its friday

ohh, it's friday. time flies but i never thought it is this fast.

for the commoner, it is usually very exciting. looking forward towards a two day resting plus tonnes of outings with peers.

i used to be this commoner till this year. you know what time it is now. end of year. a curse spell on the accountants, auditors and financial related field officer. time to rush everything from closing the accounts.

i am now no longer the commoner. i have so much to do and so little time. forget about sunday. i have to go stock taking with another colleague. for friends who are foreign to accounting, stock take involves counting the inventory on hands held by the respective company. fun right?

not really, it depends what corporate client you have.

it is aptly to put this for the fellow accounting and finance working individual:

I kept telling my friends to stay off assurance line but it seems that gets them more excited to join. 

how do you restart a conversation

i have found out news about my friends around me for these few days. some moderately important news. but at one point, i start to think. since when i had started to lose touch with them. it used to have an automatic update from them. since i begin assuring other people's acounts, i have less such update. probably the fault is on my part for not taking the initiative.

in my defense, i always thought if our friendship is strong enough, this thing is a friend would normally do. perhaps i am wrong la. maybe it is time for me to try catching up on them one per day. that way, i will feel better.

i am now trying to devise a non-awkward way to start a conversation to friends who i have lost touch with since high school and university days. will it be just a hi or what have you been up to? or should i start by teasing. i don't know. my ability to converse has been impaired by the fact of number viewing days in and out. time to sharpen my communication skill again.

Maybe I should send a card with this instead.

blogger feels it is timely to update from friends for real, and definitely not through the blue wall updates.

EY annual dinner

oh, it was my first corporate annual dinner. quite fancy. it was situated at one of the posh hotels in kl. nothing less expected from ey.

personally, i think it is too big. with turn around of more than 1200 plus. i am lost. i have to keep looking for my friends, which is not completely unpleasant. it is really a time for mingling while drinking. i was forced to downed a glass of beer. not too bad. it tasted like bitter shandy? i wonder what was the bru-ha-ha of drinking red wine. my colleague convinced me to gulp it real fast. and it ended up no feeling. maybe i am borned with the gene to digest alcoholic drinks fast. haha. i have a resistant gene. but once i started driving home, i feel a warm, fuzzy feeling in my stomach. not unpleasant, just plain weird.  

i met up with quite a number of my batch colleagues, always happy to see them. they are like your childhood friends who grow up with you. just the context has switched to career wise. i also got to know some new people in my company. one which i have performed some tasks for her but never meet her. in short, my company is too big.

this is the moment everyone flashes out their best dress and suit. yours truly just stick the old suit. but it is the moments that count. (i almost offended a friend because i told her, "your dress looks like a saree." oppss. but to be fair, i have another colleague who thinks the same way. hence, i uphold the innocence card still.