Ceso moonlights in the daytime.

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Bababaero, bababaero

Na-meet ko si Randy Santiago today. And no, I did not have my pic taken with him. I don’t like him that way.

117 or 171?

I decided to follow-up on my request re our DSL service at home.

I dial 117 and am surprised at the immediate pick-up and the voice inquiring how she can help me. I was taken aback and so I asked, “PLDT ba ito?” The voice on the line replied, “Hindi ko ma’am. 117 police assistance.” “Oh!” I apologized and put the phone down.

I dial 171 instead and the familiar male voice with the familiar litany of choices come on the line. Now, that’s more like it.

Miu Miu

Can’t stop thinking about the maroon Miu Miu glasses na nakita ko kanina. Ang ganda niya. I think it will make me look younger. Kaya lang, I am a bit concerned that it’s too hip and that it might be appropriate to wear for a hearing. Should I get it? Oh, what to do?

Time management

Resolved to be more organized in my life. Now tracking how I spend my money and also making an effort to be more conscious of time. Tama naman yung sinabi ni Randy Pausch: Kailangan maging conscious ka that you don’t waste time. Money, you can always earn back. Pero time is finite and, once lost, hindi mo na mababawi. Scary stuff.

Ang problema lang eh pupunta na naman bukas si Mr. Lee sa office. Ubos oras pag nandoon siya. He does not leave until after you finish whatever it is that he thinks up to ask you to do. Buti sana kung siya lang ang client ko. Eh lahat ng client pakiramdam nila rush ang pinapagawa nila. Sa TV sobrang glamorous ang lawyering pero sa totoong buhay eh glorified alila ka at dumpee of other people’s problems.

Sunday and my shitty bangs

Finally finished Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture. At napaliguan ko na rin si Georgie kahit na galit na galit siya.

Spent the whole day in bed, alternately watching videos online and reading the book. Ibig sabihin, I was reading the book while waiting for the video to load.

My hands invariably stray to my bangs. Nakakainis talaga yung ginawa nung bading sa bangs ko. Sabi ko na nga ba. I should stay away permanently from cheap parlors. Kaso, nanghinayang naman ako magpunta dun sa Korean salon, or even yung mga nasa malls just so my bangs could be snipped a bit. Parang nakakahinayang naman magbayad ng hundreds of pesos para lang umikli ng less than one centimeter ang bangs ko. But now, I will have to suffer getting irked everytime na humarap ako sa salamin. I may as well put a clip on my bangs at antayin na humaba nang kaunti. I can’t even get it fixed kasi sobrang ikli na pag nagkataon.

From now on, I promise not to be cheap about things like haircuts.

The judge that = Evil.

Markk wanted me to attend a hearing for him on Monday. He will be in Bangkok kasi this weekend until early next week. Hindi pa ako umo-oo and he was trying to get me to agree by saying how simple the hearing was going to be dahil hearing on the motion lang naman raw. So I cut him short and said, “Markk, alam mo naman kung ano ang pinakaimportanteng question sa akin eh.” He goes, “Ano?” Me: “Magkano?” Sabi niya, “Eh di ganon pa rin sa dati.”

I was about to say na pag-iisipan ko muna. And then I asked him, “Sinong judge?”

Markk: “Kay Regala.”

Me: “Ay! No, thanks. Wag na lang.”

Most lawyers are familiar with this equation: Regala = Evil.

And I can get away with blogging about this kasi wala pa naman ako case pending sa sala niya. Let’s hope that things remain thus for a very, very long time.

Feng Shui

Kahapon ng umagang-umaga, before I was even in the office, my client arrived. He was adamant na kahapon na namin i-file yung GIS. You know why? Apparently, he consulted a feng shui expert at ang sabi ni feng shui expert sa kanya na until yesterday lang ang auspicious time for him to file the GIS sa SEC.

You really do meet all sorts of people in this profession.

Another hearing in another court...

Ang swerte ko naman kanina.

I was a bit nervous waiting for the judge today. Pretrial na kasi and, although I prepared a Pretrial Brief, I wasn’t going to submit it dahil balak namin mag-amend ng Answer. Then, since yung authorized signatory of our client corporations is still abroad and coming back in September pa, I was also about to ask the judge for a period of one month (!) within which to file the Amended Answer. Usually, you’re allowed extensions of time na 10 to 15 days. But one month? Hindi ko pa nagagawa na humingi ng extra one month to file  anything.

So I was nervous. I hadn’t met the judge yet as this was the first hearing for the case. Kung strict si judge, siguradong hindi maga-grant yung motion ko. Kung evil si judge, malamang pagagalitan pa niya ako.

Buti na lang, mabait si judge. She struck me as nice and motherly.

Buti na lang din at yung opposing counsel ko was still stuck in traffic and failed to make it on time sa court. Apparently, she called the court earlier to request for a second call. Pero by the time na maalala ni clerk of court na nagpasecond call si opposing counsel, I had said my piece and judge was about 75% inclined to grant it. So when the clerk informed the judge of the request for second call, sabi ni judge na alangan naman raw pag-antayin ako.

So ang ending? Malamang surprised si opposing counsel that I got away with what I got away with. Sometimes talaga sinuswerte ako.