I.HATE.TAX.
the tax 2 finals was soooo bad [ at least for me ]. it was so bad that i had to commission someone to drag my body out of the classroom after it's all over. it's so bad i couldn't eat anything the whole day. it's so bad that i think i'm developing a fever now.
hay. i don't know when tax and i will ever be friends, but i sure do hope it will be before the bar exams.
i have one more exam coming up, and a take home paper to pass. argh. and i have to go through this while the rest of the country is enjoying summer. and it really doesn't help seeing TGIS-barkada types strolling around eastwood wearing their board shorts, tank tops or popped collared sshirts and flip flops while i'm stuck in some coffee shop studying things i couldn't get inside my head.
anyway, this is what i've been up to the past week:
last friday:
erika's despedida
erika left this morning to work in singapore. like i said in my previous entry, everyone's leaving. :(
(daddy joey's) baby jorge's baptism:
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bianca's birthday / auntie abbe's despedida
last night, we ate at superbowl to celebrate biancita maldita [ hehe ] 's 8th birthday, which also served as auntie abbe, kaye and lyka's despedida dinner. they're leaving on friday to migrate to the US for good. some other relatives / friends are leaving the country in the near future also. yes, everyone's leaving the philippines. it's a fact of life. it's sad that moving out is always an option to everyone living in this country. i hope i'll live to see the day when the philippines can be considered as the "greener pasture".
anyhoo, finals start next week. i should be panicking, really, especially with the tax and civpro finals. i HATE tax. i HATE vat. paying for the 12% vat has eaten up most of my allowance [ especially since i spend my allowance mostly for food ]. and we even have to study the nitty gritty of the vat law. or laws. with all the amendments, supplements, implementing rules. arghhh. i still don't feel as stressed as i ought to be though, which is a good thing. thank God for double vanilla tea latte from coffee been and mcdonald's crispy chicken rice burger [ which i've been subsisting for the past weeks ]that keep me sane.
if i had all the money in the world [ or at least enough to keep me alive and to pay for all my shopping expenses ], i would move out of the house and live on my own. don't get me wrong, i love my family and all, but sometimes i can just do without all the nagging and the people getting stressed out around the household and the noisy kids impatiently waiting for their turn to use the computer. shutting myself from the entire world inside my room can only do so much, and irritants still find their way to annoy me. it doesn't also help that my house is located up there in the boondocks. traffic takes up a lot of time, especially during rush hours. so lately i've actually been spending more time outside than here [ which explains why my savings balance is always 0 at the end of the week ]. oh well.
sorry i've been remiss in my blogging duties [ along with my student duties. bwehe. i don't know how i'm going to pass civpro with my substandard studying habits.. ]
this year has consistently been a roller coaster. i get extreme ups and downs - my feelings just constantly shift from peacefully contented to impatiently bratty to noisy happy to life-sucks emo, all in a matter of days. or even hours. it's better than having a constantly bad life / flatline-boring life though, so i shouldn't be complaining.
what's been going on:
daisy's 23rd birthday last march 1
winlaw ball, last march 4
top 5 things i like about the winlaw ball:
5. the food. [ but of course. hehe. ] last year, the dessert tasted like it was stored in malcolm theater for months. this time we had good food. the smoked salmon with cheese, fish fillet with pesto sauce.. ang sarap!! ginugutom ako!! haha. 'loved it.
4. the program. i really like the arrangement this year. discovery suites is so nice, and the size of the venue was just right. last year, the room was too big, so we couldn't exactly mingle conveniently with the other members. [ we're not exactly a big org. ] we had speakers this time, bands, petals on the staircase and lots of photo op. haha. i didn't even notice the time pass by. last year, i was honestly itching to go home. and i did go home early.
and there were the rallies that i never attended despite our teachers' encouragements [ because i can't seem to point out what's wrong with 1017. hehe. kidding, before anyone violently reacts ]. which was also the reason why our civpro retake exams was moved to today. i have a feeling i flunked the exam [ there goes the life-sucks emo part ].
it's already march and i can't wait for the school year to end. lately, my head has been preoccupied with my plans for summer, making it hard for me to concentrate on the more important things like civpro [ yes i really plan ahead. and i enjoy jotting down things on my starbucks planner, 'makes me feel like i'm such a busy person when in reality i'm not. and yes it's freaky i know. ]. i'm looking forward to having a reunion with my cousins, siblings in the states in may. plus there's the law firm internship in april. i don't know how i'm going to survive all alone in a law firm without my friends, but i guess i will need to adjust. shucks wala pa akong alam.. nakakahiya.. i also want to go to boracay this summer because i've never been there [ anyone who wants to go?? tara!!! ]
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