Last Friday, I was on a quest. The list I prepared was quite long, I only managed to finished half of it. My mission was to get Standardized Aptitude Test for Teachers and process my application for a Passport.
It was a day of misses it seems to me now.
I started early. Unfortunately, I miscalculated completion by inadvertently not thinking about the presence (or absence) of signatories. For my passport application, Comelec doesn't have my Voter's ID yet, Police Clearance is not available until Tuesday and the lawyer who was supposed to sign my affidavit of loss was at the dentist.
We (JM, KZ and myself) arrived at the City College at sometime past 11. Guidance office personnel refused to give us the aptitude test with an endorsement from the Education Department. The irony is when we tried to get one, the officer in charge is out attending to the PRC staff that were there for the week and we were just given a signed slip to photocopy. By the time we were done though, it was time for lunch and we had to wait an hour and a half for the office to reopen for business.
On our trip to Chinky's for lunch, the driver took P10 per head instead of P8.
Back to the Guidance office at the designated time, we had to go out again to buy pencils. Three of the people queueing with us disappeared at the mention of P200 exam fees. Risking a bad impression of being pushy, I requested to get the exam started with the others as they might not be back anymore. The facilitator conceded but set it at 2. She said that the exam is good for 2.5 hours but save us all the trouble of following a strict timetable. That went well for me as I finished the whole thing in one hour flat. You see, I had to adhere to my schedule.
Murphy's Law: When it's bound to happen, it will. Well, it was bound to happen that I won't be able to finish my application for a passport renewal. As I have mentioned, the lawyer was out. So, I just accompanied KZ in taking SATT at WNU as her course of choice was already filled out at the community college.
To reward ourselves with half our list done, we spent the rest of the evening at Cinema 4 watching STAR TREK into the darkness with just a handful of other Trekkies.
Yesterday, I went back for the result of the Aptitude Test. I am intelligent alright (modesty aside: with a percentile rank of 91 in Math and 99 in Abstract Reasoning) but I have been found wanting in the non-intellectual part (hahaha).
It was a day of misses it seems to me now.
I started early. Unfortunately, I miscalculated completion by inadvertently not thinking about the presence (or absence) of signatories. For my passport application, Comelec doesn't have my Voter's ID yet, Police Clearance is not available until Tuesday and the lawyer who was supposed to sign my affidavit of loss was at the dentist.
We (JM, KZ and myself) arrived at the City College at sometime past 11. Guidance office personnel refused to give us the aptitude test with an endorsement from the Education Department. The irony is when we tried to get one, the officer in charge is out attending to the PRC staff that were there for the week and we were just given a signed slip to photocopy. By the time we were done though, it was time for lunch and we had to wait an hour and a half for the office to reopen for business.
On our trip to Chinky's for lunch, the driver took P10 per head instead of P8.
Back to the Guidance office at the designated time, we had to go out again to buy pencils. Three of the people queueing with us disappeared at the mention of P200 exam fees. Risking a bad impression of being pushy, I requested to get the exam started with the others as they might not be back anymore. The facilitator conceded but set it at 2. She said that the exam is good for 2.5 hours but save us all the trouble of following a strict timetable. That went well for me as I finished the whole thing in one hour flat. You see, I had to adhere to my schedule.
Murphy's Law: When it's bound to happen, it will. Well, it was bound to happen that I won't be able to finish my application for a passport renewal. As I have mentioned, the lawyer was out. So, I just accompanied KZ in taking SATT at WNU as her course of choice was already filled out at the community college.
To reward ourselves with half our list done, we spent the rest of the evening at Cinema 4 watching STAR TREK into the darkness with just a handful of other Trekkies.
Yesterday, I went back for the result of the Aptitude Test. I am intelligent alright (modesty aside: with a percentile rank of 91 in Math and 99 in Abstract Reasoning) but I have been found wanting in the non-intellectual part (hahaha).
1 comment:
school blues.. yay. i like startrek also..
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