tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90027959017086337372024-02-21T05:00:46.239+08:00"to cause to be known"In English law, a writ of scire facias (from the Latin meaning "to cause to be known") was a writ founded upon some judicial record directing the sheriff to make the record known to a specified party, and requiring that defendant to show cause why the party bringing the writ should not be able to cite that record in his own interest, or why, in the case of letters patent and grants, the record should not be annulled and vacated.scire.faciashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833124277229692562noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9002795901708633737.post-54663772141039917632009-09-23T01:14:00.003+08:002009-09-23T01:36:18.613+08:00The Birth of Scire FaciasIt's fitting for the maiden post of Scire Facias to share, maybe what is/was probably my only shot at creative writing, after Accounting and after Grad School in Law the buzz word is KISSS.. Keep It Short & Simple Stupid... :P NO FRILLS, NO BUTS, NO IFs... Just make your point in the convo, short and simple.<br /><br />Glimpse of an Angel was written 1997, as an english project. It's actually a real life story which goes like... boy meets girl (in National Bookstore), boy feels funny (first time he like girl), boy thinks she purty, boy lets her go thinking... she'll be here tomorrow, ill have the guts to ask her name tomorrow. Unfortunately that tomorrow never came, what came was the frustration vented out in this little piece.<br /><br />Learn more about Scire Facias... check it out at <a href="http://scirefacias.blogspot.com">http://scirefacias.blogspot.com</a><br /><br />=======================================================<br /><br />A Glimpse of an Angel<br />by: D Chan, J Gochangco [circa 1997]<br /><br />Walking on this road of solitude<br />I realized I was walking my life through<br />And so looked around, that I did<br />And saw the world where I had lived<br />As I did I saw a sight not meant to be<br />A true sight of beauty that was she<br /><br />With sight of gold, eyes of pearls<br />With lips of the reddest rose<br />With the voice if a thousand angels<br />Which melts the coldest cold<br />One man’s eyes would but widen and unfold<br /><br />As I did stare cupid with his arrow came<br />And he let go with perfect steady aim<br />Fly arrow, fly straight, fly true<br />And in my heart a hole his arrow bore<br />And in that moment, that single point in time<br />Nothing else could be so fine<br />It was as if all heaven broke free<br /><br />And a second seemed like a year, a year, eternity<br />I fought long and hard to resist her beauty and charm<br />But I could not for to lose sight of her would do me harm<br />I just stared and hoped she’d stay<br />And as did she glanced my way<br />All sound turned to silence as our eyes met<br />And then I knew my heart was set<br /><br />For in her deep blue eyes one could see the universe<br />And in her sparkling gaze, heavens rays<br />A glimpse of her would make one swear<br />That she was nothing but love itself.<br /><br />But alas, as I glanced time did pass<br />And all at once no longer was she there<br />Along with her my love and charm<br />With hair of silk and gold<br />One with the wind her hair had flowed<br />With a touch worth a thousand deaths<br />I think not I shall see such beauty ever again<br /><br />But even so I see her without her being there<br />Her tender skin, those luscious lips, oh so fair<br />And sad and lonely this I feel<br />For she is but a dream and is unreal<br />Again in solitude there I be<br />For my heart aches and heaves to live in realityscire.faciashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833124277229692562noreply@blogger.com1