Will never wane… =)

These past few weeks have been super busy for me-work and school. I don’t even have time to answer text messages or even delete emails in my yahoo account.

fellow reporters and our editor...at our office

fellow reporters and our editor...at our office

Most of the time, I arrive home so tired -eyes itchy, back aching, sleepy and/or hungry, I, myself even wonder how i managed to squeeze in my readings for school and how I still manage to laugh and smile despite the pressures at work and school (due to fire-breathing professors).

BarOps executive committee and our barristers

BarOps executive committee and our barristers

Life has many things to offer. Often times, it comes to us in disguise. We think this is what we want and yet, at the back of our mind, we yearn for something else. You pursue, fight for things, believing it is the thing that you have been looking for and yet, you realized there are more than what we see.

“More than meets the eye,” as the Transformer’s famous quote say.

Anyway, tiring as it seems, as long as I am with people I love and I am surrounded by the people who loves me, no complains.

Office photo =)

Office photo =)

This tiring feeling can just leave me. I can take a rest (sleep, eat, surf the net, listen to music etc.) but a happy heart will stay..it is priceless and will never wane… :-) :-) :-)

with the BarOps director

with the BarOps director

NOTE: Had a great day today in school…i love saturdays hehehe :-D

Be careful…comforting quote…guide

Karma, ahhh. We sow what we reap…We reap what we sow! We reap what we sow. The law of cause and effect. And we are all under this law!”

– Nina Hagen-

Section 6…emoting…

Sometimes, I stop and ask: What am I doing?

Many people who know me are asking why do I still have to make my life difficult by entering in law school when I have what I want-a good job, good life which everyone is still dreaming to have.

Perhaps its the dream. Becoming a lawyer is a childhood dream and my dad’s dream of being able to produce the first lawyer in the family. But even my mom who understands how important this is, would seem perfectly fine if I will just quit.

Should I stay or go? I am almost at the end of the road and close to the biggest barrier of all: the Bar exams. Just thinking about it makes me scared like sh@t! I am still testing with destiny. Waiting…but am working on my dream as well…

Gosh, emoting at this time. Its only 4:45 a.m. Maybe this is just because I am having difficulty sinking into my system section 6 of the Corporation Code? :-( hmmmmmm….

Message from God…

I just so love this “Message from God” that I got via Facebook…

On this day of your life, Tere, we believe God wants you to know…
… that happiness has nothing to do with pleasure.

You feel pleasure when you want something and you get it. Or when you don’t want something and you remove it. Pleasure is always relative. Happiness is absolute. Happiness is the understanding and acceptance of life as it is in this very moment as completely perfect, because every creation of God is perfect. The degree to which you do not accept life in all of the Divine forms is the degree to which you suffer.

More tiny bits of info…

* Bomb scare at the Office of the Ombudsman…I wonder who is behind that. Operations at the Office of the Ombudsman yesterday was temporarily halted after an official received a text message that a bomb has been planted near Ombudsman Merceditas’ Gutierrez’ office. Many people believe that this is just a big ploy by the government…Whatever that is, Office of the Ombudsman is one building that is so hard to get on due to super tight security…whoever sent that message…hmmm…sneaky…sneaky.

* Congratulations to our new sisses…PI SIGMA DELTA LIVES ON…Keep the fire burning.. :-)

* Our Bar Operations adviser said if you are to take the Bar examination, better collect goodwill… the last thing we want is karmi martin lurking our heads.

tidbits…

Dr. Hayden Kho, in an interview said he is happy that Katrina Halili and Maricar Reyes were able to bounce back and now have flourishing careers.

Well, am not surprised. These two are just among his victims and because of what happened to them, they were blessed. As to him, he said since he believed it would be hard for him to still practice medicine, he wanted to study again. He said he wanted to study law….
The standard question in law school during the opening of classes: Why do you want to be a lawyer? To understand RA 9262 better? :p

Quotest to Live By…

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing…”

-Optimus Prime-

Beauty tips…echos!

This is not an article about beauty tips per se. Actually not the type that would give you tips on how to be glamorous or fabulous or popular. ;-) Some people who would read probably would even have violent reaction about why an old ugly hag (pangit na matandang girl quoting my 2008 stalker) would write an article about beauty.

Anyway, I went to my derma a few weeks back, I have this skin problem. Actually, my friends jokingly call me galisin because of the abrasions in my arms and legs. I also feel itchy at times. And so, I went to see a dermatologist who said that my skin is thin and sensitive.  She gave some advise and gave me something to take and to put on my skin.

Here are her instructions:

1. She told me to avoid scrubbing. She said its the main reason why my skin got thinner and sensitive.

2. She said I should avoid colored soaps. I should only use white soaps. She said the one I use (Pure Essentials, Dove, Olay) are okey.

3. She said I should only use odorless lotions. She stopped me from using anti-mosquito lotion, sunblock and my usual lotion. Instead, she told me to use an odorless ultra healing lotion which I should apply as often as possible.

