Dream journal

Documenting my dream last night, really weird. Don’t know what I was doing but somehow I ended up going on some sort of roller coaster with my friend. That’s right, how can someone able to force me onto a roller coaster when I’m so scared of them. Then, somehow, we were sitting in the same cart of the team members of the Raptors. How weird is that, I was sitting beside Lowry and DeRozan. I was overly in shocked of course and didn’t say anything, I was also worried about the ride and wondering how big the drop was going to be. But I woke up before we got to the drop, so I will never know … or I might have screamed out loud when it was dropping. And no idea how Lowry got into my head, didn’t watch the Raptors game, only checked the score last night and somehow, that played a part on my dream.

Society today

Social media kills people skills. With the world of technologies these days, you really don’t need to interact with anyone face to face. I’ve been doing an experiment over this past month to test out this theory. I was off the social media for over a month now, didn’t post anything on Facebook (I usually would update my profile pic once a week), didn’t comment or like any posts, didn’t post anything on Instagram. Wondering if that would trigger any of my friends to notice that I have been inactive and at least message me to see if everything is going ok with me.

The end result so far is … no one has. That’s how this social media world has turn to, no one wonders if you post anything or not about what is going on with your life. No one really cares, it is just an engine for them to show off about how glamorous they think their life is. With those ppl who are on 24/7, thinking they are so up-to-date with the world by liking and posting on their feeds, really … all you are is just a machine pressing a button. You are not building on any relationships or people skills.

Meow ….

My neighbour’s cat who likes to hang out in my balcony more than his own. Every time he hears me open the balcony door, he will run over to my side to greet me and brush his tail around me to say hi.

Why CPA membership fees so expensive??

Ok, I never understand this but my annual CPA fees are due again and every year, I ask the same question. Why are the CPA fees so damn expensive??? $1,085!!! What the hell do they do with our money??? We have no unions to fight for us, we have no perks. Our Professional Development courses are super expensive on top of it, no discounts. So why?? Yes, we are professional organization but other professional associations are not as expensive as us. For example, family physicians pay about $3K but they get reimbursed by the Government so they really only pay $1K, but they are doctors, they make at least 3x of a CPA. Nurses pay about $200 only, similar to Dietitians, Social Workers, Engineers. The lawyers pay about $800 for their annual membership fees and they make more than CPAs. How is this fair considering the association does nothing that I can see. The only thing tangible they did was they merged the CA, CMA, CGA together to CPAs which I was SO against yet none of our concerns made any changes at all.

Employment laws should change to protect employers

Now that I have been more involved with HR, I get to see a lot of wacky things that happens, things that I never heard of or believe it can be true in real life. I always thought the existence of Employment Laws were to protect employees from those harsh employers. But what I find in my experience so far is that employees use the law against the employers to take advantage. Even if they break the agreement that is stated in the contract, we can’t hold it against them. And what surprises me the most is from the advise of lawyers, employers can’t sue the employee back because it will cost more than the benefit and most likely, the judge will side with the employee. That is so unfair! They get to get away with it. I hate how people take advantage of the system.

Happy Birthday!

I haven’t been updating my blog for the past week .. well, it’s because .. it’s my birthday! Thank you all for you warm birthday wishes from different type of mediums. Even though some of you, I don’t see you often but true friends is there when you need them. I have learned these past few years that even if we don’t have time to meet up for months, when we do, it’s a great night to catch up. And I learn that there are some people that you think you are friends with but really, they don’t place you in their hearts at all. A clear example are the ppl from DT, the moment I quit, none of them ever spoke to me again, out of sight, out of mind. Wow, I couldn’t believe it either but its the real truth. Funny how I still talked to the ppl from CH times even though it was before my DT time.

Anyways, birthdays are a great way to meet up with ppl that I haven’t talked for awhile and another excuse to try great foods. I’ve had so many food comas this week, love it. I need to catch up on my blogs of my food reviews. 🙂

Bad day means everything you do goes bad

Today was a pretty rough day. My phone died all of sudden, it was fully charged with I left home and in the afternoon, it shut off itself. And I didn’t even use it. It couldn’t even turn on even whey I plugged it in, the battery wouldn’t charge. Dead phone.

