Vaguely reminiscent…

And I’m supposed to be sleeping but I can’t bring myself to sleep yet. Somehow. Weird lei. And I need to wake up at 5+ to do readings for tmr’s ICL if I wanna have breakfast with hall buddies @ 8 and to follow other hall buddies to Careers Fair @ 10 and meet law buddies for lunch @ 12. Sich is the life of a student. It didn’t help that I marginally understood today’s lessons on Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” (there was something about how society dealt or deals with inadequacies if different ways or something) and IRS (we went through a cheem treatise on EU and EC law and their interaction with international conventions and how EU states have to grapple with both domestic obligations with international conventions and how the community can completely trump that). And I’m bloody sleepy. It seems that I will need 2 cups of teh peng to survive tmr’s ICL.

Anyway, Amplitude 09/10 was yesterday and I had a ball! It was soo fun – my last Amplitude so I was actually pretty sad – been in Amplitude since Year 1 lei. But I wanna form an Alumni acca group thingy so we can join them next year to perform at Amplitude or at PhoenixFest! Wheeee. We did Enya’s “May It Be”, Emmy Rossum’s “Slow Me Down” and “Sing Me to Heaven” which were all well received whee It does show that numbers do not really matter as long as you do it slow, steady and very well! I’m gonna miss choir loads when I leave hall and embark on a mind-numbing legal career. Argh. ><

Anyway, true to my fashion of trying to spice things up, with the help of C, I came up with a script that was intentionally cheesy to the max!

Once upon a time, as all stories begin, there lived a group of students who chose to live in a land of books, labs and assignments. these students would always be stuck in a book or to their laptops, oblivious to everything. One day however, these students became tired of living their lives this way and all alone. With this in mind, they began a rousing prayer.

<<Enya – May it be>>

Then lo and behold as if by magic, many found another with whom they could share their lives with. They’d spend hours reminiscing and sharing deep philosophical thoughts – like why plastic bags flew in a circular motion on a windy day, as if blown by some unknown force which understood beauty in simplicity. Some however began to doubt: Was this the right person? Things are moving way to quickly – Slow me down please?

<<Emmy Rossum – Slow Me Down>>

Once however each one of them knew that this was right and that feelings were mutual, they kept on with their promises and married that very girl or boy that they met that fateful day – when they stumbled upon their shoes or when a book fell on their feet or when by some freaky chance, they got to sit next to each other in a module that had assigned seating. At one of their weddings where each of them vowed to live with each other through sickness and in health till death did them apart, they sang a tune to each other that further sealed this sacred bond between them. This is that very song.

<<Sing Me to Heaven>>

And yes you guessed it. My favorite line has to be about the plastic bags flying – it just somehow always intrigued me when I was a child. Till now still actually. Haha.

And so I’ll miss you Choir! We have one more thing coming up – PhoenixFest and then it’s adieu till long. Argh. I don’t want to go to work. Okay – SLEEP.

Yesterday’s hall exchange between Raffles Hall and Hall XI was some awesome shit Awesome way to start off a horrendous semester of school again next week. Haha… Did Dirty Little Secret + Insomnia + Bad Romance for Unplugged/Band – a small part of my fave songs in my head haha. Really awesome and fun day throughout.

Anyway, some more awesome shit!

I love the music and I love the graphics. I love especially the centrality of TV causing the detriment of everything else haha Enjoy.

Ok right this is a really really belated post for the New Year’s but anyhoooo – HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone.

(taken from Cl’s facebook – sorry sorry!)

Well well well. 2009 was a rollercoaster of sorts – it was mad. it was crazy. it was zany. it was fun. it was intense. it was a lot of things. i made a lot of very important friends. i think i may have created enemies along the way too that will make life a bit harder when work comes along. but 2009 was a year to remember. like all the other years of my life of course. but 2009 was somehow special in its own way.

As I sat in the chalet that night on the thirtyfirstofdecembertwoohohnine and looked to the heavens filled with stars and a beautiful cloudy sky where the moon was still beautifully visible, I looked to my left – I saw a big group of teens having a ball of a time creating a club in that tiny chalet of theirs and getting pissed drunk (coz the guys were taking off their shirts and puking all over the place), I looked to my right – I saw another pretty big group of friends barbecuing and getting drunk too haha and as I looked around me in the chalet, I saw all of my law friends with whom I had decided to join at the spur of the moment thanks to much cajoling on Ch’s part (thanks Ch!!!) – they were all smiling after having gotten drinks and having partaked in some really random drinking games. I was happy being there. Very very happy and I was glad that I was able to spend New Year’s with these bunch of people – friends with whom I’ve made acquaintance with throughout my life in law school which is sadly coming to an end in a semester’s time.

