Had a lovely night out with friends yesterday. The movie was ok - Pirates 3 - thought that the storyline was utter trash but the effects were cool and Johnny Depp was on the roll as he has always been. The best part was still catching up a bit with friends ever since the hols began and results took its toll... Everyone still seems to be the same. Which is a good thing! Love all my buddies...

The banter that went around at the CoffeeClub opposite Cathay Cine was fun. A little of this and a little of that and I totally forgot all about the stresses of work and home and scriptwriting. Being with friends just does that to you - you forget all about everything else. Which is nice. Sigh. If only everyday could be like this. :)

I think I am just rambling. Like I've always been doing. Sigh. And catching the last train home was exhilarating - if I thought that was exhilarating, how boring is my life eh? :P

Cheers,
Raffli.


Grades were out last Saturday. What was new? Nothing. If not worse. Sigh.

Think I'm gonna be a bit emo-ish today. Please don't kill me.

I did so so so much last sem. Churned out tons and tons of notes. For contracts, for crim, for legal theory and even for lawr. And none of the effort showed. I was dismayed. I was disappointed.

No no.

I was APPALLED.

I wanted to CRY when i saw my lawr grade. It was so dismal. I'm ashamed. Very ashamed.

When i clicked on the button, the moment I saw my results, it totally failed to register.... Totally. Then I blinked twice. And started shouting and screaming and flailing my arms like a madman. And my parents were beside me. They asked what just happened. I told them what transpired.
And their words to me were just "At least you passed."

I was quite relieved when they said that - thought they would fall to the ground and foam at the mouth or something. Thank goodness. But another side of me felt really really hurt. I spent so much time doing those notes. All those notes. Not withstanding some people or someone who said that the notes were totally useless after I passed it to them/him. And I read full cases at least 75% of the time. I felt really really hurt. Yeah. I felt betrayed by the results.

I thought that I could change all the wrong things I did last sem. But no. Nothing changed. I'm just too dumb and incapable to survive in law i think. Either i get a genius cell implanted in my brain next sem or a miracle happens. Or I can continue slogging like a pig on batteries next sem, try my best, hope for the best and be utterly disappointed once more. They don't want just the answer. They want sparks of brilliance to appear out of the 2-3 hours they assign to you for the exams. Sparks of brilliance. Which I totally don't have. Sigh.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I had gone to take Arts instead and majored in Literature. Sigh... Esp nowadays.

Sigh...

But what's past is past right?

I've gotta move on.

Shop. Movies. Friends. Work. Eat. Script. Sleep.
Shop. Movies. Friends. Work. Eat. Script. Sleep.
Shop. Movies. Friends. Work. Eat. Script. Sleep.
Shop. Movies. Friends. Work. Eat. Script. Sleep.

Come here SuperGJon (my teddy/puppy), I need a hug. Like now.

Hugs. And to all those of you who need hugs --> Hugs from me. :)

PS: Maroon 5 and Fall Out Boy are great for those emo moments and those moments where u just feel like singing loudly to rhythmic catchy music.

Labels: Law School, Whining

How do you tell someone something that you find is really really hard to say and could potentially destroy your friendship as you know it?

How?

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Here I am back at home, watching of all things, The Little Mermaid on the Disney Channel. Very mature I might say. But the movie's great - I loved the movie when I was much younger and I still love the show to pieces. :) The songs are totally awesome. Who here dares say they've not heard of "Part of Your World" or "Under the Sea"? Such classics... Sigh... :P

This week has been awesome - extremely tiring but extremely fulfilling.

Every weekday's been spent at the office at Clarke Quay from 9am-6pm. Very very dry work poring through hundreds and thousands of documents but the company totally makes up for it - what's been excellent for the week has been what happens after work! :)

Monday saw me trying to borrow a coat from a friend in Hall so right after work ended, I went down to Hall to get it from him but he was at Wushu training. So I waited for him at a friend's room in Hall and all 3 of us went for a late dinner at Clementi at one of the many food courts there. Wasn't much for me to choose from so I ate Fish & Chips instead which was very nice but after many hours of waiting just suddenly didn't seem so appetizing any more. But it was still nice food! Reached home at about midnight when everyone was already asleep.

Tuesday was Phantom night! :) Made it a point to reach the MRT station beforehand but since I reached there super early, I went to grab a quick bite at the Food Court in Raffles City - Prata. Very slow but it was rather nice and it settled my grumbling tummy somewhat. And Phantom was just awesome, awesome, awesome! Brad Little was on fire and Ana Marina was perfect! Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again was excellently done and I thought Brad Little was just superb in every single song that he did. :) And it also helped a lot that I was watching it with my hall friends - was a total riot and I couldn't stop applauding after almost every song! :) The cast was on fire! Lovely memories of Phantom now... :) After that, we went for drinks at Starbucks at Raffles City since everywhere else was closed by then. Lots of laughs, lots of catching up. Lots of fooling ard with the camera.

