Infected

How can you make it, if everything else is interesting except this?

You are in the middle of reading a book about bonds.. then suddenly you come across this:

Problem 1: How much interest expense should be recorded for the year 2008?

Bonds...interest expense.. You searched from your memory bank..Darn. Maybe it is bankrupt. Think again. Interest..interest..hmmm.. travel? Compute..compute..I have no more money to spend...poor me.. Oh! I still haven't read the new book of Coelho... I got to buy the book, Lincoln by David Herbert Donald but it is freakin' worth Php1,449.00 at Powerbooks. Expensive. I got to save...delayed project arrrg!...Mia is inviting for a little get together, last bonding with tin before she leaves for Canada...snap..snap... you wasted another 30 minutes.

Outside, the rain won't stop. Maybe there's a new typhoon.. so you switched on the TV hoping to get news about the weather (maybe Buendia-Pasong Tamo has already turned into a 'Pacific Ocean' again). But you missed the first half of Kuya Kim's segment, he is now talking about some endangered specie or something. You channel surf and news are about the SWS survey, Pulse Asia survey, everything against the government, corruption and every commercial break a teaser about the 'artistas'..'abangan, sa pagbabalik ng...'. No teaser about the weather? None. So you channel surf again... and then there she is... Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle)...hypnotizing you... and you're hooked..

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Helen: Yes. The law does protect spouses from giving testimony against each other but there is no such immunity when it comes to father and son, and they don't get to just make up a law because in their minds the love is just as powerful. What's at stake here is the integrity of this process. He committed perjury, he lied under oath and if we tolerate it we have to consider the worst-case scenario, the day may come where witnesses lie to help free premeditated murderers. This case, this case is the worst-case scenario. A murderer is walking free because the defendant committed perjury. Your Honor, you and I.. you and I walk into this courtroom everyday without clients. In essence, we work for the room. What he did to this room...and technicalities and fourth amendments.. He killed her and stuffed her in a closet. He killed a nun! He...

Ellenor: Helen

Helen: I'm sorry. He, he lied. We work for the room, Your Honor. We work for the room.

-The Practice, Season III Episode Title: "Infected" (1999)
Episode Written by David E. Kelly

Fast forward. Judge sentence? 20 years for perjury.

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Tsk..tsk..tsk..Be careful when you lie...

Focus... if X lies in...blah..blah.. blah..within the relevant range... stay away from the....gone..gone...gone..

And this Fox Crime Channel is also airing reruns of CSI, CSI Miami and CSI New York. You're addicted.... if only you could get a drug that would make you get addicted to accounting...

You open the book again. One more try... and then, an idea won't escape you...

So you find yourself writing about it.