PSYCHOmetrician Board Exam

So, I decided to take the board exam

I decided to pass my requirements on the very last day of submitting requirements.

First hurdle: I WASN'T ALLOWED ENTRY BECAUSE I WAS WEARING SHORTS
I begged the security guard if he could let me in but he was very strict. So, I went around the area and looked for any clothing shops that could be selling leggings or anything. I had to walk a few blocks (take note, I was in an unfamiliar place) just to find a thrift shop. I bought a pair of joggers for 50 pesos and headed back to the PRC office.

Second hurdle: I FORGOT TO GET MY NBI CLEARANCE
When I got to the office and lined up, I overheard some people talking about the requirements needed for the board exam. I was eavesdropping and as she was mentioning the requirements one by one, I heard "NBI Clearance" and my expression quickly turned bad. I called my friend to confirm if we really needed the NBI clearance and she said that we did. So, I called up my mom asking her how much an NBI clearance is and if there were any office nearby aside from the main office at UN. As I left the office, I asked around if there were any NBI offices nearby. One of them directed me to a mall that was a few blocks away. I quickly headed towards the place and got my NBI clearance. I'm lucky that all I had to do was have it renewed and that my name was unique (else, I could get my NBI clearance after a week).

Third hurdle: I LACKED 2 MORE DOCUMENTS
When I got back, I was pretty confident that I had all my documents already. Now all I had to do was wait in line for my turn. It took me 2 hours until I got to the processing window. When it was finally my turn, I showed my documents and the guy asked for my "Certificate of Good Moral". I told him that it was there, but then he told me that I needed 3 in total: one from school, one from church, and one from the barangay. I only brought the one from school because I thought that the other 2 were just options. Good enough for me, the guy was nice enough and told me that I could come back the next day with the complete set of documents, all I had to do was pay for the fee that day.

I hated that day. I was so tired, hungry, and I had to miss work because of that.

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I can't take any review classes because their schedules are always conflicting with my work; which results to me having to resort to self study. I don't mind doing self study, since I saved the PDFs, PPTs, from my previous subjects. However, its still going to be difficult since I don't really have a scope of what is going to come up in the exam. There are 5 major components: ABPSYCH, INDPSYC, ASSESSMENT, SIKOPIL, and THEOPER. The one I believe that I will have most difficulty with would be INDPSYC because the professor that I got didn't tackle theories of Industrial Psychology rather, she talked about the experiences she had in the workplace. I wouldn't say that I didn't learn from that class (in fact, I did learn a lot!), but I don't think that her lessons would help me during the exam. Also, I have a friend taking up the review class in school and she was generous enough to send me the PDFs that they're using in class.

COUNTDOWN: 12 DAYS UNTIL THE BOARD EXAM

I'm currently studying ABPSYCH and I've only tackled 3 topics. I'm taking longer than expected and my work is consuming most of my time. Maybe not work, but the commute going to and back is what takes up most of my time. I'm thinking of bringing my laptop everyday and just study at a coffee shop after trapeze so that I don't waste time waiting for the bus and use it instead for studying. It would be costly though, considering that I'm going to have to eat dinner out everyday and drink coffee too, but this too shall pass.

POPE: Encounter with teh youth

Pope visit.

We left ella's house at 1 am. everything was dark, and surprisingly, there were still a lot of cars on the street. Prior to this, I was at the trapeze until 9pm and when I took a nap when I got home. anyhow, SLEX was traffic because there was a road block and when we re-routed to Roxas boulevard, it started congesting at the US Embassy. We took another route through Taft and eventually, we reached UST.

When we got to UST, there was a long LONG line awaiting us. We told ourselves that there was no way we'd get a good spot with this line, so we went straight to the front. There, we saw that there was no line and that everyone was just crowding the gate. With the help of my short friends, they helped us get through the crowd and so we got a little closer to the gate.

It was already 2:30am and people were already filling up the streets. We thought to ourselves that all we have to do is wait for 30 more minutes then we'll finally be able to get in. But after sometime, they announced that they'd open the gates at 4am. People got pissed and started yelling their griefs. Some of them even collapsed probably because of the heat and/or they probably felt claustrophobic. When they opened the gates, it was like all hell broke loose. People just kept pushing, to the point that I was looking back and I didn't have to move because they were the ones moving me. One of my friends almost fainted because she got squished.

When we finally got in, we scouted for a spot and luckily we got a nice one. it wasn't at the very front, but it was quite near to it and it was also near the aisle. We finally got settled at 4:30am and decided to rest for a bit. Later on, they announced that there was going to be a mass at 5am since it was a sunday and they thought that since we were there, we might not have time to celebrate the mass in our respective parishes.

After the mass, they had a program prepared for us. A little singing and dancing, and whatnots to keep us entertained while waiting for the pope. it was 6am that time, and all I wanted to do was sleep. It was a loooong wait for the pope. Luckily, we made baon food. Although we couldn't eat or drink much because we didn't want to use the portalet (which was a horrifying experience for me).

At around 9:40am, they started playing lively music. At this point, people thought that the pope was already here. there were some assholes screaming and making people think that the pope is on their side but in fact he wasn't. by 10am, People were screaming non-stop and that's when I knew that the pope has finally arrived.

We were told beforehand that the pope wasn't going to celebrate the mass in UST. Instead, we would just be reading the liturgy. Part of this, they chose several speakers to share their sentiments to the pope; One of which was glaizell. She had the shortest speech among all of them, but it was the one that hit me the most.

It was raining, we were standing, and we were getting hungry. by the time the event ended, people took selfies by the stage while my friends took their fair share of selfies. The time was 12noon. We passed by Mcdonald's since that was the said meeting place. We couldn't contact the driver because our signal was still blocked. We headed towards Mich's dorm and then we decided to wait by the nearby bakery. I fell asleep on the table and when I woke up, it was around 2pm. And by that time, they already found us and so we headed home.