It's Final, I'm Out

Whew, the title seems to be confusing. It leads to nowhere. I'm out on what?

Just like what happened to my application for a position at IAS.

I been hearing news (or should I say gossip) from 6 reliable [now - not dependable] persons even before the release of the results. I was even contacted by one of the candidates, so I thought, it just validates the claim of the 6 others I mentioned above. I'm so ecstatic and has never told this extreme joy to anyone except to my wife and my best friend at the office.

Days and months have passed and I heard different versions of the story (I do not know from which camp this tale came from) that I was not in the list of candidates accepted for the position. I have been bothered as to why these news leaked even without the official results coming from the personnel division. It seems that everybody knew except myself.

Until this time, no official list of successful candidates were posted on the bulletin boards at DepEd though some were advised to have their clearances issued before tranferring to the new IAS office.

Chess Team Tournament at DepEd

Whew! It's been a long time since I last tip my keyboards to write a blog about my experiences for the month. I have been very busy lately due to myriad tasks assigned to me. I had to focus more on my work to avoid muddling up of documents. The days and weeks have been monotonous and routinary, no diversion, whatsoever. Luckily, I was invited to play chess by my organization. It's kinda team tournament organized by DepEd and Innotech. It was a four-game battle of wits against other DepEd units (NCR, Q.C., Calabarzon, and DepEd-CO.) I had a good start - winning all my first three games against worthy opponents only to be stalled to a draw by my adversary on the last round. I'm kind of disappointed because I wasn't able to deliver a full point for my team. 'Sad to note that my game ended in a draw due to opposite bishops ending. I went out to a nearby building after my game to visit my friends and also to ease the tension I experienced during the game and returned to the tournament venue only to witness my colleagues beaten by their foes in succession. Our team scored a dismal 0.5 against 3.5 of DepEd Q.C. Had my teammates scored 2 more wins we would be the champion. We were all fighting for a gold medal award on each board but ended up losing. I shared the medal on Board 2, though. Yes, you are right. I was the only one who scored for my team.