Lyceum grad tops 2012 customs broker board exams
CATBALOGAN CITY — Prayers and serious preparations worked wonders for this Catbalogan lad, Kenneth Barnard Navales Bacurio, in his Customs Broker Examination in October, according to a report from PIA-8 in Samar.
Bacurio topped 493 examinees scoring 92.50 bringing honor not only to his Alma Mater, the Lyceum of the Philippines University in Manila, but also to his family and city mates.
“I was silently expecting to land in the top 10 but topping them all seemed unbelievable,” Bacurio said during an interview with PIA, adding that his father Dennis even asked him to check if the report was true because they too could not believe it then.
His mother Lita added: “Yes, we wished he would give us honor, but this is too much answer to our prayers. God is really good!”
A former elementary teacher at Catbalogan 1 Central School, Lita said the young Bacurio was a good writer and although he was good in class he was not the valedictorian.
“Even in high school, I was just in the top 10 but never the top one,” said Bacurio, who admitted that he wanted to take up Mass Communications but his being shy pulled him back so he took up Bachelor of Science in Customs Administration instead and ended up being a dean’s lister. —(FREEMAN)
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