i skipped a month
i promised myself i'd be updating my blog at least once a month. guess it didn't work out. hehe. i hate it when i get too busy. and i hate it when someone tells me point-blank, "you don't even have time to get to know me" ad infinitum...
time is such a dubious term. and so is love. i am an escapist. i want out.
anyway, about a week ago, i was riding the mrt (starting this sem, i've been commuting from my house in Las Piñas to UP), and my seatmate asked me, "ms., excuse me, sang law school ka?" i told him, "UP po." apparently, he was invading my privacy by glancing over what i was reading, which was Agpalo's Commentaries on the Code of Professional Responsibility. (i try reading every chance i get during weekdays, coz weekends i just waste my time with someone)
anyway, so he turned out to be a lawyer from graduated from FEU, who has a La Sallite daughter taking up accounting, and who practices labor law. he gave me unsolicited advice - initially i was pissed coz he interrupted my reading, but he was relaying his experiences like he was my psychiatrist or maybe he just felt he owed it to the Bar to give me "guidance" hehe.
So despite the legal realities that he constantly talked about (which would make any aspiring lawyer turn to the dark side) i craved to study law more and be good at it no matter what.
like a master to an apprentice, he said, "ituloy mo lang yan, kahit mahirap. pagdating ng araw, magiging abogada ka rin. mararamdaman mo na ang sarap ng pakiramdam ng may natutulungan ka."
at the last station, he gave me his card and funny thing was, i was reading on Canon 3, which prohibits advertising one's talent as a shopkeeper advertises his wares. the only advertisement allowed is word of mouth or by reputation. it has something to do with the dignity and the integrity of the legal profession and all that crap. anyway, i was asking myself, hmmm...is this soliciting business? hehe when i got home, i learned that simple business cards are permissible.
ok naman pala.
anyway, i remember what he said: "law is a jealous mistress." i'm getting that now. heee.
time is such a dubious term. and so is love. i am an escapist. i want out.
anyway, about a week ago, i was riding the mrt (starting this sem, i've been commuting from my house in Las Piñas to UP), and my seatmate asked me, "ms., excuse me, sang law school ka?" i told him, "UP po." apparently, he was invading my privacy by glancing over what i was reading, which was Agpalo's Commentaries on the Code of Professional Responsibility. (i try reading every chance i get during weekdays, coz weekends i just waste my time with someone)
anyway, so he turned out to be a lawyer from graduated from FEU, who has a La Sallite daughter taking up accounting, and who practices labor law. he gave me unsolicited advice - initially i was pissed coz he interrupted my reading, but he was relaying his experiences like he was my psychiatrist or maybe he just felt he owed it to the Bar to give me "guidance" hehe.
So despite the legal realities that he constantly talked about (which would make any aspiring lawyer turn to the dark side) i craved to study law more and be good at it no matter what.
like a master to an apprentice, he said, "ituloy mo lang yan, kahit mahirap. pagdating ng araw, magiging abogada ka rin. mararamdaman mo na ang sarap ng pakiramdam ng may natutulungan ka."
at the last station, he gave me his card and funny thing was, i was reading on Canon 3, which prohibits advertising one's talent as a shopkeeper advertises his wares. the only advertisement allowed is word of mouth or by reputation. it has something to do with the dignity and the integrity of the legal profession and all that crap. anyway, i was asking myself, hmmm...is this soliciting business? hehe when i got home, i learned that simple business cards are permissible.
ok naman pala.
anyway, i remember what he said: "law is a jealous mistress." i'm getting that now. heee.
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