early-morning-post-somnabulism-musing

for days since the results of the october 2006 board examinations came out, i have been feeling a lil bit sick about not passing it the last time i took it. i am happy fo rthose who passed the board because i know how it takes to get there and how much one has to exert to live with the pressure of expectations by the school, the family and your own expectation for a better result. however, i cannot help not to envy them because i too wanted to experience how it feels like being congratulated for a job well done. i have told myself, even before i graduated in college, that i will never practice my accountancy profession because i am fit for other tasks, but i never said that i did not want to pass the board exams. those are two different endeavors, the former being based on practicality and sense of worthwhile activity, the latter being purely based on pride and ego. i guess my friend is correct when she told that moving does not end until the what if is answered and the unfinished business is done.

but when i woke up this morning after surfing the net last night i had a reaffirmation that the board exams is not the only venue where i can prove myself worth. indeed i never really loved the profession and i refuse to be deifined by that two-week long exam. i am good in law, i know i am. this time around i can say that what i am doing is fulfilling and that i no longer feel being dug deep in boredom. law - this is where i am going to prove myself worthy of being congratulated.

this one goes to the state

you do not force a revolution over a society as malleable as a solid rock.

sometimes, i tend to ask myself the sense of the fightings between those who believe in the government and those who has other form of government in mind. communism is too passé, utopia is too good to be true, stalinism, maoism, huh! no comment. i observed that the ideology of those in the countryside is no longer as pure as that of those who started the movement. now, more than any time, the revolution is already tainted by personal desire to survive, not basically give power to the people and partition equally the wealth of the nation.

the problem with those in the other side of republicanism and democracy, is that they do not see the reality that the time is no longer as ripe for whatever ideology they have. the Filipino people will simply not heed to their of government, the Filipino are just too stubborn and adamant about change, perhaps, them included.

the root of all these hostilities lies simply on the simple fact there are poor who do not get to have a decent education, lest, food in their stomach all day. but the trend of the time should no longer be a top-down system. time changes and what progress in this country demands is not unity, for it really does not and will not exist, but rather cooperation. it is that simple, do not trivialize it by political ideologies, which, only few of them who are in the left, espouses by heart.

this one goes for the left

tell me, who have to the grave and describe how death feels like? is it painful, glorifying, or worth it?

one time, daisy and i were talking about the reality of the mindanao that i have learned. after that, it dawned on me that these men of the left have been fighting for decades for the truth that their ideology dictates. too many of them have died in the mercy of the gun, thinking that in their death there would be peace, and there would be surrender.

but there is not going to be any, because the problem insurgency, the rift among the social democrats, the national democrats, and those that are trapped in between, goes deeper than what meets the eye and what dictates the senses.

there is revolution everywhere poverty resides. it does not begin to thrive in the minds of the socialists and spreads like fire, but rather begins to thrive in the stomachs of the starving and spreads like fire among those who are equally hungry. there is revolution because there is a weak among us and because man is born devoid of equality.

the state may kill them all, the state may overrun their camps, but the revolution will prosper because they can kill a ka roger, but there will always be a ka roger who rise out of hunger and hold arms. the solution to this problem lies not on how many bullets may be fired to end the fightings that are seemingly devoid of any destination, but rather on the hands of the equally able feeder of the people who stares death by poverty and laughs at its ugly face.

this one goes for the left

tell me, who have to the grave and describe how death feels like? is it painful, glorifying, or worth it?

one time, daisy and i were talking about the reality of the mindanao that i have learned. after that, it dawned on me that these men of the left have been fighting for decades for the truth that their ideology dictates. too many of them have died in the mercy of the gun, thinking that in their death there would be peace, and there would be surrender.

but there is not going to be any, because the problem insurgency, the rift among the social democrats, the national democrats, and those that are trapped in between, goes deeper than what meets the eye and what dictates the senses.

there is revolution everywhere poverty resides. it does not begin to thrive in the minds of the socialists and spreads like fire, but rather begins to thrive in the stomachs of the starving and spreads like fire among those who are equally hungry. there is revolution because there is a weak among us and because man is born devoid of equallity.

the state may kill them all, the state may overrun their camps, but the revolution will prosper because they can kill a ka roger, but there will always be a ka roger who rise out of hunger and hold arms. the solution to this problem lies not on how many bullets may be fired to end the fightings that are seemingly devoid of any destination, but rather on the hands of the equally able feeder of the people who stares death by poverty and laughs at its ugly face.

sick of the time 2

there are so many silliness going on in this country right now. i never had the chance to write about it since i had my hands filled with legal readings. now that i have been given this much needed break, i think its high time to vent some frustration or reaction, whichever way you might want to call it, on some reasons why we are asia's sickest nation.

