Texas Bar Examination...The Final Chapter

I sat down to write this post while the news was still fresh, but had technical problems that forced me to abandon the blog for a bit (aka: my computer hates how I treat it and went on strike). As such, you're going to have to get my stale recollection of Thursday instead.

To start at the beginning: Texas Bar Exam results were slated to be released on 5/3/2013, but everyone told me they like to release a day early around lunch time.

Let's just say that on Thursday, I woke up in a tizzy and didn't get much more tolerable as the minutes (slowly) ticked by. I opened the bar exam page around 9:00 and started refreshing every twenty minutes or so while trying to keep myself busy in the meantime. I pace when I'm nervous, and sound more wheezy than normal (which, for an asthmatic, that's saying something)....I tend to hover around "hyperventilating" when I'm anticipating something.

Pretty much....

Needless to say, my mother wasn't amused. I somehow managed to not freak out until about eleven thirty, at which time I started clicking a lot more frequently. And after 12:00 rolled around and I didn't have scores, it commenced at ten second intervals. By 12:30, I was frantic. But results were still not forthcoming.

By that time, my mom had had enough. She loaded me up in the car and we headed to the nearest Mexican restaurant, where I promptly knocked back two margaritas (on the rocks, with light rocks...a GENIUS idea that makes you look like a true alcoholic) and FORGOT all about the bar examination.

Get your VITAMEATABAREXAM here!!!!!

It wasn't until my ride home, where I was literally laid across the back seat of the car (at 2:30 in the afternoon, which technically sounds early, but actually means that I had been waiting for three hours by this point) that I got a text from a friend with the link to the results and the words "Uh, I don't know..." that it all came flooding back to me. With as much trepidation as I could manage in my inebriated condition, I scrolled down through the results and LANDED ON MY NAME. My mom thought I was having a seizure in the backseat. I'm not exaggerating when I say I started kicking the roof and rolling around like a Pentecostal preacher at a revival. (I'll let you savor that picture for a moment.) After that, I took one of the most fulfilling naps I've ever had in my life. No lie. Because that's how I roll.

I'm now certified in two states, but unemployed. But still....LICENSED. I'd like to thank everyone for their support and congratulations, for putting up with me, and especially my boyfriend for not only having the faith to fund me on this endeavor, but for also giving up tons of fun time with me (snort) so that I could study and prepare. I have to say, I'm pretty damn proud of myself too, because I studied for this on my own, and honestly didn't think I'd have either the stamina or the dedication to actually pass the damn thing. Guess I can even prove myself wrong sometimes.

Congrats to everyone who passed, good luck to anyone who is taking it again (because, let's not lie, the TBE FRIGGIN SUCKED AND ANYONE CAN FORESEEABLY FAIL IT), and most of all:

(What? Like you're really surprised I used this gif? As if....)

5 Benefits of Honey for Health Human Body

Honey has been known since 10,000 years ago. This is evidenced by the discovery of an ancient painting in a cave that is in Valencia, Spain.

In the picture seen two men using a ladder was reaching to take the honey bee hive.

Origin of Honey

Honey has a sweet and shaped like a thick syrup. Honey produced by bees with nectar raw materials. Nectar is a complex compound produced crop gland in the form of sugar solution.

Change process nectar into honey begins when the bees carry nectar to the hive. This nectar is then mixed with saliva and reduced water levels by worker bees to avoid fermentation process.

Worker bees chew the nectar by adding diastase and invertase enzyme, so that the nectar of a pale yellow viscous liquid with a distinctive aroma of honey.

Nutrient Honey

In every 100 grams of honey there are different variants of the essential nutrients the body needs, such as:

• Energy 294 calories
• Carbohydrate 9.5 g
• 24 g water
• Phosphorus 16 mg
• Calcium 5 mg
• Vitamin C 4 mg

Not only that, honey also has other important minerals such as sodium, magnesium, za iron, and potassium. Although needed in small amounts, the mineral content has a considerable role for the survival of the body's metabolic processes.

