Duke, Duchess and the CIA

I've been tracking this for sometime and finally got it.

In November 2005 there was a news clipping announcing that a Filipina with the name Duchess Marie Cruz got the Gold Medal Award for the Certified Internal Auditors examination. The award means she was the first placer in the whole world for that exam sitting.

That she was Filipino was not the interesting part (I think it is a sign of inferiority complex to trumpet about any accomplishment of an individual who has even the slightest hint of Filipinoness in his/her blood. I am a believer in the Homo sapien.)

The interesting part is that I remembered that in the previous year the first placer was named Duke Bajenting. That he was a fellow Cebuano is not the interesting thing. (Am I repeating myself?)

I have a daughter who is taking up accountancy. She just passed the Certified Bookkeeper exam. We paid with hard-earned money for the exam. But that was not meant to be the end of it, I found out. The certifying agency, it seems, does not make money only from the exam fees but also from registering with them before they give the passer a certification. I told my daughter I allowed her to take the exam to test what she has learned to date. That she passed was enough for me. Who cares about a piece of certificate.

At our office there are two of us who get calls not only from within but also from other branches in the country from colleagues who refer to us their problem about computers and applications. Interestingly, as far as I know, only the two of us do not have any certificates in computer training.

So I told my daughter to wait until she qualifies for the Certified Internal Auditor exam. Her second name is Hara which is Cebuano for Queen. After a Duke and a Duchess who knows. A father can dream, can't I.

Here is where I tracked the Duke and the Duchess of CIA. Just excuse the little "hambog" about who are tops in the world. That is part of the advertising of the group.