caught a cold...no biggie

Ok, so I guess I'm not the healthiest person in the world at the moment, but on the bright side that post bellow is still valid! The happiness doesn't end. It continues on and is spread onto other people. That's right, I spread my happiness faster than a Jehovah Witness.

Another reason why I am happy while with a cold is because very soon - exactly 39 days from now, I will be back in the place which I consider home - GTA. (Broad, isn't it?) This will be the best move! I will pack days and nights and days again, so I can swap this downtown pollution for some rural fresh air, which my lungs have been craving for over 3.5 years.

As for now, I will study hard to make the best of my last semester at John Molson School of Business!

The past couple of days I've been the happiest person. Everything is good! I'm feeling A-OK and I have a grand appetite for ice cream. I haven't had it in 1 year! So I figured I should have it now, that I am the happiest person! What better time to chose?

Hardly anything can ruin my mood. It's a great positive attitude. I wish every day was like this. Warm and sunny. With a smell of fresh baked bread, Polish Kolbasa and Swiss cheese.


I'm also still in a shock after meeting Gergiev for the second time in my life. Honestly, there is no other person who deserves to be more admired by me, than Gergiev.

The man is a genius of his kind. It's a tragedy some people don't understand it. But look at me. 20 days after his concert and I'm still in awe. He inspired me to appreciate classical music so much more.

If I ever were a musician, I would have been a great one.


Ahhhhhhhhh. Life is great the way it is.

best of Chan-Chan man

Silence has crawled into my heart
City lights are blinding my eyes
The caskets of misery surround
Shameless bodies of thousand lies

In the midst of this plain night
These strange sounds are coming through
The rhythm starts strong and soon
The universe stops at 2:00

Survival is final and harsh
It's sudden and better at last
Addicted to lyrical notes
My heart is finally beating fast

The negatives minds quit the talk
A soul lost forever can sing
Three minutes promise salvation
Adventures and futures they bring

motivation is...

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J'aime Marie Mai et vous ?

IFRS : World domination

Every time I look at this picture (taken from IASB.com) I can't help but wonder how much the map looks like a world domination plan.


By the way, the map is effective January 1, 2011. Canada will be joining next year and the US is expected to join in a few years after everyone else has joined :)

I'm feeling happy today

Ok, I am back in my Montreal apartment, flipping through course outlines of my "oh-so-exciting" accounting courses.

This term I'm taking accounting for non-for profit organizations, which I am kind of excited about. I know very little this area and I though it might be fun to learn about it. Plus, there is a large demand for these type of accountants and if I really do enjoy this course I might actually go into it after graduating.

I'm also taking chemistry, which is strange because it's completely unrelated to my likings. Just as the non-profit acco, I thought it might be fun to take it as an elective. I realized I don't know much about sciences either and I'd like to know more. So, we'll see how that goes.

I also thought about taking Italian or Mandarin, but unfortunately both courses were full and then I realized I'd better enhance my French than study a whole other language.

I don't know how I will do it this semester with 4 accounting courses, but I am very optimistic.

So, I yet again conclude my post with a song. This is one of the recent works of Roxette.

Enjoy

Get out your big wigs and flare pants

Good ol' dance songs

How good it feels to be back

I am back... not just to my regular life, but to the place I consider one of the most dear cities to me.... Toronto

And by the way, that tax exam went awesome. I don't know why I was so worried


Ah, how good it feels to be back !


These are the things I would like to do on my 2 week stay in Toronto:

1. See as many as my friends as possible
2. Go skiing
3. Go skating beside City Hall
4. Read at least one novel (a break from textbooks)
5. Buy presents
6. Make sure Megumi has a great stay at our place
7. See New Year fireworks
8. Cook special meals
9. Get back on my usual work out schedule
10. Take advantage of Boxing day


Let the fun times begin!

16.5 Hours to go until tax exam

I don't think I've ever been so stressed out about exams as I am now. I am very worried about Tax tomorrow. Audit and Adv. Management Acco just pushed me to the wall, stole all my strength and motivation and ran off to Haiti.

And now, I am all out for Tax. All out.

Unfortunately, I am stressed to the point that every morning I wake up, open my eyes and see numbers and formulas fading away from my dream.

Today, I thought about deferring the exam, but I realized that it I've never done that up till now, and it's best that I not do it.

Blogs are good. They give you a break..... From everything.