leak on me

whoever said that cheating is good? stupid! when i was in high school, the current policy then was, whenever a leak in the examinations is discovered and proven, there are two option of actions to be undertaken: one, is for the responsible of the leakage and those who benefited from it to be reprimanded by a failing grade in that examination and other disciplinary sanctions, and two, in the event that the culprits are unknown and that the administration has no other way to positively pin point who they are, the whole class will suffer with a retake of the entire leaked examination.

if in the secondary level setting, the innocence of those who did not benefit from the leakage is dispensable, then why not in the nursing board setting, wherein the stakes are higher? those who oppose the retake of the entire examination on account of innocence are STUPID! first, there has been a leakage in nursing board exams but it cannot be ascertained who benefited from it because, hell, there are too many of them! who knows if each and every passers of that darn 2006 examination never really benefited from the leak? hey, no crook will never confess that he is such a crook. second, the stakes are high in this hullabaloo. they are going to be certified by the government. they are going to be the ones that the sick ones are going to entrust their lives on; they are going to be the ones who will forever carry the dignity of the nursing profession; and if ever they are bound to some other country, they are going to the be the ones who will carry the dignity of the Philippines, the Philippine nursing education, the Philippine nursing profession. with such doubt on their eligibility, it is but proper for them to undergo the retake. stupid! third, they cannot contend that they are fighting for their rights to be certified by the governement. just like in the legal profession, certification by the government is not a matter of right, but rather of privilege to those who are qualified (In re: Lanuevo). the problem is, who among those board passers did and did not benefit from such leak? nobody knows! they are not being deprived of the equal protection of the law since, they as a whole class of nursing examinees are being reprimanded! again, they cannot claim their right to be certified. in the constitution, people's rights are dispensable in a state's valid exercise of police power, and i think that the stigma of the leakage is enough to justify the action of curtailing such right until the doubts have been cleared.

they should not give litanies of grief in reviewing for another examinations because the government is not ready to dispense with the public welfare and interest over some people's miseries. if they really had passed the board examinations fair and square, what else can hinder them from passing it the second time around? it is that simple stupid!

by the power of a TRO

it has been my way to catch the night news after a days work, and when i got home one night, i saw makati mayor jejomar binay running towards the city hall building wearing an upper-garment of the Philippine army. he was trying to elude the suspension order levied against him by the DILG.

first of, i think its a bit fishy that the government is so hell bent on suspending local government officials. whether the government has basis to do so, i still cannot reconcile with the fact that only those local government officials who are part of the opposition, are the ones on the chopping board. oh c'mon, don't tell me that all of the officials coming from the ruling party are clean? you gotta be kidding my puny ass!

second, although the intention was doubtful, still i think, in the case of binay, the government has legal basis to do so! duh! he was being charged of having ghost employees in his watch and yet the binay group is telling that such suspension is totally unfair? yeah, the group is correct that the DILG does not have a more concrete evidence of such allegation, but it can never be said that they totally are powerless with such evidences. that is why mayor is being suspended preventively by the DILG, for the latter to be able to conduct investigation over the matter. that is the purpose of the preventive suspension levied against binay. it is not, in any way, a form of penalty, but rather, a way for the government to be able to investigate over the matter, without the local government meddling on their way. and whatever the DILG can come up with, such will be used to decide whether to impose penalty over binay.

i think that the preventive suspension order is lawful and has undergone the proper proceedings. in my opinion, it is the way of the law to clear som controversies that hounds the administration of binay. i find it quite stupid that the law is always being dispensed off with. no one is above the law (Lukban vs. Villavicencio), and i find it utterly disgusting that there are people who are fighting the present governement for breaking the law, and yet they cannot submit themselves into a proper proceeding enunciated in the law itself. oh c'mon you guys, the law is absolute and not relative!

writing never wanted me back

finally, after barely two months of hiatus, i get the chance to write something way off the legalese paradigm.

first off, i do not like the way i write. it has been this way since i stepped out of college, consequently out of the college paper. i am a failure in my conscious struggle to reinvent the way i write. as i have said, the old style is passé and devoid of whatever juice of creativity i can muster. but i cannot seem to develop a better one. it is correct when people say that you write what you read, and i do not like it since most of the material i read are all about the law and judicial decisions, and a lil thing they call fhm, on the side. there was this assignment in my legal research class wherein we were tasked to make a pleading of dismissal on the case that was given to us. basically the case was about two consenting heterosexual adults. the guy seduced the woman with marriage to get his way to her thingy. i defended the guy and much to my dismay, my arguments were this way:

"it is quite impossible to believe that a woman as bright and intelligent as the plaintiff is easily fooled by the defendant. i say that she is intelligent enough that she consented herself to undergo such misery. volenti non fit injuria excuses my client from moral damages arising from contra bonus mores simply because the plaintiff consented to the carnal knowledge. and who knows, SHE MIGHT LOVE THE STEAMY NIGHT OF SPIT AND JUICE SWAPPING"

gees, talk about being FHMish in my formal legal pleading.

perhaps ill stick with old self

updates are about to come... after my finals!!!!!