A turning tide
Lovers at a great divide
why d'you laugh
When I know that you hurt inside?

And why'd you say
It's just another day, nothing in my way
I don't wanna go, I don't wanna stay
So there's nothing left to say?
And why'd you lie
When you wanna die, when you hurt inside
Don't know what you lie for anyway
Now there's nothing left to say

A tell tale sign
You don't know where to draw the line

And why'd you say
It's just another day, nothing in my way
I don't wanna go, I don't wanna stay
So there's nothing left to say
And why'd you lie
When you wanna die, when you hurt inside
Don't know what you lie for anyway
Now there's nothing left to say

Well for a lonely soul, you're having such a nice time
For a lonely soul, you're having such a nice time
For a lonely soul, it seems to me that you're having such a nice time
You're having such a nice time

For a lonely soul, you're having such a nice time
For a lonely soul, you're having such a nice time
For a lonely soul, it seems to me that you're having such a nice time
You're having such a nice time

the title of this post is a quote from solicitor-general nachura. i went to the Supreme Court yesterday to watch the oral arguments of Sigaw ng Bayan on, what else, people's initiative. i was surprised to find the solicitor-general on the side of petitioners lambino et al. given that the COMELEC is the respondent. in fairness, he's pretty good in terms of speaking and argumentation. what i noticed, though, is that while the main issue they were supposed to thresh out was on whether or not the court should reverse Santiago v. COMELEC, they seemed to be focusing on the merits of the parliamentary vis-a-vis the presidential form of government as well as unicameral vis-a-vis bicameral. though i heard a lot of interesting (and sometimes even amusing) sound bytes, i felt they weren't tackling the issues head on.

my "favorite" part of the question and answer part of the petitioners was when a certain associate justice asked the solicitor-general if he knew the 6.3M citizens who had signed the people's initiative when he replied in the negative, this justice proceeded to ask him something along the lines of, "so you mean to say you're willing to put the fate of the country in the hands of those whom you don't know?" to which the solicitor-general replied what i placed in the title of my post. Then the session had to be temporarily suspended because of a black-out. hehe. i was (albeit internally) laughing my head off. though come to think of it, yes, we do place our trust on people we don't know many times, especially during election time when literally millions whom we do not know vote for our next leaders. i just wondered how that was germane to the issue at hand. and for that matter, i really could not understand why the line of questioning AND argumentation was along that of the merits of changing the form of government. i personally feel that it is a political question, i.e., let the people decide (indirectly through their respective representatives, of course, given the insufficiency and incompleteness of RA 6735, the so-called enabling law as per Santiago). also, it seemed to me (at least) that the court was not unpartial and unbiased.

maybe i shouldn't be complaining because i really do not want the sigaw petition to prosper nor do i think it has sound legal bases nor do i think a parliamentary system of government would be effective and feasible for the philippines NOW. but i just couldn't help but wonder at the quality of yesterday's oral arguments.

oh well. i think i can predict what the Court's decision will be. i'll just wait and see if my hunch is correct.

nevertheless, i had an enjoyable "fieldtrip" to the Supreme Court. Met up with a really good friend whom i haven't seen in the longest time as well as with a friend who works there who was able to get me tickets to the oral arguments. twas pretty cool actually since we were able to enter ahead of everyone else and have a pick of the seats (it got really crowded later on). also got to catch up with them. in fairness, when my friend found out who the current object of my kaaliwan is, the response i elicited was, "kamahal-mahal naman talaga siya eh." awwww. hehe. not that it means anything, of course.

in any case, it's been a happy last few days. :)

we were supposed to have a make-up class last saturday but i received text messages in the morning stating that it was cancelled. add the fact that we didn't have class nor do we have any tomorrow and i am one happy camper. i was able to somewhat catch up on my sleep, study a bit, hang out with my parents and friends and experience salubong which marked the end of this year's bar exams.
i've been craving unagi lately so today, my parents took me out for lunch. i was a little bit disappointed, though because the quality of the japanese resto (kimono ken) we went to deteriorated since the last time we were there. so NOT the epitome of value for money. oh well, such is life, i guess. was happy though because was able to spend some quality time with my parents this weekend. went malling with my dad saturday afternoon and caught a movie with my mom as well. i don't remember the last time i was able to do any of that.
can't wait til sem break! :)

An old fairytale told me
The simple heart will be prized again
A toad will be our king
And ugly ogres are heroes

Then you'll shake
Your fist at the sky
"Oh why did I rely
On fashions and small fry?"

