moot and academic

I’m still alive today and that’s something to celebrate about.

Dear Erica Iris, Here is your horoscope for Wednesday, January 14:
Use your analytical powers to break down your biggest problem into several smaller, more manageable chunks. If that seems too much, you can get help from a wise friend or family member.

Sana ganun lang kadali to break down my biggest problem into several smaller, more manageable chunks. Sana ganun din kadali to get help from a wise friend or family member. For the longest time I have managed to stress only my self into resolving my own problems. At any rate ofcourse I thought I was doing fine, but then again I’m no superwoman. Ano nga ba ang problema ko?

Simple lang, problema ko ang mundo, tao at pera. The typical problems of an average adult. But that’s not what I’m going to talk about.

I’m hurt whenever my friends make fun of my blogging. Hindi nila alam yun ofcourse dahil tahimik lang ako at nakikitawa habang pinagtatawanan nila ako at ang pagsusulat ko at since they don’t read my blog anyway, here’s my moment to emote about it.

Walang pakialaman, kanya-kanyang trip lang, respeto naman. 

Although meron naman may comment sakin na close din sakin na highly acceptable, he says that he chooses not to read blogs because for him that’s invasion of one’s right to privacy. so i guess at some point i do agree with him but then again we’re not on the same wavelength.

Writing is a my outlet, it’s not just another hobby like dancing or singing. When I first started blogging, it was for my own consumption only. Hindi ko nga alam na blogging ang tawag dun. It was my livejournal account. Noone I know knew that. For me, mas ok yun. Kung may makabasa man, at least hindi ko sila kilala and vice versa so walang effect sa existence ko as a human being in the real world. Diba nga in the world wide web, you can be anyone you want to be. Not that I’m pretending to be someone I am not but having the means to show parts of you which you never thought existed, it’s like “coming out of one’s closet”. Blogging was my private comfort zone. Until ofcourse people began to comment. It was with my friendster account. May mali nga naman ako dun, kasi mababasa for sure ng mga friends ko ang blogs ko dun. Hindi ko pa ma-moderate ang comments. Hindi kasi ako techie, basta nakakasulat ako okay na yun. But then ofcourse I had to change my course in blogging.

If I were to compare my writing then and now, it’s totally different. Although there’s always a give-away hint of Erica’s striking personality, the rest of it are all different. I don’t know if it has something to do with lawschool and work experience but i think it’s the bits of changes of Erica growing as a person. So there I began to write on a perspective of not giving away too much information of the who’s and the what’s. althought the flow of thoughts is consistent, hindi giveaway ang totoong nangyari at kung sinong mga involved. Okay na ko dun.

I had my fair share of mishaps in my blogging experience - that’s when someone who knows me by name and reputation accidentally reads my blog and bugs me on the details. So I guess blogging has other plans for me. I even felt offended once when someone i know reposted my blog as her own revised version without my permission and without quoting me or pasintabi or kung anuman. Talk about plagiarism and E-commerce Act, bloggers have rights protected by law.

Then a good friend finally urged me to make my own site after the flooding good comments I’m receiving, even my law professor commended my writing, that’s more important she says. But a bimbo as I am in the web world, she made my site herself. And ofcourse I loved it. My private comfort zone came to life again. Selected blog rolls lang. Until ofcourse my not so good writing became popular. And so I thought. Hindi pala, bloghopping/ blogdropping pala yun. I still encounter good comments and met some good new acquaintances. At eto na ang paksyon ng mga bloggers! And ofcourse I felt good inside again. With people nothing like me but with similar blogging interests, life can’t get any better than this.

Although there are still those who make fun of my blogging. I don’t give a d*mn anymore. 

It’s like how friends talk ill of my fraternity; it’s moot and academic. Siyempre that’s a different story.

My choice. My life.

Mootness - In United States law, a matter is moot if further legal proceedings with regard to it can have no effect, or events have placed it beyond the reach of the law. Thereby the matter has been deprived of practical significance or rendered purely academic. This is different from the ordinary British meaning of “moot,” which means “to raise an issue.” The shift in usage was first observed in the United States. (wikipedia)

As made applicable in the Philippines, “Well entrenched is the rule that where the issues have become moot and academic, there is no justiciable controversy, thereby rendering the resolution of the same of no practical use or value.” [Southeast Asia Manufacturing Corporation vs. Municipal Council of Tagbilaran, 94 SCRA 341 (1979); Yorac vs. Magalona, 3 SCRA 76 (1961)].