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Monday, 26 October 2009

Saturday, 15 August 2009

  • These three months

    I can hardly believe that it's been three months already since my last paper. And now, my results would probably be out by next week. I'm anticipating. Well, not really. But it's a fact I have to face, albeit it could be a real hard one too.

    I had few trips planned and postponed, done a number of impromptu outings, some plans drawn but canceled, worked for a good two months, met a lot of people and answered a few false panic attacks.

    I would say it had been a holiday well spent. Doing absolutely nothing. Nothing as in without having to worry about anything or any responsibilities to account for. Except for, of course, dreading for that one day to come when I'll open that envelope with an eye shut and the other squinted swallowing in my own thumping heart in my own mouth.

    When I started work in June, I had plenty in mind. Knowing that I'll have to answer to job commitments, there'll be plans to be put on hold and sacrifices to be made. Like going out late nights when everyone else is back and missing a whole lot of wacko fun. But no doubt, during those two months I learnt invaluable experiences I cannot find in textbooks. I followed my superior and his partners to Courts and saw how real lawyers in the real world in action, followed him to various departments I never knew existed, worked on real lawsuits and assisted him in conducting seminars to real corporate people. I have to say it was overwhelming and a lot of thrill. For the first time, I understood why people wants to be in the rat race. It really was kind of cool! But I won't want to be trapped anyway.

    Went for a trip up north in Penang with Ivan and his family.
     

    Met up old buddies.





    Went skating for the first time! I did pretty well as a first timer as I've got some rollerblading background. I started rollerblading since 6 and can say to be a pretty good one too!


    Steamboat after skating.


    Partied a bit.




    Went to Quatro and this is their cool Winter room. It was literally freezing in there!




    In the meantime, lotsa hugs and cheers to my babe for being crowned Miss Melbourne Chinese International 2009!
     
    Woot! :)

    Photographed next to Bosco Wong!


    Saw my sick friend who was later tested positive for H1N1. Was quite worry at first. To make things worse, Ivan fell sick for a few days a week after that. Had fever on and off but never exceeding 38 degrees but thank God he's okay already. Just barely three weeks before that, he was admitted to the hospital for a week after a persistent headache for 4 days. Found out it was only a sinus infection. Phew! Thank God again it wasn't anything too serious! Boy, this guy really loves to scare the hell out of me, doesn't he?


Monday, 04 May 2009

  • Getting Older- Becoming an Adult (Legally)

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    I had a wonderful little celebration despite the fact that my exam is barely 10 days away. The guilt. Gosh. It's overwhelming!
    But then again, you only turn 21 once! I'm happy and I'm glad I had a really good one, one that has a lasting impression. Let me face the consequence now.

    I didn't get wasted on my birthday. I remained extremely sober on my 21st, which is something I'm glad also so I could enjoy every bit and savour every second of it.

    As I have already mentioned in my previous post I had a mini surprise bash in CF last week.
    Then this weekend itself I was treated to an exquisite dinner by my personal chef.
    Count down my birthday by the pool under the moonlight and finally, flew a smiley kite on my birthday itself!
    I haven't flew a kite in a decade it was SO rejuvenating! And God is so good He gave me an extremely windy and shady Sunday afternoon. The sun wasn't up til it was pretty late.

    I had wanted to fly a kite for a very long time but somehow it just never worked out. Then I was told that I'll be getting my 3rd surprise on Sunday itself. I was blindfolded and driven to a mysterious place (but half way there I managed to crack it. I'm too smart!) Hehe.
    We spent a good 2 hours in the park soaring high with my new Smiley kite. It was just so good!

    Everything went so well I can't fully express how thankful I am.

    Truly, God is good, all the time and all the time, God is good! :)

Saturday, 25 April 2009

  • Turning 21

    I had a wonderfully pleasant birthday surprise in CF meeting this afternoon.

    It was our last meeting for this term + farewell for some friends who'll be leaving soon. It was more like THEIR party rather than mine and I in fact was part of the organising dudes. My friend was playing some slideshows on the old committees when all of a sudden these slides pop out from the projector:
     

    For 5 seconds I just went totally blank. The photos are so familiar but none of them look anything like the old committee. Instead they look exactly like MY photos with MY friends of whom none of them have ever known or met before.

    Then suddenly it hit me. My friend secretly stole some of my FB photos and made them into a slideshow. Geez! And they started playing some kiddo version of the Happy Birthday song. So I made a wish and blew the candles and cut the cake. I don't have those photos yet because they are all still with my friends.

    But this is my half eaten cake


    And some birthday presents


    Guess what's in the red box?

    A violetish/pinkish satin/chiffon cocktail dress!



    I'm not nearly 21 YET. I have 1 more week to go. But I can hardly believe I'm TWENTY-ONE.
    21 sounds so old yet I don't feel old at all!

    Not so very long ago girls my age would've gotten married and have kids already but look at me man... Still stuck in YEAR ONE.

    Gosh.

    I actually thought I'll have a REALLY quiet birthday this year as exam would be only 10 days away on my birthday (it ALWAYS happens to me! ) so most of my college friends would be either back in their hometown or too busy mugging at home and all my other friends are sprawled all over the world.

    But these bunch of crazy people...

    the OLD committee

    and the YOUNGer one

    ...they colour my life in college.

    Without them I'll probably be one of those outcasts sitting by myself at one corner.


    Thank God for great friends! I couldn't have asked for anything more.

    I know the only reason my life has been blessed so abundantly is because of Jesus. I dare not imagine what it'd have been had I not known Him.

Friday, 24 April 2009

  • The curious case of a mad law student

    Wondering what's it like to be a law student?

     
    Stacks and piles of endless law articles.
    These are not compulsory materials however. But in order to score these are like the antidotes. Staple. They make your answers stronger and louder. And it gives the examiner an impression that you're smart and hardworking. Hence reward you with higher marks. More often than not, they make me go loco before they make me smarter.

      
    Textbooks. No comment.


    Inside the textbook. Pages and pages of TEXT. There's a reason why they call it the TEXTbook. NO diagrams. At. All.


    Cases and materials. These aren't compulsory either. But they help you understand the cases better. Usually textbooks state cases on their principles of laws only. They rarely state the facts of the case. Even when they do it's only a one liner at most. So in order to understand the case you'll have to refer to these.

     
    What's inside a case and material text? TEXT. Again, NO diagram. FULL text. They don't differ much from a textbook, save for their contents.


    The blue textbooks are statutes. The good thing about it is that we don't have to memorise every Act and every piece of legislation, contrary to popular belief. We can bring them into the exam hall and refer to them. With one condition, they must be virgin. That is, strictly no written notes are allowed except for simple highlighting.

    These are the few most basic and essential readings that must be done. The same goes for every subject. There are other readings that complement them, but I shall talk about them another time, when I do.

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........................


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