I passed the bar!

I passed the 2007 bar exams! Woohoo! Just wanted to write this post so I will not forget how I reacted upon learning of the great news.

The chismis was that the results will be out either on March 25 (a Tuesday) because there was an en banc session scheduled on that day or on Friday March 28. Turned out the en banc session on Tuesday was for the Neri decision. Come Thursday there was an announcement that the results would be out by Friday. So Lorraine and I did not go to the office as for sure we would not be able to work anyway because of all the tension and baka mamatay na lang kami sa pang-aasar ng mga tao and constant asking na, lumabas na ba ang resulta? Anyway Friday was also Ronces' wedding so ako I had the day planned out. Morning I spent with my cute son of course. Honey and I had lunch at home, then we went to the Sta. Clara Church to pray. Then I dropped off Honey and drove to Galleria and went straight to the Edsa Shrine where the wedding was to be held at 3pm. I was there by 230. My heels were killing me. I wore my wedding shoes and while they were very lovely, I wasn't used to wearing 3-inch heels so talagang mamatay-matay nako sa heels ko. I think it was around lunchtime when there was an announcement that the results would be out by Saturday after lunch. This was a good thing as the evening class were nearly complete at Ronces' wedding. Imagine if the results were to come out on that day! Siguro di na kami nakapag-concentrate sa kasal at reception. At pano kung may hindi pumasa diba? Baka may humahagulgol sa kasal (and yes, 2 of our classmates did not make it and they were present at the wedding).

Saturday - I was just at home with my baby. Honey had scheduled a meeting in the morning and afternoon. I really wanted to kick him already as I needed him badly by my side during those times and what did he do? Talaga naman ha, of all the days and times kung kelan magse-set ng meeting, talagang walang kunsiderasyon. Finally he arrived at around past 2pm (imagine ha, the announcement was that the results would be released after lunch so talagang gusto ko na siyang sakalin by that time). Nilakasan ko na lang loob ko when pressing the refresh button at makita ko ang results without hubby by my side. Buti na lang wala pang results nung dumating sya. Sarap talaga sipain. Siya naman natatawa dahil tense na tense daw ako. Syempre tense lahat ng tao ano! Mga before 4pm nagforward si Myrvie ng text ng unofficial top ten, aba, top 1 si Menchie, the gf of my brother Carlo. Oh my God diba. Then she said that she, Far, and, May were all at MOA passing the time and I should look for their names in the internet.

We were tired of refreshing the page and CJ wanted to sleep na so CJ was breastfeeding and honey was sleeping, mga 4pm lampas ng konti when someone texted me. I told honey to get my cel nasa computer kasi and he didn't want to kasi tulog siya, syempre pinilit ko sya, then I read the message, it was Bobby saying Congrats aba I immediately told Honey to press the refresh button! Bilis! Congrats daw! Then after a minute (I think) he said congratulations and kissed me. I said really? So kawawang Cj he was off to lala-land pero dumedede pa sabi ko anak, mamaya ka na dumede and I rushed to look at the computer. And when I saw my name, hala, umiyak ako talaga as in humagolgol na halos. Sobrang emotions talaga. Then I immediately looked for my friends' names, naku naiyak ako pero ibang klase naman, kasi one of us (we were 4 in the barkada) did not make it. How I can tell her that? I could never tell her that. So I called Len and told her the good news and the bad news, while I was crying. The 3 of them were together at MOA diba. I heard Len say, of the 4 of us, one did not make it. And I pressed the end button on my cel as I really could not bear to hear Far's reaction. It would break my heart for sure.

So anyway that's it. Next time na other posts.