IN few months from now, I will be joining thousands of others in the battlefield. The playing field holds very strict rules of procedure. Technicality is the common enemy. Everyone is soaked with fear of losing their fight for mere technicality. Countless energy, time and finances are sacrificed by each aspiring candidate. Like them, I share the same fear which I believe is customary.

The New York Bar Examination is impending and most likely unstoppable. I already conquered the same battle before but in a different playing field – the Philippine Bar Examination. It was a dreadful fight but passing it was truly beyond price. The first battle may be similar in some aspects but totally different in most of it. I studied four years in a law school in the Philippines and then took six months bar review as preparation for the examination day. Here, I just enrolled two months bar review class for the New York bar exam. Not to mention that it is even an online review class to which I paid around $3,500. So do not tell me not to worry because right now my anxiety level is already high.

But this one posted in my friend’s Facebook timeline gave me mixed emotion. It says, “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” - Margaret Thatcher

I know, I am hoping so badly… But I am pretty sure that I am sweating blood here to prepare for the big day in July.