the happy bunny
i don't know if you're familiar with the "happy bunny" merchandise. i just saw a lot of shirts in the US carrying the logo. plus my 13 year old cousin there was so obsessed with it that she has stickers of the character all over her room. i didn't pay much attention to it before, but looking at it now, it's just so mean/sarcastic that it's funny. 'reminds me of kuzco from
the emperor's new groove. and of course my favorite villains - haydes from disney's
hercules and count olaf from
a series of unfortunate events. hehe.
wala lang. i knew i should've bought that "me. like you, only better." happy bunny shirt in ohio last summer. haha.
gosh. i read and re-read my previous entry, parang ang bangag niya. haha. scrap that. =PLabels: cuteness
long time.
i realized that i have too many things going on in my life [ or at least too many thoughts going through my brain. it's really hard to distinguish =P ] that i cannot write anything anymore but random thoughts.
generally, life has been pretty good, despite the heavy schoolwork, terrible weather, oversleeping, overweight, etcetera. and it's strange how i arrived at that conclusion. [i always have unconventional gauges for happiness. haha] last week, my cousin and i were just talking about the dengue scare, that there has been an increase in dengue cases lately and that she has witnessed several deaths already caused by the virus. i've been pretty complacent about it. by complacent, i mean i don't care if i sustain 5-6 mosquito bites in one sitting; i don't see the need to apply the Off Liquid Lotion (for Kids!) my mom bought me to ward off deadly insects. (for someone who has been infected with dengue before, i am quite lax). anyway, yesterday, i felt one of my mosquito bites (that i thought has completely healed) come back to life. it wasn't itchy anymore, but it did ache for a short while. and then it hit me: what if that was bitten by a dengue-carrying mosquito?? i DON'T want to die yet! honestly, if this happened last year [especially at that time when i was burdened with too much schoolwork which, looking back, fares in comparison to the load i'm handling now], i would've openly embraced the circumstance with the thought that, "hay salamat di ko na kelangan mag-aral.." but now, you would have to drag me out of this life kicking and screaming. hehe. it's like leaving a party just when things are starting to spice up; or pulling me out just when things are beginning to progress after the stagnant law school life i've lived for the past three years. just before going to bed that same day, i took out the bottle of Off Lotion and sprayed my whole body [ di naman, extremities lang =P ] with it.
lesson learned: a small bottle of Off Lotion (for Kids!) goes a long way.
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pumapatak nanaman ang ulan.
classes were called off today because of the storm. [yes, law school is still not immune to class suspensions. although hearings are]. i don't know why, but lately, i've been so affected by the rain that i feel bothered every time i hear the sound of heavy raindrops pounding angrily on our roof. i woke up at around 4 this morning because of it and i couldn't go back to sleep, 'waiting for the rain to stop. since it didn't, i took out my iPod, turned up the volume to drown out the sound of the rain and fell asleep listening to some random song i picked out in my playlist. maybe it's the effect of watching too many disaster movies [i.e., the day after tomorrow. hehe]. subconsciously, i was probably anticipating thunder and lightning and a ball of fire to follow the rain, like the storm is just a prelude to a worse natural calamity.
coincidentally, i had three hearings for the day, two of which were scheduled at the same time [8:30 am. hooray for OLA]. but since the malabon area is flooded, my 8:30 cross-examination at the malabon mtc was postponed. yahoooo! i proceeded to the qc rtc and then to nlrc for the other two hearings. i was feeling drowsy in my first hearing [i didn't get a good night's sleep thanks to the rain] that i kept on yawning before the judge arrived. although it was good that being sleepy kept me from feeling nervous in court, i felt that my brain wasn't alert enough. i didn't go through an oral argument at least, i was just given 10 days to file a reply for some paper. [i didn't receive the order directing me to file a reply to an opposition to the motion to quash filed by the prosecution. gosh i should stop, i sound so utterly uninteresting.]
ANYWAY...
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my take on OLA.
OLA gets on my nerve sometimes, hearings in far flung places and such [case in point, see paragraph above]. but honestly, i have never felt so deep into the "real world" until i went through OLA. funny how during our high school graduation, everyone was saying they're bidding us farewell as we embark on the "real world". doh, i studied in ateneo after high school, where college life was the anti-thesis of the real world, specifically the philippine real world. i've got nothing against ateneo, in fact i still miss the campus terribly. it's just that ateneo taught me how the system should be, whereas UP has shown me how the system currently works. ateneo didn't really teach me that people don't actually live life by the book, or that hearings are postponed almost half the time. [i had to learn that from UP, where our professors absent themselves from class almost half the time. hehe] a friend once told me that after you study in UP, you won't get too culture shocked with life outside the campus, it was like developing a second skin. in UP law, most especially in OLA, i get to see how the whole philippine system works. i have never seen so many poor people desperately clamoring for help. it feels frustrating, knowing that you can only do so much. small inconveniences, like traffic, faulty mailing system, poor government facilities, inefficient people, lack of manpower and the like, get magnified. this is the kind of system i am working/going to work in. if i want to stay in this country and make a difference, these are the major/minor circumstances i have to contend with. hopefully, this is the kind of system we'll change, in due time.
and for that, i am going to have a shirt made with the words, "i *love* OLA" printed on it. heehee. kidding.
