The line's engaged

OK so this is my first post in an all-new blog. I moved out from the previous weblog host as it is not all that user-friendly, plus the weblog community there is not as big as this. It is important to be part of the mainstream! :)

So I haven't been blogging for more than a month. Please blame my job (job, not career) for it. Seriously, the past 3 weeks were a slur of activities for me. Every bit of my energy was squeezed, I am just happy to go home and go straight to bed - I can't afford to think anymore, not even to think whether I ought to eat dinner that day.

I have heard about audit's busy/ peak period ever since I started study for my Accounting diploma. From the lecturers, colleagues, friends, the notorious "audit peak period" remains just another myth. I risked my social life and join the audit line though I know it is going to change my life topsy turvy. But hey, a year in a Big 4 accounting firm, my life was pretty normal. Went through audit peak period once, don't think I was badly affected.

Yes, true, I wasn't affected because I was a junior. This year I am a semi-senior. More responsibilities, more workload, burdened with ever-tight deadlines. Oh my! Everyday my heart beats so fast, afraid that I can't meet the deadlines, it's not helping that the manager is on the tab waiting on me to catch up! I don't want to eat lunch for fear I couldn't finish my work, I am scared whenever an email comes into my inbox - maybe my manager notices an issue out of the company audited? In audit, issues = death. Everyday I went home I straight away continue working, weekends are dedicated to work. And to juggle 3-4 jobs at once!!

That I haven't got time to prepare for my engagement last Saturday. The day has come, and passed. There are many things I wish I can improve for the better, how I wish I can turn back time. But after all, I am glad that things went well on that day. It was a small and simple event, and now I am no longer a single woman :) Hope things go smooth right up until December!

Thanks to everyone who had sacrificed so much for my engagement day, Mak and Abah who cared so much about the little details and ever so open to suggestions, siblings who ran around the island to cater to last minute enhancements, relatives who came from far and brought with them experiences in handling such event, and my fiance and his family and relatives who made me feel special that day :)