많이 많이 기대하고 있다!!!! ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
2010년 4월 18일 일요일
a lazy sunday afternoon & more
was a v nice & lazy sunday afternoon today! went abt my usual activities. n i got to explore Parco @ Millenia Walk as well as take the newly opened Circle Line!
according to this, it'll only take me 10 mins to reach Promenade from Paya Lebar station!
i'm quite sure that i'll be early for work tomorrow. hehe. esp since the Promenade station is right in front of Centennial Tower. hehehe.
i love the new Circle Line already. ^^ best of all, the distance in between transit stations isn't v long! in comparison with the North East Line (NEL). hehe. nice. ;) looks like i've to find another form of exercise.. n that's gonna come in the form of ice skating!! hehe. it shd be fun!
visited Parco @ Millenia Walk as well.. the 1st 2 levels seemed pretty quiet, but the 3rd was a buzz & hype of activity! families were lining up for lunch at the various japanese eateries. it seemed a tad pricey to me though.
the queue outside Saboten
price for a tonkatsu!
prices @ Saboten were definitely higher than that of Seoul. i wonder why.. maybe its because it costs more to fly the ingredients over to Singapore as opposed to Korea? :P that aside, there seemed to be many patrons in the restaurant.. Singaporeans are an affluent lot indeed.
MPH was having a 30% discount storewide!
would have bought a book there, if not for the fact that they only carried the hardcover version. >_< the difference in price btw the soft & hard cover is $12. n it would be more practical & cheaper to purchase the softcover version. oh well. i shall wait for Kinokuniya's storewide 20% discount. hehe.
passed by this interesting exhibition @ Marina Square on my way to church. Apparently it was a design competition for Google. The shortlisted participants' artwork for each age category were displayed on the boards & passer-bys could vote for the design they liked the best in each category. i got a free google sticker for voting! :) some of these kids can really draw! even those 4-7 year olds. i don't think i can even replicate their work. no matter how hard i try. yeah, i'm hopeless at drawing. i can't draw to save my life! hahaa. that's y, u should never play 'Win Lose or Draw' with me. you're sure to lose. haha.
according to this, it'll only take me 10 mins to reach Promenade from Paya Lebar station!
i'm quite sure that i'll be early for work tomorrow. hehe. esp since the Promenade station is right in front of Centennial Tower. hehehe.
i love the new Circle Line already. ^^ best of all, the distance in between transit stations isn't v long! in comparison with the North East Line (NEL). hehe. nice. ;) looks like i've to find another form of exercise.. n that's gonna come in the form of ice skating!! hehe. it shd be fun!
visited Parco @ Millenia Walk as well.. the 1st 2 levels seemed pretty quiet, but the 3rd was a buzz & hype of activity! families were lining up for lunch at the various japanese eateries. it seemed a tad pricey to me though.
the queue outside Saboten
price for a tonkatsu!
prices @ Saboten were definitely higher than that of Seoul. i wonder why.. maybe its because it costs more to fly the ingredients over to Singapore as opposed to Korea? :P that aside, there seemed to be many patrons in the restaurant.. Singaporeans are an affluent lot indeed.
MPH was having a 30% discount storewide!
would have bought a book there, if not for the fact that they only carried the hardcover version. >_< the difference in price btw the soft & hard cover is $12. n it would be more practical & cheaper to purchase the softcover version. oh well. i shall wait for Kinokuniya's storewide 20% discount. hehe.
passed by this interesting exhibition @ Marina Square on my way to church. Apparently it was a design competition for Google. The shortlisted participants' artwork for each age category were displayed on the boards & passer-bys could vote for the design they liked the best in each category. i got a free google sticker for voting! :) some of these kids can really draw! even those 4-7 year olds. i don't think i can even replicate their work. no matter how hard i try. yeah, i'm hopeless at drawing. i can't draw to save my life! hahaa. that's y, u should never play 'Win Lose or Draw' with me. you're sure to lose. haha.
2010년 4월 12일 월요일
yet another audit joke
i'm sure all u auditors out there have received this email at some point in yr audit career.
for the uninitiated, here's a peek into audit life.
Enjoy.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Your alarm rings, signalling another brand new day. You get up, looking
forward for another new day of challenge, another new day to learn.
After washing up, you put on your office outfit, giving you that
professional look, one that you believe many out there envy. Breakfast
follows (perhaps), and you head off to your office. You're one of the
earliest to arrive, ahead of all your superior and when they come in
later, they greet you and you feel all charged up for another productive
day. Plenty to do and learn and hence, you are prepared to stay back
late to do all that is necessary.
