As Good As I Can Be

Good day friends from everywhere. I had the opportunity to attend this important event sponsored by the Career Executive Service Board (CESB) this November 2020.  Mind you, it is just the first day of the workshop and I felt that I was overwhelmed by information already.   First and foremost, I had no intention to attend this important activity for I thought it was only for the Career Service Executive Eligibles and not for the Career Executive Service Written Examination (CESWE) passers like myself.  But the very moment that I received an email from CESB inviting me to go to that event I immediately grabbed that opportunity. Here I am after answering the Adversity Quotient (AQ) and the  GRIT Gauge Assessments (GRIT Gauge) I felt that I was a renewed man.  AQ discusses one's ability to respond constructively and GRIT Gauge reliably predicts performance, learning, agility, resilience, tenacity, and well-being. I did poorly on the first exam but recovered ful...

I was not delivered unto this World in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner. I will be likened to the rain drop which washes away the mountain, the ant who devours a tiger, the star which brightens the earth, the slave who builds a pyramid. I will build my castle one brick at a time for I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. I will persist until I succeed. I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the questio...

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 It was in the year 2007, while I was in Okinawa, Japan for training of educators, when I was introduced by my fellow scholar Chubascu  Maximus Diranga from Nauru to the Internet Society, a global organization for technical experts, researchers, educators, and other stakeholders. A community engagement platform that opens a world where everyone can access and help develop a connected, borderless, limitless Internet that creates opportunity and progress for all. He gave me some ideas as to how I would grow personally and professionally once I joined. I did not pay much attention to his stories as I was too busy with my output for the course Application of Multimedia Technology for e-Education (AMT) one of the programs sponsored by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for developing countries like the Philippines. I did not want a minor distraction to my already successful journey as non-teaching personnel of the Instructional Materials Council Se...

 I am not really a cat person, but yesterday was different.   Amidst the strong wind and heavy rain caused by Typhoon Rolly , I found a mother cat carrying a little kitten using her mouth (back and forth through the hallway near our condo unit) in Binondo, Manila.  She seemed to be in panic mode looking for a safe place due to the scary weather condition. My attention was not really directed to them as I was preparing for a big chess tournament by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines which was a Rapid Open Tournament via Tornelo .    However, as the wind continued to blow the mighty cat with a kitten repeatedly appeared in front of my door too.  I saw them through the screen and I felt so disturbed.  I hastily opened the door and let them in. BTW, my family was feeding two other bigger kittens (from the same mother) outside the Cluster 3 building so perhaps it was the familiarity that kept us connected.   But as I wipe the m...