Adventure Accounting

The Birthday Blues Post. In a couple of days, I will blow another candle in my cake. Okay, so I am not that young for the birthday cakes. I’m not turning 30...yet. I still have some years before I get there.   Some of the thoughts that I thought when I was younger... elementary, high school.... By the time I was 30... I should: Be filthy rich. Have Php 1,000,000 (it sounds like a really huge huge astronomical amount when I was a kid) Travel and set foot on the 7 continents. Travel the world! Get a Masters Degree. Everybody wants it. Everybody does it. A higher sense of accomplishment. Get married and have kids. Doesn’t mean that you’ll have a great marriage or   you’ll be good parents if you do these before 30 though. Have my own house. But what if I haven’t even decided WHERE I should live? And to do this "everything before 30 list", I have to finish my studies and have a great job. So that’s the formula and the path if accomplishing all this thing...

I was nine years old when I experienced my first plane ride. I barely remember how I felt during that flight from Manila to Hongkong. It took another 13 years before I rode a plane again, thanks to our company outing. Puerto Prinsesa made me realize that the ocean holds more fun than the swimming pool. I used to hate the ocean because the water is salty. PP introduced me to a wonderful activity called snorkeling. I can still recall the joy I felt when I saw fishies eating the bread in my palm. I vowed to travel more in the future. Island hopping in Puerto Prinsesa in 2007 Unfortunately, being an auditor meant doing lots of overtime while budgeting your meager salary. I didn’t have the chance to travel because of my working hours and my tight budget. I wanted more income and more time – to travel, to save, to spend and basically do whatever I want. So I happily left the auditing world in 2008 to get a normal 8-5 job and vacation leaves that I can use.