Home alone
Mum and sis are off to Taiwan for a holiday.
Yesterday, after I got home, I changed out of my work clothes, wash my face, and then plong down on bed with "The five people you meet in Heaven" Rene passed me earlier on in the night.
No one bugging me to take my shower, yay! But no nice hot veggie broth served up too. No chance to say, "Ma, more pepper pleeeease?" Sigh
The book last night was a simple, easy to read chicken-soup-for-the-soul book. For a long time, I haven't the luxury of time to finish a book at one read (albeit a really thin book). 2 hours spent on leisure weekday reading seems so like a sin! Blessed the Deepavali holiday for the time.
I'm packing off to a community library later in the afternoon. Need to take myself away from my bed and computer, and focus on information systems, law and corporate tax. Ill self-discipline means drastic measures to get myself in focus.
I wonder what I was thinking of when I got myself into this trouble. When I signed up for the exams, I was unemployed and a real job wasn't in sight anywhere. I didn't (still don't) have plans to go into nitty-gritty accounting anymore, but I was interested to delve deeper into the subjects I dealt with day in and out in my prevoius job, and thought paying and sitting for exams is one good way to force myself to take it seriously beyond plain talk - you know how I like to bulllshit and ONLY talk. Plus, the exam fees are quoted in pounds - ₤46 for 1 paper, ₤138 for 3. ₤138 doesn't look expensive at all - until you convert it. It's 424 singapore dollars. Or, 2,166 chinese yuan.
Oh well. In the greater scheme of things, what is S$424? What is more than a week's salary? What is failing a few papers? What is another S$424? The pursuit of knowledge, even little bits here and there so that there isn't enough up there to impress examiners, is more worthy a life goal than plain paper chase, isn't it? (Of course it is, if I say so on my blog)
Off to Auntie Annie's place for lunch. Looking forward to terrorising my 2 year-old cousin, my appearance always triggers her wailings, I don't know why. Wahahaha...
Yesterday, after I got home, I changed out of my work clothes, wash my face, and then plong down on bed with "The five people you meet in Heaven" Rene passed me earlier on in the night.
No one bugging me to take my shower, yay! But no nice hot veggie broth served up too. No chance to say, "Ma, more pepper pleeeease?" Sigh
The book last night was a simple, easy to read chicken-soup-for-the-soul book. For a long time, I haven't the luxury of time to finish a book at one read (albeit a really thin book). 2 hours spent on leisure weekday reading seems so like a sin! Blessed the Deepavali holiday for the time.
I'm packing off to a community library later in the afternoon. Need to take myself away from my bed and computer, and focus on information systems, law and corporate tax. Ill self-discipline means drastic measures to get myself in focus.
I wonder what I was thinking of when I got myself into this trouble. When I signed up for the exams, I was unemployed and a real job wasn't in sight anywhere. I didn't (still don't) have plans to go into nitty-gritty accounting anymore, but I was interested to delve deeper into the subjects I dealt with day in and out in my prevoius job, and thought paying and sitting for exams is one good way to force myself to take it seriously beyond plain talk - you know how I like to bulllshit and ONLY talk. Plus, the exam fees are quoted in pounds - ₤46 for 1 paper, ₤138 for 3. ₤138 doesn't look expensive at all - until you convert it. It's 424 singapore dollars. Or, 2,166 chinese yuan.
Oh well. In the greater scheme of things, what is S$424? What is more than a week's salary? What is failing a few papers? What is another S$424? The pursuit of knowledge, even little bits here and there so that there isn't enough up there to impress examiners, is more worthy a life goal than plain paper chase, isn't it? (Of course it is, if I say so on my blog)
Off to Auntie Annie's place for lunch. Looking forward to terrorising my 2 year-old cousin, my appearance always triggers her wailings, I don't know why. Wahahaha...
posted by kite @ 11/11/2004 11:29:00 am
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