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Coming back to blogging on livejournal after quite a long while. You see, I've been using tumblr to track all my kpop fandoms, and twitter has been my MAIN source to update. I don't even use facebook as much now, there are just too many people and I feel naked on facebook ): hahaha ridiculous,right?
Anyway, had the sudden urge to blog. And I changed my theme as well. It is quite pinkish, isn't it? Back to liking pink again, though I still like orange and green. But I have this thing for pastel colours, they are way too pretty.
Few things which happen over the past (almost) 6 months:
1. Internship at Deloitte
So, I was really lucky to get a summer internship placement with the Big 4 accounting firm, as we had to compete with accounting students from NUS and NTU as well. Yes, Deloitte may be the smallest of the Big 4, but I liked it there. The seniors were really nice to me. It was with the audit division, and I had the opportunity to work for an MNC audit with a mid-year financial year end. This gave me the opportunity to experience a peak, unlike most other interns. I got to work overtime, and it really gave me a taste of a life as an auditor in the future (though I'm not sure if I can last long in this position). Audit isn't the best thing I would hope to get into upon graduation, but considering the POs they are offering, it seems as if the number of positions to be opened to graduating students in the next year might just decrease. For the sake of job security, I'm hoping it is the better solution in my case.
This time round for winter internship, my luck isn't going as well. No news from the firms I've applied to. Considering I had my internship in summer, I have to admit, I was quite confident of clinching a winter internship (there are less people applying for winter). I was really, really wrong. Not really sure if it has got to do with the blocked list they sent to the other companies, or maybe my grades just aren't as fantastic as the rest. I'm just a bit sore about not even getting the opportunity to attend an interview. And you know what sucks most? When your closest friends tell you "Hey you've got an offer already so don't fight with us for our Big 4 internship." Suddenly these friends are not the friends whom you have known already. What happened? Why is everyone so competitive once we reach senior year? You were the one who said you don't want to work in a Big 4, so why are you so fired up by that?
I'm just hoping for a winter internship, since I will have time to spare. It counts towards the experience too, as an undergraduate. I want to have more exposure while I'm studying, so I'll know the options available to me as a graduate of my profession.
2. ISEP Application Success!
Yes, one of the reasons why I am so desperate to get a winter internship is so I can spend time improving myself, keeping myself occupied before the start of next semester. I'll be heading to Yonsei University, Seoul for the Spring 2013 exchange programme. Was initially trying my luck for applications the first time round, and I had put Yonsei as my first choice since it had the lowest number of placements, while other friends applied for the other schools. So I ended up getting my placement in Yonsei, while my friends are in Ewha, SNU and Hankuk. Not that I'm complaining, there are 4 other people going along to Yonsei, and it will be fun knowing new people from SMU as well as other international exchange students.
There is the whole homesick issue too, which I haven't and don't really want to think about it. With the technology today, I can talk to my family and friends back home anytime I want. but it will still lack the human touch somehow. Well, hopefully the exchange programme will make me more independent, and widen my horizons (though it will be my 4th time in Korea in 4 years). If not, I have my secret hiding places in Seoul where I can hang out when I'm feeling down!
3. My third year in accounting
Sigh, the new semester has started and I'm a senior now. Time really flies, and my guy friends are in university now. Some in SMU too, as freshies. Hahaha it is indeed weird to see how I have more experience in something as compared to them. Well, seniors screw up sometimes, which was what happened to me. I screwed up my bidding in the very last window and so I am left with 3.5 modules this semester - MPW, Adv Tax, Audit and LTM.
Maybe it was the power of the higher lords (predestined) for me not to take up GRM. With the current workload, I sometimes feel as if it is too much to handle. The readings from MPW and Audit are no joke. Weekly quizzes for MPW and my Audit prof is just too biased towards people he had known prior to class. Advanced Tax is just, well, you can guess from the word advanced. LTM requires a bit of time, but I have no complains since it is a Pass/Fail module on my part.
Well, another thing to feel blessed for is the fact that I only have 2 midterms - Audit and Advanced Tax. Audit is next week while Advanced Tax is on the week after recess. But there is just too many things to do for recess week - MPW student-led discussion, Audit Projects 1 and 2, as well as a potential Adv Tax project on summarising the ITA. Sometimes I wonder if I can cope studying law. Summarising the Accountant's Act and ITA is like reading through statues all over again for law, just accounting law.
4. Things I really need to work on
There are just too many things these days, and I'm actually doing my readings for class. It helps a bit, but not as much as I hoped it would be. I'm really determined to get my GPA up this semester. But this is all talk, and it need A LOT of action as well. Right now, I am sacrificing by either watching RM or WGM (no longer both) and also cutting down on chasing my different loves. And I'm missing my piano. I walk by my love a gazillion times each day but never get to the point about sitting down and running my fingers through. Hopefully I won't lose that touch. I'm also not practising and keeping up with Korean. All of a sudden the ISEP made my lose interest in it. Okay I won't make it out loud that I am a K-pop fan in the past because of my other preferences. I still do, but now I'm not really into it anymore. Why....
