Life Life…as auditor…1st assignment 2012

Since the 1st assignment for 2012 was given, life had been hectic. I didn’t even have time to update about the kids and also CNY2012.

The new team and assignment were given just after mid of Jan2012 and till now, we were still changing our Risk Map and Risk Questions. Yesterday, the scope were extended and changed, making the whole team rushing for time to redo the planning documents work.

Besides all the rushing of timeline and tedious planning process, looking at the positive part, it would be interesting to study and learn about the different process of the company. I am looking forward for that and this was the thing keep me going...I am not sure how long I can stand but I will try…

Cowboy…Wild Wild West

Wild, Wild West had been the favorite theme for many companies annual dinners. My previous company and current company both used this theme before. The common clothes would be checks shirt with jeans.

A few years ago, Stetson hats were given away for purchase of HL Fresh Milk. Since the milk was in promotion, we bought the milk and got this nice cowboy hat for free. JL loved the hat and kept in his room with his other hats and helmets collection.

31Jan2012 – Surprise morning by JL

This morning we were all surprised by JL. Last nite, he asked whether PaPa wanted him to make milo. We said see if he can wake up. JL was never a morning person and it was always hard to wake him up.

PaPa and I were caught with a surprise this morning when we heard him walking out from his room to the bathroom to pee at about 6.45am. After that, he went to the kitchen making drinks for all four of us. He even put all our multivitamins on the dining table together with our drinks.

Independently, he drank his milk, fed himself the cod liver oil, changed his clothes and brushed his teeth. Once he was done, he went to AL’s room to wake his MeiMei up…

It was a great morning with no nagging and we were hoping he would keep up this good work…everyday not just today….

Life is short...forgive and forget..move on...

At time we are being criticised and not being appreciative, even though we have tried our best,always remember God is our strength n comforter. He knows u have tried ur best...

Forgive n forget than move forward. Easy say than done... Never dwell into hurt n unforgiveness because it will slowly kill a person's spiritually,mentally n physically.

There are a lot of verses about forgiveness

Ephesians 4:32 NIV

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

Life is short n look at the positive side n be happy. Do things well n out of heart without expecting any compliment. U will feel better...

Hopefully this will help u in both home n work....

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Me—coffee detox

When friends heard I was going through coffee detox, they didn’t know there was such thing. PaPa and I are really coffee lovers.

As for me, I only love the traditional kopi o or the grinded coffee beans especially mocha. My stomach seemed to reject strong Nescafe because it would cause like gastric effect in my stomach. Nescafe is more acidic and is a processed coffee. Unlike the traditional kopi o or grinded coffee beans I had no problem and I enjoyed the taste more. It must be less sugar so that I could taste the coffee taste. I would usually limit myself 1-2 cup per day. As time passed, I realize that I got immune to it and would need stronger dosage.

Well, since my assignment hadn’t really started, I decided to go into detox process to cleanse up my system and so that I would not need to take stronger caffeine. It was very very hard and those who loved coffee would understand what I mean.

I was extremely sleepy and was not myself. My mind was almost shutting down. However towards end of the 1 week detoxing process, it was much better. Next week I would be off and maybe limit my intake till the work started…

My job in 2012 – a dream just a dream

I was looking forward for a better working learning and experience in 2012 but it was not what I expected.

I managed to pass my CISA (after 2nd attempt) mid last year and got my certification within the same year. It was a miracle and God’s blessing. Being new in audit especially IS Audit, it was a challenging moment to pass and get the certification.

As for this year, I would be handing over all the administrative tasks like maintenance of dashboard, data extraction and ID management to another team. I was so anxious to be able to my full focus on audit assignments and learn more…

However the dream was just vanished early of the year and officially announced later yesterday evening. I was transferred out from IS Audit team to do Revenue Audit for the company. The reason was to tap into my data analysis skill (which I am still learning and not an expert yet) to assist in company’s red alert in revenue. I was not sure to be proud but deep in my heart, I was extremely very sad and upset.

My first assignment would be an extreme tough one….

I couldn’t do much and only hope for the best…that this would just a short interim... I am praying hard that I would be transferred back to IS Audit as soon as possible (hopefully not more than 1 year…)

God,

You will be my strength and pillar…

Give me wisdom and favor to manage all circumstances…

Too many events in short period….

