i'm DONE!!

Round 2: FIGHT!

i donno why, but i've been amazingly calm for this exam. i mean, even compared to any finals that i've had in the past, i've always felt a twinge of fear right before or during the test. but the past two days have been amazingly (and slightly scarily) stress free. hmm... perhaps it's just God answering my prayers, yes?

day 2: tentatively, me

how sad, he fought with this big fish for over an hour and the shark took him away..

after reading carol's post and seeing this clip, i wanna go deep sea fishing...

ROUND 1: FIGHT!

"don't oversleep your exams!" was what they said when i got to college. what did i do? i overslept my first final my first semester @ berkeley.

"don't ever leave your computer unattended~ people steal them!" was what they said when i went to law school. what happened? my laptop got stolen from my place of work the day before my first final, my second semester there.

"anything can happen during the bar exam; be prepared that ANYTHING can happen.." what happened? the software that i downloaded for the bar exam decides that my computer is the "Wrong Computer" and so i had to write my exam today. that's 6 hours (actually about 4.5 to 5 hrs). of writing. when i had been practicing taking it on my laptop. remember the reason i bought a laptop to begin with??

..does anyone else see a pattern here?

now, i still have a chance because we have another writing portion on thursday.. buuuut no one is picking up at the "help-line" for this software. i sent them a frantic email and they basically said they'd get back to me. ummm... yea, thanks.

and i'm paying for internet service, btw. $10 a day.. so i'm up to $20 down the hole because of computer problems for the bar. that i haven't been able to fix.

*sigh*

so it looks like i'm writing my entire bar exam.

honestly though, when they told me i would have to write my exam, i could instantly feel the familiar tingling and burning behind my eyes. then i remembered that anything can happen, but the point is to keep your cool and rise above the stress

i also remembered my prayer this morning - to be able to remember to keep things in perspective, everything happens for a reason and that everything will be alrite. no matter what happens, everything will be ok.

so i swallowed my tears, took a few deep breaths, borrowed a pen from the girl next to me (cuz all i had was a purple and red pen) and took the exam. when i couldn't fix my computer in time for the performance exam, i didn't even bother taking my computer back to the exam site. i just brought all my pens and sat down. took a deep breath and wrote.

i honestly have no feelings about how i did on the exam. all i know is that i did the best that i could and that's all i can do at this point. if i fail, i'll just get back up and do it again.

because i know that's what i have to do.

day 1: bar exam wins..

-__-;; 2 more days to go.

i forgot about these, but when my mom was in japan, she used to send me emails. i randomly found them today and it made for some light reading, kakaka~ so i thought i'd share..

hi haejin this is mam how are you ? is there ok?im doing all right and so boring your dady dosent keep me friend he allways busy for dum computer . so im all the times alon is"nt that sad ?hey i gotta go he he he .i love you and miss you very much .buy buy .sove mam.

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hi haejin it"s mammy i had a big fight whit your daddy beacouse of the very expencive hotel he got the room for only few hours so i did negged him wow wow you know his temper i almost dead he ain"t talk to me anymore but he will. anyhow how"s going? are you home aledy? i beleve youguys doing alright right? i spend half an hour to do this well i gotta go now your daddy staring at me he he love mam

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hi haejin it's mam i am at the library .your daddy thought me send e mail but my typing is so slow cuse i don't know where are the spellings well Im o k so far i've been dental treatment today so my mouth is num daddy got the hot temper again so i gotta go. bye bye i love you.,mam.

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hi haejin it's mam i raed your mail but i coun't buy your things cause too expencive mp3 is 250 dollar something and jackets arealmost 100 dallar something so how can i buy them? mi chin nyen!!!!!
This is dad. Mom is right She tried buy a Jaket and MP3 so expensive now. (I try buy later and --Ok!) I love you. Send her mail keep up.

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haha~ moms can be so cute and funny..

that made me smile.. knowing me i'll be updating 5 more times today. xP i had to pay $10 for the internet, so imma milk it today.

so i thought i'd share some of my mnemonic devices i made up to help me through this:

you CANT have a class axn suit unless:
Commonality, Adequately represent class, Numerosity, Typicality AND meet one of the 3 categories (prejudice, injunction, or superiority)

nuisance (i'm kinda proud of this one) - SURI (as in suri cruise)
Substantial and UnReasonable Interference with someone's use of their property. interference must be annoying and objectionable to an average person (yes, her father is quite annoying and objectionable to the average person, kaka~)

pre = pre
PRomisory Estoppel = Promise, Reliance and Enforcement necessary in the interest of justice

you need PMS to be a reliable witness - Perception, Mental impression, and Sensory requirements.

a codicil MARs a will - Modifies, Alters, or Revokes

and i have a gazillion more, on top of the ones they gave us in barbri (especially property - MAD FIFI4: material alteration, fraud in factum, incapacity, insolvency, illegality and infancy are all real defenses)..

i realized though that these aren't really helpful unless you know to talk about them..

