last sunday, after brunch at the legazpi market with my friend ton, i received a text message from janice inviting me to drop by trellis, which is just across gil puyat avenue from where i live. i initially wondered why she'd be in the area at so unusual an hour -- i thought she must have just finished a bike or a run with some of her tri-clark ( Read more... )

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even the most cynical of law students give in to superstitions, prayers, and the karmic possibilities of good deeds, particularly when the bar examinations draw near. and this resort to the intangible weight of faith becomes ever more evident with all the hoopla and hullabaloo that's involved in the bar operations that are organized by law student ( Read more... )

this weekend, i bumped into someone i knew from law school, who was at least 3 years my junior. after exchanging the usual hello's and how are you's, i very casually asked: "abogado ka na ba?" i never meant the question to be in any way accusatory; its purpose really was to find out exactly what he was doing. besides, i wasn't sure if he had ( Read more... )

i almost forgot to blog about it, but september is always an auspicious time for me and my ilk, because although my month of horrors took place 6 years ago, the memory of those successive sundays when my mother's wonderful and unbelievable cooking tasted like paper, and my heart threatened to jump right out of my chest are still as fresh and new to ( Read more... )

but i agree, not all law schools are created equal.

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so UP law keeps bragging rights for a second straight year. several days before last night’s release, i was already making fearless forecasts about a UP grad topping the bar, and i received some cynicism from fellow alumni, saying that joan’s chances were haunted by a valedictorian’s curse, that is, UP law’s bet isn’t likely to be it’s top grad. i’ ( Read more... )

it is a little uncharacteristic of me to be failing to report the events that have taken place in my life for a string of days when i have neither been away nor disconnected. during my last entry, i said that i have, of late, been rather sluggish, for no particular reason which should merit any further explanation. i just recall returning home from ( Read more... )

secretary michael t defensor has flip-flopped about 4 times already. and this is just concerning the time we're supposed to leave for infanta, quezon. i'm not too sure whether i would be of much use there, but i'm preparing for this trip as though it were a climb. i'm taking my gore tex boots, because the places we're visiting are still under at ( Read more... )