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Ok, I'm fully aware that it's been a long time since the last time I updated this blog.  I really don't have a precise idea how many of you, dear readers, missed me hehe.  My most recent entry was written on October 23, 2008.  A year had already gone by and STILL there was even no single entry popping out of this blog.  And I seriously apologize for that.  And you might ask what happened to yours truly.  Well, many things have happened to me since the previous entry.  But I could easily pick the most significant event that happened to me within that period of my relatively long blog hiatus.  I already shouted out to the world that I passed the October 2008 CPA Board Exams.  And since my jubilation for passing the board has long subsided, I would not go into details how I achieved such a feat.  All I can say to those who will still take the CPA Board is to pray and most importantly, to become a little narcissistic like yours truly by believing too much in yourself.  'Cause you know what, it's always better to bring an EXTRA something to the table just to be sure hehe.  So be EXTRA confident haha!  At least be overconfident at the right moment in time.  Just like those moments when I was applying for my first job.  I just want to share that I really hate taking employment examinations hehe.  Perhaps because I like job interviews better and bragging about what I can contribute to the company.  Just know your strengths baby hehe.  So unsurprisingly, I brought home the bacon at the expense (classification: personnel hehe) of one of the subsidiaries of the country's largest oil company.  In other words, I got an accounting post at the retailing-arm of Petron Corporation.  And now allow me to blab about my first job.  I would try, as much as possible, to keep it a little exciting because I still stick to my conviction that Accounting is naturally boring hehe.  YET I've enjoyed facing mental challenges ever since I stopped utilizing my sports prowess haha.  And that of course, makes Accounting as an outlet for me to basically gauge myself how far I've gone as far as human potential in the mental department is concerned hehe.  It's just like I'm a mountaineer and Accounting is my Mount Everest hehe.  I just knew right from the very moment I signed the job offer that my climb was just about to start and it would not be a pretty one.  Life, as we all know it, is full of sacrifices aside from boxes of chocolates.  For God's sake, it was my first time to be away from my family on a New Year's Eve just to witness an inventory count at a gas station.  That is one hell of a sacrifice, I've got to tell you hehe.  Another sacrifice that I've surprisingly taken is the LESSER time I have to allot for writing, a hobby that I've enjoyed ever since.  Consequently, that includes blogging.  Work can really demand almost everything out of us.  Life balance is a good thing YET it's like a weight that is sometimes difficult to maintain.  And as a result, we tend to exhaust our energy to a thing that is not necessarily our topmost priority but rather to a thing that inevitably demands most of our time.  It's quite sad but it's simply a fact of life that I can only do little about.  Now let me start talking about what I do in work hehe.

I handle some of the Accounts Receivable accounts, credit cards and gift cheques to be specific but mostly gift cheques.  Ok, I would not go into intricate details about my work which I'm still even trying to decipher simply because this blog is not made to sound as geeky as yours truly hehe.  But what I've been doing, in simpler terms, especially in gift cheques is to send a BILL (not just to record an accounting entry) to our big customers containing the accurate amount of what they owe us.  It does sound simple, doesn't it?  WRONG haha!  It doesn't mean of course, that even though you know the definition of Accounting as the language of business, you'll pass the CPA board.  The same principle goes with work hehe.  I so depend on the site accountants for the data as well as the gift cheques I have to first review before recording an entry to the books through an Accounting system (SAP) and ultimately billing the customers.  Last Friday, I spent the entire day just finding out what caused a material variance.  I mean, I could not make an entry to the books without knowing first where I would classify such an anomalous amount hehe.  I started out examining a gibberish data known as WPUBON only to find out in the end that it could not solve the problem haha.  At the end of the day, it was just a wrong tender by the cashier all along hehe.  What I'd like to drive at is that don't expect that every established company has a flawless system even in a computerized environment.  Even if I'm not an auditor, I still have to practice professional skepticism hehe.  As an accountant of the company, a flawless system is a very ideal aim YET this is possible to achieve.  An imperfect system poses as a challenge for every single employee.  And just to give a sudden credit to what an auditor does, it's all up to the auditor to conclude that the schedules we make are reliable enough to finally construe that the financial side of the company is doing good or maybe not hehe.

So far, I'm being challenged by the backlogs.  A collective sign of an imperfect system hehe.  Of course, I don't have an idea how I'll do for the many days to come.  But one thing's damn sure: I'll try my best to be good without slinging out WORDS hehe.