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18.11.20 | had a training session on Zotero and damn son I am in love.

08.06.19 //

I skimmed through Human Rights law book that my girlfriend has. My, oh my, the list of cases is already giving me the feels (lengthy cases). Most were supposedly read and discussed in Constitutional law class though (but not mine).

Days 021 & 022 of 131 //

Hello, September!

Yes, today marks the beginning of the -ber months. That probably is not a big deal for most of you. So, let me share a bit of what we have here in the Philippines.

Back in the day, when our season was not either full-on summer or days of tropical storm (in lieu of moonsoon), we get to experience this cold breeze brought by amihan or north east moonsoon starting in the month of September until December, or Christmas season. That’s four months (motly extended until February, when it’s the coldest in countries north of ours) of bed weather, with some days of rains or thunderstorms. This is basically the origin of the Philippines being the country which celebrate Christmas the longest. It’s about the weather. For me, at least. Okay, now I just feel old being able to experience that.

Now, back to productivity. This weekend, I:

Attended Public International Law class (still no professor, but with a promise that we’ll have class next week for sure)

Attended Credit Transactions class (I wasn’t called for recitation!)

Wrote case digests for Criminal Procedure

Studied for Agency, Partnership & Trust recit +quiz

Days 007, 008, 009, 010 of 131 //

My weekend was quite tiring—physically and mentally—and it will be for the next few months. Readings start to pile up and additional requirements (those case digests!) are lining up as well.

The past four days, I:

Attended Public International Law (still no professor, and will most likely be the same next meeting because he is with our school reps for moot court competition in Korea)

Attended Credit Transactions class

Attended Criminal Procedure class

Studied for Agency, Trusts & Partnership (ATAP) class

Attended Alternative Dispute Resolution class (our professor is the only Filipino in the approved faculty list of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators)

Attended English for Lawyers 2 (gotta flex our professor here, too; we get to learn study techniques from the world's fastest reader!)

Wednesday is a regular holiday so, thank goodness I don't have to study for Human Rights, yet.

Agenda for the next few days:

Study for Criminal Procedure

Study and write notes for ATAP

Attend ATAP class

Study and write notes for Credit Transactions

Quote of the day:

Day 002 of 131 //

Today, I:

Attended Criminal Procedure class [no professor yet]

Scanned an old ass book for my girlfriend's Conflict of Laws class [they were allowed to because the library has limited copies and it's no longer available in market]

And as I scan the book, I came across the page above. Handwriting suggests that there were three different people who wrote therein, probably in three different times. Who knows? I know that was considered defacing since the book was school's property, but the message got me. It's written in Filipino (with enclosed rough translation) Thus, our—

Quote of the day:

"kamusta ka naman?"

How are you?

"ok lng ikaw?"

I'm fine, and you?

"oo. Ikaw din sana. Magiging abogado ka, kapit lang. :)"

Days 017, 018, 019 & 020 of 131 //

The past few days I:

Studied for Human Rights

Wrote case digests for CrimPro

Studied for Agency, Trust & Partnership

Attended ATAP class

Rearranged stuff in our room

Studied for Credit Transactions

I was unable to attend my HR class and that marked my first absent for this semester. To be honest, I was feeling down and I'm just recently getting my groove back. Law school is already hard as it is but even more difficult when things take its toll on you.