no regrets

if today is the only day you get, how would you like to spend it

總會有結局

沒有人可以逃過最終的結局,結局也不一定是圓滿的。但人生無論長短,重要的是無憾。我不知道活過一個世紀的人會有什麼想法,但我衷心希望他們覺得幸福。


終于明白不流淚不等於不悲傷,表面監強不代表內心不脆弱。看起來完好無缺的人大有可能已經傷痕累累。我從前不知到內斂,也不明白為何人會想一套,說一套,做一套。現在我懂了,因為你要做別人想看到的那一套,你的想法其實不重要,留給自己就好了。

Another quote

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

This first time I heard life is all suffering, I was going in the last year of high school. The teacher commented on it when we were studying Hamlet. I didn't understand how life is all about pain and suffering back then. After all these years, I do. 

When you first realize how painful life is, you may be frustrated, disappointed and may want to give up life. Usually, people get over it and move on. They taste the sweetness while suffering in life. Some people couldn't get over it and never bother to try to live better.

If you happen to find the meaning of your life, you will survive better in this world. I am looking for some miracle in my life. Even thought there is no miracles, I still keep my hope for life. I believe it would my suffering more meaningful.

To try to be better is to be better

"To try to be better is to be better."

This is quote of today. When you are still in school, you have all different kind of ambitions. After you come to the real world, how many of them you remember and actually to to achieve it. All those ambitions become fantacies and dreams, instead we struggle with daily living expense everday.

Leaving school, having a job, managers/bosses telling you all the mistakes you made, all the improvements you need. You get frustrated, upset... ends up you just think you are not good enough for what you want and you will never be able to get there.

Maybe you are getting better everyday, evey month, every year. If you don't give up, if you work extra hard, if you try to be better than others... maybe you will get there. I think it is better to try than give up before trying hard enough. Even you don't get to that big goal you had, at least you would be better off than others that didn't try.

I remember someone told me this. He told me when I was struggling in job hunting.
Not everyone can take the most straigh forward way. It is ok make different turns on your way, you may even learn more in those extra roads you take. As long as you remain focus to the final goal destination, after all the d-tours, you will get there eventually.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving weekend just past, and I am very enjoy with my four work days week. I am not a tranditional Canadian, I don't really have family reunion and turkey on my dinner table. However I really like the long weekend because of it.

Thanksgiving is during the fall time, same as this year. My family tradition is to see maple leaves. I pretty much go see maple leaves with family every year around this time. I never feel anything special about it, it comes normal to me. This year, I feel something different. You may not like this kind of boring family trips when you usually have it, but you will feel weird when you don't do it. I am glad I still have a chance to do it, when it is not too late to realize the good.

劇集的聯想

三色台又抄了。不是否認就可以當沒有發生,雖然有不同,但他們還是抄了。把英文翻議成中文,改了些情節,多了幾條感情線,不等於不是抄。抄是可以的,重要是要抄的漂亮,青出於藍而勝於藍才是成功。

新劇讀心神探裡,有些話觸動了我。
我記憶力不好,所以讀書也不太好。但是有一句話是對的,凡是觸動到感情的事物,就永遠不會忘記。記憶力再差,卻不會影響這部分的記憶。一件事,只要動了感情就再也忘不了了。所以說,如果你很用心去作一件事,那件事的所有細節你都應該記得。

還有還有,我真想學學記憶法。

90 days count down

Today is 90 days to my CKE exam in January.

People who did their CA exams before talked about all different kinds of methods and recommendation to help you go through the exam. Hopefully, I would be able to talk about it too. (That means I pass it. =P)
The method I am using right now is keeping a routine. I study an hour from Monday to Thursday in the morning before work, hopefully I absorb more in the morning than the tiring time after work. My goal is to catch up (at least 80%) with all readings and exercise I do in prep program every Sunday. Starting in December, I will take three weeks before my exam to do practice MC questions.


Study tasks to be completed
  • read competency map
  • carefully reading CICA handbook (accounting and assurance)
  • detail studying prep course material
  • full understand all MC in prep course material
  • review university notes in auditing, tax, accounting and finance
  • complete practice MC booklet provided by ICAO
  • complete practice MC booklet provided by DCS
now.. I really hope I will be finished all of above in 90 days...

Boring class

It is a surprise my network can finally blog.

I am currently in a CKE prep course right now, topic is governence, strategiy, risk management and IT. This is one of the more boring class I have. She is not organized, contents are all over the place. It is difficult to follow what she is talking about. Also, her tone and voice is very low. Even I recorded her lecture, still hardly can hear it. The worse part is, I am not absorbing anything she is talking about.

This is a bad class and I fell like I am wasting money.The bottom line is, a good lecturer is very important to students.
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