happy birthday also to all those celebrating their birthday this september (i know a LOT. which means, i'm gaining a lot of weight again this month because of the birthday dinners =P)
oggs, thanks for the dinner last night! ang sarap! at nasulit namin ang dessert! hehe. 'really needed that after a stressful week.
owayt. need to study for tax (which starts in an hour and 15 mins). hehe.
lianner and the insurmountable wall of stress caveat: this is a mean post.
i never thought i'd hate anything as much as i hate tax, but OLA proved me wrong. OLA's supposed to heighten our awareness on the current social milieu and the plight of the poor and ideally should make us more inclined to help indigents. if that's the point of all this, then how come i hear the phrase "death to indigents" from OLA interns (the names of which i would not disclose lest they be cited in contempt hehe)?. anyhoo, i admit that some clients can be nice, but some are plain horrible and psycho. two words: emotional vampires. they talk about the same issues over and over (and over and over) again. i'm sorry, we are not psychologists who will listen to their non-legal issues (buti sana if we're getting paid for this debah?). even my psych background has its limitations. and it just sucks when they ask us to do things that are clearly beyond our jurisdiction. and they get pissed when you don't help them. ano buh. if they're not satisfied with our performance, by all means, they're free to leave and look for legal services somewhere else. gosh they can suck the life out of other lawyers for all i care.
and somehow i also feel guilty for neglecting some of the cases i'm handling. i still haven't posted bail for this certain client who has been in jail for months. i didn't realize that 4 months (!) have already passed since i got hold of the case. we did file a motion to quash, and i kept on calling up the court if there's already a decision on the matter. i thought it wouldn't take long, but the weeks snowballed into months, and there's no decision yet until now. i wanted to wait for the decision first before i post bail, but of course, a prisoner's sense of time is different from mine. for him, every single day counts. point is, i shouldn't wait for the decision anymore and just file the petition to post bail asap. there, i just printed it and i'm filing it first thing monday morning.
and there's the bar exams next year. (i hope one of the client's wouldn't jeopardize my chances of passing by cursing me by whatever means so i wouldn't pass =P) and my dad's pressuring me about it and even threatened to take the fun out of my sundays by using it as a whole day one-on-one review for the bar. *cringe* and he's scolding me why i'm spending so much time on the cases i'm handling in OLA when i should be concentrating on the bar. doh. and i think i should pass the bar or else.... (apart from the fact that it would be the end of the world) i think my dad's exact words were, "i will kill you". great. of course he meant it as a joke... or maybe he didn't.
saving sally
i'm currently obsessing over this sandwich mtv.
it's based on an upcoming movie ("saving sally") directed by avid liongoren. i hope he doesn't mind that i uploaded this video in my blog.
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barops, first week
last night, we went to century park for the first barops week with mia, grace, oggs and marie.
i'm so scared about my own bar exams that i woke up at around 4 this morning (which was rather early, considering that i slept at past 1 am) and couldn't go back to bed, thinking about the bar. i said to myself that i will make a study schedule from now on and be strict about it.
yeah right. as if i can survive one day of that.
can one year of studying make up for 3 years of slacking off???? haaaayyyyy.... i don't want to take the bar exams. no one deserves to undergo such hell. i wouldn't wish it even on my worst enemies.
