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I can't remember when was the last time I did the post without looking back my last post.

 

Just have something to share about how do I feel right now, that is ....

 

 

 

 

After a long time I haven’t updated my space, now I think it’s the time to write something.

Time flies, I can’t imagine this is already my 3^rd week of working in Singapore. It’s a good thing to get a job in Singapore, so I would be able to survive here. Sounds good working in an accounting firm, but the nature of the work is very tough, long working hours through the week. Most of the time I woke up at 7 am, I have to go to client’s place to audit. We normally will working while having lunch, or start working right after the lunch. At the time we can go home, it’s about 10-12 pm. Some worse time I went back around 1:30. Sometimes have to do over time during the weekend as well. One day I step out of the office during lunch time, I suddenly notice that the sunshine is so bright, as I’ve been busy working in the office all day long, and haven’t got much chance to meet up with SUN. The worse is I even can’t find a time to shit.

This is peak period of us, expect the busy life will going on until April. The good thing of having peak is, after the peak we will have some peaceful life rather than busy throughout the whole year.

I choose this job means I have to take the pain. I hope the short pain will give a long term relieve. But by listening at the complaint from my senior colleagues, I understand that if I’m going to work in this field for long, it may be a long pain. Most of them would complain that in terms of the working hour, we are extremely underpaid. During the peak, on average our working time is about 15 hours/day, and most of the overtime cannot be charged. The incremental of the salary compare to the load of the work you receive after you’ve been promoted is in a diminishing form unless you reach manager or partner’s position.  After calculate the hourly rate we receive is about 6 dollars per hour which is about 5 AUD. In Melbourne, by working in a Chinese restaurant, the bad pay is about 7 dollars.

Let’s forget about the monetary terms. Look through a positive way that the experience we can gain from the big 4 is much worth than the cash we earned. Maybe after about 2 years, we can easily get an accounting job or progress to other big 3 for a better position. One of my supervisor said that she tried to work in a commercial firms as a manager in account’s department. In a fresh environment, although you have power, but all your members may not be able to listen to how or what you want them to do. End up, she back to accounting firm as well. I’m not sure after few years, whether the same thing would happen to me as well. In order to gain a trust or having managing power in a new environment, it is better if we can start low.

Another good thing of my job is, we audit different kind of firms, so we got to see the different industries, understand their business nature and structures, build up better interpersonal skills, as most of the time we have to obtain resource from client. Actually it’s client’s duty to provide information, but not all clients will corporate well. As the current company I’m working on is a tough experience. They reluctant to provide information, always push us to find information from their computer network, most of the information they provide is in hardcopy, whereas we need to do casting to ensure the accuracy of the figures. A softcopy would be preferred as a hard copy will extensively increase our time consuming and reduce efficiency. I guess maybe this client has some revenge attitude.

As I mentioned that most of the time we are at client’s place to access their information. So each morning we can take a taxi to go rather than waiting for the bus. In a way we save some money, but compare to the extreme long working hour, I rather get some more sleep, and take bus to go work.

Normally we work as a term with 2-3 members. It’s quite fun working as a team; as the environment is more relax. More communication will be involved in this team work, so we may know each other better than some normal office job.

This Saturday I will be going to work in one of the subsidiaries of a Singapore listed company in China for 2 weeks. The timeline is very tight, as the flights are all fully booked so we have to finish the job early and work harder. One of the weekends I may go back to Hangzhou as well, I can ship some more things back to Singapore. But I don’t think I will spend my time with my family during Chinese New Year.

It’s late night again, it’s time to sleep and get ready for the new Monday work.

