn't stand steadily; Because of all these "不习惯", I locked myself in the house because I forgot to take the keys before I locked my room....

I have many stories around keys.... for I wasn't just lock up myself one time, but twice... and I need ppl to rescue me. My landlord would also leave me a note, asking me to take care of myself and my key when he's away in overseas because nobody would come and rescue during that time... I also left my keys at client's place... and I ended up waiting my landlord and housemate at colleague's home.... sometimes I did bring my keys... but it happened to me once that I was locked outside the house just because my landlord's mum happened to lock the gate which none of us had the key.... The key stories happend to me had once a big jokes to everyone. Was that really funny? I simply didn't get used to it as my family members will open and close the gate for me when I'm in JB. I do not need to bring the keys with me at all times....

And I wish I could be making use of every time I spend on travelling. I still couldn't sleep on bus or on MRT; I still couldn't concentrate on reading. My mind is just blank when I'm on bus or MRT.

There was also time where Tiong Bahru and Tanjong Pagar 我傻傻分不清楚.... hoo... hoo...

有些不习惯我习惯了。。。有些不习惯，还是不习惯。。。