All promises broken
Feed your people or lose your throne
And forfeit your whole kingdom
I'd sooner lose it than still live in it alone

You were our golden child
But the gentle and the mild
Inherit the earth, while

Your prince's crown
Cracks and falls down
Your castle hollow and cold
You've wandered so far
From the person you are
Let go brother, let go
Cos now we all know

Soon, someone will put a spell on you
Perfume, treasure, sorcery, every trick they know
You will lie in a deep sleep
That's when

Your prince's crown
Cracks and falls down
Your castle hollow and cold
You've wandered so far
From the person you are
Let go brother, let go
Cos now we all know

Who is the man I see
where I'm supposed to be?
I lost my heart, I buried it too deep
under the iron sea.

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball,
Save us all, tell me life is beautiful,
Mirror, mirror on the wall.

Lines ever more unclear,
I'm not sure I'm even here,
The more I look the more I think that I'm
starting to disappear.

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball,
Save us all, tell me life is beautiful,
Mirror, mirror on the wall.
Oh, crystal ball, hear my song,
I'm fading out, everything I know is wrong,
So put me where I belong.

I don't know where I am,
and I don't really care,
I look myself in the eye,
there's no one there.
I fall upon the earth,
I call upon the air,
but all I get is the same old vacant stare.

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball,
Save us all, tell me life is beautiful,
Mirror, mirror on the wall.
Oh, crystal ball, hear my song,
I'm fading out, everything I know is wrong,
So put me where I belong.

i sincerely hope not. i don't want to lose my humanity.

this is what i ate (rather, ingested) today:

1 tall choco hazelnut latte from SBC
1 corned beef pan de sal also from SBC
1 bottle of C2 (whee! they have new flavors... i had the strawberry flavored one...ok naman siya)
1 bag of tortillos (could've amounted to two since i kept snitching from my blockmates.hee)
2 doughnuts from cello's (choco sprinkle and chocnut)
1 bite of dianne's hotdog sandwich (hehe)
half a bangus with unagi sauce (now i'm craving real unagi) and rice
a small salad
half a bag of popcorn
a can of sprite

i don't think the abovestated constitutes the ideal, healthy and balanced diet. i've been having a fugly couple of weeks. and to compensate, i make myself feel even fuglier by eating tons of chocolate and junkfood. well, at least i still take my vitamins. and the salad has to count for something, right? (right...hehe)
don't know if it's the about-to-end-my-first-sem-in-law-school blues or what.
for now, i want to crawl under my blanket and read a nice (non-law related) book and sleep my fugliness away.

wake me up when september (and october...at least october 20) ends...