As a few of them started going around taking snapshots of people smiling deliriously and shouting happy new year abruptly at random moments, I felt a pang of regret for not having taken a million shots of life in school and hall with the disgusting books and notes and cases only made better due to the company of friends I’ve made in hall and in law school. *As you can see, this post does not really have a point but I shall ramble on coz I can’t seem to sleep even though it’s four friggin morning and I’ve got to be up by 10 in order to meet up with the guys at Ion at 12. Ya – okay I should have taken more photos but the few that I have I will treasure for life. It’s not the end yet but it is coming come the end of this semester and I’ve no idea if I can meet up with all these wonderful friends again once P|LC and the feared Training|Contract begins (the horror! – eepsss!) so I better make full use of my final semester with these wonderful people and spend proper quality time with them – I’ll miss you all so much when school ends!!! Shit. Why on earth must school end? Ok yes reality is supposed to smack a big wet stinky fish on my face after graduation but shit can’t it come a bit later? Dammit.

Anyway, I have decided (which was something I should have done eons ago) to not make up a list of stuff I wanna achieve by the end of this year coz chances are given my track record, they will not happen. Instead I shall write down things that WILL friggin happen.

1. Take a gazillion photos with friends
2. Get my butt down to Australia and New Zealand for grad trip and visit friends down under
3. Find joy (in whatever degree that will be in) during P|LC and TC
4. Party and work hard like there’s no tomorrow this final semester – it’s the final lap so I must friggin do well – last sem was pretty good by my standards.

Randomly, I never actually noticed how much greenery there actually is in RH. Randomly too I rarely notice people when they talk to other people – how their body language changes with the person they’re talking to. Randomly too it seems that I have forgotten to smell the grass and morning scents that come with the dawning of each new day – sounds terribly optimistic and harkens gay (as in happy gay) villagers romping (as in dancing and singing) around on mossy green fields of vast areas but I recall someone saying that lawyers are the most pessimistic of us human beings – I beg to differ (naaa-uhhh and swings fingers Elle style in Legally Blonde). Maybe I should seriously take note of my surroundings from now on. A bit late yes but I swear that’s why random insects enter my room all the time – and that includes *&^*&$*%^* mosquitoes that can’t seem to leave me and my blood alone. Bloody bitches. Maybe I should add another thing to the list – to exterminate every single blardy insect that DARES enter my room uninvited. But I know I can’t do that – the moment a cockroach enters the room, everything seems a blur.

And so with that, twothousandnine ended with me being in the company of awesome friends shouting at the top of my hoarse voice “five four three two one happy new yearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!” and then twentyten began like any other year, full of hopes and dreams and memories of events and people who have somehow crossed paths with me and filled a part of my everyday life, no matter how small. I thank you all for being there and being part of me in a way. Fate has a strange way of working but when things like this (and other things of course) happen, who should we thank? Fate? I don’t know. But am I truly grateful for everything’s that’s happened? Yes. By golly I truly am.

How did it go again: I eat you eat shit lobster? And what was the rule again: that you have to put up your hand to speak at all times?

Woots! – Happy new year people and may all of you (yes every single one of you) have an awesome year ahead. Wait. You WILL have an awesome year ahead. This year will be our year – we’ll make it that way.

before i forget about everything in the morning (on the assumption that i can survive without sleeping till tmr morning and actually go to class), CONCERT was seriously awesome fun! being on stage was of course awesome shit and acting and dancing (YES YOU HEARD ME) on stage was even more awesome fun! and the coolest / weirdest / strangest part of the whole thing was that i got to wear /nu.m/ singlets (YES YOU HEARD ME CLEARLY) on stage in a pose i never ever dreamed i’d ever be doing. OMG seriously. but it was awesome awesome awesome fun!!!

i can’t thank the bff enough for dragging me into this (and it comes perfectly in line in making my last year in NUS and RH a total blast) and to thank everyone for teaching me how to dance from scratch (seriously). hugs simyee, weiting, yuko, john, cheechung, huajun, simone, hweeshan and everyone else who made concert dance an awesome experience! i’ll miss dancing on stage but most of all, i’ll miss dancing with you all.

something about the stage creates an experience that keeps drawing me every single semester! i think i’ve done something on stage every sem without actual prior planning and every single one of them’s been awesome awesome awesome seriously. i’ll miss the stage when i actually start practicing law.

kk back to my i/p assignment and tons of US/UK and Singapore patent cases. EUGH. plus i’m supposed to finish reading and DOING (shit i have even more to do) the question for discussion in like 7 hours. woots.

much hugs to everyone!

