Yesterday was my manager's last day at work. I never thought that her 2 months of notice will pass in a wink of an eye. While working with her has a lot of ups and downs, I really admire her for she is literally a walking IFRS. Everytime I posed a query to her, she will ask me, "have you checked FRS? She will turn to her right and flip her worn-down IFRS book and told me, "there, it's here, go read it." Though she is only 2 years older than me, the knowledge gap is simply too wide. Working under her was pressurising because she is always full of criticism. Nonetheless, she is someone very approachable. I'm not sure if we are alike in that sense. I must say she became a much relaxed person to work with after she tendered and somehow, we got along better. After she packed the last of her "remainings" in the office yesterday, she came up behind me and said, "come here". I thought i was in for another scolding. To my surprise, she gave me a very big hug and i really felt like tearing on the spot. Our one year of working together flashed through my mind and I realised that I'm sad that I wont be working for her anymore. In my farewell card written to her, I wrote that I'm just going to miss somebody breathing down my neck everyday. I'm greatful to all the knowledge she has imparted to me during this one year. Although 1 year is a short year, she has indeed made me a stronger person. I'm inspired by her in work aspects because she never bitches and she always take things in her stride. Big shoes to fill anyway... I know for sure I'm going to so miss her. The introduction of the new manager made things more difficult because the new manager does not like me and she has a bad reputation within my unit. I must say the kick-off meeting with her did not end up very well. *Shrugs* Que sera sera..

Should be on leave from next week onwards, but client's incompetence is totally a pain in the ass. She still dared to blame me for amending the consolidation workings and financial statements at the last minute. Peeved, i told her off in the face and told her," please note that it's always your responsibility to provide us with the consolidation working and financial statements. Auditors' responsibility is to review only." I'm extremely pissed because I did the whole consolidation for her and never once had she expressed gratitude. As I'll be going away, she had to work over the weekend and she was whining about it. But had she ever fucking thought about the many weekends I had to burn just to come up with the whole fucking consolidation by myself? With no knowledge in consolidation, I really have no idea how she even understand my workings. To top things off, this stupid company tend to have alot of insignifcant movement in their minority interest. I dont understand why would a company acquired shares from minority interests, only to dilute their shareholdings by issuing additional shares to minority interests? And these are consolidation stuff that was never taught before in school. I had to self-study alot of times and not much people in the firm could guide me because few people came across such situations in their consolidation. Damn these clients to hell. Superbly infuriatuated, when i was clearing review points with my partner yesterday, i told her about how the client pushed the consolidation to me, and how they always want me to change the financial statements because of fucking rounding error. I requested my partner to speak to the client on these matters during the kick-off meeting this year, which she agreed because all these are client's responsibilities in the first place. Looking back, I think that i was damn brave. haha.

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One of my closest friends got engaged recently and I'm really excited for her! Happy and glad that she found a guy who can finally support her and dote on her. People in my office are getting engaged one by one. I think in certain ways, there's some peer pressure to jump onto the bandwagon too. But this is something that should never be rushed as this is a lifelong committment that you are getting yourself into. My mum always tells me that I'll be the last to get married among all my friends.. How true is that?

Will be going to KL next Wednesday! So looking forward to enjoying my stay there. For some reason, I always feel very relaxed in KL. Maybe that's because I know I cant work and everything will be arranged for me, in terms of accomodation and entertainment. Everytime when I'm there, i can sleep till I cant sleep and enjoy all kinds of good food. I truly feel that food in Singapore cant be compared to the food I tasted in KL. Shawn became a uncle again recently and I'm so looking forward to playing with his new cutie niece. I've looked at all the pictures that he has taken of her and I feel that she is just so heart-melting! Here's a picture of Shawn's nieces and nephew