*sigh* i've been very unproductive these past 2 days. i can't seem to sit down to do anything. i'll read for 15 mins and then have to get up. i'm not really that stressed about the exam (though i had a computer scare earlier today -__-;;) but just anxious i think. i donno. xP i just want to be done.

and just for the heck of it, here's a poll: should i to masters or not to masters?

words are not enough..

i just wanted to take this time to thank all those people who have been so patient with me. just think: in less than 1 wk, i no longer have any excuse to be brat(tier), and i have to be nice, hehe

so many ppl have been showing their love to me in so many ways.. just stopping by and saying "hi" is enough, but this is the loving i've been getting (which doesn't include a lot of what i've already consumed, tee hee~)


care pkgs galore! this doesn't include the bag that kevin gave me, cuz i combined his and jae and jaekyung's (victoria's secret bag) yesterday. sooo much stuff to eat, seriously!

look at all this food! (and remember, i ate most of it!):


it was so much that my little sister said she was gonna get me a care pkg, but that i had so much food it was pointless.

i think my favorite this year were the drinks:

and kevin also got me a starbucks gift card. heee heeeeeee~

and a little bit more on the random side:

ok, so when i helped andrea move, i was admiring her toiletry case (i like anything that holds stuff..doshirak tongs, drawers for my craft stuff; boxes.. storage containers are my friends~) i mean, i really liked it and i told her we had to go back to the store to buy it for me.. but of course, we never got the chance to. she tells me she absolutely has to see me before i go to take my test cuz she had something small for me.. and i was thinking a card (cuz she's crazy talented. check her out!) but, anyways, so yea.. i'm thinking a card and she busts out the toiletry case!!! i was so excited that before i went home i stopped by sav-on so i could buy stuff to fill it~ i'm sooooooo excited to use it! thanks!


isn't it so cool? it detaches so you can take more or less as you please~ i LOVE it!

seriously, i always find myself surrounded by such caring people. i know i don't deserve it, and i hope i can repay it~

thank you all! for the prayers, the thoughtful Bible verses (thanks briana!) and the support, for just checking to make sure i'm still alive.. every little thing has gotten me thru it so far. just a few more days, and i'll be done with this crap (forever, hopefully!!)

seriously, for the sake of all those ppl who are praying for me, i feel like i owe it to them to pass, haha~ (no pressure, of course~ xP)

thank you for being my friend. x)

feeling human again

the guys at barbri told us not to change our habits til after the bar. they said: "smoke whatever you've been smoking; drink whatever you've been drinking. now is not the time to get rid of bad habits."

i happily obliged and i consumed jugs of coffee. in fact, i drank more coffee than usual, using the bar exam as an excuse to do so. it was fine and i was happy. coffee makes me happy (duh)

but as of late, i've been having trouble sleeping, so i thought i'd lay off the coffee for a day or two. yesterday was fine. in fact, i had the best sleep i've had in weeks~ i fell asleep around 3 or 4 am, and woke up by myself around 7:45 am (not that i stayed awake. i went bak to sleep and got up at 12pm). anyway, so i thought: "wow! i'm clear-headed and this feels good. maybe i'm taking the coffee thing overboard."

that feeling lasted until about 3pm today when my head felt like it was SPLITTING wide open. it felt like there were a million nano-bots inside my brain and their sole desire was to turn my brain into mush and cause as much pain as they could while they did it.

refusing to give up on my no-coffee thing, i went to sleep. woke up and it was still there; actually i couldn't even sleep properly cuz i'd wake up every 5 mins because of the pain. took 2 exedrin. nothing..

as i sit here and sip my coffee, all i can think is: "those barbri guys sure know what they're doing. who am i to argue with their methods?"

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during my "breaks" this is what i do:









sad what brings me joy these days..

hyun bin is younger than me!! by over a year!! i'm so sad! sooo sad!!

ode to sweeeeetnesssss

my friend briana is the most considerate person i know. she is always thinking about others, even though she claims that she can be cold at times and that she has trouble because she's never there for her friends. i donno if her friends realize though that even tho they might not feel she's there for them in big ways, she is constantly thinking about us. really. constantly. thinking. about. us. she is amazing and i have been countlessly blessed with her presence in my life.

as if being blessed was not enough, she is also the supplier of my sweets. today, she came to the library the the most delectable creme brulee (one of my favorites, if not my favorite). lookit!



briana, just because of you, if i had to do it all over again, i would choose lls again. just because of you! x)

sweeeeeet!

tee hee!

amazing..

when i couldn't fall asleep, i used to watch the country music channel when i lived in san diego. i ended up actually liking a good number of the songs. this is my favorite (still). i actually noticed this song because of the sadness of the music video. (if you know me well, you know that i LOVE tragic love songs.)



brad paisley & allison kraus - whiskey lullaby