Through the Looking Glass

It’s 4:40 a.m. according to the Korean text on this computer. I am in an internet shop in the middle of Katipunan, merely waiting for enough daylight to get home. Gosh, after more than 6 hours of classes at cramming in between plus partying until 3 a.m. it’s no woner I am ready to sleep. Happiness and we have no class on Mon., hence no CivPro! =) Such is the extent of our patheticness in law school. We look for every opportunity not to study.

This was our first Saturday to feel the whole brunt of 6 hours of Admin at Agency with 40 cases or so for the 2 subjects and let me tell you, right after my head felt like exploding! And it wasn’t like I actually studied before… which is one regret although I didn’t actually get caught unawares. (Hehe! Yabang! No, mali yun. Dapat di na maulit kahit nakalusot. :P) You know that feeling when the stuff you were supposed to study crops up and you feel guilty and remorseful you didn’t study so you couldn’t fully appreciate what the professor was talking about (which was actually interesting)? Well, I get that a lot. Shameful, I know, (and super kapal ng mukha ko I still go to class despite it) but then I studied for Civpro the other day! The stress and the thought of her just sucks out the joy I get from other subjects so I am truly sorry to my OC side who wants to read every case in the original. I will have to be contented with making up next week, when I am sure to get called in Agency. For Admin I was called 4 times! 3 cameos and 1 starring role in a recit. And take note I am telling the truth when I say I did not read the cases. Good thing I got away with it! I am so happy! And my on-the-spot reading of the cases did pay off. There’s something about cramming that works for me… Speaking of which, I have to study even for a bit tomorrow to lessen my study load. *sigh* Exciting weekend stuff this…

I must say our supposedly easiest year in law school has yet to manifest as actually easy. So far recits have been good. (Thank God for my 4-sentence recit in Credit and my totally abbreviated/generalized recit about Agency and the e-mailed power of attorney!!) However, I am bracing myself for the worst of it… which I am sure will happen on either a Monday, Wed. or Fri. =P Call me psychic. I hope mag-OLA na kami soon so I can be with Sir Teddy. Hehe! (Close e) To get to that point I have to pass Law 125 then… I hope Heaven is shining down on us. Sana magka-miracle at mag-iba ang mga dapat mag-iba. At sana magkadate na ako sa Ball. (Hahaha! Where did that come from?)

Before the sem really starts and we get all our assignments, let me just say this has been a really stressful day. First, I rushed to the room to get a really prime seat (syempre whole sem na ako uupo dun, dapat super ganda di ba…) tapos when I got there at 7:30 AM there were 5 of us already! I got my seat and signed up for the Civ. Pro. group. Then we found out later that Civ. Pro. was going to be our LIFE for the next sem due to our terror prof. Hay. Law school talaga, full of surprises… akala namin Te tapos ganito. Oh well. Good thing is she only flunks you if you deserve it daw. Kaya naman siguro yun. At super galing niya magturo so I’m looking forward to her "lectures" but not to my recits with her. Hehehe!

P.S. 4th year na kami mag-le-Leg. Prof. because of this. Sad.

I am still reeling from the news that I got a 2.75 in Labor… Labor for crying out loud! My favorite subject for the sem and I got the crappiest grade for it. And I am part of the Labor group, I’m supposed to know the subject better than the average student, right?! Pardon me if I sound arrogant, I am just blown away that I did so bad. A 2.5 would have given me less grief. Haha! I’ll settle down in a minute… Well good news is I did well in Criminal Procedure. So, should I consider a career handling criminal cases instead of becoming a labor arbiter, as I had planned? Grabe talaga. This grade changes things. Mag-Labor group pa ba ako next sem? Parang nakakahiya na. And to think my mother is an expert on labor issues (head kasi siya ng HR dept) at nagdidiscuss pa kami palagi on the way to school! Hay, oo nga, nakakahiya talaga that I’m not my mother’s daughter. Sooobrang enjoy pa naman ako sa Labor at ito ang nangyari! Sana naman iba ang Labor II. Ewan ko, ang labo ng mga pangyayaring ito. Bumagsak ba ako sa finals? Akala ko ba nagcucurve? Ibig sabihin ba ako yung nasa pinakailalim ng curve? :/ Ang mga katanungan na ito ay pagkatapos ng matagalang bakasyon sa Baguio at Ilocos. Buti na lang at nakauwi na ako at hindi na vacation mode. Grabe talaga. Sige, tama na. Maarte na kung maarte dahil di naman ako bumagsak at di naman 3.0 grade ko. Nag-expect lang kasi ako dahil sa lahat ng effort but then, I should know better. Di nga pala proportionate ang nakukuhang grade sa effort na inilalabas. Such is law school. Deal with it already!