February 24, 2008, 11:43 a.m. – Bar Blues Update
Sender; Atty. Kaye
“Bka daw march yun yung narinig ko. Enjoy ka muna”
Atty. Kaye is a close friend of my sister in college. Her pre-law course is Mass Communication major in Film.
FILM.?!?
It’s a general misconception among the public that you need political science, legal management or CPA degree as your pre-law course to enter law school. The fact is you only need any four year college course as a pre-law course to enter law.
She took the 2006 bar exams and passed on her first try. She is now working as a legal staff of one of the Justices of the Supreme Court. I always text her if she hears rumors on the release day of the bar. So when she says its March it’s most probably March.
Hmm, enjoy muna?. Sige try ko. Hahahahahuhuhu.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Swerte sa Pagibig
February 15, 2008, 12:27 p.m.
Sender: Beneboy
“Bro kami na!”
There are two general views on Valentines Day, a day for celebrating love and the act of sharing the love or it can be viewed as a commercialized holiday created by capitalists to sell flowers and chocolates. Either way it gives the PHILVOCS scientists bragging rights over scientists around the world by successfully predicting the exact location of the occurrence of earthquakes.
Just steer clear of Pasay and Sta. Mesa on valentines and your safe.
*wink wink
If you ask Beneboy, Valentines Day is the first definition. After the bar exams he met in his hometown his special girl and a lawyer at that. I knew he liked the girl but I had no idea he was that serious. There is a running joke among law students and lawyers that if a single male law student passes the bar, his stock will rise. If a single female law student passes the bar her stocks will fall. I know it’s a very sexist joke but in some ways it has some basis. There is this general notion that men are intimidated by smart and overachieving females because it runs smack against their male pride especially among “macho” Filipinos.
They are still a couple up to this date, and I heard somewhere that there are talks of marriage in the air. I guess after the bar exams Beneboy.
Sender: Beneboy
“Bro kami na!”
There are two general views on Valentines Day, a day for celebrating love and the act of sharing the love or it can be viewed as a commercialized holiday created by capitalists to sell flowers and chocolates. Either way it gives the PHILVOCS scientists bragging rights over scientists around the world by successfully predicting the exact location of the occurrence of earthquakes.
Just steer clear of Pasay and Sta. Mesa on valentines and your safe.
*wink wink
If you ask Beneboy, Valentines Day is the first definition. After the bar exams he met in his hometown his special girl and a lawyer at that. I knew he liked the girl but I had no idea he was that serious. There is a running joke among law students and lawyers that if a single male law student passes the bar, his stock will rise. If a single female law student passes the bar her stocks will fall. I know it’s a very sexist joke but in some ways it has some basis. There is this general notion that men are intimidated by smart and overachieving females because it runs smack against their male pride especially among “macho” Filipinos.
They are still a couple up to this date, and I heard somewhere that there are talks of marriage in the air. I guess after the bar exams Beneboy.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Prayers Answered
January 29, 2008, 3:15 p.m.
Sender: Abogwapo
“Wow! Good to hear tol. Punta ust gusto mo sumabay?
January 29, 2008, 3:16 p.m.
Sender: Mom
“Congrats punta ka sss nir cti hall hingi membership application "
At last, someone called back. I just finished with a final interview with a BPO company located in Makati and I passed. I was told I could start on February as a legal researcher in the company. Being a BPO the work hours are different from “regular” companies. My work hour shifts from 6am to 2pm and 2pm to 10pm, the change in schedule is implemented monthly. So for one month I cannot go out late since my shift starts at 6am and the next month I can go as late as I want. The schedule was hard for me to adjust in the start specially waking up as early as 4 am to get to work in time. At least I wasn’t given a graveyard shift.
It felt good finally landing a job. It makes you feel you have a purpose and needed. At the same time you begin to have financial independence from your parent’s which is really empowering. It was also a bonus that I got to work in Makati, since all of my friends work there too. But I soon found out that meeting with them is difficult due to my unusual schedule.
Looking back, law school really retarded my life for five years. I always meet with high school or college batch mates who were already supervisors in their jobs while some were already married with kids. You may say, ”Why didn’t you become a working student, its been done before?” the short answer to that is my parent’s forbade me. It’s sort of a deal I made, if I want their support to enter law school I must focus on it. If I want to work, then work. The obvious choice is the first since I really wanted to pursue a law degree but at the same time I had no financial capacity to support myself at the time.
So at the age of 26 I officially became part of the workforce for the first time. It was an exciting day and I finally felt things were turning for the better.
I spoke to soon.
Sender: Abogwapo
“Wow! Good to hear tol. Punta ust gusto mo sumabay?
January 29, 2008, 3:16 p.m.
Sender: Mom
“Congrats punta ka sss nir cti hall hingi membership application "
At last, someone called back. I just finished with a final interview with a BPO company located in Makati and I passed. I was told I could start on February as a legal researcher in the company. Being a BPO the work hours are different from “regular” companies. My work hour shifts from 6am to 2pm and 2pm to 10pm, the change in schedule is implemented monthly. So for one month I cannot go out late since my shift starts at 6am and the next month I can go as late as I want. The schedule was hard for me to adjust in the start specially waking up as early as 4 am to get to work in time. At least I wasn’t given a graveyard shift.
It felt good finally landing a job. It makes you feel you have a purpose and needed. At the same time you begin to have financial independence from your parent’s which is really empowering. It was also a bonus that I got to work in Makati, since all of my friends work there too. But I soon found out that meeting with them is difficult due to my unusual schedule.
Looking back, law school really retarded my life for five years. I always meet with high school or college batch mates who were already supervisors in their jobs while some were already married with kids. You may say, ”Why didn’t you become a working student, its been done before?” the short answer to that is my parent’s forbade me. It’s sort of a deal I made, if I want their support to enter law school I must focus on it. If I want to work, then work. The obvious choice is the first since I really wanted to pursue a law degree but at the same time I had no financial capacity to support myself at the time.
So at the age of 26 I officially became part of the workforce for the first time. It was an exciting day and I finally felt things were turning for the better.
I spoke to soon.
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