I’ve discovered that law school has started me on a deadly routine:

(An ordinary law school weekday)

• 6:00AM: My first alarm rings. My first alarm is usually a party song. Currently, it’s Freeze by Chris Brown and T-Pain. I wake up. Fighting the urge to lie back down, I pray, get up and go to the bathroom. I turn my laptop on and read the emails I missed last night.
• 7:00AM: My second alarm rings at 7AM. It’s usually a mellow, sunny song. Currently, it’s Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles. It just somehow cheers me up. If I’m still sleepy sometime during these hours (practically everytime), I ask for coffee. Then, I just study non-stop. I do have occasional Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds break. I’m very productive in the morning. Focus and concentration is usually in the zone. My brain actually works like a sponge until I get distracted by the internet.
• 10:30AM: I eat my breakfast/lunch (aka brunch). It’s usually pretty heavy or most of the time fattening because I really mix breakfast food with lunch. Haha. Like fruit, all sorts of bread and ulam. Yeah. I won’t be eating till after class, so I need brain...

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I have a new life right now that is temporarily devoid of idle time. This is not to say that I will be on hiatus. Mostly just to forewarn people of the life ahead of me. It is quite exciting to know how the next few years will change me. I say that because I believe in change and change in people.

A day or two into it, I already am starting to see things differently. I pray for continued strength, vigilance and clarity, as the world is also trying to compete with rest of life’s complexities.

Till then, I can’t wait to share it with you all. If you want to know what’s been happening to me, follow me on Twitter.

Watching a bunch of series and season finales are making me quite emotional right now. But good thing Friday5 does help me keep this blog alive. I know it’s a Saturday here, but this is a pretty good set.

1. What kind of out-of-school lessons did you take as a kid?
Fortunately, I really think I had a great childhood. For one, I wasn’t deprived of it. I was sort of spoiled back then, being the eldest. As a kid, I was really the prim and proper kind, without compromising my love for attention and performing. Go figure. I think one of those out-of-school lessons from my childhood that really remains would be to be grateful and humble for what you have and who you are.
2. What valuable lesson did you learn this past week?
Because I’ve been hanging out a lot with my best friends and my sisters during the week, I would say a deep sense of appreciation and content. They have shown me that they will always be there for me. Another lesson would be perhaps being honest with myself. I need to face my issues, problems and slowly deal with them.
3. Who in your life really needs to be taught...

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I guess the extra time at home was just what I need for me to give this place a complete overhaul. Contrary to what I usually do, I figured I’d try the minimalist approach. And here it is. (The link is for my facebook friends. This blog is imported to my Facebook Notes.) I really, really like it a lot. I know it looks very simple, but coding everything is definitely harder than it looks. I also got the movie weblog back and I will try to update it as much as I can.

I spend a lot of my days lately thinking about law school, my other plans in between, after or who knows when. It’s quite exhausting emotionally because reality does hit hard and I can’t help but start worrying about things I know I should stop worrying about. Good thing I’m not going through it alone. There is indeed joy in sharing it with my closest friends under light-hearted and scrumptious circumstances. haha! Thank you Facebook for making it easier for us to plan our sporadic get-togethers!

Here’s this week’s Friday 5:

• Which of your friends is the most frugal?
Oh no! I have a...

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Just got back from my trip down south…. way south… as in Mindanao south. Since we go there practically every year, it’s really more like going back home to relax and unwind. One of the good things about the trip was enjoying the sunny weather as opposed to the storms that raged Luzon. Thank God we arrived back here under sunny skies and intense heat. Oh Philippine weather, why must you wreak havoc into our summer lives?

I’m glad to be home though. I’m currently catching up on more than a week’s worth of missed episodes. All throughout my marathons, I kept thinking about law school and the next years ahead. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again that I have reconciled with devoting the 5 years in the pursuit of this dream. Or have I really? BOOO.

I can’t believe that all of a sudden there’s this creeping sense of some unsettling indescribable feeling that bothers me. Go figure. That somehow I fear that I won’t have time for things that I’ve always dreamed of doing before I ‘settle.’ Some kind of bucket list that I’ve always held on to back when I was a wide-eyed teenager thriving...

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