HMMM....

i'm sorry for that sorta altercation (silent type). you asked for it. I used to be a tigress. In tagalog, mahadera. it's still somewhere there. leave me alone. i like my peace and quiet. by the power of consecutive new year's resolutions since the year 1999, the tigress is now a lady so please help me be the lady and leave me alone. I assure you I don't have any bad thoughts about you but please F*@# off! when I'm not too tired, Im usually in a good mood. nowadays, not so much.

Bar Exam Thoughts AGAIN

went shopping for my trip. pasalubong for my friends and relatives in Manila. I remembered telling Ayako I'd try to get her a LeSportsac because it's on major sale here at Nordstrom. When I got there, it was finished already. Anyhow, maybe cookies na lang, the kind she likes which I brought back last time last summer. Bought guy's shoes size 10, Nike, not for me. for someone I owe a favor in Manila. Just to show my appreciation for all the help. So many nice bags there but yeah, I'm still the cheapskate. Why spend on a designer handbag when you can get something that 'looks like it' somewhere? i don't mean fake but something sorta like it. I mean women can spend so much on a designer handbag, the whole thing is pointless..!

Anyhow, again as I was walking in the freezing cold by my lonesome, I thought about the bar exams again. I don't want to review in UP because I know too many people there. I'm going to be in meltdown central come bar exams time. I can just imagine myself: tambay sa lib, tambay sa starbucks, jittery, sorta easier to irritate, praning, chubbier (stress related), always searching for reviewers. gosh, stress to the highest level, im sure.

Anyhow, will be back in school in a few days, actually I'm already late. I missed OLA duty already. Im not even sure about the date of my hearings. I have SPIT where I'm sure I'm going to be called majorly because I've had 3 consecutive absences. I have PRIL which is a pain. Ohmigosh, what to do? Haaaay....

New Year's resolutions

Just 8 this year:

*study very hard, make my first reading for the bar for Tax and Remedial Law. (immediate resolution)

*lessen going-out and study instead.

*be more patient with people in general. The bible says: "love thy neighbor as yourself." lessen annoyances and never say anything derogatory as much as possible. Be the lady.

*accept compliments graciously from others. have a tendency to deprecate myself.

*keept fit and lose a lot of weight after the bar.

*take my faith seriously. I'm Roman Catholic but not of the folk variety.

*spend more time with my friends especially those I've neglected or lost touch with
because of law school stuff over the past 4 to 5 years.

*think positively and please lessen the laziness.

feminist poem by Anne Sexton

Her Kind

by Anne Sexton


I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.
I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,
closets, silks, innumerable goods;
fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:
whining, rearranging the disaligned.
A woman like that is misunderstood.
I have been her kind.
I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.

DREW

2007

I loved 2007 too. Although it wasn't as charming, landmark breaking (in all aspects) and as romantic as 2006. Hehe! it was more of a swansong year for law school. I think I just breezed through although Tax 2 and Civ Pro under Avena was hard during the early part of the year. I passed all my subjects and did very good. was still the quentessential Starbucks girl. got rid of the BADs (things, habits and people who aren't good for you) mostly and just really waited the year out. 2008 I think will be more exciting. The bar. Its aftermath. Graduation from law school (w/c correction: i don't really hate it because it gives me purpose and is a good academic exercise). i slept all through out new year's eve here in SF. we just got back from las vegas and it was a very tiring 10 hour drive. they partied although I was already in bed by then.

gifts I got this Christmas which I am so thankful for:

1)2 Brooks brothers ladies' shirt in pink and lime green (my very first!, mom must be really proud of me. im becoming a lawyer...)

2)silver boombox for my Ipod from Celine.

3)make-up and scent from someone :-) (my fave brand)

4)Canon digital camera (thanks to my folks...)