Friday, December 15, 2006

UNJUST ENRICHMENT

'UNJUST ENRICHMENT' is a principle in the Law on Obligations and Contracts which presupposes that NO ONE SHALL BE UNJUSTLY ENRICHED OR BENEFITED AT THE EXPENSE OF ANOTHER.

Sa totoo lang, nakakapag-init naman diba ng ulo 'pag may mga taong 'take advantage'. Yun bang tipong alam nila na may sasalo sa mga maling ginagawa nila kaya sila komportable sa kanilang mga pre-occupations. I grew up battling for injustice. I just want fair play in everything. Kaya nga ako nag-Law e, I want to uphold justice. Pero nakakapag-init lang talaga ng ulo pag within the premises na you are expecting where justice should prevail e hindi mo man lang maramdaman. Kahit sino naman siguro ayaw ng nalalamangan. Patas kung patas. Pero wala e nakakapikon na!, lalo na pag you ignore na those people and accept whatever 'injustice' they're doing, tapos in one way or another eh ginagamit ka na din nila for their own advantage. Kakaawa naman yung mga taong talagang nagsusumikap. Yun bang walang bahid ng dumi ang mga na-aachieve nila. Yung di nanggagamit ng tao para lang makuha yung gusto nila. Oo iba ako, iba ka din! Pero lumaban ka sana ng patas! Kung anu man yung mga desisyon mo sa buhay, take the risk and suffer the consequences of your actions! Hindi yung mang-aabala ka ng iba para lang pagtakpan yung mga maling desisyon mo! Wag na sana nating ipangalandakan sa iba ang pagiging 'immature' natin, nakakasuka lang eh! Sana lang matuto na din tayo na tumayo sa sarili nating mga paa, pano na lang kung wala na mga kaibigan natin? Kawawa naman tayo! Show some effort naman on your part! Don't be too lazy waiting for the guava to fall on the tree!

Friday, December 8, 2006

Title Intentionally left blank.

"No Man is an island" Truly a cliche' but then let's face it, you can never survive Law School on your own. You really have to mingle with others if you want to stay. Of course being bonded together doesn't happen overnight. It takes time for each and everyone in the group to express themselves freely. Being in a group where you can freely share your thoughts, your eccentricities, the drama in your life and your foolishness is quite relaxing. It absorbs the stress in an ordinary law school day. Cheers!

Hence, the title.

"In my existence, I realized that HAPPINESS is a very subjective factor in one's life. Being happy doesn't depend on achieving what you want, but rather making the best out of what is given. Life isn't fair, it never was. The only thing that can make you completely happy is CONTENTMENT. Be content on what you have, but be sure to aim high and never stop believing you can do better everytime. But if all else fails, don't forget that an ordinary you has an extraordinary God to back you up."- Very inspiring!

Monday, November 27, 2006

CAUGHT IN BETWEEN

It's hard to be caught-in-between.. People may see you neutral.. People may see you two-faced.. I hope things would go in the right place, it may not be soon but I know it will..

Dealing with the System

It saddens me that some blockmates last semester failed in their subjects. It's a little bit hard to accept changes, most specially when you know that you'll not be seeing your buddies more often because they have a different schedule or some of them left law school either temporarily or permanently..

Anyway, 'have to deal with it.. It's part of the way the system of Law School goes..

TOXICITY SINKS IN

I don't know if I am just lucky for having some lenient professors last semester why I passed my subjects, or I fairly did well. Only two weeks have passed since the start of the second term, but I feel like I have been studying for months now. I can feel Law School's toxicity more compared to last semester. I hardly can find a way to renew my social life or just a small portion of it. It's like de ja vu again for me. The monotony in my way of living when I am not yet in law school, is again haunting me, now in a different package.. I rarely do communicate with my parents, my siblings and other relatives and friends anymore. Going to school as early as 8am and going home as late as 9 or 10pm, any person would just go straight to slumber, which any law school student wouldn't even do if he's loaded with assignments. I even thought I wasn't anymore part of the family, I feel I was a boarder in the house. I rarely do read my friends forwarded text quotes anymore and even forgot to reply to a text message or return back a call, because I am consumed by my law books and cases.

Law School's toxicity, that I haven't felt last semester is slowly sinking into my senses. It's so hard to leave things that have been part of you, but still I've entered the "Law School Prison Cell", and I might as well prove my might. But I know I can do this..