If you're currently doing a degree in finance, accounting or law, the
above is probably what you've been waiting for all these years. You work
your ass off (well... most of you) in university because it's your dream
to join one of those big glamorous firms out there in the market.
Lawyers and accountants are the usual suspects for this curse. Once
graduated, all of them will run like headless chicken towards those big
firms. If you're an accounting student... you want to be an auditor in
one of the Big-4 right?
Well, if you do make it, it's like a dream come true. In such firms, you
get a personal computer, maybe a notebook (wow!). All your stationeries
are free, and it's also the first time you step into a 'pantry', where
you can make your own coffee, just like those nice offices in TVB
series. Next, you get an exclusive e-mail, the domain after your name is
not the ordinary @ gmail.com or @hotmail.com
or @ yahoo.com ... No, it's
not, it's your-name@a-big-and-glamorous-firm.com
. You can't wait to tell
that to your friend.
Then comes the feeling of giving a business card with your name on it,
and it's not any other business card, it's one with your name on it,
it's one that signifies you're an employee with
a-big-and-glamorous-firm. And... the word below your name is not a lowly
"accounts executive"... the word below your name is exclusive... the
word below your name is... "Associate". And when your friend gives you
the "Wow, you're an associate with this firm?"... you get into instant
orgasm.
3 or 6 months into your job, you will then be experiencing the euphoria
of saying... I-am-very-busy... I-have-a-lot-work...
I-worked-till-very-late-last-night...
I-can't-make-it-for-the-gathering-cos-I-have-to-work-this-weekend. Yeah,
it's an euphoria because to you, it's a privilege to be busy, it's very
cool to work late, you're very proud to work in during weekends. When
you utter such words, a sense of arrogance and pride radiates from you.
You feel great because working so hard means you learnt a lot of things,
those not in the professional industry somehow looks lowly to you. You
feel big, you feel you're a level smarter than them .Reality will tend
to sink in within 2 years or so, though the duration seems to be getting
shorter and shorter now with the younger generation.
First, you will probably ask yourself, how come a graduate like you must
do all sorts of donkey jobs such as photocopying, checking invoices,
going through pile and pile of documents and filing. You will also be
wondering how come your superior whom you once looked up to have to suck
up to clients. Oh yeah... most all clients are unreasonable.
If you're an accountant, you will probably realise that there is no such
thing called a 'balance' sheet. It's balanced because you did the
balancing act so that your big boss can sign on it and certify it as
'true and fair'.
Yeah... signing on accounts, the job that you once dreamed of... isn't
exactly all a bed of roses. You then realise that you will probably
never reach that "just-need-to-sign-only stage" but hey... it's ok, you
probably hate that job by now. When you tell your client something,
chances are you are just as blur and confuse as them. But you have to
act as though you're an expert because you're the con-sul-tant. This is
just a glimpse of it.
Now, all the late nights and irregular meals will probably caused you to
age 8 years in 2 years. Those I-am-very-busy... I-have-a-lot-work...
I-worked-till-very-late-last-night...
I-can't-make-it-for-the-gathering-cos-I-have-to-work-this-weekend will
take its toll on your body and it will show. You will probably look very
skinny... or very far... you will certainly look old and worn out.
Working late and spending weekends in the office is no longer a cool
thing but absolute stupidity. But hey... you will still have to do it,
because there's still much work to be done.
By now, all your friends who ended up as salesmen or doing other thing
except being a professional, those whom you felt superior to are driving
anything but a proton. But for you, it's time to think whether you
should buy a proton cause your perodua is beginning to give you problem.
Of course, if your father is well-connected fella, things can be
different.
But if you're not, tough luck. You'll be wondering how come you're
generally under-paid. Those exposure and learning curve that you once
craved are no longer relevant. You want to make more money. But unless
you're a partner of the glamorous firm, money can be a lil tough to come
by.
At this point of time, probably after 3, 4 or 5 years, you finally
realised that document you signed when you first joined the glamorous
firm was nothing but lies. Then, you decide to ply your trade in the
commercial world, you leave those glamorous firm. You think joining a
commercial firm will bring about a good change, not knowing that such
move means you switched from being a 'profit centre' to a 'cost centre'.
One of the main effect of the switch is that you will be working doubly
hard compared to the profit centre, which probably includes a lot of
late nights too... but your salary and bonus is much lower compared to
profit centre. What does this mean... a story for another time.
One thing for sure... your morning will now be something like...
