Gnothi Se Auton

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Gill just texted me that Fall Out Boy will be having a concert here on September 21. Initial whee! was replaced by nOOOOO when I realized that it will be on a Friday before the last Bar weekend. If I go, I would be the craziest person ever. Well, the craziest person who's going to take the Bar exam this year anyway. So yeah, will probably be missing that. Darn it. Guess will just have to ask brothers to tell me how it goes.

Spent most of the weekend not studying for the Bar. Instead, finally got around to watching my Veronica Mars dvds...well, not really watched. More skimmed and stopped at the Logan-Veronica parts. And read LoVe fanfics. And watched LoVe videos. Should I feel guilty about not feeling guilty?

Damn CW for cancelling the show. Now there will never be closure! :(

Anyway, bringing these over from the FF LoVe Thread for posterity:

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Snagged from etoiline:

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...

Opening Credits:
The Pointer Sisters, Jump (For My Love)(Love Actually OST)

Jump for my love
Jump in and feel my touch
Jump you want to taste my kisses
In the night then
Jump, jump for my love

An upbeat song! Good way to start a movie. Good way to start a life :)


Waking Up:
Jack's Mannequin, I'm Ready

I wake up to find its another
Four aspirin morning, and I dive in
I need caffeine in my blood stream,
I need caffeine in the blood stream.
I grip the wheel and all at once I realize
My life has become a boring pop song
And everyone's singing along

Such luck to have drawn a real wake up song, and a Jack's Mannequin one at that.


First Day At School:
Fall Out Boy, Sugar, We're Going Down

We're going down, down, in an earlier round
And sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it

Haha. It would have been perfect until you start really listening to the lyrics, then the context would be all wrong.


Falling In Love:
Portuguese Love Theme (Love Actually OST)

This was the theme that was playing when Colin Firth went to the restaurant where Lucia Moniz was working to propose to her in front of practically the whole town. Perfect falling in love theme.


Fight Song:
Madonna, Nothing Fails

You could take all this, take it away
I'd still have it all
'Cause I've climbed the tree of life
And that is why, no longer scared if I fall

That's fighting spirit for you.


Breaking Up:
String Quartet Tribute to Dashboard Confessional, Hands Down

It's cool to have a song without lyrics playing during a break up, its so much sadder that way. But even if the real DC song was playing, it would still have been cool.

My heart is yours to fill or burst or break or bury
Or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.


Prom:
Augustana, Boston

I think I'll go to Boston, I think that I'm just tired
I think I need a new town, to leave this all behind
I think I need a sunrise, I'm tired of the sunset
I hear its nice in summer, some snow would be nice

We didn't have a prom, but we had a batch party, and yeah, the spirit was basically the one in this song...we were anxious about leaving school, I was anxious about leaving the province for the capital city, that sort of thing.


Life is Good:
Spice Girls, Mama

Back then I didn't know why
Why you were misunderstood
So now I see through your eyes
All that you did was love

Hey, no haters. I like the song. I love my mom. I think its a good thing for one's life to realize that one's mom is not an enemy but a friend.


Mental Breakdown:
Imogen Heap, Glittering Cloud

I'm not always like this
Its something I become
A terrible weakness
In my nature, in my blood
Save me, oh save me
Save me from myself
Before I hurt
Somebody else again

The song speaks for itself.


Driving:
String Quartet Tribute to My Chemical Romance, Early Sunsets Over Monroeville

Would definitely be one of the songs I'll be playing when I drive, if ever I get to convince my dad that I am not a danger on the streets.


Flashback:
Seo Hyun Jin, Give Me a Little Try (Goong OST)

Its a Korean song, and I have absolutely no idea what it means in its entirety, but the ones I understand seem like it would be a great song for a flashback.


Getting Back Together:
Coldplay, Yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah, your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
And you know
You know I love you so

A serenade is a good start to getting back together. Let me think about it hehe.


Wedding:
Snow Patrol, Chasing Cars

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

Awww. Like Nathan and Haley's wedding. Sweet.


Paying the Dues:
Nae ga sun taek han gil ee ya (Goong OST)

I have absolutely no idea what the song means haha.


The Night Before The War:
Evermore, Real Life

Welcome to the real life
Welcome to the real life
I've come to realize its no game
No one is the same
There's so much more to life
Than meets the eye

Fighting spirit, that.


