in a few hours, ill be off to montalban for my father's birthday. yesterday, no succession, had a block picture taken for transpo law, had the last class for transpo law for the sem, then availed of my free meal in kenny rogers katipunan (thanks to kai for helping fill up the coupon. two were filled up in kenny rogers quezon ave, the rest were in kenny rogers sm north and i took the free meal in katipunan), then went to starbucks not only to have my sought after coffee but also to attend the grand alumni homecoming meeting. thats when i remembered how detached i am from my highschool batch. i didnt care back then. i still dont care now (compared to the average person) but i didnt care more back then. its like i had a vow of silence. i only talked to a few people and my words were even limited. but anyway, i attended the meeting because im not the same person as i was back in highschool but i really cant remove the image i had back then. why? because my batchmates dont know me! if they do, they dont know much. anyway, the meeting took quite some time before it ended and i really need to leave and be at video city by 11pm or it would mean a larger overdue rented movies! like in highschool, i just left without telling anyone, i just disappeared (i remember doing that to my college blockmates, eller and grace). then took a taxi and fortunately, i made it. it was already closed but since they havent locked up yet nor have they switched off their PC, they allowed me to return the movies i just rented. the day was a mixture of bad stuff and good stuff. so i cant declare it as a bad day nor a good day. since both cancels each other out, its just another not too ordinary but mostly ordinary day

finally a decent recitation in evidence!!!

it was really unexpected. i didnt volunteer since i always feel that im not prepared enough. i got called and fortunately, i wasnt told to sit down. and i was able to recite the provisions. it was really nice that i had the opportunity to have a good recitation before this semester ended. anyway, after my recitation, people were congratulating me. its like the way people "cheer" for a toddler who just took his first steps. its not really a bloody brilliant recitation but it is my best recitation in the subject (after three strikes! i didnt apply the three strike rule this time, for some reason, i just felt it didnt apply) and one of the best recitations ive done for my three year stay in the college. not that such accomplishment deserves recognition, i dont even think people should have made a big deal out of it.

im studying like ive never studied before in all of my previous semesters. i mean, im studying regularly now. but unfortunately, it doesnt seem to be paying off. im still in the same position as i was before. hopefully, not worse than before. well, im going to find out whether this is true when the grades come out. im really not hopeful that there's been an improvement. i just hope its not worse than my last semester. last semester was like a nose dive from a not so high position.

no succession today. no more tax law classes. it ended last week. mentioned this already. no PIL for this week. so i only have three subjects/classes to attend this week: evidence for tuesday and thursday, succession and transpo law for wednesday and friday. looks like a light week in terms of work load. not really. the extra time is an opportunity to get a head start on the requirements for some subjects and remove backlogs for some other subjects. like my professor in transpo law class said, the life of a law student is a wretched life. you get some free time but you dont get to enjoy it. you get to use it for some other work you need to accomplish.

just had my nego finals hours ago. it was very difficult. didnt even had time to finish it. if maybe i had 30 mins more, or even just 10 mins, it would have made a lot of difference. well, thats over. i just hope that it isnt as bad as i think. i attended both my succession and transpo law classes. didnt regret it. even if i had spent more time studying, it wouldnt have made much of a difference. i was focusing on the wrong parts of the subject, memorizing the wrong provisions.

it started as a shitty day but ended not so bad. had a succession class at 1230. so i was already at malcolm by that time but didnt get off the jeep yet. i decided to go to the shopping center first to buy some cellphone load/credit. it took less than 3 minutes to reach the shopping center but well, that 3 minutes mattered. why? because when i reached the shopping center, it was already raining hard. 3 minutes ago or even less, while at the waiting shed near romulo hall and in front of the malcolm hall parking lot, there wasnt even a drizzle. so when it was time for me to go to class coming from the shopping center, i had to walk through the rain so that i wont be late or too late. when i reached the classroom, no class. how nice. i rushed from the shopping center, got wet all over just to reach an almost empty classroom (since the people were just leaving when i got there). and since i was wet, i cant go inside the library which was cold due to the air-conditioning. i had to stay outside all afternoon, waiting to get dry. good thing there was a PVO donut sale. i stayed there all afternoon. i couldnt think of any other place to go to.

also had transpo class. why wasnt it so bad? i dont know. i just dont feel so bad about it.

i hope i dont have insomnia. i fell asleep around past 4am yesterday. i was wide awake the entire night! and i have a 1pm class. good thing there wasnt a PIL class. i woke up around 11am. right now, im feeling sleepy already. i just hope i do fall asleep this time.

just got home. finally, a not so ordinary day. a day that breaks the monotony of regular school days.

