Going Back to Law School

I am so determined to go back to school this first semester. Going back has never been as exciting as this one. I have been away for so many years. The thought of once again memorizing provisions will surely be a welcome addition to my seemingly routine life - house, work then house and work again, sleep, eat, and sleep and eat again - nothing extra ordinary. It has become so boring. Love life is boring not that I am complaining it’s just that it’s not as interesting as it used to be. Sex life? Goodness! When was the last time I really sweat? I can’t even recall. The only consolation will probably be my work because I am kind of enjoying it. There is a perfect balance in it. It requires a lot of thinking which I really need getting used to.(-: 90% less customer contact and more independence. Thus, school is something that will spice up my life more. As I said it’s a welcome addition. It’s hard to be not in school. If only I could just study forever, of course with lots of money to support me, I would have.
Meeting thinking people, reading law books, encountering exciting professors, meeting deadlines, taking extremely long and nosebleed-exams are things I am missing. Standing up with almost nothing to say bec you’re so damned scared not knowing what sort of questions will be asked and the most important thing of all what possible answers can you scout from the recesses of your mind and translate them into mature, lawyer-like phrases…Gosh! Scary? Definitely. Exciting? You bet. I remembered vividly when I was in one of my classes way back 2002 (I know. I told you it’s been awhile) She was kind enough to allow me to read the provision. Thinking that it was the only thing she’d like me to do, I stood up with no hesitation and I must say I read the provision with eloquence and with my undying unique accent but guess what after the reading there was a question- a difficult one. I never expected it. I thought she was just missing my reading skills (just kidding). I love situations, scenarios, cases and the like but dude that day I surely wasn’t loving it. I can’t remember anything. My spirit went somewhere else and so she asked me again to read a line from the same provision and this time I could even barely read. I was no better than a 5th grader. My accent was gone. (-: And by the way, she flunked me that semester. She must have been very disappointed bec she was the type who doesn’t really fail students unless they’ll force her to. That will give you a glimpse of how I probably looked like that day in her classroom. I missed it. Weird huh but I really missed it. The sudden gush of blood from your heart going straight to your head that renders you oblivious for awhile, others call it adrenaline rush, I call it torture and bliss. (-: I am so excited. FEU, here I come.

The Inquisitorial Power of the Philippine Congress

Sec. 21, Art VI, of the Phil Constitution states, ” The Senate or the House of Representatives or any of its respective committees may conduct inquiries in aid of legislation in accordance with its duly published rules of procedure. The rights of persons appearing in or affected by such inquiries shall be respected.”
The above provision clearly states the basis of Congress in conducting investigations, and the same provision provides the limitations in the execise of such power. Congress, specifically the Senate, has been very busy conducting hearings. Almost every month, the Senate opens an investigations in almost everything under the sun or I should say where there is a lot of media coverage (Look at Mar. He is everywhere with this Legacy scam. Why? Obviously bec as early as 2008, he’s already declared his candidacy for the Presidency though vicariously. The nerve).

A reasonable man would even think that the Senate has now become the Dept of Justice, PNP and the Court all at the same time. Out of the hundreds of investigations that the Senate has conducted, how many of them have been translated into laws or better yet has there been any conclusion to all of these hearings at all? What has happened to the ZTE scandal and fertilizer fund inquiries to mention a few?! And now this Legacy scam? Is there even an end to all of these? Certainly this is not what I imagined where my taxes would go. It wouldn’t hurt if there’s even a single law enacted after the hearings but there’s none. This is no longer in aid of legislation but in aid of publication.