We had been having too many events in such a short period. It started from our HKG Trip, Christmas, school re-open and now coming soon would be Chinese New Year (CNY). Monies seemed to be flowing out so fast and more than expected. All our resources were draining and drying up. I didn’t have any company bonus to use for this period which was sad.

I had friends who did some investment in gold and silver bullion bars from golden eagle. They invited me to join but I had to decline the offer because I didn’t have any spare cash to buy. I would rather take the cash to clear the credit cards and loans first before doing any investment.

Hopefully, after CNY, both PaPa and I would be able to manage to start back saving even little, better than nothing.

MMUTKD+Master Chia’s 65th Birthday 07Jan2012

Last Saturday, we went to Melaka for my Sir’s 65th birthday and also the gathering of MMUTKD. We stayed a night in a friend’s house.

It was a great time meeting some of the old friends who went training TKD 1-2 per week. Being the pioneer group, I felt so old.

I was the first batch of MMU and a lot of sports activities were not properly set-up. Before MMU, I was involved in athletics in PUO. I was never good in racquet games. So, I decided to join TKD. I started from ground zero – White Belt and within 2 years of my study in uni, I graduated uni with Blue Belt. My master asked me to continue which I never did. I hope I didn’t disappoint Master Chia.

Master Chia gave option to us to have 2 classes per week – once in uni and once outside uni without extra charges. A few friends and I decided to attend the extra classes with no regret. I was very fit and alert. We also went to our classes during exam weeks without fail because after night TKD classes, I would usually go home, bath and study. Yes, I would only study at late night and the next day I would go for morning exam. After exam, I would zzzz and study at late night.

Those were the days in uni but I was more active in my poly time….that would be another long story…

Bigger sink…

I was telling PaPa that I wish we can just break the whole kitchen sink and redo. The sink on the concrete top was done by the previous owner. We had been using this small sink for the almost 9 years. PaPa loved to go the hardware shop to get his DIY things and while I would be admiring all the undermount stainless sinks, big sinks, double sinks etc... .

It would be nice to change a small sink to 2 bigger sinks plus hanging up the wall our drying rack. On top of that, if we were to break the concrete top, I would want to make the concrete top a bit smaller to accommodate a wider fridge for future.

Yes, we never stop thinking of how to maximize our apartment…

Wrapping books…

PaPa was a librarian back in school and he wrapped books very nice. All my uni books were wrapped by him. Instead of using scissors, using the utility knives or blade would be a better option.

I managed to recycle some of JL and AL’s wrappers from 2011. I cleaned up and wrapped their books. After using all the recycle wrappers, I left the remaining books for the expert, PaPa to wrap. However, for all the exercise books, we bought from Popular the ready-cut slip-on sleeves.

By this week, all books had been properly wrapped except for JL’s English textbook which was still pending.

Bye bye 2011

How time flies… and now we are going into 2012…2011 has a lot of up and down…a lot of memories…

JL stepped into Standard 1 and AL into her nursery. It was a new phase of life for both kids. They did well in their school/kindy.

JL was (on average) 1/39 in his class and 14/613 in his whole standard. Coming from parents who did not know how to read/write/speak in mandarin, he made us proud especially the moment he went up the stage to receive his plaque. For this year, he was chosen to represent his class for the school sports day and his group got no2. JL also started his TKD class and took 2 x exams, starting 2012, he would be Yellow II. He enjoyed bringing food to school and even though it was tiring but it was worth the effort to pack food for him. End of 2011, we took him to keep his money in the bank. We gave him RM 1 per day which he saved all and only gave for church offering.

JL also joined a few BeyBlade Competitions.

AL also doing well in her kindy and her motor skill had improved. She went up the stage for her first kindy concert and did very well dancing her whole heart. Sometimes, she opted to stay back after kindy to join with other kids.

As for me, my achievement was to pass CISA (after 2nd attempt) and got my certification.

PaPa and me got our new phone after many years...

PaPa got his very own guitar...

We bought breadmaker and oven......We explored a lot of simply cooking and baking...