first, there was no PIL class. instead of having class, we attended the Et Tu Brod forum which talked about hazing and how to solve this problem. then, no evidence class. instead we watched a film named "My Cousin Vinny" (starring Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei) which was very funny. unfortunately, we started watching the film a bit late so it ended a little past 8pm. the reason im mindful about the time was because a highschool batchmate dropped me a friendster message last sunday informing me of the alumni homecoming meeting this tuesday, meaning today. it was set in the alumni office of our highschool, 630pm. i know the meeting wont actually start by 630pm but since the film ended by 8pm, it meant im going to reach our high school by 830pm. im two hours late. an hour might be acceptable but two hours? i thought that the meeting might have ended by that time. but i still went anyway. i got there and well, the meeting was almost over. i think the meeting ended 30 minutes after i arrived. so, charlex and geloy briefed me on what we were supposed to do. so there.

and its a coffee free day for me.

today was the last meeting for the tax law class. i wasnt even aware of that! got called. the professor even joked it was a miracle i was called since i rarely get called in the class. i think in the entire semester, i was called three times. two of them were on what's my opinion regarding the law. so, its two subjects down, four more to go. no more tax and nego classes but the nego finals is this coming friday. its possible that the PIL class may end this week. there's only three weeks of classes left. wasnt able to attend my succession class. i was feeling extremely drowsy. i think its because of my coffee addiction.

havent blogged for more than a week! wasnt in the mood. i had my evidence midterm exam last september 8. im not sure if i did well. our evidence professor said it was easy but that was also what our negotiable instruments law professor said to us and less than 10 in our batch passed that examination.

had dinner with our tax professor last september 10 at dencios after the tax law class. nothing out of the ordinary happened from september 11 and 13 (no succession and no transpo for september 12. why? well, its just that the professors didnt hold classes for reasons most likely independent of the estrada verdict. the suspension of classes only covered some areas and levels, and law schools werent included). had evidence class on both days and had PIL on the 13th. it was announced that the PIL finals would be done ala moot court. so i decided to watch my blockmates competing in the moot court the following day, september 14. the competition was held in ateneo school of law in rockwell. i didnt want to go at first but i thought, i need to have an idea how the PIL finals would be like. i also saw some of my friends and blockmates in ateneo law (mark, leah, nikki, iyen, ona, pj, sheryl, love, leo and some others, cant remember their names). after the moot court (well, we didnt stay til the end of the competition) we (my UP law blockmates) were supposed to head home but decided to go eat at trinoma (at north park courtesy of keisie).

so, the only interesting days were the days i went out with my blockmates (dinner at dencios and the moot court + dinner at north park). other than that, the days were just regular class days, with me spending some time in the library to study and watching videos i rent.

and now, i have to study for the nego final examination this coming friday. i also have to get a good recitation in evidence class. i also have to do the digests for succession. i need to find a good tax law book for my tax law class. and fortunately, i dont have backlogs on the PIL and Transpo readings.

had my first real meal today at around 10pm. my breakfast was just 2 pieces of hotdog and a mug of milo. lunch was one piece of donut. had my lunch around 12pm. had my dinner at 10pm! 10 hours later! and i had class from 3pm to 930pm! i was really starving when i reached mcdonalds (had no choice but to eat in a fastfood. its either this or expensive restaurants). i ordered a double cheeseburger, large fries, large coke, a side salad and a chicken fillet meal.

just had nego and evidence. no PIL. had a nice recit in nego. why? because its voluntary. and its also the last day for nego so the next time i pick up my nego readings and nego book, its for studying for the finals and thats only 2 weeks away.

good thing im done with the mindmap. i can just rest now (after a very tiring day). tomorrow i start reviewing for my evidence midterm exam on saturday.

wasnt in the mood to blog lately and still not in the mood. im printing my mindmap right now. i hope i dont run out of ink.

no succession again. had transpo. tomorrow will be the last meeting for nego. i hope i dont get called for PIL and Evidence again. im drained. i guess august just sucked a lot of energy out of me. and right now, im saving up energy for my midterms on saturday. and then try to save up energy again for my final exams on the 21st. then prepare myself for the finals week on october. the next remaining weeks will be very tiring. not that i need a break badly but i just dont have the energy to do stuff. its like i want to but i cant because i dont have the energy for it. its not that im tired of things and i just want to get away from it all.

got called for PIL.

no succession. had tax. thats it

90% done with the mindmap!

well, its september. the last day of august was ok. just watched the movie 1408 (twice) and then attended my transpo class.

nothing out of the ordinary happened today except i might have talked to bianca gonzales. not really sure. i was heading towards the jeepney terminal at vinzons when a car pulled over while i was walking near the waiting shed of econ. a girl in the car sitting next to the driver (never saw the driver) asked where the Fine Arts building was. i replied, i dont know exactly but its on the opposite side (because they were going to the wrong direction). so she just repeated what i said and then they left. after a few seconds i thought, that girl looked familiar. and only after a few more seconds did i think that she looked a lot like bianca gonzales, talked the same way and her voice was very similar too. she might be. i dont know. if it occurred to me while she was talking to me, i could have checked. if she was bianca gonzales, she looked prettier on tv.