Top Ten WTF?!? moments of the 2010 Bar Exams

or how my world shattered during the four Sundays of September

10. Quasi Torts

9. Res Judicata in Prison Grey

8. The length of the Labor Law exam

7. Doctrine of the Operative Facts

6. Pro Reo.

5. Technological Transfer

4. Petition for a writ of Habeas data (forms)

3. all events test, immediacy test and rational basis test in rapid succession.

2. Petition for Letters Rogatory (forms)

1. The entire taxation exam.

and just like that, september is over!

bilang isa...

hindi sapat ang salita... kaya hindi ko na susubukan... para sa mga biktima...

It's never OVER...

the bar exams never really end on the fourth Sunday of September... it continues, it occupies everything... you take it with you...

you take it with you when you eat, when you eat Chinese food, when you eat nothing...

you take it when you shower, when you swim, when you take a bath...

you take it with you when you walk, or run or jog...

you take it with you when you watch, hwne you see, when you listen...

you remember it before you go to sleep, after waking up, and before you stand up...

you remember it when you pee, and that, too...

you remember it when you talk, when you converse, when you laugh...

but most of all you remember it when you pray, because at this point, you pray unceasingly, you pray...

you pray when you eat, when you eat Chinese food, when you eat nothing...

you pray when you shower, when you swim, when you take a bath...

you pray when you walk, or run or jog...

you pray when you watch, hwne you see, when you listen...

you remember to pray before you go to sleep, after waking up, and before you stand up...

you remember to pray when you pee, and that, too...

you remember to pray when you talk, when you converse, when you laugh...

you remember the bar exams, and then you pray...

what else is there?

TAXING (some thoughts about the taxation exam)

Difficult, is such an understatement!

Impossible, is such an understatement!



If they would level the playing field as between last Sunday's exam and the exam this coming week, they would practically have to give us a an examination of connecting the dots and a coloring book.


The taxation exam made us detectives, fortune tellers, law makers, justices of the Supreme Court, fiction writers, poets, novelists, astrologers, journalist and at the end of it all, suicidal. (or maybe that's just me)


the taxation exam is the kind of exam that would anyone, (especially me) become closer to God... and i tell you, heaven must be bombarded with prayers from barristers starting 2 p.m. last Sunday! and it will continue, for a long time...


Hope is something difficult as of right now. No one can afford optimism at this stage... but we have to... we need to... there is no other way... or any other choice...


four exams to go, 2 Sundays to go...

friends, let us slay this motherfucker! We will take no prisoners!

Songs to listen to for the bar exams (especially if the first week was crap)

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the lines, lift your head, baby, don't be scared..you'll get by, with a smile... no one ever said that there is an easy way...


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the line, there a rainbow always after the rain...


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the line, saan man ako bumaling ikaw ay naroon, tumalikod man sa'yo, dakilang pag-ibig Mo, sa akin tatawag at mag papaalalang ako'y iyong iniibig at siyang itatapat sa puso...


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little less inspiration, but more direction to get myself together, i'v been stuck in a moment that i can't get out of...


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well, happiness is singing together when the day is through, is anyone loved by you... and is coming home again...