Dienstag, Mai 30, 2006

紙皮、鋁罐、廢紙

以前住九龍城寨的時候,我都曾經為環保出過一分力,賣過不少可再造的物料。
那時候廢紙每公斤可賣五毫子,鋁罐三毫子一個,而紙皮是阿婆的頭號獵物,所以沒有多少可以給我賣。每次用車仔載十多二十公斤的廢紙,加上十多廿個鋁罐,足夠我買很多零食了。

Samstag, Mai 27, 2006

joke: an accountant wife

from unknown source

I have a professional woman as my wife; a Chartered Accountant. She uses LIFO method while taking out the refrigerated food.

She thinks I am no good with numbers. Fine with me, for now she handles the budget of the house. Initially she used to send me a bill at the month end, but when I told her that I am not her client but her husband, she asks for the money in advance. The expenses had been rising steadily over the months, so one day I snooped into the papers maintained in a current file.

No wonder! She was charging mileage and overtime to the house budget. She is crazy, I tell her but she corrects me. No honey, I am the auditor. I fail to see the light.

Every scrap of the paper in our house is filed. She tells me as per some Ordinance she must keep a copy of every thing for at least ten years before destroying it. I am worried.

The other day we had an hour-long fight. Later, I got to know that she had charged that hour to a client of hers, in the time sheet. My time was put down as unoccupied.

She says that she loves me and I tell her that I love her too. However, she never believes me. She says that there is susceptibility of it being a misstatement. Duh! She wants my representation on this!

Last year our house accounts got a qualified opinion I had not kept the supporting etc. of my purchases. Not a long time back my brother's wedding was to be solemnized. Wedding cards had been sent.
After some time I started receiving a steady trickle of letters. I was puzzled until my wife explained that external evidence was more reliable. She had called for confirmations from all those to whom cards were sent.

When she cooks: my wife at times does not go by recipe. Where the recipe says add half-teaspoon vinegar,one tsp black salt or one teacup of water, she ignores them. She says that they are not material when taken in context of whole meal being prepared.

She is crazy, I tell you. Surprisingly everybody calls her an auditor, instead. I checked the dictionary and it did not state that auditor is a synonym for crazy. The dictionary must be outdated.

When we got married, she had given me an Engagement Letter and I had said how cute-how sweet. Now she gives it to me every year saying that her standards state that it must be sent a new if there is any indication that I have misunderstood the objective and scope of engagement. Huh!

Apart from sending me the engagement letter once again she says I can't get rid of her just like that. She says that she has the right of being heard before I appoint some one else.

Phew! For a minute, I thought that we had jeopardized our going concern status. Duh! Dare I say so??

I am told by one of my female colleagues who is married to a CA that the scenario is even worse when the guy is a CA. Apparently he capitalised the wedding expenses as preliminary expenses and is writing it off every year. Also the time he spent dating his wife before marrying her is still under consideration for valuation...valuation of intangible assets.

So guyz please think twice....should u really marry a CA? and yes please discount it by the appropriate rate to arrive at the present value of the risk of doing so !!!!!!!

Freitag, Mai 26, 2006

巴士阿叔

估唔到佢咁快已經名揚四海! 連英國衛報同紐約時報都有報導。

Mittwoch, Mai 17, 2006

Champions League

唉.... 一換人就輸兩粒... 仲要開波冇耐就趕左列文出場....

EY 出 report 單野好搞笑,我諗佢都係將 Consulting/Research 拆出來好 d

Dienstag, Mai 16, 2006

同文堂

太方便了! 用了這個繁簡轉換的 firefox extension 後,就不用再費勁看醜惡的簡體字了!

Montag, Mai 15, 2006

費達拿 vs 拿度

真可惡! 居然冇直播 !!

Samstag, Mai 13, 2006

Hot!

I cant agree more with KY Lee that air-conditioner is the greatest invention in the 20th century because it unleashed the productivity of the people living in the tropics. It's hard to imagine how I can work in summer without it.

Samstag, Mai 06, 2006

會考英文卷二

有人可以用手機上網出貓?
在新聞組有人留言,問題癥結在怎樣防止有人在廁所用手機,而不是應否印出題目出處。
即使沒有題目出處,我也可以在四十分鐘內完成試卷,然後用 sms 發出答案給考生。要出貓的話,絕不困難。