22 years
around this time of year, things always get crazy.
it was always plagued with first trimestral exams in high school and long tests, defense and deadlines in college. i thought it might be different this year. busy sure - it's law school, of course. but, in line with tradition and in true law school fashion, something major had to come up - moot court.
won't bore you with the details of that one stressful event, but suffice to say that preparations for that kept me awake for three nights straight, glued to my laptop looking for stuff and stats on gay marriages, and attached to readings three inches high about false beliefs held on to by moralists (gay marriages? gasp! public health issue! legalization will begin a pandemic of diseases! the fertility rates of a country will decline! kumusta.) need a gay rights advocate? call me.
i spent the first 5 hours of the 7th awake and typing away at my computer, desparate to finish a memorial (i.e., paper to give to the "justices" that we will plead to stating our position and all evidence pertaining to the same). thank god for birthday messages that brought bright spots during the wee hours of the morning. =)
friday morning, 7:30 am. first cup of coffee to keep me up after yet another sleepless night. i come from my brother's house in magallanes, bring him to his office right behind AIM, and get lost in the maze of makati on the way to rockwell! i reached makati central fire station,kamagong, and mckinley park, before i reached rockwell - it took me a good 45 minutes to get from AIM to rockwell. death to one way streets and no left and U-turns.
after the moot (we won best memorial! my partner won best oralist! yay! =)), i went straight to discovery to decompress. after ten million hours of waiting, of changing rooms (cos they booked me a room with the wrong size), dealing with wilted salad leaves, paying corkage (death by corkage), going up and down the floors of the hotel to get my stuff, spilt spaghetti, i finaly, finally received a call from the receptionist saying that my friend regina lejano was knocking on my door.
sigh of relief. =)
here's to the past 22 years. =)
it was always plagued with first trimestral exams in high school and long tests, defense and deadlines in college. i thought it might be different this year. busy sure - it's law school, of course. but, in line with tradition and in true law school fashion, something major had to come up - moot court.
won't bore you with the details of that one stressful event, but suffice to say that preparations for that kept me awake for three nights straight, glued to my laptop looking for stuff and stats on gay marriages, and attached to readings three inches high about false beliefs held on to by moralists (gay marriages? gasp! public health issue! legalization will begin a pandemic of diseases! the fertility rates of a country will decline! kumusta.) need a gay rights advocate? call me.
i spent the first 5 hours of the 7th awake and typing away at my computer, desparate to finish a memorial (i.e., paper to give to the "justices" that we will plead to stating our position and all evidence pertaining to the same). thank god for birthday messages that brought bright spots during the wee hours of the morning. =)
friday morning, 7:30 am. first cup of coffee to keep me up after yet another sleepless night. i come from my brother's house in magallanes, bring him to his office right behind AIM, and get lost in the maze of makati on the way to rockwell! i reached makati central fire station,kamagong, and mckinley park, before i reached rockwell - it took me a good 45 minutes to get from AIM to rockwell. death to one way streets and no left and U-turns.
after the moot (we won best memorial! my partner won best oralist! yay! =)), i went straight to discovery to decompress. after ten million hours of waiting, of changing rooms (cos they booked me a room with the wrong size), dealing with wilted salad leaves, paying corkage (death by corkage), going up and down the floors of the hotel to get my stuff, spilt spaghetti, i finaly, finally received a call from the receptionist saying that my friend regina lejano was knocking on my door.
sigh of relief. =)
here's to the past 22 years. =)
posted by chin at 6:44 PM
2 Comments:
wow. had no idea how your day went.
no wonder you were crashing during the party. but nevertheless, hope you had a great day pa rin... we were so happy we could celebrate it with you...on your "23rd" birthday. hehe. :)
i had an excellent day mi! =) it was the perfect way to end my week. stress buster. =)
we should do that more often!
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