Saturday, September 16, 2006

limbo years

a day in my life.

6 am: first alarm of the day
7 am: struggle to get out of bed
7:30 am: into the shower
8 am: dress up. crack the books open. start coloring the paragraphs with yellow high lighter and blue pens.
11:30 am: brunch. raid closet for an outfit that'll pass the dress code

12:15 pm: take a break before leaving for school
12:30: get in car and get tangled in the traffic jam to powerplant.
1:10 pm: park car in basement one of the powerplant mall
1:20: review for first class at 2pm.
2pm: consti (is RA6735 unconsitutional or merely inadequate? can we amend the constitution or revise it?)
3pm: philo (evolve for us a theory of law based on kelsen's pure theory of law and aristotle's corrective justice. is davide's impeachment case a claim right or a privilege?)
4pm: persons (when are presumptive legitimes required to be delivered? is Z, child of X and Y, where X is married to M, entitled to support from grandparents?)
5pm: end class. pick up new readings at the photocopying center.
5:15: rush to the parking lot to try and get ahead of the rush hour madness in edsa.
5:20pm: get robbed by rockwell another P45 for parking

6:30: thank god for finally getting home after ten million hours of dealing with annoying buses and drivers just as tired as me
6:32pm: quick dinner, bit of rest
7:10: start coloring my books again
11:30: check mail, blogs, inquirer for news and entertainment. see if awake enough to watch west wing
12am: zzzzzzzz....

some interesting things i learned today...

custom and duty both have two meanings, the first is that both refer to taxes that one has to pay in order to bring things inside the country.
the second is they both connote traditions or rituals that we adhere to as a community.

this is so because law stemmed from customs and duties of the community. a village followed customs, and it was their duty to uphold these traditions throughout the years. because of the emergence of law (the primary purpose of law in some theories is census-tax - essentially, for the profit of the ruler), custom and duty eventually evolved into a word used to connote tax as well, as it became a custom and a duty to pay the state.

see, THAT is the interesting part of my day. ew.

i'm turning into a very boring person! this is the side effect of law - i can already feel myself becoming more dull everyday. i'm falling into such a rut!

1 Comments:

Blogger chin said...

mike! sino si you-know-who???

9/17/2006 12:56 AM  

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