Am I abnormal haha?  Only two days to go before the actual board exams and I'm honestly not feeling as nervous as what I'M SUPPOSED to feel.  Have I gone totally numb haha?  Of course, I'm feeling a little nervous but my tension level has significantly dropped down to a certain point wherein what I'm feeling right now is just like I'm about to take the final exams in the undergraduate years hehe.  Am I again becoming too confident?  Yes, I could say that I'm the kind of guy who commonly oozes with overconfidence but I couldn't say, really, that I already have acquired the adequate confidence to hurdle the board.  For one thing, I was NEVER included in the Top 100 in the two preboards.  Yes, I've prepared decently to aquire the partial confidence I have now but I don't really know if my preparation would be enough.  At this moment, no one really knows.  Except the great God I've known.  

Perhaps, the reason why I'm feeling this almost indifferent way is that I trust God so much.  I'm not really a traditional-religious person.  A Sunday Mass, for example, has never been my thing ever since.  I sometimes go to a holy mass but it's never been a routine.  But you might have noticed in this blog that I do mention God everytime I'm about to take something colossal and I praised Him when I achieved something I had never wanted yet I learned to somehow love it along the way.  In other words, I do believe in Him and His grace even though I don't go to church every Sunday.  And with regard to the board exams that I'll take two days from now, I've always had faith that He would still be with me.  But I'm not necessarily asking Him to lead my pencil to the correct answer nor am I even asking Him to lead my pencil to the correct answers until it rightly shades the last item enough for a passing mark.  I have no idea what my future would be but God had known it even before I came out of my Mama's womb.  So now you can tell who owns my ass hehe.  My plan is obviously grand but His plan for me is THE grandest.  So no matter what the results would be, it would be God's path for me and I would walk on it gladly.  Believe me when I say that both failure and success don't really spell a difference.  If ever I fail, it doesn't necessarily mean that I would be relegated to the backseat of this civilized society.  And if ever I succeed, it doesn't mean that I'll transform into an upgraded version of RC haha.  I'll still be the same RC you probably know who eats footlong from the squatter's area, gazes fiercely at the tambays in the neighborhood, and genuinely smiles at people who suffer from mental retardation.  Ok, you don't know that haha.  My blog and I, as I've always emphasized, are different from each other.  Ok, I'm digressing hehe.  Where was I?  Ok, I'm not necessarily demanding from God to give me the much coveted CPA title.  I mean, who am I to demand that from Him like a freakin' PRC employee demanding payment for a mailing envelope hehe?  Again, He has the grandest plans for me and I don't know what those plans are.  What I'll simply do is to give the best I've got in His glory.  All I'm asking from Him, despite the length of this entry, is surprisingly straightforward and that is a tip-top physical shape (I've been worrying about my eyes these past days but I'll tell about this in a separate entry) at the actual board hehe.  That package, of course, includes the capacity to comprehend every item correctly as well as a retentive memory.  After all, He was ultimately the one who molded my skills.  And I believe that it would not be very difficult for Him to reward my skills a special overhaul at the time when I need it the most.    

I can do everything through him that gives me strength.
Philippians 4:13 NIV                       

Last year, I devoted my whole entry to my friends especially to the readers of my blog who hurdled the CPA Board Exams.  Again, Gold, are you still lurking on my blog hehe?  Say Hi.  My comment form is already functioning hehe.  Anyways, I COULD HAVE been a CPA a year ago.  But 2007 simply wasn't my time.  I was still in college then.  But it was a blessing though 'cause I did learn the true value of waiting.  And now on this very day, this is my moment and what was that David Cook Song hehe?  Ok, let me congratulate myself for passing the October 2008 C.P.A. Board Licensure Examinations.  I could have never done it, really, without prayers especially those prayers that came from my relatives in Samar.  Through God's unending grace, I've never failed to make my parents so proud.  Dude Elaine, you're so right.  Prayers do work!  And I specially congratulate the new CPA who's been reading my blog, Lesley Sio.  Did I miss someone hehe?  That's it for now.  I feel like dancing hehe.               

I'm originally a shy type of guy.  But if there is one valuable thing that I learned from the streets during my ragged childhood days, then it was being OUTGOING.  So it sort of nuked the introvert within me and most importantly, has developed my self-confidence over these years.  Now you could imagine how unruly I was becoming when I wasn't permitted to play outside the house.  I totally hated sleeping in the afternoon but if that was the only condition set by our house help for me to play outside at 4 PM, then I had never failed to meet that condition despite the fact that I was faking it most of the time hehe.  Just staying inside the house was practically boring me to tears.  But one of the saving graces of staying inside the house was our family computer back then.  I used to kill time just trying to face Mike Tyson on a boxing computer game, Punch-Out but I was unsuccessful.  And the other saving grace was my favorite board game, the Millionaire's Game (a variant of Monopoly).  Basically, the Millionaire's Game is a highly-strategic board game wherein players compete in a virtual economic environment in order to create wealth by buying, selling, and renting properties using play money.  Now you've just known how I basically held on a tough business course known as Accountancy hehe.  As a child, I lived a dangerous childhood (just a bit dangerous).  I used to climb trees, cross a river, and run my BMX bike at a ridiculous top speed.  Yet at the same time, I found my sense of maturity quite prematurely by just staying inside the house playing Millionaire's Game with my father.  Sometimes, I was asking him the meanings of some business jargons in the game that a typical child would not normally understand.  But everytime I asked, his answer was always a predetermined, "You will eventually know it as you grow up."  But still, I played the game as I was taught by him about the bare fundamentals.  And my father mused one day, the day I became a CPA, that he couldn't imagine how little RC gradually transformed and ultimately achieved such an esteemed title.  Ok, enough for too much drama hehe.  Too much drama could freakin' kill.  And take a look at me now, bumming my ass off hehe.  I still haven't passed my resume to any company.  I didn't even attend the job fair many months back.  Thing is, aside from "writing" that made me thousands, my passion for anything about business is still alive and kicking.  Perhaps, had I not discovered the Millionaire's Game, I would have soared my ass out of the dreadful Accounting course.  It is, after all, the passion that keeps the fire burning, baby.  But as I wrote here, no wonder, I've been a lost kid. 

I vividly remember that night (I was in 1st year highschool I think) when I was tasked by my father to post the amounts to the ledger of a water refilling business.  I mean, come on, a water refilling business?!  Just imagine the immense volume of its transactions in a single day!  From that night, I said to myself that bookkeeping s*cks crinkly balls.  And I even made a promise to myself that I will never EVER take Accounting in college.  And as you can see, I ate that up like the legendary Cookie Monster.  You might not have an idea how that bookkeeping task bored the living daylights out of a dorky RC back then.  So before I embark on a new journey, I still have some emo soul-searching escapades to do hehe.  I mean, come on, once you get into a job, it would be tough to get your ass out of it in case you feel freakin' suffocated in a surrounding wherein dealing with different kinds of people is more stressful than the job itself.  If you encounter, for instance, an RC-like in the workplace, well, that would be doubly hard if not excruciating haha.  Especially if you're a hot girl hehe.  Ok, I'm just playing.  Well, what I've been trying to share all along is that even though I'm slacking at this very moment, I still have plans to practice my profession.  So don't worry Logis hehe.  Anyone probably has an idea how difficult it really is to hurdle the CPA Board.  And I'm not crazy enough to never grab that opportunity.  It would seriously take another entry to share what particular area in Accountancy I've been wanting to practice.  But let me tell it once and for all that it's not going to be external auditing nor the academe hehe.  Let us see, let us see...