Tuesday, September 27, 2005

lesson #196: and the most boring book award goes to...

Auditing
Assurance & Risk
W. Robert Knechel

I just can't believe how friggin' boring Audit is! REALLY. Everytime I attempted any readings, I'll start fidgeting by around the fifth page. What a y-a-w-n. The paragraphs are just so long, and there's the niggling feeling that the author just don't know how to get his points across concisely, and that's why he's going round and round and you don't know why the heck he spent so long just to explain a single concept. Just to explain an example, he wrote like this:

this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this

ARGH!

Just don't see the point. Actually, what's the whole purpose of studying Audit anyway? So you study how risky your client is. If the client's low-risk, then you can do less tests. If the client's high-risk, you either avoid or do more tests. If their reports are fishy, you put a disclaimer saying you can't give an opinion. I can summarize the whole bloody book in just two words - be careful. Can you believe wasting $42 just to learn those two words? Dayum. Even my kid brother knows that, and all he does all day is play Maple Story.

-- BITCH MODE NOW ON --

I can do this shit. So you can just take your condescending hand off my ass and harrass someone else. Fucking bitch.

-- BITCH MODE NOW OFF --

Watched ANTM just now. Felt sad for Michelle... Feel like I could connect with her and feel what she felt. The whole 'doesn't belong' thing totally sucks. Sometimes you just wanna curl up inside and die. Okay, well, maybe not die as such. Maybe just fall into a coma in which you dream a nice dream with say, Orlando Bloom inside. Seriously though, it must've been really tough for her. I don't think she's weak. She's pretty strong to have weathered it so far. It's the first time watching ANTM had evoked such sad emotions in me. Also can sympathize with Brittany and the whole giraffe thing. It's not nice to be teased. I make conversations about shallow things most of the time, because when it gets to the deep stuff, I feel like in deep shit. Sometimes it's best not to reveal the more fragile side of you.