“IT'S not everyday that you meet someone like Ramil Comendador”, thus said Manila City Mayor Joseph Estrada after handing his P100,000 gift to the former who has recently passed the 2016 Bar Examination held last year.
Comendador earned many praises with his feat of being a janitor-turned researcher of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) who hurdled the high wall to the legal profession.
The new lawyer in Ramil can be a great inspiration to those who aspire to become one. He passed the bar despite the hardship of juggling his time being a husband to his wife, a father to his two kids and an earner who has to eke out his living while studying law.
While reviewing, he was made ill but that did not deterred him from reviewing his notes manifesting signs of his determination to pass the bar, considered as the hardest and most difficult to pass professional examination in the country.
When the result of the examination was released, Comendador could not believe seeing his name in the list of bar passers. He landed 914th among the 3,747 who made it from a total of 6,344 who took the examinations held last year. He instantly wished that he has no namesake making sure he was the one in the roster of those who successfully passed the exams.
Despite his being a newly bar-passer, he remains humble as he is now planning to continue his career with the Comelec not as an ordinary employee but perhaps as an official of the country’s poll body.
The bar examinations, which is held annually, is considered the ultimate test to those who wanted to have the prefix “Attorney” to their names. The proverbial “many are called, but few are chosen” can be applied to the examinations vis-à-vis with its difficulty and the low percentage of passers.
Comendador’s feat is commendable because he has shown those who aspire to become lawyers that his status of being a lowly employee was made not a hindrance to his dream of passing the bar examination. For him, no dream is too high to achieve for those who persevere and endure the steps to becoming a member of the bar.
While having sufficient economic resources and ample time to study law and take the review and the bar examination is an advantage, it is not the sole key for one to become a lawyer.
To others who had their legal education and wanted to enter the legal profession, Comendador can be an icon of success despite life’s challenges he faced and struggled.
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The opening of the Land Transportation Office’ (LTO) Driver’s License Renewal Office at Robinson’s Starmills in the City of San Fernando last Monday shall offer a great sigh of relief to those who will be renewing their driver’s licenses.
Despite being a government office inside a private commercial institution, it is a better solution to the problems faced by those renewing their licenses in LTO’s own offices. As can be noted, LTO offices offers less convenience to the public they serve because of congestion, the lack of air-conditioning and other facilities that provide ease to people.
Thanks to the LTO and Robinson’s Starmills.
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