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