De one with After Awhile

Sunny

It's already been 14 days since I started work in a CPA. More precisely, it's a major change in my life. Something different from the luxurious and less-worrying student life. This job could be also, my very first CPF-contributing job!

You must be wondering how am I coping? Work's getting heavier and even more complicated gradually as the number of assignments keeps coming one after another. Within the first week, I completed six years of both audit and compilation reports for a particular company. Of course, with alot of help from my manager. Till date, I'm moving on and working on my 3rd assignment - A standard audit. Sounds cool right?

Although there's really lots of tedious work, killing of trees (because of much amendments in reports), I found it very rewarding as I find myself gaining knowledge about accounting work and anything related to it. Sort of a headstart too!

To be even more comforting, the colleagues and my manager, Rebecca, are really very friendly and nice people. They have been very helpful, always willing to put down their work just to answer my queries. At least I don't experience any "tai qi" ( Singlish: "pushing responsibilities to others and avoiding interference to self".)

What's taxing might have not dawn upon... As much as I enjoy starting a new life point - working, I'm pretty worried about coping with studies when the next semester starts. Well.. time being, let's just let nature takes it's course bah.

With working hours invading my life, I find life's draining of colours. Gone are those jeans and comfortable t-shirts. Away with those long un-confined hours of shopping during non-crowded week days... Most of the time, I'm working overtime, in order to complete my assignments way before time to crunch my thirst to learn more. As such, it leaves me with only 2 pathetic hours, sometimes nil hours after work for me to settle my dinner and going out.

Fortunately, work's really busy but I still managed to spare some time for Honey. Meeting Honey every weekend. Well... perhaps it's due to us being too overly affected and occupied by our problems at work and meeting demands, it had caused our relationship to be sailing through rocky pavements. I admit I've been pretty emotional this period. Always in need of Honey to "output" my bottled troubles at this moment in life..

I guess I've been selfish bothering Honey while I should have turned to my close friends. Haiz.. i feel very sandwiched. I feared Honey might misunderstand I confide in my friends more than my love. On the other hand, I don't wish my friends to be occupied with my problems when they themselves have their commitments too. What should I do?

With that, I see less and less of my family. Yet, I'm pretty grateful that my granny helps me with my laundry and friends to accompany me. Otherwise, I'd be eating dinner alone and shopping with no one to provide me with opinions.

I still go out with Mohan. Paiseh but Mohan was the friend who could make it to accompany me out for some last-minute shopping. Managed to have supper with Clara once too, who have accompanied me to get my first sets of clothings prior my first day of work.

Economics taught us that the opportunity cost of earning money is leisure time. In my case, it would be more appropriate for me to quote that the next best alternative forgone for work experience is my leisure time with love, family and friends. Of course, together with the time I could have spared myself to do things I enjoy.

Jiayou ("Keep going" in Chinese), Jason!