I don't want to grow up.
Anyway, had the sudden urge to blog. And I changed my theme as well. It is quite pinkish, isn't it? Back to liking pink again, though I still like orange and green. But I have this thing for pastel colours, they are way too pretty.
Few things which happen over the past (almost) 6 months:
1. Internship at Deloitte
So, I was really lucky to get a summer internship placement with the Big 4 accounting firm, as we had to compete with accounting students from NUS and NTU as well. Yes, Deloitte may be the smallest of the Big 4, but I liked it there. The seniors were really nice to me. It was with the audit division, and I had the opportunity to work for an MNC audit with a mid-year financial year end. This gave me the opportunity to experience a peak, unlike most other interns. I got to work overtime, and it really gave me a taste of a life as an auditor in the future (though I'm not sure if I can last long in this position). Audit isn't the best thing I would hope to get into upon graduation, but considering the POs they are offering, it seems as if the number of positions to be opened to graduating students in the next year might just decrease. For the sake of job security, I'm hoping it is the better solution in my case.
This time round for winter internship, my luck isn't going as well. No news from the firms I've applied to. Considering I had my internship in summer, I have to admit, I was quite confident of clinching a winter internship (there are less people applying for winter). I was really, really wrong. Not really sure if it has got to do with the blocked list they sent to the other companies, or maybe my grades just aren't as fantastic as the rest. I'm just a bit sore about not even getting the opportunity to attend an interview. And you know what sucks most? When your closest friends tell you "Hey you've got an offer already so don't fight with us for our Big 4 internship." Suddenly these friends are not the friends whom you have known already. What happened? Why is everyone so competitive once we reach senior year? You were the one who said you don't want to work in a Big 4, so why are you so fired up by that?
I'm just hoping for a winter internship, since I will have time to spare. It counts towards the experience too, as an undergraduate. I want to have more exposure while I'm studying, so I'll know the options available to me as a graduate of my profession.
2. ISEP Application Success!
Yes, one of the reasons why I am so desperate to get a winter internship is so I can spend time improving myself, keeping myself occupied before the start of next semester. I'll be heading to Yonsei University, Seoul for the Spring 2013 exchange programme. Was initially trying my luck for applications the first time round, and I had put Yonsei as my first choice since it had the lowest number of placements, while other friends applied for the other schools. So I ended up getting my placement in Yonsei, while my friends are in Ewha, SNU and Hankuk. Not that I'm complaining, there are 4 other people going along to Yonsei, and it will be fun knowing new people from SMU as well as other international exchange students.
There is the whole homesick issue too, which I haven't and don't really want to think about it. With the technology today, I can talk to my family and friends back home anytime I want. but it will still lack the human touch somehow. Well, hopefully the exchange programme will make me more independent, and widen my horizons (though it will be my 4th time in Korea in 4 years). If not, I have my secret hiding places in Seoul where I can hang out when I'm feeling down!
3. My third year in accounting
Sigh, the new semester has started and I'm a senior now. Time really flies, and my guy friends are in university now. Some in SMU too, as freshies. Hahaha it is indeed weird to see how I have more experience in something as compared to them. Well, seniors screw up sometimes, which was what happened to me. I screwed up my bidding in the very last window and so I am left with 3.5 modules this semester - MPW, Adv Tax, Audit and LTM.
Maybe it was the power of the higher lords (predestined) for me not to take up GRM. With the current workload, I sometimes feel as if it is too much to handle. The readings from MPW and Audit are no joke. Weekly quizzes for MPW and my Audit prof is just too biased towards people he had known prior to class. Advanced Tax is just, well, you can guess from the word advanced. LTM requires a bit of time, but I have no complains since it is a Pass/Fail module on my part.
Well, another thing to feel blessed for is the fact that I only have 2 midterms - Audit and Advanced Tax. Audit is next week while Advanced Tax is on the week after recess. But there is just too many things to do for recess week - MPW student-led discussion, Audit Projects 1 and 2, as well as a potential Adv Tax project on summarising the ITA. Sometimes I wonder if I can cope studying law. Summarising the Accountant's Act and ITA is like reading through statues all over again for law, just accounting law.
4. Things I really need to work on
There are just too many things these days, and I'm actually doing my readings for class. It helps a bit, but not as much as I hoped it would be. I'm really determined to get my GPA up this semester. But this is all talk, and it need A LOT of action as well. Right now, I am sacrificing by either watching RM or WGM (no longer both) and also cutting down on chasing my different loves. And I'm missing my piano. I walk by my love a gazillion times each day but never get to the point about sitting down and running my fingers through. Hopefully I won't lose that touch. I'm also not practising and keeping up with Korean. All of a sudden the ISEP made my lose interest in it. Okay I won't make it out loud that I am a K-pop fan in the past because of my other preferences. I still do, but now I'm not really into it anymore. Why....
I don't want to grow up.