Health Benefits of Honey

In addition to having a complete nutrition, honey can also provide a variety of health benefits for those who eat them. The health benefits of eating honey on them:

• Sources of Energy : Ancient Roman and Greek athletes at that time using honey as energy drinks are consumed before and after the match. For hundreds of years honey has been known as the best energy source. Sugar content in honey is the most logical reason, since sugar is the body's main energy source.
• Accelerate Wound Healing : Honey works as a natural antibiotic that was able to defeat the deadly bacteria. Honey is acidic, while bacteria can not breed in acidic conditions. Osmosis process in the honey can combat bacteria and absorb water from the bacterial skin wounds, such as a sponge absorbs water. In fact, RS University of Wisconsin Medical School and Public Health provide honey for wound therapy ulcers suffered by diabetics. The trial of a 79-year-old patient successfully heal wounds on his toes. The patient does not even amputated thanks to the honey treatment.
• Sugar Substitute : Honey can be mixed into drinks or food preferences. If you like to drink tea, try replacing sugar with honey as a sweetener.
• Prevent Cancer : Carcinogenic substances in honey acts as an anti-cancer so as to reduce the risk of cancer, especially for those at high risk of developing cancer, such as smokers, consuming liquor, lazy to exercise, and more.
• Help Calcium Absorption : The research team at the University of California proved that honey consumption can increase antioxidants in the blood. In fact, honey can help the absorption of calcium so that the body can use the calcium more optimal, especially for preventing bone disease.

Bassel or Basil?

Bassel Yaman

Hello,

I am Bassel Yaman, an Accountant at Beam Electronics Industrial Co.,Ltd. The management of Beam Electronics Industrial Co.,Ltd. requires your legal counsel in helping us seek redress from our debtors in your region who owe us money and breached our purchase agreement. We have an agreement with them that states if any purchase fails to meet safety standards, we should notify them within 28 days of delivery of the goods for a full refund or exchange. The agreement also states that the refund or exchange will be processed within 14 days of receipt of the returned goods.

We received these goods at our warehouse on the 20th Oct 2012. The seller was notified on the 26th of Oct, 2012 that the goods failed to meet safety test. The goods were immediately returned back and delivery was confirmed by the seller on the 28th of Nov.2012.The refund was due on or before the 14th of Dec 2012, but till date we have not received any money for the returned goods. I have contacted them numerous times and my last conversation from them, they offered to exchange the goods. An exchange is not acceptable as we no longer stock this company product for safety reasons. We need your legal collector in resolving this dispute. Please advise me of the best approach to deal with this matter, If filling for a law suit will be appropriate.

If you require any more details, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Regards,


Looking forward to reading from you.

Bassel Yaman

Accounts Director,

Beam Electronics Industrial Co.,Ltd.

3967-36 Wada, Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture 390-1242

Tokyo Zip 110-0008

Amazon Giveaway!

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It is give away time again!  A couple of times a year I giveaway free books and prizes to my readers.   This time I'll be giving away kindle copies of all of my books and a ten dollar gift card to amazon.com.  If you would like to win this lovely amazon gift basket follow me on Facebook or twitter and comment about it below.  I will pick one lucky winner!  Good luck! Here are the links!

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Comment of the Year

Posted yesterday is the best comment/response I have seen to date:

I almost deleted it and erased from my memory, but after reading this post, I decided to have a little fun. My reply, not that the recipient cares:

Attached is my retainer agreement. The fee split is 90% to me, after deducting expenses, costs, etc., with the remainder to you. I can’t wait to work with you Ms. Crystal.
Attached a retainer agreement as follows:

RETAINER AGREEMENT
This agreement is made by and between the undersigned parties. One party is an attorney, who will provide no real legal services because he is not actually being retained to so do. The other is Ms. Crystal Hokkien, a.k.a. Hirashin T. Maki, a.k.a. Sharon Trump, a.k.a. Hillary Tiachi, a.k.a. scammer.

Pursuant to this agreement, the proposed terms are as follows:
1) Scammer shall send a forged check to the attorney.
2) The attorney shall then cash it, retain his “fee” for performing no actual services, then wire the remaining funds overseas.
3) At some later date, the bank will realize the check is a forgery and claim the entire amount of the forged check against the attorney.

The real terms are as follows:
1) Scammer shall send a forged check to the attorney.
2) Attorney will forward the forged check, along with any emails from scammer, to the FBI.
3) FBI will discard the check and emails in the trash. 

Witnessed this day the 1st day of April, 2013.

Awesome.

Pasma - Real? ... or Myth?

Is Pasma real or just a myth?

Lately, we had discussed everything about Bangungot - the causes and effects, and the reality and fiction sides of the said disease. Now, let's have Pasma in our discussion.

Introduction

My grandmother often advises me not to take a bath after doing something, especially if I'm soaked with my sweat. The only reason is, Baka pasmahin ka!. I don't know how to translate it properly in English. Maybe this, You'll get pasma!. There's no English word equivalent to that, if I'm not mistaken.

Actually, its not only my granny who diligently warns me about it, but also my aunts and uncles, and my parents. I am sure, its not only me who experienced this kind of cautionary. Perhaps, all of us Filipinos heard it.