Labels: Friends, Law School, Phantom, Raffles Hall, Theater

Labels: Friends, Law School, Raffles Hall, Theater, Whining

Hi people... I'm finally home after abstaining from going home for 3 whole weeks because of exam prep (a.k.a. last minute studying) and exams (a.k.a. journey to hell and back). And I will be home for the next 3 months, having not chosen to stay in Raffles Hall during the vacation. Saving some money for my next trip :)

The last night in RH on Friday night was surreal. It really was. But before that, a short assessment of exams is in order. Definitely.

There were 3 examinable modules this sem... Ooo... But they were tons and tons more difficult than last sem's modules I thought and the readings this sem were a total killer.

Legal Theory (the crap that I never understood during lectures but finally found quite interesting in the weeks leading up to the exam - Hart, Dworkin, Fuller, MacKinnon etc... I will miss you all. Right. Never.) The exam was, relative to the other 2 exams (contract and crim), the one I did with most ease - notwithstanding the fact that I had about a week to cram in all the theories I learnt from 2 months++ worth of seminars.

Total hoot, especially with people telling me that I was screwed. Lol... The library in Raffles Hall became my home and me and my hall mates crammed in there from like before dinner all the way till breakfast the next morning. Emerging totally groggy-eyed and sleeping till 3pm and later for *gulp* lunch. Wonderful memories. And this lasted all the way to the very last exam. Lol.

Contracts (the crap that I prepared tons of notes for, for tutorials, for lectures, that came to nought because I thought the paper was damn tough and I didn't have enough time to finish the last part of the last question and I still have no idea where operative mistake comes in in one of the questions and which someone thought that my notes were crap even though I spent days labouring over creating all my notes from scratch but the module with the best tutor I could have ever had). Tough tough paper. I came out of the exam hall pouting. Wasn't a very good experience - prob the paper with the most atrocious handwriting I've ever seen myself doing. But the essay was ok - kinda saw it coming so was prepared for the question. Its scope was a bit too broad though but I think the essay was ok overall.

Criminal Law (the crap that constituted 8 whole modular credits and the one that I procrastinated upon most of all because I thought I had made a lot of notes for crim but I realised that some of them were incomplete and I couldn't find the others that I had created because it was somewhere in my comm but I didn't know where I saved them and the one where unfortunately one of my friend's laptops died a few days before the exams and his notes were all still inside the comm and he had still not printed them out yet). Quite a tough paper in my opinion as well. Esp the last question where I got incredibly confused between Gang Robbery cum Murder, Common Object and Common Intention. But I managed to wax lyrical about s300(c) for murder - dunno if it was necessary at all but I managed to quote Prof Sornarajah! :P Just glad that intoxication didn't come out - read very little for that.

Overall, I thought the exams this semester were tougher than last sem. Happy that they spared us the horrendous take home exam fiasco that was SLS but sadder that they made the papers slightly tougher.

Guess what? I have to start embarking on reading the stuff for Yr 2 Sem 1 soon... Like about a few weeks down the road. Coz I need to finish my script for the Raffles Hall Production by the end of the month and I've got directorial duties for the whole of next sem which will consume most prob 75% of my time... Boo hoo... No time to join NUS Choir and run for Law Club Academic Sect. Sad sad.

But I've got big ideas for next sem's production. Hope they go through. :)

And yes... Friday was a surreal and happy-sad day... The moment Crim ended, we rushed down to Brewerks for lunch where I had seafood spaghetti. Do not get that. Unless you like mussels and shellfish. Which I totally don't like. And I am also allergic to prawns. And they had tons of prawns. And then K-Box happened! I was quite revved up to sing stuff but somehow when I got there, all my tiredness set in and I just sat at the corner and promptly fell asleep without meaning to. Sang a song that sounded rather throaty then went back to hall for photo taking! And then supper at Fong Seng with a few close hall friends. Me and my hall buddy spent the rest of the night watching endless videos on youtube and tv-links without any particular purpose. Hilarious up to the point where i fell asleep and didn't wake up till 12 in the afternoon after my mom gave me a call to order me to pack up because my dad and uncle were coming down at 3pm.

Packing up suddenly felt very sentimental because the room was home to me for 1 whole year. 5-316. I'll never forget those numbers... Sigh... I'll miss my room. Plus my room mate who's moving over to Kuok Foundation, my neighbours whom I hope I will stay close to next sem and my close hall friends who are not staying in Raffles Hall next sem when room ballotting begins on the 21st of July. Sigh... Great memories in Raffles Hall - will never forget them and all the people that made my 1st year in Uni, Law and Raffles Hall so enjoyable.

And I am SO NOT ATAS... Seriously :P I love chicken rice at hawker centres :)

Till next, ciaoz... :) Photos coming up in the next entry!

Labels: Friends, Law School, Raffles Hall, Whining