i woke up yesterday with that perennial "yuck, it's monday once again" feeling. i got ready for school, attended class and by 4PM, my brain was literally FRIED. since i had to wait til 7 PM to go home since the car was coding, i decided to grab a bite in katipunan with dianne, jorbs, kathy, ria, cez, fred and leo. after dropping off cez and fred back in up, i ended up going with them to watch you, me and dupree (we never did get to see mandy!) in robinson's metro east. at around 9:30pm after the movie, we parted ways with ria and kathy since they live near the mall and headed back towards katipunan. on our way, jorbs manifested that she wanted to grab a bite so there we were throwing off options as to where to eat. places like this cheap ice cream place leo knows of in sikatuna village, katipunan, and fairview were met with lackluster responses to say the least. then, next thing we knew, we were off to pampanga. yup, you read right. PAMPANGA. on a monday night, no less. we were trying to reconcile our very spur-of-the-moment plan while driving (i mean speeding...leo's driving jorbs's car at 140kph has to constitute speeding, right?) through the NLEX.
in all fairness, we reached san fernando at 10:20pm. not bad at all. we then headed to northern brew, this really nice and cozy coffee shop leo's tito owns in angeles. his tito was really nice and accommodating as even if they shop was supposed to close at 11, he allowed us to stay beyond closing time. and we had a feast! yummy pasta, kani salad, blueberry cheesecake, yummy shakes... plus he gave as really good revel bars to take home.
we left pampanga at around 11:45 (give or take) and sped back to metro manila. to top of our adventure/road trip, we were actually stopped by two police officers who questioned the fact that there was no license plate attached to the back of the car. fortunately, they let us go right after jorbs showed the detached plate.
my blockmates were so kind as to drop me off at my house. we arrived around 1:15. in fairness, from dianne's home (well, not quite....hehe) to mine in less than two hours. hats off to leo and jorbs's car. hehe!
of course i had to admit to my parents that we made an impromptu road trip to angeles but in all fairness, they didn't freak as i expected them to. all my mom said was to text my whereabouts next time.
that was so fun! can't wait for the next one! :)

check out our pics and leo's blog!

can't wait 'til grey's anatomy season 3!!!

seriously. if you've been up virtually 24 hours and hadn't eaten much over the past few hours, such a meal at around 6 in the morning is a God-send (well, there's that and the fact that i'll eat almost anything, but that's another story. hahaha). Finished two consecutive 6-hour shifts for the barops this morning and once again i find myself tired and stressing about the fact that thus far, i haven't studied much for class tomorrow. but despite the ickiness of not getting any sleep then sleeping practically the rest of the day away, i feel fulfilled in that i know my blockmates and i really worked hard (and had tons of fun in the process).
in the course of 12 hours of duty, i realized that:

1. although my blockmates and i are first year law students, we're still kids at heart (naks! hehehe, nope, not a euphemism for immature :s). we had fun "racing" while delivering bar tips (go, carmi!), telling corny jokes, enjoying hot fudge sundaes and junkfood, and talking about the weirdest, most mundane things.

2. you're not expected to know everything as a first year law student. seriously. although i was for the longest time under the impression that you're left to fend for yourself in law school since there's that presumption of wisdom that comes with age (hahahah...i'm so old :p), it's impossible to know everything. you have to either learn it along the way or learn it from other people. that is why i realized you just kind of have to go with the flow. (came across this realization during a lucid interval while talking with my blockmate about law school life.)

3. people are inherently good (or at least i would like to believe that). the mere fact that there were many volunteers for the barops giving up their normal sleep and saturday nights says something. sure, they try to encourage volunteers by invoking good karma, but i believe people help more even deeper reasons than quid pro quo. i could see people really giving it all they had, not because they believe that it will all pay off once they take the bar, but because they just want to do good and simply help. that, and the fact that it is actually quite fun. :)

4. people do the strangest things when they are devoid of decent sleep. at least in my case. case in point, i was typing on my blockmate's laptop past 2 am attempting to study, but since we had to leave to pick up breakfast orders, i decided to save the file in my flash drive which was hanging around my neck. instead of doing what any normal person would do which would be to detach the drive from the clip attaching it to the chain or even removing it from my neck, i leaned close to the laptop and attempted to attach the flash drive to it. that's when my blockmate saw me, started to laught, and asked why i just didn't detach it. talk about stupidity. and the sad part was, it didn't even occur to me to detach it until then. oh well, that at least made for some good laughs. aside from that, i found myself saying the oddest and most incoherent things, especially during early in the morning, the time i call my chatty mode wherein i just get extremely talkative. then, at around 6am while we were getting ready to leave and i was with my blockmates, all of whom were girls except for one, i told my guy blockmate, "kevin, you're the only GIRL here." hahaha. talk about sabog.