PaPa’s business was stable and picking up slowly. PaPa got a new car – White Grand Livina and we passed our old Iswara Aeroback to my dad since it was not worth to sell and the car still in good condition. At least now KongKong and PohPoh got car to move around.

We did a minor renovation on our apartment and managed to create an extra room.

As family, we went for our holiday in Hkg. Even though AL was not well but we would still treasure our memories in Hkg.

Hong Kong 23-28Nov2011 – Day 01 Arrival

Hong Kong 23-28Nov2011 – Day 02 Disneyland

Hong Kong 23-28Nov2011 – Day 03 Ocean Park

Hong Kong 23-28Nov2011 – Day 04 Mongkok & Stanley

Hong Kong 23-28Nov2011 – Day 05 The Peak & Mongkok

Hong Kong 23-28Nov2011 – Day 06 Departure

We hope 2012 would be a better year for all of us…all happy and healthy...

Writing skills

After almost two years in internal audit, I am still not happy with my writing skills. Even with the assistance of report designer, I still need a lot of improvement in my writing skills. I find my writing can be boring and nothing interesting. Same goes to my blog writing.  I love reading others writing even though it is short but really interesting. I really need to find way to improve my weaknesses…

CNY

Christmas is over and CNY is just around the corner.

We were doing our window shopping when we noted sales in the superheros shop. There was a lot of interesting and funny tshirts. We like one of the simple discounted superheros t-shirts design which coincidently had sizes for all four of us. It was unplanned and we got it for our CNY. What superhero t-shirts? It would be a surprise….

KBSR – KSSR

JL was the first batch for the new KSSR. I was not very familiar with KSSR except for both Maths and Science was no longer being taught in English. Another thing which I realized was the homework load was lesser than the previous batch.

Hmmm… after one year than only I came to remember that I was the first batch of KBSR. What a coincidence? The only difference was I studied in Kebangsaan school and JL in Chinese school.

The advantage of being the pioneer was all our textbooks would be new. The disadvantages were the delay of books and unavailability of past year questions. I experienced that especially being the first batch of UPSR and all our teachers were not sure about the questions which would be tested during the exam. .. It was by God’s grace, I managed to get all As.

Holiday again…

AL was sick during our last trip and now back at home, she requested us to bring her back there. She was upset that we did not buy for her pink princess dress. Hopefully if the special hotel rate was still on, we planned to go back there to cover the places we did not manage to cover.

Being a little girl, AL loved all the girly and princesses clothes and accessories. She admired all the pretty dress including those selling during prom dress sales. She could be more fashionable than her mummy…

Old School Books

We were busy going through JL’s old school book, to decide which to keep and which to send for recycle. If there was fast scanning software in market, I would love to scan and keep all his works. However due to storage problem, we only keep some of his works and send the rest for recycle.

Our mini wet kitchen is currently full of things to recycle, waiting for JL’s school to re-open and send for recycling program in his school.

Christmas 2011

It was our usual family gathering for us. On Christmas Eve we were at Tai Pak’s house and on Christmas we had dinner at Sam Yee’s apartment.

24Dec2011

We had dinner at Tai Pak’s house till midnight. This year, we prepared cold pasta salad with roasted sesame dressing. We also did 3 loaves of bread using the bread maker. The bread was being eaten together with ice-cream. PaPa sliced the loaf of bread with a long bread knife. We might get a better bread knife in future.

At midnight, we wished each other Merry Christmas and it was presents opening time.

After that, we went home where the kids opened the other presents.

25Dec2011

We went to church on Christmas Day. After a simple lunch, we went home to rest before going up to Sam Yee’s apartment for our dinner. After dinner, it was another round of presents opening. The whole night, JL played x-box with PaPa and Sam Yee Cheong.

We were tired but it was a good time spending time with family remembering the birth of Jesus Christ. He is the greatest gift God has given to all of us…

New home…

It is not me…but my church member.

Just before Christmas, we were in their newly renovated duplex condo. I loved their renovation which was simple and spacious. With the space of 2600 sq ft, it was a wonderful home in the sky. Yes, it was a duplex on the 15 and 16 floor. The theme was white for the whole home including the small tiny details of their switchplates were also white too.