9 months or so...

NO! I didnt go and have a baby in the 9 months I've been away...I just got too caught up with living in the real world that I (almost) forgot that I have a blog. I spent the first trimester and a month reading, reading, and reading still; trying to jog my memory of four year's worth of law school lessons in order that I wont be a complete DUH when I take the BAR exams. It was stressful but thank God, I can strive on stress! Would you believe I didn't have a pimple breakout during those times? And when the Sundays came, it just felt like I was taking a finals final! Oh, don't take it that I'm overly confident about the results. I'm just saying it as I felt it back then. Looking back now, it was actually fun being with equally neurotic friends in one hotel and still be able to laugh your way through the stress. I guess that's what made the BAR bearable!

Greekie! Ms. Stewart!Smung! Love you guys!!!

The last month of the second trimester was spent in my father's province with yours truly trying her hand at being a shana! I didn't get to ride any carabaos and whatnot's but I did get to trek through rice fields, hills, cross two rivers and ride a banca almost to the open sea. When I first went there, I thought I'd go crazy with just doing nothing, thinking that they wouldn't even have televisin signals but lo and behold! They have sattelite and cable tv! So I spent most of my days glued in front of the tv and discovered Wowowee and Boom tarat tarat (it was a case of "if you cant beat 'em, join 'em thing) ! I had my fill of seafoods, particularly crabs and clams (yum). Good thing that the quickest means of transportation there was by walking. Otherwise, I could have just floated back to Manila.

Bumming months is what I'd like to call the last trimester. I spent most of it on my back watching DVDs I bought from Quiapo. If not that, I'd be going on thrift shopping sprees in the melee of Divisoria. Then I'd have occassional meals with my friends, both from high school (that would extend to sleepovers) and law school (odeng! sam gyulp...oh something! its so hard to pronounce that korean dish we had! and of course Haute Bangers!). But bumming was fun only until you have people to bum along with and before you bum funds run critically low. To remedy the situation, I started the New Year job hunting along with my former bumming buddies.

...What happened to our jaunt is so interesting, at least from my perspective that is, that I feel it deserves another post altogether...