What Are You Blessed Essay

Am I blessed? Are you blessed? Are we blessed?
Toastmaster of the night, fellow toastmasters and dear guests:
I feel blessed, because tonight, I have the opportunity to share with you a few things about my self.

Capital Letter R, Capital leteer P, put them together Romel Patangui, and that’s my name, I am 30 years old from Capas, Tarlac, Philippines. My father is Romeo Patangui, a retired factory worker. My mother is Merlinda Sangalang. Unfortunately, she left us when I was just about two years old. I have three sisters and two brothers.

I finished my elementary and high school back in the year 2000 and 2004 respectively. I still remember those school days very well. Who wouldn’t remember? I was bullied from 1st grade all the way until I graduated high school, not only from my classmates, but also

Before 12 noon, the CPA board exam result would be out and released. At that day I’ve also got back to work. Around 1 o’clock in the afternoon I checked the internet and searched for the results and found out that my name was not on the list of passers. I was so upset because I expected that I would pass. It feels like I wanted to die So, I went to the pantry of our office at the 11th floor of our building and attempt to jump out of the window. It was a failure! I can’t open the window, it was locked too tight.

Around 2PM my Manager, called me to go to the warehouse for the weekly inventory. So I went back to my table to shut my computer down and as I was doing so, my manager asks me why the result was not yet out. I was shocked on what she said. I checked the result again and found out that I was checking on May 2009 result and not on October.

It’s been a long day; I got home already around 8 in the evening that day and I immediately checked my phone which I intentionally left that morning. And to my delight, it was full of text messages. Congratulatory messages! Yes I made it. I passed the CPA Board