That in All things God may be Glorified!

p.s. To my Friends pasensya na po talaga if di ako nakaka-reply to your text messages.. We'll see each other again sometime.. GODBLESS!

Saturday, March 4, 2006

AN UNBIASED OUTCRY.. An excerpt

Ako ay isang middle class pinoy, isang officer sa isang malakingkorporasyon at may asawa...dalawa anak. Di na importante pangalan kokasi parepareho naman tayong mga middle-class....trabaho 9-5, inom konti tapos uwi sa pamilya, laruin si baby, itutor si ate/kuya tapos tulog na,pag wala na pera intay nalang ng sweldo.Sa nangyayari ngayon sa ating bansa, lahat nalang ng sector ay maingayat naririnig, tayo lang mga middle-class, tax paying at productive Pinoysang di naririnig. Subalit, buwis natin ang nagpapaikot sa bansang ito.Pag may mga gulo na nangyayari, tayo ang tinatamaan. Kaya eto ang liham kosa lahat ng maiingay na sector na sana makagising sa inyong bulag na pag-iisip.

Sa Mga Politiko:- diyos ko naman, sa dami na nang nakurakot ninyo di na ba kayomakuntento kelangan nyo pa ba manggulo.

Sa Administrasyon:- hayan ayus na ha, pinatawad na namin ang pandaraya nyo sa eleksyon,pruweba dito e di kami umaatend sa mga panawagan ng people power, kayasana naman gantihan nyo kami ng magandang serbisyo at magaling na pamumunoat malaking bawas sa kurakot naman please para kahit papano maramdamannaman namin na may napupuntahan ang binabayad naming buwis.- saka Madam GMA, step down ka na pag parliamentary na tayo sa 2007,tingnan mo, i-announce mo mag-step down ka kapag parliamentary na tayo,resounding YES yan sa plebiscite at tigil pa ang mga coup at people power labansayo. Try mo lang.........

Sa Oposisyon:- di nyo pa ba nakikita na dalawang klase lang ng tao ang nakikinig sainyo....isa ay bayaran na mahihirap kung di man ay tangang mga excited na reporter na parang naka-shabu lagi....mga praning e at naghahallucinate.- Bago man lang kayo maglunsad ng kilos laban sa administrasyon,pumili muna kayo ng magiting at nararapat na ipapalit sa liderato ngayon.Hirap sa inyo paresign kayo ng paresign wala naman kayo ipapalit na maayos.Advise lang galing sa isang middle-class na syang tunay na puwersa salikod ng lahat ng matagumpay na People Power, magpakita muna kayo ng galing bago nyo batuhin ang administrasyon. Wala na kaming narinig sa inyo kundi reklamo, e wala naman kayong ginagawa kundi magreklamo....para kayong batang lagi na lang naaagawan ng laruan.....GROW UP naman...sa isip sa salita at sa gawa.- please lang gasgas na rin ang pagrarally nyo na katabi nyo ay mgabayaran na mahihirap, magtayo nalang kayo ng negosyo at iempleyo ang mgarallyista para maging productive silang mamamayan. Sige nga, pag nagrarally kayo yakapin nyo nga at halikan yang mga kasama nyong nagrarally!! NungPeople Power namin nagyayakapan kami lahat nuon.- Wala naman mangyayari sa mga rally nyo nakakatraffic lang, kami pangmiddle-class ang napeperwisyo. Di nyo kayang paghintayin ng 3 araw angmga rallyista nyo kasi kelangan nyo pakainin at swelduhan ang mga yan.Kung gusto nyo tagumpay na People Power kami ang isama nyo....pero pagod nakami e, sori ha.

Sa Military:Alam nyo lahat tayo may problema, pati US Army may problema, 2,000plus na patay sa kanila sa Iraq na parang walang rason naman, pero nakita nyoba sila nagreklamo? Wala diba kasi professional sila na sundalo.....yandapat ang sundalo di nagtatanong sumusunod lang. Kasi may mga bagay na dikayang maintindihan ng indibidwal lamang, at ang mga nakatataas lang angnakakaintindi ng kabuuan, kaya ito ang panuntunan ng lahat ng militaryng lahat ng bansa. Pero parang military natin yata ang pinaka-mareklamo.Sabi nga sa Spiderman "with great power comes great responsibility".....kaya maging spiderman kayo lahat at protektahan ang mamamayan. Sa totoolang natatakot kami kapag nagrereklamo kayo, kasi may baril kayo at tangke, kamiwala.Wala ako comment sa mga mahihirap, di naman kasi sila maingay na kusae, may bayad ang ingay nila.