Stuck in my head

I used to hate this song 5 years ago, now I somehow seem to connect to it in a way which I don't know myself






"Black Black Heart"

Something ugly this way comes
Through my fingers sliding inside
All these blessings all these burns
I'm godless underneath your cover
Search for pleasure search for pain
In this world now I am undying
I unfurl my flag my nation helpless

Black black heart why would you offer more
Why would you make it easier on me to satisfy
I'm on fire I'm rotting to the core
I'm eating all your kings and queens
All your sex and your diamonds

As I begin to lose my grip
On these realities your sending
Taste your mind and taste your sex
I'm naked underneath your cover
Covers lie and we will bend and borrow
With the coming sign
The tide will take the sea will rise and time will rape

Black black heart why would you offer more
Why would you make it easier on me to satisfy
I'm on fire I'm rotting to the core
I'm eating all your kings and queens
All your sex and your diamonds

Black black heart why would you offer more
Why would you make it easier on me to satisfy
I'm on fire I'm rotting to the core
I'm eating all your kings and queens
All your sex and your diamonds
All your sex and your diamonds
All your sex and your diamonds
All your sex and your diamonds
All your sex and your diamonds

Just thought I'd post this funny comic :) It's unfortunate and true

3:31 am

I think the title just says it all...

I am an owl.

Thats right, I can turn my head 270 degrees... I also lack my sense of sarcasm at this hour.


My exam time schedule usually ends up being the same for about 2 weeks. Wake up at 11-12 pm. Stay up till 4-5 am exhausted and unable to change this terrible habit.

Here is something interesting. Today my exam ended at nearly midnight. I guess this is where my being an owl pays off. I get to be the most awake person in the room. I have the competitive advantage.

I am proud of myself this semester. I have gotten over my coffee addiction. I now spend exams coffee free and I didn't even attend counseling.

I have also run out of closet space to put my textbooks so now there are stacks of them all over my living room. I would love to through them off my balcony one day and then run downstairs and bring them back up. I always picture this in my head.

When I think back to when I began my studies at JMSB, I wonder how fast these 3 yrs have passed. I have managed to fit 9 full time semesters into these 3 years and time flew by so quickly.

My last semester starts after the holidays and then I get my reward - a break.

As for right now, I must get some sleep before Taxation at 8:45 am.

The "no name" post

Its been a while since I actually enjoyed reading a textbook. What I mean by "enjoyment" is not my usual "trying-hard-to-be-productive-mood", but rather the "fun- upbeat-feeling". Ahh, yes, fun textbooks are rare.

I will get to the purpose of my post now...
So I was reading my advanced management textbook today about action controls (rules imposed by management on staff during day to day activities) and the author seemed to try very hard to prove to me, that these so called action controls have a minor disadvantage - "lack of creativity"

And so, he managed to convince me of this by just writing one sentence, which was "In some cases this discouragement is not a significant disadvantage, for example, creativity from pilots in the air is not normally desirable"

I conclude this post with a message to Robert Simons (the author).

Sir, could you please write more custom made textbooks for John Molson School of Business. I would greatly appreciate it. It seems the two of us have some kind of textbook-humor connection.

It doesn't happen very often.

Variances made easy!

These easy to remember formulas are an addition to the Variance Table which I have put up a couple of months ago.



Price Variance = [Actual Price- Budgeted Price] x Actual Volume

Mix and Volume Variance = [Actual Volume-Budgeted Volume] x CM/unit*


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Mix Variance = [(Total Actual Volume x Budgeted %)- Total Actual Volume] x CM/unit

Volume Variance = [(Total Actual Volume x Budgeted %) - Budget Sales] x CM/unit

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Variable Cost Variances

DM Variance = [Budgeted DM rate x Materials Produced]- Actual DM

DL Variance = [Budgeted DL rate x Materials Produced]- Actual DL

VOH Variance = [Budgeted VOH rate x Materials Produced]- Actual VOH


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Fixed Cost Variances

Selling Variances = Actual Selling Cost- Budgeted Selling Cost

Administrative Variances = Actual Admin. Cost- Budgeted Admin. Cost

Going back to classics

It doesn't get better than this...

Too many passwords?

I tried to log onto my blogger account for an hour. It was like playing a guessing game with myself. "Is it something longer than 6 ALFA NUMERIC keys?", “Is it a pet's name?", "Is it my mother’s maiden name?", "is it the name of the street adjacent to the one which my father's uncle grew up on?" (It's none of these, by the way)

Nowadays, there are passwords for everything that you use: debit and credit cards, savings accounts, email accounts, "Facebook" accounts, personal computers, billing accounts. The list goes on and on.

I think the further we go the more of these accounts we have to deal with. But how do we manage all of our passwords? Is it good to have extra security or is it an additional hassle?

I honestly don't know. I guess it really depends on the person. Some feel happy when they are secured, others like myself, are easily frustrated when life gets too complicated.

So how do you think I figured out my blogger password? I didn't. But, I created a new password (for the 459th time).

Now I am good.....................until my next post