The ups, downs & miracles of 2008

It's yet another year, another new environment, new friends and new challenges. This is usually the time of the year where u really look into what you have set for yourself beginning of the year and what you actually achieved by now. Well, honestly, my major target for myself this year was to kickstart my career not sure of whether I'm actually up for it. I remember my flight landed in Malaysia at 6.00 a.m in the morning of 1st January 2008. As I left the airport, I told myself I'm gonna start this year with a bang and accomplish something.

Eventually, I managed to get myself a job in Ernst & Young as an auditor knowing the obstacles and challenges that I would face. It really was an experience. First few months were really the honeymoon months, meeting new people, acclimatise myself with the working environment. Going through the off-peak period was like a miracle as you never thought that an auditor's job could be so easy and flexible. I took my first 2 papers for CPA soon and I think I got a fair result for it. Soon after exams, things were really hell, being thrown at challenges after challenges, working through 10 hour working days or even more. Being promoted after 7 months of your job is not a good thing, you lack the experience, you lack the knowledge, what more I'm a person who lacks the motivation when it comes to things that doesn't interest me.

If you were to ask me, what was the biggest gain I had this year? I would have to say.. a bunch of colleagues who eventually turn out to be my close friends ( thiam yong, wen hsin, chee kang, christina, ai peng, dawson, tinesh, wan chin, wei zhen, hong seng, yuet lin, choon hoong, the list just goes on and on.... sorry if I left out anyone). A bunch of people who walked with me, encouraged me and even shared my complains with me. No doubt without them, I would never have reached this far working as an auditor. But the question remains: how long more could I battle on? It's not an easy task having to put in 10 hours day in day out in a job for the peak period and facing things that are foreign and uninteresting. I ask myself everyday in the morning: What is it that I like bout this job? The only answer was my friends. I really hope I could go through these three years together with all of them.

Not to mention my close friends, kok fai n chia ming who heard a big share of my complains in both my career and guy girl problems. I guess this people have come a long way with me. I felt that I might have neglected some of my other friends and my family along the way due to tight schedules as an auditor. Well, I still managed to keep in touch with Jeannie, one of the few people who came back from Aussie. Melbourne was indeed a place I really miss, some of the people there like CC, Su San,Damien, Daniel, Ken, Kee Win, Kai, Joanna, 24, Sheanee... gosh it seems like its been a really long time since we met. I really hope I could balance out my time next year and meet as many people as possible including all my other friends from Klang.

Well, I guess that kinda sums up my year, it's been a struggle, but yet it was filled with joy and new experiences. This is my first post in a million years I know, but I really hope I would find the motivation to continue writing....... hehe..