La Vida Lawyer

The process of getting a congressional franchise can be best described as like traveling through the South Luzon Expressway. There's a g...

Gateway Gallery Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City July 3 to 17, 2019 Ang gusto ko sa trabaho ni Alex Bugsy Sibug sa exhibit na ito ay n...

Marahil kung ipunin ang bawat minutong aking ginugol kapag naghihintay tawagin ang aking kaso -- dati nga nakatitig lang ako sa dingding...

Last night I dreamed I was back in Pola, lying on the bed where I used to sleep, in the old house made from trunks of Narra. There were stra...

You’d be surprised to know this tune is about winning a horse race Por Una Cabeza, which means by a stallion’s head. It reminds me how twent...

I was a teen-ager when my Grandma  took me to task for this ministry of  well-pressed pants. Why should I dislike, she asked,  the long p...

Oh, I will never forget Palomo, black-spotted Dalmatian who came every now and then to bark and get some viand leftovers before lunch as he ...

Nung araw, nagtayo kami ng team Iba’t-iba ang pinanggalingan: Probinsyano, batang squatter, rich kids Pandak, matangkad, payat, mataba Probl...

Let me tell you how I learned empathy. I was probably three years old back then. My parents were in Manila;  I lived  with my grandparents i...

Almost done with breakfast, got startled as you shreaked begged me kill the cockroach under the table please. As I stood, knife in hand sear...

Said the white rooster  to the red “Don’t you tire  of this pecking?  Our beaks are sharp our necks strong and flexed, are we meant to serve...

Charming island  blue sails where coconuts grow on sand; warm afternoons on your cold floor lured everyone to come. Athens of the east to al...

What knowledge can be  more powerful than  knowing that You are God? A thousand different  things I would do if  I suppose I were  You. I sn...

What could be a better deal than this? I give you my money You give me in  toxi cation. The spirit I can’t hear it. No, I can’t see it.  Onl...

A couple of years ago, I posted here that the appointment of then Justice Sereno is the most important defining moment of the PNoy Presidenc...

And so it comes to pass that our law students are going through the old and barbaric system of hazing again to initiate a member into frater...

"Master, why do we repeat our mistakes?" asked the pupil to the Master. The Master shook his head. "We're no d...

“Master,” the pupil asked, ”does anything happen by chance?” And the Master made a frown, “When the universe speaks to you, it is never supe...

Asked the pupil to the Master, "Master, why is life so difficult?" The Master looked at him and smiled. "Try asking that to a...

The danger in having a lawyer watch a film about law school is he might see things in the movie that aren’t there. Going through the maze of...

Asked the pupil to the Master, Is it good if the evil man is killed by evil means? And the Master replied, Careful with your words. To the e...

May pilosopo ba sa langit? Kung nakita na ang katotohanan, at ang diwa ng kataga ay ngayon at magpakailanman pa man, kung ang misteryo ng pa...

She enters the room silently as a cat does and murmurs to me the accomplice to this task that she wants Pares Sais. In this place, breakfast...

Respondent can find as a many contradictions as he pleases with the irrevocable special power of attorney and the Memorandum of Agreement, m...

One of the most fascinating songs of the Beatles is "The End" from their last album Abbey Road. The song is the last in a medley o...

Is greed an emotion? asked the bull to the monkey. The monkey shook his head, saying Why do you ask silly questions?  The bull munched on gr...

Well pressed shirt with purple tie dimpled at the middle where the knot is — a perfection taking years to master, then your pen blots it all...

You should have  told me a day before yesterday if it was due yesterday. Power is you with the bottle of Scotch as I miss dinner, tv, and sl...

yesterday, as I hopped  from isle to isle first stop Bulalacao, darling town of Mindoro;  a thrilling ride on the hills  overlooking the sea...

We entered the cafeteria unwelcomed by that smell of cow  innards stewed in ginger. You asked —  is there a  difference in the conversation ...