Your alarm rings, signalling another day... another weekday. You get up,
after snoozing the alarm a million and one times. You hope today is
Friday, but it's not, and you feel like shit. You think of a million and
one reasons to take MC, but you realised you have to go to office
because you failed to finish the report due today though you stayed till
10pm last night. You tell yourself you need to change job, just like how
you have been telling yourself in the last 1 year. Once in office,
you're in a dilemma cause you want time to go slower so that you can
finish your work but yet, you want time to go faster so that you can
leave the office and go for lunch.
During lunch, you will b**** with your colleagues about work and
probably the bosses. You will all talk about so many people who seem to
be doing so well except for you. You realised you should have done
something else while in university. You realised you may have made a
mistake in life... a mistake in being a professional... you have made...
a professional mistake.
for the uninitiated, here's a peek into audit life.
Enjoy.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Your alarm rings, signalling another brand new day. You get up, looking
forward for another new day of challenge, another new day to learn.
After washing up, you put on your office outfit, giving you that
professional look, one that you believe many out there envy. Breakfast
follows (perhaps), and you head off to your office. You're one of the
earliest to arrive, ahead of all your superior and when they come in
later, they greet you and you feel all charged up for another productive
day. Plenty to do and learn and hence, you are prepared to stay back
late to do all that is necessary.
If you're currently doing a degree in finance, accounting or law, the
above is probably what you've been waiting for all these years. You work
your ass off (well... most of you) in university because it's your dream
to join one of those big glamorous firms out there in the market.
Lawyers and accountants are the usual suspects for this curse. Once
graduated, all of them will run like headless chicken towards those big
firms. If you're an accounting student... you want to be an auditor in
one of the Big-4 right?
Well, if you do make it, it's like a dream come true. In such firms, you
get a personal computer, maybe a notebook (wow!). All your stationeries
are free, and it's also the first time you step into a 'pantry', where
you can make your own coffee, just like those nice offices in TVB
series. Next, you get an exclusive e-mail, the domain after your name is
not the ordinary @ gmail.com or @hotmail.com
or @ yahoo.com ... No, it's
not, it's your-name@a-big-and-glamorous-firm.com
. You can't wait to tell
that to your friend.
Then comes the feeling of giving a business card with your name on it,
and it's not any other business card, it's one with your name on it,
it's one that signifies you're an employee with
a-big-and-glamorous-firm. And... the word below your name is not a lowly
"accounts executive"... the word below your name is exclusive... the
word below your name is... "Associate". And when your friend gives you
the "Wow, you're an associate with this firm?"... you get into instant
orgasm.
3 or 6 months into your job, you will then be experiencing the euphoria
of saying... I-am-very-busy... I-have-a-lot-work...
I-worked-till-very-late-last-night...
I-can't-make-it-for-the-gathering-cos-I-have-to-work-this-weekend. Yeah,
it's an euphoria because to you, it's a privilege to be busy, it's very
cool to work late, you're very proud to work in during weekends. When
you utter such words, a sense of arrogance and pride radiates from you.
You feel great because working so hard means you learnt a lot of things,
those not in the professional industry somehow looks lowly to you. You
feel big, you feel you're a level smarter than them .Reality will tend
to sink in within 2 years or so, though the duration seems to be getting
shorter and shorter now with the younger generation.
First, you will probably ask yourself, how come a graduate like you must
do all sorts of donkey jobs such as photocopying, checking invoices,
going through pile and pile of documents and filing. You will also be
wondering how come your superior whom you once looked up to have to suck
up to clients. Oh yeah... most all clients are unreasonable.
If you're an accountant, you will probably realise that there is no such
thing called a 'balance' sheet. It's balanced because you did the
balancing act so that your big boss can sign on it and certify it as
'true and fair'.
Yeah... signing on accounts, the job that you once dreamed of... isn't
exactly all a bed of roses. You then realise that you will probably
never reach that "just-need-to-sign-only stage" but hey... it's ok, you
probably hate that job by now. When you tell your client something,
chances are you are just as blur and confuse as them. But you have to
act as though you're an expert because you're the con-sul-tant. This is
just a glimpse of it.
Now, all the late nights and irregular meals will probably caused you to
age 8 years in 2 years. Those I-am-very-busy... I-have-a-lot-work...
I-worked-till-very-late-last-night...
I-can't-make-it-for-the-gathering-cos-I-have-to-work-this-weekend will
take its toll on your body and it will show. You will probably look very
skinny... or very far... you will certainly look old and worn out.
Working late and spending weekends in the office is no longer a cool
thing but absolute stupidity. But hey... you will still have to do it,
because there's still much work to be done.
By now, all your friends who ended up as salesmen or doing other thing
except being a professional, those whom you felt superior to are driving
anything but a proton. But for you, it's time to think whether you
should buy a proton cause your perodua is beginning to give you problem.
