Happy Valentine's Day

So Valentine's Day is over. Rejoice to all the single's out there! We survived a grueling red day once again! Anyway, I wouldn't blab about the how-to's on dealing bitterness, I rather concentrate on more pressing issues like events slash celebrations being commercialized every year. Yeah, you read that right.

I bet you are familiar with V-Day thingy? Society has successfully established a tradition of gift-giving or stuffs like that, our profit-loving businessmen took advantage of this scheme. They gladly cater their potential consumer's need and in exchange for their ahem, quality yet overpriced product or service is of course, money. I am getting nowhere, am I? I strongly believe that you guys all know this but to give it emphasis I will say it again. Who the heck would splurge on those shit these profit wolves are providing anyway? I mean, come on people, those stuffs are sure lovely but hey flowers do wither, chocolates get eaten and get pooped, balloons popped and teddy bears do get dusty and old! So why the hell waste money on nonsense? It is not even to be counted as one's necessity; I sure bet my life that you can exist without having those things in your hand. We begin forgetting the real essence of every celebration when we become too concerned about what to give and what to receive.

Love couldn't be intensified with those because I believe love has no degree (what, I'm so weird?). If one's happiness depends upon receiving gifts then he or she is wrongly in-love. You're not after trade of superficial things, you're there for the affection.

This isn't mainly about V-day, erroneous spending, commercialism or whatnot. I may be the master of random topics but my reason of rebelling isn't founded on bitterness. A lot of people gets hungry everyday and still there are people who recklessly spend.

If you celebrate it with someone that day and spent it just doing nothing but satisfied just being together, congratulations! You avoided the bandwagon.

And if not, you ended becoming a victim. But you can choose to be wise next time.

(This is applicable not only to V-Day. I just happen to take advantage of the moment to bring this thought of mine up.)

The Art of Case Digesting

Case digest is a way of summarizing cases coming from courts. These cases mainly contain decision on certain matters since the duty of our court is to settle controversy and dispute. Case digest is commonly practice among people who study law. Since case digesting shortens a very wordy case but still keeping its important details, it is but necessary to learn the proper way of doing such. But before we could start to digest a case, we must first learn the essential parts of it.
(For the purpose of this post, I will be using theoretical examples)
1 Salazar vs. ABZ Ltd.
G. R. No. 1370
June 3, 1960
2 Ponente : Trinidad, J.
3 Facts: xxx
3 Issue/s: xxx
4 Held: xxx
1. Heading - This contains the title of your case, source (GR No xxx or 21 SCRA 52) and date
2. Ponente - The name of the person who arranged the final format of the decision. It usually appears before the body of the full case begins.
3. Facts - This includes the important events or circumstances that take place in the case. It must be noted that the names of persons involved and necessary dates and places must be mentioned in this part.
4. Issue - The matter brought upon the court for its resolution. It is possible that several issues are present in a single case. Your issue would now depend upon the subject concerned for that digest. For instance, your subject in Labor Law required you to make a digest on a particular case. However, this case aimed in resolving two issues, labor and political one. With this at hand, it is logical to say that the issue which must be chosen is the one connected to your subject.
5. Held - Also known as ruling and decision. This is the judgment given by your court which must answer the issue you listed. The legal basis in which their decision was taken must appear in this part.
Armed with the essential knowledge with respect to case digesting, you are now equipped to make a digest easily but still concisely done!