A few days back while I was sitting on a toilet bowl, trying to take a dump, and getting ready for another consuming day in the review school, I began generating another tiny question to self, "Why have I been doing this?"  Ok, to make things clear between you and me, I'm not referring to taking a dump.  So we're clear on that, aren't we hehe?  I was actually touching on getting ready for another day in the review school.  Ok, let me postpone my review for a while and blog a little so that I can slow things up as the pressure is gradually creeping up on me.  So *coughs* really, why have I been getting up so early in the morning, positioning myself amid other commuters just to get a seat on a bus, and ultimately attending the review since the early days of June?  So I was trying to goof off with my parents as I ordinarily do one day by revealing before them practically the synopsis of why I decided, at once, to take the CPA Board Exams.  I said to them with feelings (remember I was goofing off hehe), "I'm doing this not necessarily for me but for you."  And then I added, "It's very likely that I will not enjoy the job which an accountant usually (or routinely hehe) does so I'll just take the board and if ever I pass with God's grace which has marvelously worked on me, then my ego would be inflated enough to become a SINGER!  Haha.  And then my parents reacted violently (as if I were serious haha).  I mean, WHAT?!  A singer?  I really like to goof off sometimes hehe.  Perhaps every so often, my jokes, no matter how they appear to be blatant or obvious, are half-meant.  Ok, I wasn't trying to say that I want to become a singer for the rest of my life.  That joke is absolutely NOT meant hehe.  I mean, come on, have you heard me sing?  Please don't expect much hehe.  Again, I hope we're clear on that, aren't we hehe?  All I'm saying is that my joke was half-meant on that part when I said to my parents that I'm about to take the board largely for them and not necessarily for me.  'Cause if I were an extremely selfish kind of guy (which by the way, I'm not haha), I really would have NOT decided to take the board, at least this time around, for kicks and for financial reasons.  I would have worked immediately, practically ANY work which would require my skills, to help the family.  Yet they insisted that I should take the board now no matter what.  And I just shrugged, "Alright."  I'm not really a hard-head.  My decision was, in fact, lightning instant.  Contrary to popular belief, I've never been a reasonable person.  I'm easily hauled by my emotions.  If my parents say GO, then I would do just that for their sake.  Remember the time when I passed the qualifying exams for the Accountancy major?  So incidentally, yes, I'm easily hauled by my emotions.  The reason WHY I MADE SOME HASTY DECISIONS AT SOME POINTS IN MY LIFE WHICH HAVE HAD A MATERIAL EFFECT ON ME BUT I'D NEVER EVER REGRET DOING.  So that's it for now.  Wish me luck.                      

After my review class yesterday, Tope, Lud and I went to SM North Edsa just, you know, to kill time hehe.  But seriously, we went to that mall for nothing but to unwind a little, you know, "chill" hehe.  I guess to chill out sometimes is important especially if you are preparing for the board exams.  I mean, it's definitely NOT advisable and even healthy to lock yourself in a room and review until your brain bleeds dry.  This freakin' lock up is particularly not desirable for my case.  You know, guys and gals, I think I haven't shared to you that I've had a very narrow attention span.  I realized this just a few months back: I get bored easily.  This is one of the symptoms of a narrow attention span.  Most of the time, when I'm trying to answer (or what I personally call immunize) accounting problems for instance, I tend to answer only one problem regardless of its level of difficulty and then I'll stand up, watch TV, pat my dogs, fool around with my little sis or parents, play the guitar, surf the net, listen to hip-hop songs, and virtually anything else but answer the next accounting problem on the hand-out.  It's sort of an interval hehe.  So at the end of the day, I'd accomplish very little hehe.  Basically speaking, I tend to use up most of my energy towards unessential things haha.  There are roughly three months to go before the 'battle royale' known as the CPA Board.  Of course, I know it's not that far away like the kingdom you'll find in a fairy tale (it does rhyme, doesn't it?).  My personal maxim has always been, "Confidence is caused by preparation."  Yet, I still have to catch up on many topics from different subjects.  I haven't even started studying Law and I don't take up notes in this subject for strategic reasons *wink wink* hehe!  What I'm trying to say is that you may do whatever you want in your life as a reviewee but if you badly want to hurdle a tough board like the one that I will take in October, it would all boil down to an effective plan composed of strategies.  Now, I'm just applying Auditing Theory hehe.  But who am I to talk like that, I'm still not a CPA!?  You might hoot hehe.  Well, I just tied up all the advices of those who already are   Based on those advices, I came up with my own summary hehe.  Well going back, a plan varies from one person to another.  My seatmate, Allen, yesterday saw the hand-outs of our fellow reviewees in front of us and he pressured himself by saying to me, "Look RC, they already have answers and we still have none."  Of course, not in English haha.  Then I said to him, "You know who you are bre, don't pressure yourself and don't be pressured by anyone."  And he nodded.  You know what guys and gals, whenever I speak, draw closer to me 'cause that would be of substance haha.  Again, I'm egotistical like that hehe.  Well seriously now, you know who you are and I know who the hell I am.  If a little cramming works for you, then do that.  Allen is a smart-ass, really.  He can get really high grades, even way higher than the average even if he crams.  That's why I said to him you know who you are.  In my case, I do cram as well not because I'm as smart as him, oh hell no hehe.  I've long convinced myself that I can never be as smart as him.  'Cause I believe that at least the mental aspect of an individual is innate.  I usually cram because this works for my OWN standard and because I graduated with a BSA degree, I think my slacking ways somehow worked for the high standard of the program as well.  Again, do whatever works for you.  If my fellow reviewees have this tendency to answer the hand-outs in advance 'cause this tactic has worked well for them through the years, then believe me, it would definitely work for them 'til the end.  'Cause that's how strong my faith in them hehe.  I think my point is pretty clear hehe.  

At the end of the day, what would matter is not the results of the board exams.  Pass or fail, it wouldn't really matter.  Now let me be sappy for a moment through saying this: Generosity matters.  Now, how the hell is succeeding in the CPA Board related to f*ckin' generosity?  You might hoot coupled with a little fury hehe.  Well, I guess you would fully realize what I said by the time you've already achieved something bigger than you'd ever imagined.  You might top the board but if you wouldn't share your blessings, then this achievement would go to waste.  I mean, what's the whole point?!  Live a life that matters as the great Velayo put it when he spoke before us during our solemn investiture.  Remember guys and gals this cliche: What we've done to ourselves would eventually die with us, but what we've done for others would live forever.  Thanks to the old lady who broke in our conversation yesterday for giving us this great advice while the three of us were on the jeep on our way to SM North Edsa hehe.  That's actually the point of this whole entry.  Sorry for my long absence and I hope I somehow put a grin on your face