My Cherryfic Life.

Of all job-interview questions, the hardest for me is, “Can you tell me about yourself?” This question is deceptive—it appears as an easy question yet each time I try to think of a decent and honest answer, I am lost for words. It gets me confused because, it seems like I do not know me. Who am I really? Nonetheless, for the sake of today’s goal blog, I will try my very best to give a fair and truthful account of who I am—or who I think I am (we all have perceptions of ourselves, right?) haha. Howdy! I am Cherry Jara, 23 years of age and friends call me Chee/Chi (it depends on how long you would want to prolong the ‘ee’). I am a Certified Public Accountant by profession (and loving it) but my first love was photography, second is writing and third, reading as my all-time love. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to cultivate this love I have from my interests because I was being practical and my self-made reasons kind of justified it. Had I regretted not pursuing or at least taking time to de...

“Where do I begin? To tell the story of how great our love can be?’ charot, seriously, I never saw this moment happening, not even in my wildest dreams because I am not the type to publish stories, and yet here I am. I know should’ve done this ages ago, but then again, nothing is ever too late, right? Well, what happened was, I took the CPALE exam, became a conditional passer and then took it again, and by God’s grace, I finally passed. Technically, the outcome of a story that is not so inspiring. The board exam, frankly speaking, isn’t that difficult. It was hard, as any exam should, but the difficulty is manageable depending on the level of preparedness you’ve exerted. In short, the secret to passing the board lays in your preparation, which is the hard part, the real roadblock unto your journey to achieving that three-letter title. Nonetheless, as I have contemplated about it, I cannot admit that I lacked preparation. Lord knows I have given my all and more during those six pa...