Kris’ Brain Activity

Note, collaborating counsel.  Meaning, Atty. Lazo (My co-Board Member and a seasoned litigator) was supposed to be the lead counsel–the one to do all the lawyering, and I’ll just be decoration.

Last night, Atty. Lazo had to rush to Manila to attend to his son who got into a car accident.  I learned about it just before I walked in the judge’s sala.

Oh, crap.

Now, Im the leading counsel?!  Are you kidding me?!  Where’s the Vice-Governor (who’s also a lawyer)?  Where’s the Provincial Legal Officer?  Where are his assistants?

What the hell?!

Panic-panic-panic!

I haven’t opened my Rules of Court since 2007!

What do I do?! What do I say?!

You know, I feel so at home in the SP Session Hall, I never get nervous when I speak.  Perhaps because I feel so confident with my knowledge in parliamentary procedure and legislation that it’s so easy for me.

Pero sa court?  Pag litigation?  Ewan ko bakit kinakabahan ako.  And kinabahan nga ako kanina.  It’s a Petition for Certiorari with Motion to Issue a Preliminary Injunction.  Ano daw?

I called Atty. Lazo to ask if I should argue the case or what.  He told me to just ask for a postponement since he also wanted to appear.

Okay, I can do that.

I talked to the opposing counsel, who didn’t object to the proposal.

So when the case was called that’s what I said.  ”Move to postpone, your Honor, as lead counsel had to rush to Manila to attend to his injured son.” 

And the judge reset the hearing to this coming Monday.

phew!

Yes, na-survive ko din.  Akala ko wala ng Wow, Mali.

But before I left I said, “Thank you, Mr. Chairman…. uhhh… I mean, Your Honor!” 

Oh, brother… That just HAD to happen.

The parents and teachers requested last August 2008 for an outdoor recreational toy for the kids to complement their new swing set.  Due to budgetary constraints (and very makulit barangay captains asking for cement and steelbars all the time) I couldn’t give them what they want.

Until today. 

I bought this airplane teeter-totter at S&R in Manila at a cost of P12,000.00.  I originally wanted to have a slide fabricated here in Laoag but I was afraid of child-safety issues.  Baka mamaya hindi pulido yung pag-weld sa slide at may maaksidenteng bata.

So I went with this Big Stuff Ace Flyer Teeter Totter Airplane from S&R.  Atleast child-tested na siya.  And I googled the product sa internet at maganda naman ang mga reviews. 

When I turned over the play set to the children, hala, dinagsa yung eroplano.  The box says it can accommodate 7 kids at one time pero more than 15 ata yung dumumog sa laruan!

And then the parents from the neighboring barangays who saw the contraption requested if I could also give the same thing to their day care centers. 

Hehehe, ang mga obligasyon ng isang pulitiko, never ending. 

I should be depressed with all these requests, but it was just so nice and heartwarming to see the smiles on all the children’s faces.  Ang saya saya nila.  Not a care in the world, Oblivious of the adults around them.  Sige, ading, agayam kayo. 

Sigh.  This is why I am in government service.