Sunday, January 21, 2007

i miss home

Its hard to admit that u really miss home. U try to say to urself that u aint missng home and ur doing just fine. When everything burst out suddenly ur out of control. I tend to say to myself that im doing just fine and coping up with daily adversities in life but subconsciously theres a tiny voive saying that reality its not i should act and that i have to face that im away with my family and that i havent talked with them for soo long. Last night repression/projection or whateva u call it couldnt hold my subconsciousness anymore. I vividly dreamt of myself going home unexpectedly. The picture is really clear and i can see the changes that happened to my home. Its bizzare that some stairs where eradicated and that everything seems futuristic. I came home to surprise them but i was a bit surprise too see my parents and how they got a bit old. I embraced them tightly and said how i miss them so much. My dad who often is not that expressive suddenly held me tight. Tears kept running in my eyes that ive questioned myself how i decided to move out and work in another country. This labyrinth of thoughts woke me up feeling soo emotional. The dream has a very clear indication that i should keep our conversation as often as possible. And it is an indication that i should definitely go home this april.

its raining ipot

Shesh as i was surpressing my poo ever since im at ofis, a really bad thing happened to me as i was walking home. Da fucking birds suddenly started ejecting ipot from up above. Whatta day! I was really stressed out from da trainless sydney. Its 1am for crying out loud...

trainless sydney

Life without a train. Hmmm.. Just imagine now im standing in a bus after literally pushing myself from a mob of people. To my relief im already at the bus as i speak. Its horrible since hundreds of people are relying on trains as the major transport system. Its really a shocking experience as ive waited one and a half hour just to get my bus since theres no taxi anywhere. I feel lucky coz theres still hundreds of people still stuck in the city looking for a transport home. Cant wait to get home and take rest. Such a horrible and stressful day.. Whew!

Saturday, January 20, 2007

detailed reality check 07

I've been working my @$$ off for the past coupla weeks. Don't have the time to update this blog nor to have a quick chat with my family. It's been so long since I've talked to them through chat. I would call my mom once in awhile but I think that my system is already consumed with so much work to do.

What's the difference between working here vis-a-vis the busy season in SGV. Well, the obvious part is that at SGV, it would be much fun since you have your fellow countrymen you're working with and have worked with for quite a while. Here you have to put up with different sorts of people. Here is much different in the sense that you have to fulfill a lot of tasks on a short span of time. People here expect that you finish an engagement for just two freakin' weeks compared in SGV where I can spend my whole month or so auditing a particular engagement. Being burnt is much experienced here rather than in SGV for the only reason that you're expected to deliver your output quickly. I don't mind staying up late as long as there are people here who would also help me finish whatever I want to accomplish. It seems that its a big deal for them if you go home by 7-8pm. Plus, I've been given a lot of inexperienced staff to work with. That really pisses me off. Imagine that I have to teach them how to do the audit and at the same time I have to accomplish the main tasks. They're expecting me to be a superhero and be done away with it. Gesh, I know its hard but I'm coping up.

My life here is really really tiring. Given the fact that I have to take care of myself (i.e., do my laundry, cook my food–which I rarely do, clean my room). It's really hard I tell you. Plus, my housemate pours away her problems with me. That's why I decided to make this blog to say all the troubles. At least I have someone to say it to so that I could shift the burden of problems within my system.

I know that life is hard but not what I expected it to be. I know that this will soon finish but another engagements will eat up my system. I just want to be done with this. I have to look at something that would give me a sense that I am working this hard. I have to treat myself with gadgets!!

My wishlist for this busy season is to have a nice client (one that is accommodating that would take into account that I'm new in the engagement and one that treats me as an auditor not just some person who would merely finish the audit at a given time but a client who would assist me in finishing it), a good staffing (one that would know exactly what I meant if I said search for unrecorded liabilities, cutoff, etc), a nice cook (one that would cook the dishes that I soooo terribly miss), a cleaner (one that could clean my rubbish and do the vaccuum of my room), a personal assistant (one that could tell me some errands especially the personal errands that I usually forgot to do), a good masseur (one that could make me feel a nice personal message every end of the day to feel that my body relaxed and I can go the next day not feeling stressed at all), a shrink (that I could say all I wanna say so that at the end of the day I don't feel so problematic), and the list goes on...

So if anyone of you interested in filling the vacancies above, I'm happy to hire you. I will give you some of my goodies in the fridge that I have not touched for a decade coz of my busy sched.

Nuff about that I think I deserve a movie today.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Sydney New Year 2007

Just had the time today to finally upload the harbour bridge new year in sydney.. the best ive seen so far.. so i had to replace my crappy video with this one. fire out!!

a prelude to the slight busy season

As i had heard the real busy season starts on july when we finalise our audit for june accounts. December accounts are just minimal. So all this time i wasnt able to blog due to the start of a slight busy season. I can just imagine how hectic the busy season for june accounts. Anyway, i know i am equiped with adequate knowledge on how to manage this stressful times. As i know that i had been in a much stressful environment. The fun part begins soon. Cant wait to spend some time at the office and shed my dugot pawis for the firm!