4. She prohibited me from using perfume :( well, at least for the time being…a month to be exact.

5. She told me to carry petroleum jelly with me always so that I could put it on the itchy part of my skin.

6. Of course, she told me to avoid scratching, rubbing my itchy skin.

Its amazing. Barely three weeks and you can hardly see the galis hehehe…One thing though, I have to forego plans of a body scrub, well, probably a good spa or massage will do and paraffin for my arms and legs…

Ruby Rose Barrameda’s husband tagged in death

By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 19:40:00 06/26/2009

The Barramedas (from left to right) Roberto, father of Ruby Rose, her mother Asuncion, sister and former beauty queen Rochelle Barrameda and husband Jimuel Stevens attend the first preliminary investigation on the murder complaint they filed against Ruby Rose's father-in-law and several others. TETCH TORRES

The Barramedas (from left to right) Roberto, father of Ruby Rose, her mother Asuncion, sister and former beauty queen Rochelle Barrameda and husband Jimuel Stevens attend the first preliminary investigation on the murder complaint they filed against Ruby Rose's father-in-law and several others. TETCH TORRES

MANILA, Philippines – The husband of Ruby Rose Barrameda has been included in the murder complaint filed by her

Manuel Montero, the key witness in the death of Ruby Rose Barrameda swore on his statement before the Department of Justice panel of in which he identified Barrameda's father-in-law and her husband as having known of the plan to kill her. He was responsible for the recovery of the body of Ruby Rose two years after she went missing. TETCH TORRES

Manuel Montero, the key witness in the death of Ruby Rose Barrameda swore on his statement before the Department of Justice panel of in which he identified Barrameda's father-in-law and her husband as having known of the plan to kill her. He was responsible for the recovery of the body of Ruby Rose two years after she went missing. TETCH TORRES

family against several suspects after a witness confirmed that the husband knew of the plan to kill his wife.

In Friday’s preliminary investigation, Ruby Rose’s father Roberto Barrameda said Manuel Jimenez III should be included in the case, saying he was identified as having known of his daughter’s death.

Barrameda referred to the supplemental affidavit of Manuel Montero who confirmed that it was not only his daughter’s father-in-law, Manuel Jimenez II, and his brother Lope Jimenez who knew of the killing.

“I asked Spyke who he was talking to and what they were talking about. Spyke answered that I would be given a bonus by Third if his problem would be resolved,” Montero said.

“You mean to say Manuel Jimenez III knew what happened to Ruby Rose?” Senior Police Officer 1 Bonifacio Lapuz asked Montero in Filipino.

Montero said, “Yes because Spyke told me that Manuel Jimenez III was the person he talked to on the cellphone.”

Montero added that Lope Jimenez even wanted the other respondents – Eric Fernandez, Spyke Discalzo, Robert Ponce alias Abet – to rape Ruby Rose but that he told them not to.

“I disagreed and I said no to Lope Jimenez because she was the wife of his nephew Manuel Jimenez III,” said Montero.

The Jimenezes failed to appear before the Department of Justice investigating body, led by Senior State Prosecutor Theodore Villanueva.

The Jimenezes counsel Mario Aguinaldo said his clients did not receive any subpoena from the DoJ.

But Villanueva said the DoJ’s server was refused entry at the house of Manuel Jimenez II.

The investigating body gave all the respondents until July 13 to submit their counter affidavit and supporting evidence.

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Belo, co-accused maintain innocence

By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 17:04:00 06/25/2009

MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE) Cosmetic doctor Mari Victoria Belo Henares, popularly known as Vicki Belo, and her

Hayden's three other co-accused (from left to right) Chua, Velasco, Bistek

Hayden's three other co-accused (from left to right) Chua, Velasco, Bistek

co-accused in the sex video scandal on Thursday asked the Department of Justice to drop the charges against them.

In her counter-affidavit, Belo maintained her innocence, saying she had no hand in the spread of the videos of her estranged lover Hayden Kho on the Internet.

Belo said her instruction on December 9, 2008 to co-respondents Eric Johnston Chua and Dr. Mark Herbert “Bistek” Rosario was clear: destroy the videos.

She said she gave them the keys to Kho’s apartment to retrieve the computer containing the videos. But the computer was password protected and they could not access the files, Belo said.

At this stage, Belo said Chua told her he could find someone who could help override the password.

But she said three days after she gave them the keys on December 12, Chua came and handed in a DVD copy of Kho’s steamy trysts with actress Katrina Halili and other female celebrities.

“Ayan regalo ko sa iyo,” Belo said, quoting Chua. She said she got mad at him, as witnessed by her companions, co-respondent Princess Velasco and witness Jacqueline Thng.

Rosario, Velasco, and Chua also submitted their counter-affidavits, saying they too should not be held liable for violation of Republic 9262 or the Anti-Violence Against Womens Act.

Chua belied Belo’s claims she did not know the password, adding Belo was also present when the sex files were retrieved.

Rosario, meanwhile, said he merely helped get the computer and the video files on the request of Belo.

“My mere alleged failure to report or disclose to complainant Halili or to the authorities my knowledge of the existence of her sex videos with respondent Hayden is, by itself, totally insufficient to charge me as accessory,” Rosario said.

“I did not profit or assist respondent Kho to profit from his video-recording of his sexual relations with complainant Halili,” he added.

“I did not conceal or destroy the body of the crime as I did not have a participation beyond retrieving the laptop computers and external hard drives as per request of respondent Dr. Belo,” Rosario said.

Rosario also defended Chua, saying he could not have possibly met Belo on December 12 as alleged by the beauty doctor.

“If only to clarify one point: on the night of December 12, 2008, respondent Princess and I had dinner with respondent Dr. Belo and Ms. Jacqueline Thng at the Silk Restaurant at Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City. Respondent Chua was not there,” Rosario said.

“I certainly do not recall him showing up at Silk restaurant or outside thereof after our dinner. Rather we met up with respondent Chua at Rockwell, Makati that evening as we watched a movie there together,” he added.

The DoJ panel chaired by Olongapo City Prosecutor Emelie Fe Delos Santos gave the respondents until July 7 to submit a rejoinder. A clarificatory hearing will be conducted on July 14 while Halili has up to July 30 to submit a reply.

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