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Time to say goodbye

As a regular contributor to this blog, I guess the best way to bid farewell to my lovely runmates is through an entry here. :)

Date: 4th September 2006, Monday

A bunch of fresh graduates, from NTU, SMU and Australian Unis were gathered together in a room on the 12th floor of P*C Building, listening intently to the Partners, HR and various instructors teaching us the "way of life as an auditor". We never looked back since.


You never expect people with such different backgrounds to bond together like 1 big family. But we did it.

We had fun outings to boardgame cafes;

Have drinks and play all sorts of silly finger guessing games;

KTV was our favourite past-time (Kster, 10 Dollar, KBox, Partyworld, Teo Heng);

Exploring the tranquils of Singapore on Pulau Ubin;


Midnight supper at East Coast Lagoon;

Celebrating our 1 year of surviving in audit;

And getting oh-so-comfy in our Pyjamas Bash.


And of course, other than meeting up every Friday for dinners, we also celebrate special occassions:

Like Christmas barbeque;

Mid-Autumn Festival;

Chinese New Year (with the traditional 'lo-hei');

and WTH, we even celebrated Leap Day! *LOL*

Of course, how can we missed out those fun times when it's absolutely FREE?? I'm sure there's no other company that gives its employees so many reason(s) to get HIGH and drunk :P

Well well, in case you were wondering "aren't they suppose to be working?" Of course, we do not show you pictures of us working, coz we were working TOO hard to be taking photos!! *wahaha*

This remarkable bond each of and everyone of us shared, intertwined our hearts and gave us fond memories.

In life, people come and go and they all leave for one reason or another. But it doesn't mean that we're leaving for good, coz once you're in the "Something Decent" Run, you'll always be a part of of us. :)

To all: Although the roads ahead may look daunting and weary, look deep inside your heart and find your passion for it is the only fire that will keep you burning.

I am thankful for all the great memories and photographs that I am left with to keep me company Down Under.

It has been a great pleasure documenting the bits and pieces of our shared memories in this blog and I will continue to post update of my new life there.

Take care everyone and stay true.

Yours sincerely,
Nadyne
The Retain Queen
「 bouncing away 12:00 AM 」

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钱难赚

All I feel like saying now is: '钱难赚'....

Next, I'll let the picture do the talking....



「 bouncing away 11:28 PM 」

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Random thoughts

After a hard day at work, on the looong train-ride home, some random thoughts just floated around in my mind...

Topic: Durian VS Auditors

(Pls see below for some characteristics of durians and note how close to heart the characteristics are)

1. You either love them or hate them (NO neutral feelings)

2. Thorny on the outside, soft & vulnerable inside

3. Quality varies and the branding of source (i.e. D24 durian tree) is important

4. Bad seeds exists regardless of source

5. The sweeter the seed, the faster it'll be eaten up!!!

6. Each durian will leave the tree eventually (its just a matter of time)

7. Durians that leave their tree too soon are not worth very much (cause they are still unripe). Durians that leave too late bears the risk of rotting on the tree (and become completely worthless).

8. High turnover (this, i believe, is self-explanatory)

9. Durian always attempt to leave its tree quietly but the loud crack of the branch/final landing thud on the ground is inevitable (recall the last goodbye email u received).

10. Its very normal to find some bird shit on the husk of durians but too much shit will cause the durian to leave its tree prematurely (heavy burden)

To conclude, i thought of this phrase that I heard on FM93.3 quite some time back.....

榴莲* 的离开是因为风的追求还是树的不挽留。。。

Author's note:
*slightly edited. the exact words of the phrase i heard was 叶子 instead..

Disclaimer:
The above are solely random thoughts from an over-worked mind. Any resemblance of any sort is purely coincidental.
「 bouncing away 9:31 PM 」

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Life as an SA1

Having Risk Management L&E... and having time to appreciate a few moments of beauty. Can see the rainbow?




Having to walk down 12 floors once again during lunch... cos there was no way of getting into the lift. The gap between us and TMY got wider and wider as we approached ground floor.



And lastly, working in office till 10pm even though you were on L&E that day and could've gone home at 5pm :(






「 bouncing away 10:40 PM 」

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Greetings from land with UV Rays

Hey hey hey,

Sorry for the super late updates.. we are doing fine over here and this week has been pretty slack so far.. its like 1pm and we are about to go shopping.

Anyway, photos will be up soon. And if you haven't heard, our rental agreement is for 7 months only.. pending how much the As!@#*! landlord wants to increase our rent, we might not hold onto the nice penthouse! : ) Come soon.

