Mind Math

Last Saturday we went to lunch at our friend's house and her daughter was practicing her Abacus tuition home work. After watching us observing their daughter moving fingers in air, my friend told me,' She is no more using her abacus now, she moves them in her mind'. 'aha'. She was doing bigger calculations in seconds.

I really felt proud and good watching  my friend's daughter but inside I was humiliated and was questioning my mind math. My husband always makes fun of me saying , you are studying to become a CPA and you rely too much on calculator.  I don't have mind math, all I do is pressing buttons and I am sure teenagers who send messages press buttons pretty faster than me.

So I decided to spend like at least two hours a week to learn abacus. A few minutes daily. Never feel too shy to learn.

Reg Exam update

When your preparation is not so Good.. You feel like everything is in the mind and nothing feels clear. Even straight forward questions you answered feel doubtful. And the end feels like you didn't performed well. I did my best but I am not satisfied with my performance. It just ends up to waiting for the result to see how I performed. My disturbed preparation showed up. I am not so proud to write this but this is what happened.

First test-let was the difficult one, Second was easy and third was medium. Simulations were pretty easy. I managed time well as advised by  Mr.Roger of Roger CPA Review. I had little inconvenience due to my pregnancy situation because I couldn't take a break in the 3hr exam but I managed some how. When the exam  ended the whole screen went blank before it concluded , I asked a staff member for assistance and she restarted the computer and made me enter my launch code and said ," It happens all the time, we have instructions from NASBA, If ever the screen goes blank after the exam ends, we just need to restart the computer and ask the candidate to enter their launch code". She confirmed me that my exam will be fine.

I was so surprised to find a girl at Prometric who doesn't even know what NTS is!!! She brought a print out of Prometric appointment confirmation. When a staff member was asking her for NTS, she was clueless. A staff member explained her what NTS is and told her to get a printout from her NASBA emails from a nearby Kinkos. I showed her my NTS and she came back with a print out of NTS and wrote her exam.

I started my FAR preparation and planning to appear in the first week of October. Being pregnant and prepare for exam and do a job is not an easy affair. Still I want to do it because I want to become a CPA and it makes me happy.

Pirates of Hard work

A week back I had a dream, I was watching the movie, The pirates of of the Caribbean in a movie theater(come on!! It's Captain Jack sparrow). It was dark and the whole setting in the movie theater was very much like what I saw at Disney. It's like sitting in a jungle and watching the movie at the same time.( My dreams are getting pretty creative now a days ). Every one was given a token and that token will turn into a special coin at the end of the film.

Preparation so far

I was preparing for REG since starting of this month but I paid fees two days back. Not that I am recommending this. But It was little painful to pay. Call it anger or disappointment. But once you receive your NTS that feeling is different. It becomes exam time. Never postpone paying fees once you are decided. Paying hard earned money is commitment.

I have reached the half way mile stone in my pregnancy journey and nausea is settling. Right now I am concentrating on eating healthy foods and gaining some weight. I lost almost 4 pounds during the last 4 months and was little worried. Every body is telling me that this time is the best in pregnancy. So I want to take advantage of this time and prepare well for the exam.

Realization

After I passed my BEC exam and its almost an year now ( sounds more like B.C.). I sat before books like a lost soul, making unfruitful attempts to get something inside. I failed AUD and REG and after my last attempt a month and half before I started preparing for AUD. After ten days I realized that I haven't read anything fruitful again and decided to end this crazy preparation and not to rest till I become a CPA.