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

12 Apostles, London Arch, Loch Ard Gorge

12 Apostles
The Twelve Apostles are a collection of natural limestone stacks standing just off shore in the Port Campbell National Park, on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. Their proximity to one another has made the site a popular tourist attraction. Originally the site was called the Sow and Piglets. The name was changed in the 1950s to the more majestic "The Twelve Apostles" to lure more visitors even though there were only nine left.







London Arch
London Arch (38°37′19″S, 142°55′57″E) is a natural arch in the Port Campbell National Park, Australia. The arch is one of the tourist attractions along the Great Ocean Road near Port Campbell in Victoria. This stack was formed by a gradual process of erosion, and until 1990 formed a complete double-span natural bridge. The arch closest to the shoreline collapsed unexpectedly on 15 January 1990, leaving two tourists stranded on the outer part: they were rescued by helicopter. No one was injured in the event. Prior to the collapse, the formation was known as London Bridge because of its similarity to its namesake.



The Loch Ard Gorge
The Loch Ard Gorge (38°38′S 143°04′E) is part of Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia, about 5 minutes drive west of The Twelve Apostles. It is a visible example of the process of erosion in action. The gorge is named after the clipper ship Loch Ard, which ran aground on nearby Muttonbird Island on 1 June 1878 approaching the end of a three-month journey from England to Melbourne. Fifty-two people were killed, but two 18-year-old survivors, Tom Pearce and Eva Carmichael, were washed into the gorge and found shelter in a cave. The gorge is accessed via the Great Ocean Road on the Southern side of Australia. A stairwell allows visitors down to the beach which is otherwise undeveloped. There are numerous plaques that tell the story as well and a small museum and rest area. The uncommon Rufous Bristlebird (Dasyornis broadbenti) is often observed around the Gorge. This was the location for a number of scenes of the 1982 film The Pirate Movie and also the 1999 TV series Journey to the Center of the Earth with Treat Williams.





The Great Ocean Road

The Great Ocean Road (known as the Surfcoast Highway between Geelong and Torquay) which stretches along the South Eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Geelong and Warrnambool is the world's biggest war memorial. It was built between World War I and World War II by returned servicemen in honour of their fallen comrades. The road took 16 years to build and it was all done by hand using picks, shovels and dynamite.
The main gate, an arch, has been rebuilt a number of times. The first gate was demolished and rebuilt when the road was widened, another was knocked over by a truck and a third arch was razed during the Ash Wednesday fires. The gate is not actually located at the beginning of the road.
Hugging tightly to the coast, the road offers outstanding views of Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean. The section near Port Campbell covers some of the most scenic coastline in the world, because of its striking and dramatic natural rock formations. These formations include Loch Ard Gorge, the Grotto, London Bridge (renamed to London Arch in recent years after the 'bridge' partially collapsed), and most famously The Twelve Apostles.



Puffing Billy

Puffing Billy is a genuine relic of our more leisurely days. An historic steam train still running regularly in the mountain district it was built to serve at the turn of the century.

The Railway is the sole survivor of four experimental lines used to develop rural areas in the early 1900's. Puffing Billy is now a major tourist attraction, its operation depending on hundreds of dedicated volunteers.

Puffing Billy runs every day of the year, except Christmas day, so why not take yourself and your family or friends on a sentimental journey along this 24.5 km operating museum. Enjoy the mountain scenery and panoramic views which pass by your carriage window. At Lakeside, the intermediate terminus of the railway is inside the beautiful Emerald Lake Park. You may stop over for a few pleasant hours bushwalking, swimming or just relaxing in the peaceful country setting. The terminus of the line at Gembrook is a delightful country town with much to offer the visitor.





my freakin' housemate

The start of the year is really bloody annoying. Wuthappund? Well, for the first time I met this morrocan girl who grew up in UK and she's kept on screaming and shouting and cursing! Then, I came outta my room and just wanted to know what the fuzz is it all about. Her name is Nadia. She's having problems getting rid of her ex-boyfriend since she wanted to go to work yesterday. She's mad telling me that she wasnt able to sleep good and that she wanted to go out but this guy he's with isn't cooperating. She keeps on slamming the door.

I didn't mind her at first and I went with my usual routine of making cup of coffee. Guess what she said? She asked me to make her coffee and I said I don't know how to make her the type of coffee. She said that she wanted two sugar bags and I would put water and heat it using the microwave. The nerve!! So I just left the milk, sugar, and coffee granules so that she could make her own. But she never used it.

To further worsen the situation, she kept knocking on my door asking for a toilet tissue paper I lent her mine and of course I never expected it to be returned. This girl is making us feel uncomfortable. I even saw my cooking pan used up with all the rubbish pasta left on it and was soaked in water. I left a post it note on her door saying she should clean my pan.

To good thing is that our landlord has already made some actions to the tribunal and is being given 14 days to vacate the room for breach on the lease agreement. That's good because I don't want to have such a trashy housemate. But the good side of it was 2 of my other housemates were very cooperative and we talked about all this problem. Plus we have some bonding sessions because of that bloody morrocan girl.