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good things for the past weeks:
1.) we are watching INXS live!!! 'can't wait till aug. 15! who cares if i have remlaw on the same night??!! we'll go late, maybe miss mig ayesa's act (i really don't care). =D
2.) a successful Turning Point headed by our growth group two fridays ago. i didn't do anything at all, actually. except where pink. heehee.
3.) last sunday's dinner, which strangely reminds me of "meet the parents". actually, "meet the fockers" would probably be more appropriate. haha. and then my sister reminded me of the aga-aiko movie "may minamahal", which, thinking about it, is also apt. jolog talaga ng kapatid ko. hahaha. the dinner was fun. even if there were times when i just wanted to be swallowed by a black hole thanks to my parents. haha.
4.) last week, i really felt protected and cared for by my only brother, who's in the states right now. hehe. it's been a long time since he left the country, and he left while i was still fresh from high school, so we didn't really get to talk about serious stuff much. wala lang, last week i just felt that even if he's miles away, i can count on him to stand up for me. =)
Labels: law school, mark, random, rant
random, disorganized thoughts on a lazy sunday afternoon
[ getting delirious 'cause of hunger. where are my parents and why aren't we having lunch yet??]
law school sucked the life out of my saturdays
i die every week, more specifically every saturday, from 9-5 pm. i don't know what possessed me to take up two 3-hour saturday classes - two extremely boring and suicidal classes at that, tax and banking. not good for someone with a 5-minute-short attention span. yesterday in banking, i'm ashamed to say, i had my first bad recit for the year. apart from the fact that i completely didn't have a clue what the answer was [i was expecting to be called for something else], my brain just refused to cooperate 1 hour into the subject. maybe if i was paying attention to what the teacher was saying or at least was following the outline, i would've squeezed out an answer from my system. but trying to stay awake was a struggle, much more thinking. after i was asked to sit down, i didn't even feel embarrassed as i normally would. i even felt relieved that i was immune from recit for the rest of the period. i just desperately wanted the class to end. at one point during the three hour period, i could hear nico asking me something about the lecture, stopped in midsentence, and then went, "ay sorry, nakakatulog ka na pala." hahaha. gawd now that was embarrassing. but i think nico's used to my periodical bursts of abnormality, especially when confronted with mental torture.
having dinner with mark and attending quest [after a looong time] became much more rewarding after the long day. =)
* * *on OLA..
thank God i didn't have a hearing the whole week last week.
top 5 reasons why i *loooove* OLA
- with all the other aircon units busted in the college, it's good to know that there's still one room that liberally uses such unit
- free internet, free computer usage. although some of the computers are stone-aged and infested with viruses, we can't complain. we can use them for free
- the OLA room is the only place where there are no barristers liable to bite your head off every time you make any distracting sound. and it's where i always find my friends.
- psycho and weeping clients get funny after a while
- reading other lawyers' pleadings with bad grammar gives me hope that i might pass the bar after all. hehehe
* * *Got this from
mark:
free enneagram testThe Loyalist
The committed, security-oriented type. Sixes are reliable, hard-working, responsible, and trustworthy. Excellent "troubleshooters," they foresee problems and foster cooperation, but can also become defensive, evasive, and anxious—running on stress while complaining about it. They can be cautious and indecisive, but also reactive, defiant and rebellious. They typically have problems with self-doubt and suspicion. At their Best: internally stable and self-reliant, courageously championing themselves and others.
(emphasis supplied. hehe)
yup, right on the dot. =D
you tube
i only discovered youtube.com last summer, in the states. 'good site to explore when you want to kill time or just want to have a few laughs with your cousins. hehe. just now, i watched the popular"keys me" video. haha. ang kulit! this is something i'm sure jonel would love. haha.
bubbles the dog
hehe. bubbles' pasalubong from the states. nagpictorial nanaman ang tamad kong aso.
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a whole load'a cheese. haha =D
as if telling my sister about this isn't enough notice to the whole world. haha.
in the midst of psycho clients and piles of readings and postponed hearings and unfulfilled org requirements..
You came along and you cut me loose...-
amsterdam, coldplay
Look please lover lay down
Spend this time with me
Together share this smile
Lover lay down-
lover lay down, DMB
united colors of benetton itow. hahaha. =P
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