It's been five days since the results were released. Oath taking is set on the 29th, signing of the roll of attorneys on the 30th. We've secured our clearances from the Supreme Court, signed our Lawyer Registration Cards, paid our IBP dues, attended the testimonial dinner at Malcolm Hall, shaken hands with Sir Te, Dean Carlota, incoming Dean Leonen, former Dean Pangalangan (also our Poli Law examiner), Ma'am Beth, Sir Lumba, et.al. BUT it still feels so surreal. It hasn't REALLY registered that this is it. We're done. With this chapter, at least. I feel like I'm in some sort of a trance or a dream that I don't want to wake up from. Wow. I can't describe precisely how it feels. It's like a great big sigh of relief after holding my breath for a year, like staring at a diamond necklace through a glass window and then finally being able to wear it. Something like that. My sanity has been tried and tested so many times the past year. It hasn't been easy. I was so sure I was going to take it again, although so many people told me I was just stressing myself out unnecessarily.
In any case, since people are making thank you lists, I thought I'd make one of my own too. This feels pretty much like winning the lottery or winning an Oscar, I think. So... I would like to thank, in no particular order, save for the first and the last:
(1) GOD. - Thank you so much for keeping me sane and getting me through law school and bar review, the bar exams, and waiting for the results. We always said that if ever we passed, it would be all of God's doing.
(2) MY FAMILY - Thank you for taking my mind off the bar and the results when I most needed it, for always believing I'd make it (and for telling me so), and for just being the quirky bunch that you are.
(3) MY BARKADA - Chi, Lianne, Mia, Jen, Daisy, Nico and Oggs. Thank you for being insane, for being the best laiteros and laiteras in town, for inevitably veering the conversation towards jebs, and for not being the people we don't like. Hehe!
(4) MY PRE-WEEK STUDY BUDDIES - Mitch and Jappy. Mitch and I now know more about Jappy than we would have wanted to know. Hehe! Mitch, aymeeshoo! Jappy, buhay ka pa ba?
(5) MY BLOCKMATES - UP LAW A2007 - You guys are the best! I really miss our chismis sessions in between classes and my yosi break buddies: Mitch, Jappy, Chi, Nestor. See you guys at A2007 BarOps.
(6) STARBUCKS KATIPUNAN - For not kicking us out during bar review. Although, come to think of it, the thousands we spent for coffee there SHOULD merit NOT getting kicked out.
(7) THE PRINCE DAVID GUARDS - For praying for us. And for making sure nobody stole my bar review materials. Hehe! Honest, they're so nice.
(8) MY AIRCON - For not breaking down during bar review. (It was scorching hot outside! =o)
(9) UP BAROPS 2007 - P.Y.!!! Thank you super super super much!!! Ang galing galing ng BarOps!!!
(10) UP WINLAW BAROPS 2007 - Angel, Karra, Hardy, Beth, Izzy and everyone else who helped out, thanks for the goody bags, tips, food, and for my weekly Starbucks grande americano in a tall cup, black.
(11) MY PILGRIMAGE/ROADTRIP BUDDIES - I had such a great time touring with you guys. Next time ulit ha. Breakfast tayo sa Bon Giorno tapos balikan natin lahat ng simbahan na dinasalan natin.
(12) THE VARIOUS MAMA MARY'S, SAINTS AND DEITIES I PRAYED TO - Thank you thank you thank you thank you. I really can't thank you enough.
(13) CASTILLO LAMAN TAN PANTALEON & SAN JOSE - Basically, for feeding my shopping frenzy. Hehe! I love my job. I love the 9th floor.
(14) SANDRA LUNA - My bar angel, a.k.a. the first person who told me I passed.
(15) SIR TE - For the pre-bar, weekly pre- and post- bar texts, weekly pre-bar masses, for your presence every bar weekend, and at Salubong and BeerOps (Sir Te stayed longer than most of us did.) bar updates, and messages of encouragement. Your support really meant, and still means, a lot to us.
(16) TITA SUSAN - For letting me stay over the entire month of August to review, for understanding my schedule, and for making my life there super comfortable and conducive to studying.
(17) BAGUIO CITY - For being so cozy cold during the entire month I was there for review. I love the pine-scented air and the view from my tita's 2nd floor library. I swear, it helped.
(17) MAMA - For bugging me to return to Manila for pre-week already. Otherwise, I never would have finished Merc and Poli pre-week.
(18) CHI & PUNCH - For being so bossy with my bar review schedule. Well, it was more Punch than Chi. Talk about bar review police. Hehe! Thanks for the weekly ride to and from Sheraton and for the yosi breaks when I was going insane the nights before the bar Sundays, and for the matching food. And for waiting for the results with me. Oh, and the beer right after we both found out we passed.
(19) NGANGI - Ngangsters, weemeeshu!!! Thank you for bearing with two grumpy insane barristers and not blowing your cover. Thank you for laughing at us when we were being silly, and for making us laugh when we were crying or on the verge of.
(20) TITA MELISSA (CHI'S MOM) - Tita, thank you for your support, for the Saturday lunch pochero and for our baon sandwiches.
(21) TITO IGGY & TITA NINI - Thank you for sending me to law school and for supporting me all the way to after the bar.
(22) TITO RONNIE - Thank you for your encouragement from abroad, and for paying for my hotel accommodations +++ for the bar.
(23) UP COLLEGE OF LAW, esp. Ma'am Beth, Prof. Balane, Ma'am Herbosa, Danny Con (yes, I actually liked his classes), Prof. Morales, Dean Pangalangan - Thank you for admittine me into the College of Law and for the training.
(24) ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY - Thank you for the happy memories which I would eventually need to cushion the blow that was law school. Hehe!
(25) MY MOM - I can't find the words to thank you enough. I just know that wherever you are, you're happy with what I've done with my life so far, and for who I've become. Thank you for giving me enough of you in the less than ten years you were here, to last me a lifetime.
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