Entries from November 2005

29 November 2005

Law School Days: Second Semester, Second Year

Subjects/Units/Teachers:

1. Civil Procedure- 4 units; Justice Lorenzo Relova
2. Administrative Law- 2 units; Atty. Emmanuel De Dios
3. Taxation I- 3 units; Atty. Leonides Balmeo
4. Corporation Law- 4 units; Dean Cesar Villanueva
5. Public International Law- 2 units; Atty. Mel Sta. Maria
6. Theology and the Law- 2 units; The late Fr. Vitaliano Gorospe, S.J.
7. Agency- 1 unit; Atty. [...]

28 November 2005

Pressure

“It’s just the one thing I wonder about.
What thing?
Pressure.
It changes everything. Pressure. Some people, you squeeze them, they focus.
Others fold.
Can you summon your talent at will? Can you deliver on a deadline?
Can you sleep at night?
When do we talk about money?”
- Kevin Lomax and John Milton dialogue
From The Devil’s Advocate grabbed from this site

Actually got [...]

27 November 2005

Timing

Some things I learned today about timing:
1. You don’t use fertilizers in the summer because it’s harvest time.
2. You should resign your post the moment you see something wrong or before some wrong happens. Resigning at any other time dilutes your credibility.
3. Time your exits perfectly, lest you be accused of hiding something or [...]

26 November 2005

Relieved… but still dissappointed

Still disappointed by the way everything is turning out, on both the personal and “national” fronts.
But on the personal level, Bea and I went to her school today to pick up her report card. The grades, more or less, stayed the same. Went up in some subjects, went down in others. Still relieved because at [...]

25 November 2005

Disappointed…

Could not bear to blog yesterday because I was disappointed.
Disappointed in various ways:
1. Disappointed because that so-called “big day” never came. I wasted an entire week waiting for it, only to turn out that I was just waiting for Godot.
2. Disappointed at Garci for his insincerity. He knew all along he was wanted by the [...]

23 November 2005

How Convenient!

Dana Carvey’s beloved persona, the Church Lady from Saturday Night Live

Well isn’t that special?
Garci returning and willing to talk only if all the persons involved (including opposition people) are investigated as well?
The timing is sooooooo convenient.
Everyone else gets the heat but the main character involved gets away because the impeachment is over and immunity has [...]

22 November 2005

Nothing…

My supposed-to-be-big day fizzled out. It’s rescheduled to tomorrow.
So I just bought component video cables for the new TV and home theatre system and did some more tweaking. Now I learned the difference between S-Video (the cable I used yesterday) and Component Video. Since both the new TV and the home theatre system has component [...]

21 November 2005

Setting Up

Just finished setting up my mom’s home theatre system and I’m a little tired.
But I had a meeting that morning (of course, I had to work, you know). Anyway, they delivered the unit at around 2:00 p.m. The delivery boys asked if I want to call the dealer to have the thing set up but [...]

20 November 2005

Display Units

As I told you yesterday, I went to an appliance store with my mother yesterday so she could purchase the big-screen television she has wanted to buy since a year ago.
Don’t get me wrong. Unlike me, she can afford to buy whatever she wants. And she has way more discipline than I have when it [...]

19 November 2005

For this Saturday…

This is the plan:
1. Play a lot of PS2 games I recently acquired;
2. Grocery shopping;
3. Help my mom buy the big screen TV she always wanted;
4. Choir; and
5. Watch Bukas-Palad’s God of Silence concert (or what’s left of it) after the mass.
There’s an amusing story about that TV but I’ll just tell you that tomorrow.
Time [...]