As for internet, this place is a 3rd world country, qouted from one of the salesman. Everything here is anti-competitive!!! They wanted to charge us Aud300 just for connect a landline.. faints.. and internet charges here goes by the MB... who in the hell just read email all their life....

Alrighty, time for shopping now. will update when i come back to McDonald's

YX.A.Z
(Yuxuan A Zhang)
「 bouncing away 10:56 AM 」

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L&E 符 for sale

Latest invention of the century - the L&E 符!!!
Promotion period: $10 each! Results guaranteed.

also available in a stack, if u are feeling 邪 lately.
one stack, 3 times a day, beforefood.

here's living proof that the our 符 works!

before the trial 符. pls refer to the melissa's one-min fame videos - she was dozing off... even when theresa was talking to her. (oh wells. i guess it's not entireeeeeeeely her fault. )

and after taking our 符, i can finally see her eyes!!!
i forgot to mention that you need to stamp the ground thrice and pray to 彭神. :)

and after the demonstration by Melissa, our L&E 符s sell like hotcakes!! we provide personal customization for our valued customers. available in both english and chinese.

(in clockwise direction)

sheryl: Full time tai tai part time auditor 符

hoi: generic blue 符

junxian: 老鼠变大 （老鼠大便）符

melissa: 不能睡 符

daniel: generic red 符

theresa: don't pretend to be paying attention 符

meiyan: concentrate 符

hoi: evil be gone 符

hoi's pig: (yes. it's not spared either) generic blue 符

what are you waiting for? CALL AND MAKE A RESERVATION TODAY! WHILE STOCKS LAST! available from Master MY and Master Hoi.

「 bouncing away 1:34 PM 」

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22nd Month Runniversary

As usual, it was a quiet and cosy Friday night dinner with a litter of 'cats' aka 小猫几只 :P

Dinner was at Sweet Indulgence (Finally we got to go there) with 7 of us and a surprise appearance of Ms xxx.

I wouldn't say food was fantastic, coz Mr Lee JX was still hungry after gobbling down his chicken leg. He was ferociously staring at TY's fish n chips *LOL*

And as usual, a group shot to mark the event with MZD's new Samsung Omnia. And once again his trick of 'adjusting camera' while sheepishly taking candid shots of us has SUCCEED. *bleah*

*For risk management purposes, this post has been amended by the administrator




「 bouncing away 10:22 AM 」

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Greetings from Sunshine State

heeellooo SA1sssss!! congratulations! u all are now empowered to bully (oops i mean coach and delegate) juniors. and Happy 22nd mth and many more to come.

Here are some pictures i took.
see the clear blue sky

(nadyne: try spotting where our office is. haha)

My turn to start work on mon after such a long leave. Sydney peeps and Kow! update pls.

byebye

Huixin

「 bouncing away 10:13 PM 」

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arrival of the new era

Although it has been only 4 days since 1 July, nonetheless, a very big CONGRATULATIONS to everyone for becoming SA1!!!!

"With great power, comes great responsiblity" ~ Spiderman :P

Poor me, alone in office on a Friday afternoon, suddenly there was huddle of footsteps and in come..........

the NEW BATCH of Associates!!!

Gosh they look so young, blur and innocent. Welcome to the REAL world man.. *hiaks*

Anyway, since our area has been decorated with loads of photos, lego bricks, quotes, newspaper clippings, all of them were so interested and start to look around! And I heard Bala telling them about their allocated seats....

Uh-oh! You all should know what I mean?? Not that i'm being mean, but i always LOVE our cosy corner. So in order to 'prevent' a certain 'mass invasion', Witchie and me have thought out some brilliant ideas to 'mark our territory' :P

1) Creat pseudo audit AWPs and place them on the tables

Witchie came out with this brilliant idea! We can set up AWPs with client names such as:

- TY Sporting Goods Pte Ltd
- Shu & Co Jewellery
- Witchie Witcrafts & Wizardry
- MY Entertainment Inc.
- Something Decent Foodstuffs
and the likes...

She said we can file our CYA in the AWPs to create the pseudo files! haha brilllllliant!

2) Personalise our workstations

Although we've put up so many of our pictures, sometimes people still dun get the hint. hahaha

So i think we can customize our workstations by putting mini-fans (work great during late nights, we'll need those when peak comes next year), water dispenser (save us some leg work to the water cooler), paper trays, small storage boxes for stationeries (sometimes B*l* is not around for our supplies in times of urgency).

Oh, i think they're probably briefed that those telephones with caller IDs are meant for managers, so they can't sit? We can put 'fake' caller IDs (jus put some cardboard with the telephone number or extn) on it, to look like it's for managers only. *wahahahaha*

The above is purely fictional. Any resemblances are purely coincidental.


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the pseudo farewell

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