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.   

I'm originally a shy type of guy.  But if there is one valuable thing that I learned from the streets during my ragged childhood days, then it was being OUTGOING.  So it sort of nuked the introvert within me and most importantly, has developed my self-confidence over these years.  Now you could imagine how unruly I was becoming when I wasn't permitted to play outside the house.  I totally hated sleeping in the afternoon but if that was the only condition set by our house help for me to play outside at 4 PM, then I had never failed to meet that condition despite the fact that I was faking it most of the time hehe.  Just staying inside the house was practically boring me to tears.  But one of the saving graces of staying inside the house was our family computer back then.  I used to kill time just trying to face Mike Tyson on a boxing computer game, Punch-Out but I was unsuccessful.  And the other saving grace was my favorite board game, the Millionaire's Game (a variant of Monopoly).  Basically, the Millionaire's Game is a highly-strategic board game wherein players compete in a virtual economic environment in order to create wealth by buying, selling, and renting properties using play money.  Now you've just known how I basically held on a tough business course known as Accountancy hehe.  As a child, I lived a dangerous childhood (just a bit dangerous).  I used to climb trees, cross a river, and run my BMX bike at a ridiculous top speed.  Yet at the same time, I found my sense of maturity quite prematurely by just staying inside the house playing Millionaire's Game with my father.  Sometimes, I was asking him the meanings of some business jargons in the game that a typical child would not normally understand.  But everytime I asked, his answer was always a predetermined, "You will eventually know it as you grow up."  But still, I played the game as I was taught by him about the bare fundamentals.  And my father mused one day, the day I became a CPA, that he couldn't imagine how little RC gradually transformed and ultimately achieved such an esteemed title.  Ok, enough for too much drama hehe.  Too much drama could freakin' kill.  And take a look at me now, bumming my ass off hehe.  I still haven't passed my resume to any company.  I didn't even attend the job fair many months back.  Thing is, aside from "writing" that made me thousands, my passion for anything about business is still alive and kicking.  Perhaps, had I not discovered the Millionaire's Game, I would have soared my ass out of the dreadful Accounting course.  It is, after all, the passion that keeps the fire burning, baby.  But as I wrote here, no wonder, I've been a lost kid. 

I vividly remember that night (I was in 1st year highschool I think) when I was tasked by my father to post the amounts to the ledger of a water refilling business.  I mean, come on, a water refilling business?!  Just imagine the immense volume of its transactions in a single day!  From that night, I said to myself that bookkeeping s*cks crinkly balls.  And I even made a promise to myself that I will never EVER take Accounting in college.  And as you can see, I ate that up like the legendary Cookie Monster.  You might not have an idea how that bookkeeping task bored the living daylights out of a dorky RC back then.  So before I embark on a new journey, I still have some emo soul-searching escapades to do hehe.  I mean, come on, once you get into a job, it would be tough to get your ass out of it in case you feel freakin' suffocated in a surrounding wherein dealing with different kinds of people is more stressful than the job itself.  If you encounter, for instance, an RC-like in the workplace, well, that would be doubly hard if not excruciating haha.  Especially if you're a hot girl hehe.  Ok, I'm just playing.  Well, what I've been trying to share all along is that even though I'm slacking at this very moment, I still have plans to practice my profession.  So don't worry Logis hehe.  Anyone probably has an idea how difficult it really is to hurdle the CPA Board.  And I'm not crazy enough to never grab that opportunity.  It would seriously take another entry to share what particular area in Accountancy I've been wanting to practice.  But let me tell it once and for all that it's not going to be external auditing nor the academe hehe.  Let us see, let us see...