Signed,Isang Middle-Class pinoy na walang puknat na binabawasan angsweldo ng Buwis!

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

AN EXCERPT

YoungBlood: Injustice of Law
By John Henry C. Liquete
Inquirer News Service

SOMEBODY asked: What do you call a thousand lawyers chained at the bottom of the ocean?
The reply was: A good start.

It is true that some lawyers have turned their backs from the real vision and reason for which lawyers exist.

I have nothing against lawyers. In fact, I hope to be one, someday; I am a now in my second-year law. But certainly I will not be the kind who will defile the temples of justice.

When the impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives ended, I found myself utterly disgusted with the way the law was used to hide the truth and, worse, make a mockery of justice. To my view, some lawyer-congressmen, by their behavior, disgraced the profession, which supposedly puts premium to integrity and justice.

As a law student, I always have been made to understand that laws are made to protect the innocent, serve the ends of justice and seek out the truth; and to allow an accused to defend himself, punish the guilty and discourage people from doing others wrong. I was also taught that our Constitution was formulated to protect the sanctity of the ballot and strengthen the institutions of democracy, among others. Indeed, our Constitution and our laws do not exist to conceal the truth, encourage wrongdoing and, least of all, suppress justice. And, certainly, they were not meant to be strictly interpreted in their technical and narrow sense, but in the context of justice, righteousness, decency, rectitude, and, most of all, integrity.

“Every instance of a man’s suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose which is to deter from transgression,” says Archbishop Richard Whately.

But hallelujah, laws have become effective in the Philippines because few suffer the penalty of the law and not because they discourage transgression. For example, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is getting away with a violation of law after just saying “I am sorry.”

Indeed, this example demonstrates how the law could be so easily abused -- ironically, many times as a means to committing an injustice.

Perhaps, why some lawyers don’t care a whit about tarnishing this noble profession could be explained by looking at the quality of law education they got. Most law schools today tend to guide their students into merely focusing on passing the bar and on memorizing laws, for a chance of attaching the initials A-T-T-Y before their names. Nothing about justice and the ends of the law is given due importance.

I am studying law not only because I want to become a lawyer but also because I am awed by its wondrous mechanisms and its power to uphold and celebrate justice, its real and ultimate objective. I want to become a lawyer because I want to play a significant role in promoting the cause of justice.

People may think I’m crazy because I have impossible dreams. But I believe and keep faith that someday this nation will overcome the difficulties it is grappling with right now, and soar high, with much to be proud of, in the eyes of the world. I believe and keep faith in the inner goodness of our people as the key in the transformation of society for the better. The evils we see in our society should not deter us from our pursuit of true justice. I believe lawyers should be among the first to do something to free this world from the debilitating grip of greed and injustice.
There will be those saying that I am not practical, that I am too far off from reality. These are probably the ones who have lost hope in our people. We have to revive that hope in them to create a society that is founded in and driven by idealism. A revolution in the heart and the mind is called for here. We need revolutionaries to persuade our citizens into becoming active participants in our nation’s quest for justice.

I’m 20 years old now. My age has absolutely nothing to do with my dreams. Young or old, age should never be an excuse for a person’s “state of idealism.”

Unfortunately, today’s politicians don’t listen to what we, the young, have to say; they would not hear the “hope of the fatherland.” Our cries, like our demand for Ms Arroyo’s resignation, have landed on deaf ears. When we air our discontent and voice our aspirations, people in government complain and label us as destabilizers, communists even. How can we light the flames of hope in our country if our voice remains unheard?

We appeal to the so-called leaders of our country: Lend your ears to us, we have a lot to say and a lot to suggest. If you really believe we are the hope of the future, as we often hear you say, then listen to us. (Many of us have become cynical and apathetic because of the callousness of many of our public officials.)

When I get my law degree, I may be familiar with the law and jurisprudence. But when I step out into the real world, will I find them relevant to the life of every man and woman in this country at least, and being applied as well to promote the cause of justice? I’m worried, that given the present situation, I will find myself out there as if I know nothing.

Still I would like to believe that most of our lawyers, unlike lawyer-politicians, are not deaf to our people’s cry for justice and righteousness.

John Henry C. Liquete, 20, is a Political Science graduate from Saint Louis University. He is in his second year at the San Beda College of Law.
Editor's Note: Published on page A11 of the October 11, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
 


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