Fantasies

When you feel that your work is starting to get to you, you may start to fantasise. And when you're vocal about almost everything, you'll manage to pull in a few others to join you in the fantasy. Ah, yes, the joy of dreaming of having something that you cannot own at the moment. Such pleasure it brings just talking about it, no, make that, just THINKING about it. But when all has been said, or dreamt, reality sets in and the slogging continues. Life, as it is. How comforting.

Reporting and Performance

A few nights ago, my sister asked me what type of job I'd look for (for the record, I'm a Financial Accounting graduate). I told her non-accounting related, well, at least not keeping accounting records.

My stand is this:
Financial Accounting (in a commercial business sense) requires one to keep accounting records of a business, and this involves past records/historical data. If you are dealing with historical stuff, how can your performance be rated? Is there even a KPI for how well one keeps past records? Of course there's the occasional advice that you can provide from the extensive list of accounting standards, but these also mostly relates to how you handle the past records, which nobody would really look at apart from the blasted, nosy auditors, and perhaps your 'successor'. So, since your performance can't be rated, how can you get a pay rise, a promotion, a pat on the back from the boss, some form of recognition? Heck, nobody's gonna say "Well done, you did a good job in handling all the past records (which nobody really care about anymore, since we're looking at what will happen in the future)".

Expectations

Just yesterday, my superior and I had a conversation during lunch hour on the expectations of life. How one should have their own expectations in life. Needless to say, with me being ignorant towards lots of things, I have the least expectations on how I would lead my life. I may have one or two, okay, maybe a few, but I draw the line at expecting too much out of anything. Things never go the way one plans it to be. When one dreams, no, wants something to happen, the opposite usually happens. That's the way the Earth revolves (counter-clockwise if seen from the North Pole). So I guess we'll have to live with it.

Another thing brought up, also on expectations, is when one is in a relationship. As my superior told me, having too much of an expectation in a relationship can lead to the dissatisfaction of one party, or both parties. What would make it worse is the expectations of outsiders (relatives, friends) of the relationship you are in. She has gone through it in her relationship, and I have witnessed many of these 'expectations' from my side of the family. Stuff like, "Eh, where's your other half? Not coming ah?" An uncle once replied to this, on behalf of a cousin, with a "Must be the overdose of family gatherings." That was a good one. :D People should learn to keep their noses out of other's business.

On a side note, I just received information on the child I'm sponsoring. I expect him to do well in life, and love his family. ;)