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just my luck

wow... i got involved in another car crash. the last one was just a couple of months ago. maybe i should sell my car already. malas ata talaga ako sa car ko. or, better yet, maybe i should go to the our lady of la naval church in antipolo and have my car re-blessed?

cebu-cravin'

another downer is that i'm gonna miss out on cebu this summer. ever since my first visit last year, i've been wanting to go back. i had such a great time last time. this summer would've been much better since my cebuano friends are already there, unlike before when they were some place else when i was there.

oh and the lechon... damn that pig. i love that pig. anthony bourdain said it best, "best pig ever." i concur.

anyway, the reason for my missing out on cebu is my tita. see, last year she brought me along to help out with her bar review lectures. this year however, she decided to take my siblings instead. the reason? according to her, i'll just go out at night like i did last year. hehehe... my golly! oh well, i guess i have to start saving for my next trip to cebu.

grades grades grades...

the wait is killing me! how the hell am i suppose to enjoy my summer??

yet another year

another year down the drain...

reading cases

let me share some of my pet peeves about reading cases...

1. ponente sucks - i hate it when the ponente does not know how to write. i hate it when all he/she does is to copy-paste from decisions of the lower courts. ang tamad!

2. crazy petitioners/respondents - god, some of the things people do. sometimes, i wish i can go back in time and just choke them to death. seriously, they make life hard for us law students. imagine, having to read a long list of facts because these people just do so many things relevant to the case but are nonetheless either unnecessary or just plain stupid. i.e. you've already committed estafa so stop issuing more checks! or you applied for a loan so stop saying you didn't! you're an agent so stop filing appeals/motions to prove otherwise!

3. long cases - i hate 'em. i'd take twenty short cases over one long badly written case.

4. cases in spanish - what the hell?! it's already circa 2000!

hoping for another train-dodge

shit! f*ckin' hate this.

see, tomorrow will be the registration for the 2nd sem and i have yet to see my grades. the wait is killing me. i tell you, it is killing me.

God, i hope i can dodge the train one more time. why do i even put myself in this situation?!

thoughts...

1. this recently concluded sem is by far the worst i've had in UP. yet, for some odd reason, i realized i actually enjoy learning law.

2. i'm fat... probably at my heaviest weight ever. it disgusts me

3. can't wait to play golf again.

4. can't wait to work on my car.

5. i'm craving for some sangria...

enigma

one of my professors said i am an enigma to him. he sees me as the guy who is never prepared for class... probably thinks lowly of me. who can blame him? most of my bad recitations in his class are the spoils of late night cramming.

what baffles me the most is that he seems to "smell" my unpreparedness. it's not like i'm always unprepared. in fact, most of the time, i am prepared for class but for some reason i get called when i'm most unprepared. what's up with that??

now, the enigma has a new problem. he just got news of his midterms score for the same subject. it's not good. shit! like things couldn't get any worse...

i was prepared for that exam, damn it. i was actually expecting a high grade. well, i guess now, even "the famous mr. lopez" is an enigma to himself.

i was there

30th of August 2008 - eraserheads reunion concert

I WAS THERE! :)

man, the atmosphere was just awesome. people eagerly anticipating the fab four to set foot on stage. the ten minute countdown was the longest of my life. the crowd just erupted in the final ten seconds... 10... 9... 8...

3... 2... ONE!
"may isang umaga..."

this is fucking awesome! for the first time in 6 years they are back together. for the first time in my life, i get to see them play live. as a fan of the 'heads, nothing could be more awesome than this.

then goes the familiar bass line of alapaap...

"masdan mo aking mata!!!"

people were wildly singing along... shouting, jumping, holding the two-horn hand signal, holding cameras, cellphones, binoculars, etc.

every song reminded me of my elementary years in saint jude. i remember how my friends and i would dream of one day forming a band and releasing an all eheads cover album. i remember saving up to buy the casettes of ultraelectromagnecticpop, circus, and cutterpillow. i remember my then girlfriend---claudine---gifting me with a casette of the fruitcake album during the school's christmas party. most of all, i remember how much my dad hated my playing of any eheads tape in our van. "bastos pala yan eh!" he says upon hearing the real version of pare ko.

i was a big fan then so i was really happy to hear that they were having this concert. no, i didn't give a shit about all the anti-smoking campaign, just in case anyone wants to know.

all in all, it was a hell of night.


note: photos were borrowed from Jorem Catilo of http://spoonmachine.multiply.com/