yes i smoked occasionally. this is during new year's eve with my friends, we went to kawayan cove in batangas. sad thing was, we never had the chance to take some shots at the beach because i forgot my cam's charger. oh well. lol

interesting bunch macasero.

@ avenger,
I just saw ur pics. they remind me of Ali. Do you have a bro named Ali? Is it who u were refering to?

I'm not who you think i am guah haha.

Oh yeah, we'll be leaving this Wednesday to compete in Hong Kong against the other Asian teams. Wish us well!

Iscalio has no weak knights. But good luck anyways.

Right! Good luck!

So just a real quick update.

My team was the heavy favorite after the preliminary rounds. For the other teams, as well as the judges, we were finals-bound. To get there, we faced NUS (National University of Singapore) and SMU (Singapore Management University - it seems we face them English-speaking Singaporeans a lot these days). We impressed many people in the preliminaries so we knew we had to keep the momentum.

In the semis, we faced the University of Wellington (NZ team with another Singaporean team member, hahaha). In our eyes, it was our most fantastic performance. It was funny actually, cause it was held in the High Court of Hong Kong, and the small court room was absolutely packed. Apparently, word spread around about our prelims and a lot of the eliminated teams and the other people heard about it.

Long story short, we didn't get in the finals. Surprise surprise. I'm still a little bitter about it because it stemmed from the moot scoring system - you have 3-5 judges who give each oralist their own personal score, add that up with your memorial paper score, and whoever is the highest for each side (prosecutor and defendant) is sent to the finals. As luck would have it, we got the most stingy (but impressive) judges while the other prosecutor team got lenient ones. So we only reached the semis and had to watch a clearly inferior prosecutor lose in a lopsided manner.

However, all was not lost, as we enjoyed the rest of Hong Kong (I particularly love the subway/train system), and partied like crazy with the Singaporeans. Fun fun.

This time, I'm working as an intern for one of the country's top (and most controversial, lol) firms. Time flies.

@ Clove: LOL I only noticed your comment now. Teath (and by Teath, I mean a certain Malaysian university which kinda choked in the finals).

@Calad
Still, that was impressive. Good job. Can I ask what firm you joined?

CVCLAW. Villaraza cruz marcelo & angangco.