Of course, if your father is well-connected fella, things can be
different.
But if you're not, tough luck. You'll be wondering how come you're
generally under-paid. Those exposure and learning curve that you once
craved are no longer relevant. You want to make more money. But unless
you're a partner of the glamorous firm, money can be a lil tough to come
by.
At this point of time, probably after 3, 4 or 5 years, you finally
realised that document you signed when you first joined the glamorous
firm was nothing but lies. Then, you decide to ply your trade in the
commercial world, you leave those glamorous firm. You think joining a
commercial firm will bring about a good change, not knowing that such
move means you switched from being a 'profit centre' to a 'cost centre'.
One of the main effect of the switch is that you will be working doubly
hard compared to the profit centre, which probably includes a lot of
late nights too... but your salary and bonus is much lower compared to
profit centre. What does this mean... a story for another time.
One thing for sure... your morning will now be something like...
Your alarm rings, signalling another day... another weekday. You get up,
after snoozing the alarm a million and one times. You hope today is
Friday, but it's not, and you feel like shit. You think of a million and
one reasons to take MC, but you realised you have to go to office
because you failed to finish the report due today though you stayed till
10pm last night. You tell yourself you need to change job, just like how
you have been telling yourself in the last 1 year. Once in office,
you're in a dilemma cause you want time to go slower so that you can
finish your work but yet, you want time to go faster so that you can
leave the office and go for lunch.
During lunch, you will b**** with your colleagues about work and
probably the bosses. You will all talk about so many people who seem to
be doing so well except for you. You realised you should have done
something else while in university. You realised you may have made a
mistake in life... a mistake in being a professional... you have made...
a professional mistake.
2010년 4월 10일 토요일
spring cleaning
this organiser from Target would be pretty cool to have in my room! as u guys all know, i'm not exactly the neatest person on earth. my room somewhat resembles an earthquake disaster zone right now. books, papers & knickknacks are covering my work desk with less than an inch to spare. i'm sure anyone who's been to my room can attest to that. even if i clean up my room, it's gonna return to its old state in less than 3 days. i guess i just don't have a knack for tidiness.
speaking of spring cleaning, i guess i should do it pretty soon. seeing as how its spring. hahaha.
i need to clear out my wardrobe, which isn't gonna be an easy task. but clear out i must! but being the big procrastinator i am, i wonder when i'll get it done. next year at best? hah...
2010년 4월 9일 금요일
팝콘 노래방 - 짱이다!
팝콘 노래방
popcorn norebang beats all the other norebangs hands down! the interior was pretty clean & they had all the latest songs! (4월까지!) 맘 넘 들어.. ㅎㅎㅎ. 방도 크고 깨끗하고 위치도 넘 좋더라고.. 내가 보기에는 이 노래방이 인기가 넘 많을 걸 같에...
문이 몇 칠 전에 방금 열어서 거기에 가면 팝콘이 공짜하고 1시간 - 30달러이거던! 다른 대 비교하면 넘 싸!
누가 관심이 있어? 우리 거기서 모임하자!! 어때? ㅎㅎㅎ.
2010년 4월 5일 월요일
브라운아이드걸스 - Mini Comeback?
매직 - 브라운아이드걸스 (페스타온아이스)
점프 - 브라운아이드걸스
두 노래가 넘 좋더라. 싸이 황동을 끝난 후에 드디어 컴백크할 거야.. ㅎㅎ. 넘넘 기대해. 근데 이번에 느낌 좀 달라. 다 배러드이야.. 지금. 사실은 그전에 모습이 좋기한데 브아걸들 배러드를 부르는 것 더 어울린다고 생각해.
일하면서 노래들 때 기분이 넘 좋다. ㅎㅎ.
2010년 4월 2일 금요일
of spring, florals & more
i've been doing a fair bit of shopping lately, which really shouldn't be the case! but all those pretty florals have been tempting me quite a fair bit. it would be really nice to visit the countryside for a peek into country life and all. its a pity that SG is a city. a quick getaway to the countryside would be idyllic, not to mention relaxing in the least.
do check out LiebeMarlene for fashion related stuff & more. I really like her blog. i think the pictures help a lot. its all dreamy & romantic. v old school style of photos. i can totally imagine myself in a fair no of outfits that she has been posting up. :)
i should be studying for my CFA, but i foresee myself reading this new book that i got at Kinokuniya just now.
that and waiting for my new sandals to arrive! ^^
i should really stop this bad habit of mine. but it is easier said than done. hah.
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