Final Battle:
Enya, Only If

If you really want to
You can seize the day
Only if you want to will you fly away

What the..? What sort of battle is this that an Enya song is playing?


Moment of Triumph:
Fall Out Boy, Thriller

The only thing I haven't done yet is die
And its me and my plus one in the afterlife
Crowds are won and lost and won again
But all our hearts beat
For the diehards

Now this is more like it.


Death Scene:
The Veronicas, 4ever

Come on baby we ain't gonna live 4ever
Let me show you all the things that we could do

This soundtrack is getting to be more and more irreverent haha.

Funeral Song:
U2, One

We're one but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, hurry each other
One
Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus?
To the lepers in your head?

Better. But probably not the song I would have chosen.


End Credits:
Mandy Moore, Moonshadow

And if I ever lose my legs
I won't moan, and I won't beg
Yes if I ever lose my legs
Oh if, I won't have to walk no more

Great song. And the last scene would be me walking to the sunset, leaping and hopping like a moonshadow.

All in all, sounds like my life is pretty good. No suicide attempts or undue melancholy or anything like that. Feel good movie, my favorite.

One interview down.

Quick drop by. To all of you in the Philippines, pass by the Hotel Intercontinental on the 3rd and 4th of February for the Read or Die Convention 2007. I'll try to be there to help out RockEd or UNICEF, so if I do, see you there! You can buy your passes at Powerbooks or at the convention venue.

The rest of the letters have come, and so has the one I've been waiting for: SyCip Salazar. I want to work for that firm for the sole reason that Justice Feliciano is there (my personal hero, the only...well, the first Filipino who's made it big in the WTO, particularly in the Appellate Body), they have a great trade law connection and a great IP law practice. Seriously though, I am so lost. I don't know anything about applying for law firms, as I have been stuck working for the government for the past four years. Wish me luck.

And has anyone heard Fall Out Boy's new album Infinity on High? Its had some bad reviews but I personally love The (After) Life of the Party, Hum Hallelujah, Thriller, and Don't You Know Who I Think I Am.

I finally found where I scribbled all of my Private International Law professor's witty comments in class (aside: my Civil Law Review professor is my soul mate. Really. Pity he's like 30 or so years older than me. Mind meld over mythology, Rome, Ferdinand and Isabella). Posting for posterity and my amusement:

@ Mr Culla, are you communicating by telepathy? Because I don't get it.

@ (Ideally we have all studied marriage law in first year law school. He was being super sarcastic because we could barely answer his questions in marriage law) I get the feeling that somehow you have taken up marriage.

@ Mr. Acosta, speak elegant English. Speak English!

@ Are you students of telepathy? This class must be students of telepathy. (Because we all fall silent everytime he asks a question)

@ What is infancy? Is it the same as idiocy?

@ (The lights were turning off and on while a classmate was trying to recite) Don't think about the lights. Think of them as stars, they twinkle. They apply to the intellectual condition in this case.

@ (Same classmate) The lights have grown brighter, Miss Halcon. God is not indifferent to your destiny.

@ (A case penned by the Philippine Supreme Court applied the US Arbitration Act the wrong way, but we didn't notice because we didn't read the law) Is it possible that the Court did not read the US Arbitration Act? Very possible. In your case, it is not a possibility but a reality.

@ I'm telling you this not for your entertainment. I have nothing to gain by entertaining you.

@ Sir: You appear to be deep in thought Mr. Mercado. Mr. Mercado: Sir, I'm confused. Sir: Oh yes? [pause] Confusion is the source of wisdom. I hope.

From my last update, it was obvious I was pissed off. I was able to work things out though, so I hit two birds with one stone -- I went to the meeting, and we went to watch Superman immediately after. Good thing Mall of Asia is just near the office. Ella, Sharon and I caught the 4.50pm showing.



I loved it. Eventhough there were a lot of noisy kids around. Eventhough the plot wasn't exceptional and Lois Lane was horribly miscast. Eventhough Parker Posey was useless. Maybe I'm just too much of a fan to hate anything with the Superman logo in it. But dammit, that Brandon Routh was just perfect as the Man of Steel. He looked like Christopher Reeve, he sounded a terrible lot like Christopher Reeve, but IMO he looked better. Or maybe I could relate to him better because I know he's nearer my age. Anyway, his Superman feels more human -- especially when his hair is wet and blowing in the wind when he was hurt. Sigh. And that bit about the boy, although I expected that, was still nice to watch. I already said Kate was miscast...but I have to give her credit for trying. James Marsden...poor guy. I was more amused than anything else whenever I saw him in the same scene with Brandon. Showdown Superman v. Cyclops!

