Q: What will be the perfect way to enjoy tonight?

A: Lie down, and read a book. and dream of all the endless possibilities.

the promotion list is one of the most talked about topic recently. due to the economic downturn, not everyone will be promoted this year, unlike previous years, everybody gets promoted when they are due for it.

a colleague asked me this question today. “what if you don’t get promoted to sa1 this round, and no increment while asking you to do what an sa1 has to do, would you leave the firm?” to which, i answered “no”.

not because i love my job. very often i wish i’m doing something else. but more than finding something else to do, i wish there’s less politics, masked faces, backstabbing, less judgmental people here. it makes the place so dangerous, especially in this very individual perfomance-based line of work, can’t help it but to feel that people tend to judge your person by the work that you produced. there are certain people who tend to make you feel that whatever you say will end up becoming a tool to be used against you, by twisting and turning all that you said to stuffs you didn’t mean at all.

i’m still figuring out apart from this job, what other options? if there’s another job which offers higher pay, while is accepted by the acca to fulfill the 3 yrs practical exp in order to become an acca member, i’d seriously consider to leave. currently, i’ve walked 1/3 of the journey and if were to quit now, its silly and wasting. for now, i just wish to complete acca and get the 3 yrs practical experience to be a member. because of this, i won’t leave the firm without a very very strong and good reason.

but that said, if you have a good place where i can still train to be a member of acca to recommend, please do! =)

on the other hand, i’ll be elated if they offer a salary increment even if they don’t promote me. can do a lot with the extra cash, even if its just 50 bucks. june is a crazy month where my entertainment expenses soared to sky high, and my income no longer can support this kind of frivolous lifestyle anymore. oh gosh, tomorrow another karaoke session to celebrate a colleague’s farewell.

maybe should learn to say no sometimes, but not to a farewell celebration, i guess.

sometimes not knowing is better than knowing.. esp in the case of gossips you hear about others. and when you talk about others, even to your most trusted friend, you’ll still feel bad after a while when you start thinking about it, thinking about what you’ve said. is it possible not to talk about people? perhaps, talk about the stars. astrophysics. places you went to. that hobby which you’ve been obsessed with. there should be a lot of other things to talk about. but then, sometimes news around the office are kinda juicy, and its easy to talk about office related stuffs, esp when you spent such a large chunk of time at work. however, each time i talk about people, esp the negative parts of people, or my true opinion of that particular person i don’t have high regards on, i feel guilty. yikes, really wanna talk about something else!!

on the other hand, i must say, some people are just dangerous. very dangerous.

If you can make a choice, do you want to be born in this world and live?

back to reality work tomorrow. the bliss study break has ended.

been hearing so many warehouse sale.. the last one i went to was the FJ Benjamin Warehouse sale at Klang in May, and on top of the normal discounted price, HSBC cardholder were given another 10% additional. That’s when i applied for the HSBC credit card and in less than 2 weeks, they have shipped the card over already. Super prompt.

The first thing i checked was whether i could buy a Macbook with the credit card. Apparently, Apple store offers a 0% interest instalment scheme, with an extra processing fee of 5% (for HSBC), and 4% for OCBC, Maybank, Hong Leong. Good news right? But you know what? Cibol and Daniel, the credit limit given does not permit me to do this delicious act of swiping the card to purchase the apple baby. haha.. anyway, there has got to be another way to acquire it.

I came upon this article in ’Personal Money’ June’s issue about ‘Netbooks’. They are those mini-laptops we wanna squeeze and pinch because of their cuteness, and the prices are quite affordable. But as Nick has pointed out that the screen is too small to fit the entire browser so you’ll need to scroll left, right, down and up just to see the whole page. That’s quite a turn off after hearing that considering the notebook is probably gonna be the most used possession and if time is gonna spent moving the browser left and right, it probably wouldn’t work in the long run.

and here are some upcoming warehouse sale which might spark your interest.