第5次向北穿越广阔的太平洋，还有3个半小时就可以到达新加坡了。四个月没有见她了，虽然习惯了LD，不过多多少少总还是有点想念。为了准备好这一个月的旅程，我去CITY剪了个头，一家看起来很不错的韩国店。本想去找那个经常给我剪的香港师傅，刚好他不在，经朋友推荐，我还是决定尝试一下韩国手艺。

亮堂堂的店占地面积还不小，在MELBOURNE 市中心黄金地带租金估计也是个小数目。不过他们的收费只有30AUD，比其他CHINATOWN的小店还便宜，这还是有点吸引力。这么大的一家店只有1个男理发师，其他7-8个全是女的。很难说这位师傅是享尽天伦之乐还是受尽牛马之苦。师傅也是从韩国进口的，造型很个性，语言也一窍不通，需要站个翻译在边上。师傅手艺倒还不错，告诉他我要些CHANGE，的确还搞点花样出来，只是刚剪好，我自己都有些接受不了。现在估计她见到也会接受不了，慢慢的也会习惯的。

这几天的确有点累，为了准备出行，要把每天的日程安排的满满的，一天去CITY给父母买东西，买了很多VITAMIN，还有鱼油什么的，孝敬一下也是应该的,说起来还是用自己赚的钱买的哦哈哈。一天再去学校把一些手头的事情在回去前做完。还有很多文章要帮其他老师找，遇到一篇实在搜索不到，郁闷之下，我发了EMAIL给作者，好心的教授很快就把文章发给我了，省了不少事，算是光荣完成任务。晚上睡觉的时候还一直在想是不是还有什么事情忘记了。现在好了，一切就绪，就等着去新加坡花钱啦。很就没有真正的SHOPPING过咯，差不多有1年半没有买过衣服。等不急澳洲年底的SALES，所以还是去新加坡SHOPPING来的明知些。昨天一取钱，银行帐户就变成3位数了。

前几天申请了TAX RETURN，把今年一年的辛苦打工压在税务局的税退回来。因为又两份工，所以可以做一些deduction,这样就可以免去很多税拉，哈哈。希望下个星期就能收到退税。

 

7月20号，考完了最后一门试，也结束了我3年的大学生活。现在回想起来，这一路下来，有着许许多多的改变。我的思想，语言，为人，做事，知识，兴趣，爱好，都发生了改变。我想这应该是好的，3年的学习学了许多会计和金融方面的知识，虽然许多急于理论，但是去看看银行的服务，或者大公司的运作，这些知识都有着密切的联系，这也是我为什么想去新加坡工作几年的原因。

中国在这方面的基础比较差，真正运用许多金融手段来管理公司的企业并不多，这方面的人力资源缺乏也是重要原因。而新加坡在这方面有着很好的基础，双语的教育，中西结合的思想，聚集着许多闻名世界的大公司。这正是我可以更好的运用，理解和学习的一个跳板。很多人说应该先拿了澳洲的PR再决定其他的，我想既然决定要去了，何必浪费那3000块钱，不办也是少一种牵挂。就想鱼店师傅说的，人行天下吃肉，狗行天下吃屎。我想多走些地方，多学习点东西，有了经验，再去赚钱也不晚，再来澳洲也不难。你们说呢？

我也很清楚，已经很久没更新了，再下去估计会杂草满地，苍蝇乱飞

不知道该怎么来形容忙的程度，就这样说吧

1个CLUB要参加

2份工要打

3位数的工资可以拿

4门课要学

5天的课要去

6个小时可以睡觉

7天的班要上

 

8知道要怎么混下去了！！

刚交了一份ASSIGNMENT，说是4000字，读了一个月的资料，看暴了头，不小心写了5000字，实在没时间改就交了。算松了口期，再过3个星期就是FINAL了。减少打工时间，多看点书是近期目标，毕竟最后一个学期了！！

等有空再来写吧

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春节期间去云南玩了一趟，除了好玩，还能说的就是“赶”，跟团就这个不好，连拍照都没时间，不过我还是拍了近2000张照片，精品自然少了！

目前照片还在处理阶段，需要一会来处理完，到时候会把他们都上传上来展现给大家的！~