I'm Back!!!

After years of being inactive, I've decided (finally) to write again. It's been two years. Really? it felt longer. So I shall start to write again, not only for you strangers who read my blog, but for me as well. I have so many pent-up rants in me that I just have to let go, regardless if there is someone reading this or none. I am to educate primarily myself. But if you learn something in the process, that's two claps for me! So off I go (it's 11AM on my watch and it is a work day and I do have work to do, being a lawyer and all)! xoxo

on to the next adventure!

a long and winding chapter of my life has come to a close, and although i had no intention of including my professional life with it, events have made me contemplate on including this aspect as well.

i love my job. and i love the people i work with. the pay is quite good, the benefits are even better. and the perks that go with working for a big firm that is an affiliate of a global organization satisfy the ego once in a while *wink*.

but there are things in life that even the promise of a corner office in a skyscraper can never replace. or a big fat paycheck for that matter -- although, i have to admit, it really is a hard lump to swallow.

time for yourself and for your family. the chance to explore the opportunities that are now available to me upon becoming a lawyer. the joy of finally having the time to go back to my childhood passion -- painting, drawing, and crafts -- and probably earn something from it. the time to finally get the time to write and write well based on my thoughts, my words, my style. and hopefully finding an audience that will appreciate my writing.

life is never easy. so no matter what i do, where and who i work for, life will never be served on a silver platter. so i might as well work while i live. because i was given life to appreciate God's gifts -- family, loved ones, friends, my skills and talents, the beauty of the world around me -- it is my obligation to make sure that these gifts are nurtured and cherished. i will not have life just pass me by.

i do not pretend that it will be easy. letting go of the salary and benefits i receive is no joke. but God has His surprises. all the years of my life i have trusted Him on everything, why would He fail me now?

my corner area will be missed, my friends, my happy moments, and yes, my paycheck. but i look forward to the challenges and the opportunities to work, play and live!

can't wait to draw once again :)

naivety

by now, i guess everyone knows what happened in Maguindanao.

I am still shocked -- more than from the shock by what happened, really -- how naive i am. I still cannot understand, I cannot comprehend, how anyone can be so heartless, so barbaric, as to even think of hurting anyone -- let alone kill in broad daylight -- for power and politics.

i have always believed that people who make life hell for someone are insecure and sad. they make other people's lives difficult -- whether deliberately or not -- because they want to let go of their inadequacies to those who they think have what they don't.

and i guess the masterminds of this atrocity is, to put it in simple terms, are really insecure and lead sad sad lives. they have nothing else to be proud of save for their money and clout. and it appears they know that they can't hold on it forever, so they're willing to do ANYTHING just to make sure they cling to it as long as they can.

pathetic. pathetic!!!!

HAH!

welcome!

chances are, you are a member or a visitor of www.phbar.org. because that will be the only reason for you to get wind of this blog.

i created this site purely for the purpose of having myself included in the phbar's blogroll. why? because the idea of being included is very exciting to me. exciting, yet scary. because the other blogs are owned by some of the heavyweights and soon-to-be heavyweights of the legal profession.

so effectively, i took this as a challenge -- to finally have a blog where i write something sensible.

but exclude this entry for the meantime. i'll start writing sensibly tomorrow :)