Top Eight Ito!!!

You'll just have to allow me this moment of obnoxious self-indulgence. After clawing my way through seven years of college, to have this waiting for me at the end is just wonderful.

Yes, I'm talking about my board exam. As in I am number eight in the entire frickking country!!! I am the eighth highest social work board passer in the entire Philippines!

Man, and after the horrible first exam (of four), I would've been happy to just have passed the gods-damned exam. I never, ever expected to get anywhere in the Top Ten.

P.S. Yes, to be a social worker, you have to take a four-year B.S. in Social Work and pass a national board exam. You aren't a social worker just because you're working/you've worked in an NGO :-P.

Hay, of course, I owe this to many, many other people. My parents and their infinite patience and support, financial and otherwise. My profs (except one) and my classmates, for the knowledge and moral support. And all my friends from even before I transferred to Social Work (halloo Kule pips!), who know all about the math-and-chem-singko ickiness I went through to get here, and who've helped me to carry on. And I'd like to think that, despite whatever issues we may have, Someone Else was watching over me. I guess it is true: Even the most un-religious person needs to call out to... Someone, in their hour of need. Many thanks.

Yes, I know this is all very incredible. Super-singko, Hari ng Incomplete, perenially-late/absent, incredibly delayed, delinkwente Ajeet is Top Eight? But it's true hehe. Of course, the PRC website is (still) down, and the lists on newspaper websites are just of the board passers, not of the Top Ten, so you're just going to have to take my word for it. Unless you can scrounge up the Saturday edition of the Manila Bulletin. My mom has already stowed our copy away.