Pasma is a Filipino word origintaing from Spanish term espasmo which means spasm. Spasm, according to my dictionary, is an involuntary sudden muscle contraction. That is very much different to Pasma. Like what I had said, there is no English word for this.

Pasma is a unique Filipino illness. It is mostly connected or brought by heat and cold. Its when a the body's muscles (kalamnan) are said to be "hot" and should not be too quickly brought into contact with "cold," in this case usually meaning cold water or air conditioner.[a]

Filipino albularyos enumerated many causes, symptoms, and effects of this disease. They also know how to avoid and treat it by their folk medicine. Medical experts don't recognize this as a disease even though there were reports of people who died of this.

Signs and Causes

People who are execising or working and get soaked with sweat are usually the one who acquires pasma.

A person is pasmado if he has a sweaty palms, and if his hands are shivering uncontrollably. Pasma can also affect eyes, they'll get blurry. That's when you take a bath after reading and/or facing a computer for a long time, or before sleeping while you're hair is still wet.

Aside from the traditional cause of "init" and "lamig," which is a traditional concept sufficiently intact in the contemporary Philippine psyche to be accepted, alone as a cause for pasma, some correlation has been noted with diseases already recognized by contemporary medicine. For example, symptoms of pasma are similar to those found in people with diabetes mellitus and thyroid dysfunction. It has also been suggested that the complaints are often neurological in nature and may be linked to some kind of nervous dysfunction.[a]

The Sweaty Hands, which is one of the signs that a person is pasmado, may be caused by Hyperhidrosis. It is a disorder in which a person had an excessive sweat on face, hands, feet and armpit no matter what the temperature is.

Folkloric treatments for Pasma include massages using ginger, coconut oil, alcohol, garlic, and camphor oil. Soaking in lukewarm salted water or rice water is believed to cure Pasma, as well is Pasmang-bituka, a daily salted decoctions of solasi (Holy basil).[a]

There are reports of people who died suddenly and some became mentally ill pointing the cause to pasma. Even though there more reliable explanation of these cases, Filipino still believe it was the main reason. These victims perhaps just had done something pasmatic, and encountered signs similar to pasma.

I had once a neighbor who suddenly became mentally ill. My granny told me what he did before becoming like that. She said, Masipag kasi ang taong iyon. Nagtatrabaho ng halos buong araw, tapos hindi sapat ang tulog. Isang gabi naligo raw iyon pagkauwi ng bahay. Kinabukasan, nagkaganoon na siya. (He was a hardworking man. He was working almost the whole day, and his sleep was not enough. One evening, he took a bath after arriving home. In the next day, he just became like that.)

Have you read my recent post here, about my neighbor who was suspected to be an aswang? Some people claimed he isn't, that he just died suddenly because of pasma.

Source:
a. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasma

4 Foods That Makes Durable Satiety

Controlling food portions is important. People who are hungry even though he had large meals, often eating unhealthy foods, fatty, and high in calories.

As the body's main source of nutrition providers, eating should not just make a full stomach, there must be a mindset change. Eating is a process to include the nutrients that the body needs, so the food choices and appropriate portion should be considered.

If you often feel hungry when you have eaten fairly and overeating afraid because too often hungry, this diet can help you feel full longer, reported by RedBookMag.

Tofu

Tofu is that cheap food can you come across easily in a variety of places, ranging from traditional markets to supermarkets. Soft and tasty food has a high protein complete. By Jen Brewer, an expert on health, soy or soy sauce will keep you full longer. A study also says that those who ate tofu soup before a meal will eat foods 'big' in smaller portions. In addition, a small bowl of tofu soup contains only 50 calories.

Eggs

Do not be afraid to eat eggs. A study showed that people who ate eggs at breakfast will reduce the desire to eat large up to 330 calories. Those who eat eggs can also control hunger better than those who consumed carbohydrate foods in the morning, bread or rice for example. If you are afraid of the effect of egg yolk can increase cholesterol levels, you can eat the white part only.

Pumpkin

The food is one that is rare in Indonesia, but if you find it, you can eat this food as a hunger controller. Pumpkin pieces as much as one cup ends meet as much as 7 grams of fiber and provide nutrients the body needs, even better than oatmeal. Confused process into what you can bake.

Dark Chocolate

Not always chocolates make fat. Choose dark chocolate that is low in sugar and does not contain milk. A study done at the University of Copenhagen found that those who like eating dark chocolate helps someone eat 15 percent less at the next meal. But remember, choose dark chocolate, because chocolate is mixed with milk do not give the same effect.