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An Update To The Walking Bus Guide

I decided to clear my mind of the work troubles that I decided to take the bus and update my bus routes knowledge with the recent amendments to some of the bus services in the area that I am staying in and the transition to the Bus Contracting Model, where LTA is now the central route planner of the bus routes. Here are the list of updated bus routes that I have known since my last post about this in 2014. Bus services with full route knowledge 7 Bedok Interchange to Clementi 16 Bedok Interchange to Bukit Merah 22 Ang Mo Kio to Tampines 24 Ang Mo Kio to Changi Airport 25 Ang Mo Kio to Upper East Coast Terminal 27 Hougang Central to Changi Airport 36 Changi Airport PTB 2 to Tomlinson Rd (loop) 43 Punggol Terminal to Upper East Coast Terminal 43M Punggol Terminal to Serangoon Central (Loop)  53 Bishan to Changi Airport 53M Hougang Ave 1 to Serangoon Central (Loop) 54 Bishan to New Bridge Rd 55 Bishan to Upper East Coast Terminal 56 Bishan to Marina Centre 61 Bukit ...

Bottled Feelings Part 2

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My boss had asked my audit associate to send down their staff to assist me & my colleague with the audit matters, which I thought was a good sign, but sad to say, an auditor from the associate company had photocopied 65 pages of documents during his statutory review of a company, and was caught in the act by my boss. My boss had minded about this issue since Day 1 of the collaboration, as the associate does not pay us a single cent for what they photocopied. I was chided at the company meeting that I had not informed them about this. I am not audit trained or an administrator of my company. I am employed by the company to handle the tax matters of our clients. How do we know that the documents they photocopied are essential for their audit? The way she chided me in front of everyone irks me as she said if I do not tell the auditors that photocopying is restricted from now, she would assign other colleagues to do it. I know that others will not do a good job as they were the ones wh...