5. i'm very thick-skinned (i.e., makapal and mukha ko, if that's even the correct english translastion). seriously. we had to deliver tips to someone who was staying in another hotel and is part of a certain organization. unlike last time we delivered tips wherein i KNEW beforehand that a couple of friends of mine from that particular org were there, i wasn't sure that they were in the hotel or even awake at the unholy hour of 3am. but being the thick-faced person that i am, i called one of my friends only to find out that i had waken him from his sleep. since he wasn't there i proceeded to call/text just about everyone i could think of from that org whose cell number i had. so there i was calling friends and even the head of that org. since they didn't pick up, i figured that they were asleep (i really hope i didn't wake them up). thankfully, just as i was getting all panicky in the lobby, in walks someone i know from that org. i felt both relieved and embarrassed thinking of all the missed calls to the other people. oh well. i just hope they didn't get that annoyed. hahaha.

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watched john tucker must die yesterday. it was, in my opinion, the quintessential hollywood teen movie what with the somewhat predictable plot and not-so-teenish-but-nevertheless-playing-teenagers cast of characters. i actually enjoyed it though because despite it's hollywood teen movie flavor, it actually had a bit of girl power (albeit a warped sense thereof) in it. plus it made for a few good laughs. an added bonus was that it was a far cry from the filipino indie film i watched last saturday entitled compound. at the risk of sounding extremely shallow and feeble-minded (which i probably am), i was desperate to watch something more mainstream after watching compound as although the latter was interesting (to put it mildly) and thought-provoking, i've come to realize time and again that i really do enjoy stress-free, happy movies (without prejudice to some really good non-happy flicks i've watched thus far). i can't wait 'til sembreak when i can happily snuggle in my bed and watch many a teeny-bopper flick and numb3rs, grey's anatomy, or boston legal episode.

of course, until i actually reach that happy period in time, i have to contend with final exams. admittedly something i am not looking forward to. the other day, i awoke to a text message from one of my blockmates saying along the lines that we only had four more weeks of class and had made it thus far. while i am happy (super excited, actually!) about such, i realized that exams are an entirely different hurdle to overcome and i am quite scared as my brain, at this point, is already fried and over-used beyond comprehension. what more when finals time comes around?

Don't Let if Get You Down

by Echo & the Bunnymen

You're really something else
Made me forget myself
My lights came on
When I got to you
You were almost through
You're almost gone


Don't let it get you down
Don't let it get you down
The moon and the stars goes crashing round
Don't let it get you down


An angel walked amongst us
Tried but couldn't love us
Somethings wrong
Since you've gone you know
There's nothing and no one
To hang love on


So tell me how it feels
Tell me how it feels
To touch the flame
Tell me who I am
Tell me who I really am
What's my name


Don't let it get you down
(When you're alone)
Don't let it get you down
(When you're alone)
The moon and the stars go crashing round
(When you're alone)
Don't let it get you down


Don't let it get you down
(When you're alone)
Don't let it get you down
(When you're alone)
The moon and the stars goes crashing round
(When you're alone)
Don't let it get you down


Don't let it get you down
(When you're alone)
Don't let it get you down
(When you're alone)
The moon and the stars goes crashing round
(When you're alone)
Don't let it get you down


God's above us and Jesus loves us
If God's above us and Jesus loves us
If God's above us
(If you want it, you can get it)
And Jesus loves us
(If you want it, you can get it)
If God's above us
(If you want it, come on get it)
And Jesus loves us
(Right now)
If God's above us
(If you want it, you can get it)
And Jesus loves us
(If you want it, you can get it)
If God's above us
(If you want it, come on get it)
And Jesus loves us

voila! for the nth time (i've lost track), i've changed my blog.
while reading for crim yesterday (and watching episodes of the korean drama autumn in my heart/endless love) i tried tweaking my old blog but realized i could only modify it to a limited extent (unless i'm just blog-illiterate...hahaha). so there. found a cool skin (thanks!) and here is my new space in the great world wide web. :)

first year law student.kid at heart.idealist.optimist (except about myself).hopeless romantic.daydream believer.dreamer.klutz(hehe).


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Don't want to shrink in a suit
Don't want live just to suck someones bones dry
I'd rather die."
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