Tuesday, 29^th March 2005 | 9:15 AM
Having no personal PC sucks

The lack of access to a personal PC really sucks. I have no privacy to do stuff at the office and I have a list of personal things to do on my PC - check my personal email, blog, and file my taxes! It'll be my first time filing taxes, and I still haven't bothered looking through what I have to do. I think it might be a bit messy, because of the company merger last year, I have two separate tax forms from my employer as a result.

There's a reason why I'm not an accountant or anyone in the same league. The main reason is I'm not at all adept with numbers. I can count and have a basic knowledge of it, but back in JC when I took Economics I never could do that whole balance of accounts things. Simple personal expenditure I can handle... but good Lord, I had heck of a tough time figuring out what are assets (and thus, you add in the final accounting tally) and what are liabilities (and thus, I should subtract). I had to ask my younger brother to help - and back then he was doing principles of accounts for O levels! It's all the terminology - drove me nuts. Another reason why I didn't take law either.

The work/company culture is changing quite a bit in this office, and I haven't decided how it's sitting with me yet. As in, I don't know if I don't like it at all, or if I need to get used to it before I should pass judgement on it. I still feel as if I'm fumbling around for hand-holds or cracks most of the time, while trying not to fall from the wall I'm climbing. And from time to time, I still get the "what on earth am I doing here?!" sense when I think about where I am, what I'm doing, and what little idea I have about what I want to do.

In other news, I've been wanting to go canoeing/kayaking. I've only done it a few times in my life, but what few times I've done it I mostly liked it. There's a calmness that I feel every time I kayak or canoe that I totally love. Previously I've had to go to the beach if I wanted to do it here, and I've been too lazy to do that. But recently they opened up one of the reservoirs in the central part of town for canoeing/kayaking, and I'm very tempted to go. Can't seem to find anyone who'd wanna go with me though.

Something I learnt today: banana + watermelon makes an edible juice, though a bit weird-tasting. Hmm.

I miss the days when I can just write, write and write.

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