Remember Christopher Lao? Well, he's been informed he passed the bar.Lao, whose video of being irate as his car floated amid floods became viral, is among the hundreds of passers of the 2011 bar examinations.
For quite a long period, he was the target of intense criticisms over how he acted while being interviewed by a television reporter. Now Lao admits becoming depressed over the meme and that he almost let go of his plans to take the bar.
"I went through a lot during those times. I almost quit review and planned to forego the bar because I got so depressed," Lao told Yahoo! Southeast Asia in a phone interview.
But now, Lao considers passing the bar a "wonderful blessing" after all the bullying he had to endure.
A graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Law, Lao has learned to embrace his new stature as a popular online figure. He also doesn't mind being a joke topic.
In fact, he'll use his online fame to pursue his advocacies in of course, cyber law.
"I want to have cybercrime laws, and prevent cyber bullying. As a lawyer, this time I would like to see good bills are legislated," Lao said.
After rising above his unfortunate internet fame, Lao bagged an online commercial and has conducted talks about the perils of bullying.
"I want to educate people on the dangers of cyber bullying, there's a study that three out of five people who are bullied have the tendency to become criminals," he said, noting that this is what he wants to prevent.
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