After a whole paragraph of utter ramblings, I can only conclude that I am too much of a Superman fan to let anything spoil it. Superman and all he stands for transcends generations, transcends actors and special effects. And if I was Bryan Singer, I'd do the film in a very similar way, and I'd be happy about it too.

Anyway, after the movie (the three of us loved it -- okay, we loved Brandon Routh as Superman. How can you not? The eyes!!!), we had dinner and found out that the commotion outside -- all around the mall actually -- was the Fete. Indeed, the same Fete I told Isy was cancelled for the year. Honestly, Isy, they said it was cancelled! Apparently they only rescheduled it, but it wasn't as broadly marketed as the past ones. I didn't even hear anything about it. So yeah, the Music Hall housed the Alternative/Rock bands, I think the North areas had the Reggae/World and Jazz. We just passed by and didn't stay long. It was supposed to be a 3-day event (Friday to Sunday) but I only got to watch that Friday. Oh well.

Random: Have any of you heard Nelly Furtado's recent collab with Chris Martin, All Good Things Come to an End? I love it!

I am so irritated with my boss. My office friends and I planned to watch Superman Returns today (IMAX!), we're leaving early from work. We've planned this for weeks. My boss has a 2pm meeting with some important people. Guess what? Because his wife is in town (she's a stewardess), he ditched the meeting and wants me to go in his stead. He does this all the time, he never gives us due notice. If he wasn't such a nice guy/boss (except for this one quirk...oh, another thing, he's so irritating sometimes especially when he has nothing to do, he constantly needs someone to talk to), I would've kicked him a long time ago. Because we already made plans, most of us are wearing jeans (but with decent blouses and blazers, of course). I can't go to the meeting wearing jeans. ETA: Good thing the organizers of the meeting said its okay to be wearing jeans. Sigh. Panira sa plano talaga.

Snagged from rainy_summer:

Your Aura is Red

You have a high level of emotion. This can mean passion, but it can also mean rage. Usually, you don't take these emotions out on others. You just use them as motivation - and it works! The purpose of your life: embracing all the wonders of the life, lots of travels, and tons of adventures Famous reds include: Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Jennifer Lopez Careers for you to try: Dancer, Boxer, Surgeon

What Color Is Your Aura?

Snagged fron janjan0823:

Work Survey
What's your occupation?:	researcher
Do you like your job?:	yes
What do you like most about your job?:	writing, less pressure than most jobs, food and music all around, and free travel
What do you like least about your job?:	not making much of a difference in the world
Do you have a crush on someone you work with?:	yes
Does someone have a crush on you?:	yes
Who's your favorite person at work?:	dhang
Who's your least favorite?:	the ambivalent non-committal spineless boss
What's the one thing you would change about your job?:	being in the same building as the DFA
Do you see yourself there a year from now?:	yes
How long have you had your job?:	almost 4 years
What's your dream job?:	trade lawyer
What would you like to say to the people that come in to where you work?:	its fulfilling work but the pay isn't much
Have you ever stolen from your job before?:	no
Ever done drugs while working?:	no
Would you ever walk out on your job?:	no
Ever called out sick when you weren't?:	yes
Ever done something mean to a customer?:	yes
Ever hooked up with someone you work with?:	no
Ever cried because a customer was rude?:	no
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Omigod. I cannot believe this. WOMAD (World of Music Arts and Dance) will be on the 25-27 August at Fort Canning. But I'm supposed to leave Singapore on the 23rd waaahhhh. Dammit classes and all. But if I do win the contest, to hell with classes. They cancelled Fete this year anyway, so going to WOMAD would be sooo cool.

Snagged from etoiline:

You scored as Neo, the "One". Neo is the computer hacker-turned-Messiah of the Matrix. He leads a small group of human rebels against the technology that controls them. Neo doubts his ability to lead but doesn't want to disappoint his friends. His goal is for a world where all men know the Truth and are free from the bonds of the Matrix. </td> Neo, the "One" 71% Maximus 63% Indiana Jones 58% The Amazing Spider-Man 54% James Bond, Agent 007 54% The Terminator 50% El Zorro 46% William Wallace 42% Lara Croft 42% Captain Jack Sparrow 38% Batman, the Dark Knight 29% Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0 created with QuizFarm.com