After work, I decided to go to get a car wash, didn’t realize it takes so long to wait in line. There was about 5 cars ahead of me and I waited over 40 minutes before it was my turn. And when it was finally my turn, I was trapped in the car wash. That’s right, who gets trapped in a car wash?? Me!! The door to get out of the car wash wouldn’t open when I reach the gate. So I couldn’t get out. My phone was dead so I couldn’t call anyone to help. Luckily, the guy behind me was nice enough to help me call and finally someone arrived. He was trying to reset the door but it still wouldn’t open. He had to call his manager on the phone to ask for instructions on how to open, he tried a few times and still, no luck. Finally, he had to manually lift the door open and I could escape. A simple car wash turned into over an hour of my time. What a waste of my time … and I was starving which made me even more annoyed.

Seriously, when you are having a bad day, everything you touch or do does not work like you normally would. I just went home and just went to bed, not doing anything more. 😥

Is it a sign of getting old?

Is it a sign that you are getting old when you are reminiscing back the music / TV shows from your teenage years? It is also triggered because there have been many reunions lately.

Last night, there were reliable rumours that NSYNC was going to reunited and perform at the SNL 40^th anniversary show. There were tweets from the official NSYNC twitter account “together again … gee, it’s good to be together again #SNL 40”. I know Justin Timberlake was going to be on the SNL show with Jimmy Fallon so having NSYNC on was probable. And many entertainment news feed had articles that they can’t wait for it. Their last reunion was back in 2013 for the MTV Video Music Awards.  So I sat there in front of the TV watching the 3.5 hrs SNL anniversary show … when 11:30pm was coming close and still no sign, I was like WTF??? But I was not the only angry one, there were twitter feed of many angry fans waiting and waiting with disappointment.  I wanted the 3.5 hrs back of my life back!

The SNL show itself was ok, I thought it was going to be all live skits but it was a mix of replaying old skits and some new live ones. The majority of the old clips they played were back from the 70’s – 90’s – way before my time so I didn’t know any of them and wasn’t that funny.  The new ones … I liked Celebrity Jeopardy and Wayne’s World, the rest … was meh.

Back to the reminiscing … lately, I’ve been listening to songs of boy bands from back in the days … NSYNC, BSB, NKOTB, 98 Degrees … because the new songs now just don’t hold up. I don’t know if this is a stage that everyone goes through, but the music now days are not that great in quality. Some are catchy, but not long lasting, like listening to the same song 15 years later, will it still be that good? Or is it because those were the happy days that make the song better. Will the fans of One Direction now have the same feeling as me in 15 years as I do with NSYNC music? When I listen back to these songs, it brings back happy memories from high school.  I’m a fan of JT still right now but his songs makes me cry because of the things that have happened when I listen to the songs.

This isn’t just the same with English music, same goes for HK Chinese songs. The songs from the four heavenly kings (四大天王) are long lasting, better song melody and lyrics, listening to them now, they are still really good songs. Vs. the songs now, they are just not good. I mean, I hardly listen to HK pop now, don’t know the names of the new singers. I only listen to the songs that are the theme songs of the TVB series that I watch, that is as much of my HK music exposure.

As for TV shows, they actually have the opposite effect. I’ve catching episodes here and there of my favourite shows back in the days … Friends, Saved by the Bell, Full House. I used to love them and find it very funny. But re-watching it, don’t find them funny anymore, it must have been funny back then, now that we are in a different era, the jokes don’t work anymore.

Does anyone feel the same way? Music? TV shows?

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I’m so pissed off about work today. I don’t think I have ever been so irritated and back-stabbed like this before. The person definitely planned this out and did it while I’m away from the office. Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Retailed therapy helped a bit but I spend more than my day’s pay and it was for a hour of joy. Phone therapy with my friends and mom did help a bit more. But it will take awhile to recover.

New luggage

My old luggage was broken after I came back from my last trip, it’s about time … been with me for 6 years already. It’s time to say goodbye. I’ve been debating a lot about the new suitcase .. a suitable size, hard case vs. soft case. My old one was an expandable 26″, it’s not the largest but it got me through vacations of 2-3 weeks. As I was shopping around, I realized there are so many sizes and even if they say it is a 24″, it could be different heights and width. Can I survive with just a 24″, lighter weight but can I fit everything in? Ever since I came back from my backpacking trip to Peru, I feel that I have been able to travel light.

The other question is should I get a hard case suitcase, never had one before, but it is the more fashionable choice. Lots of cool patterns and colours. But my worry is for the soft luggage, I can stuff a lot of stuff on top and expand it, can I do that with a hard case? It is expandable but can it fit as much??

Everything was changed when I saw this luggage in the store, the art on it just attracted me and I had to get it. Even though it wasn’t the size I want (it’s smaller), I had to get it. I will need to learn to pack more efficiently then so there is room for me to bring back souvenirs. Vacation time count down begins! 🙂