In times like this, I really really wish I was in some other time when I was a lot more carefree. Like how I was in JC. I read everything I needed and still had time to laze around and watch TV and stuff. But Uni’s soooo much way more different. Sighs. In order to read everything, you’d have to stay up really really really late. Like now. 4am. Sighs.

The strange thing though is that I’m finding my readings intriguing. Which stops me from going to bed because I want to finish the whole stack. Ah. The joys of reading about unruly horses, marrying your own niece, getting married without telling your parents and of words like unobjectionable (somehow that word really really intrigues me to the core – no idea why. probably the idea of putting an ‘un’ in front of an already negative word).

And while doing work, Law IV music + Big Bang’s been accompanying me. (: The silence of the wee hours of the morning is refreshing really. Hardly anyone’s up when I went to fill my bottle with water at the water cooler a few steps down my corridor here in hall. Which is rare I must say.

Just a few more readings to go – no idea whether I’m gonna nap before going to class or not. We’ll see.

something tells me my final year is going to be a blast.

school hasn’t even started yet but with everyone back from exchange, it’s gonna be awesome fun figuring out where to go for lunch and with whom and who to study with in school till late. plus all the hall ppl are in the house! and i know almost everyone in hall atm by name.

this year will be fun. i can feel it.

Et alors, ce fin arrive finalement. And what a wait it has been. What a year it has been. What a whirlwind of a rollercoaster it has been.

Well, I’m done with the dreaded five-letter word – e-x-a-m-s – but technically, I don’t really want to think that it’s completely over. I’m still waiting for my law buddies and my hall comrades to finish theirs and it will be party-party-party from then on. Which would come in about 6 days!

Well, one of the things that kept me sane while preparing for my last 2 papers – Corporate Insolvency Law (which is an utter killer I tell you) and Law & Sociology of the Family was this game – Restaurant City. A friend of mine gave me the link on MSN whilst I was panicking for my Maritime Law paper and I’ve never looked back since. And for once (TODAY!) I got a perfect rating of 50.0/50.0!!!

Well, a short brief of what has been written in the annals of my 3rd year in NUS. And it’s a long list yes.

Raffles Hall Orientation (AOGL of Jack Sparrow with the most fun OG I’ve ever handled)
Unplugged (Random dinner performance, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Phoenix Fest)
Choir (Random performances, Amplitude)
RH Drama (5 Things I Hate About You)
NUS Stage (Back2Back)
RH Dinner & Dance (Headache of massive proportions but with the best company of friends and a great team = the biggest and most fun DnD Raffles has ever seen!)
Perth, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney (Where I got my camera and cash stolen when I was in the toilet – *&^$) 
Emoness (I better stop doing this in front of everyone next sem onwards)
Crazy days + Crazy nights with crazy friends (Awesome fun)
Awesome Malaysian Trip with Law + Hall Friends
Discovery of Korean Pop music via Wondergirls’ Nobody
Crazy research papers + Insane take home exams
Crazy fun and insane stress @ law firm internships (which I still cannot fathom the reasons why I even applied for internships)
Long long long eye-opening and soul-searching conversations in my room with friends (in 3A-406)
<3

And so another semester has passed and thus, another year in Uni is about to end. Once again, all our paths will split again for about 2-3 months where we’ll be doing other things to keep ourselves busy to try and not think of each other too much and to keep in contact via phone and msn. I’ll miss my friends in law and hall. Like loads. Loads. Loads. But everyone’s gonna have their bit of fun so it all works out well. I should be off to Europe for a month while B’s off to Australia. S and X will be off to Redang and myself, W, S, X, D and M will be off to Genting the weeks leading up to the start of school again.

However, as year 4 looms closer, I can no longer deny that the working world is beckoning closer and closer with every passing day. I make it sound like a monster that’s out to eat me with every step I take but I have faith that it is not one. At least not as vicious sounding or vicious looking. I cannot deny that I am afraid. Because I am. I am afraid of what comes next after graduation. What happens if I land in a shitty law firm with a shitty boss whose ass I have to lick 24/7? What happens if I land in a workplace full of conniving and astute people, perfectly in tune with the politics of the office which may be rampant and insidious? I do think about these things before I lay to sleep in my bed in my room at times and it frightens me but if I’ve learnt anything from my internships, hopefully it’s the knowledge that my future mentors will be understanding and more than willing to impart their knowledge and skills to me.

I must also admit this – the future scares me shitless. What happens when I move back home from hall after 4 years in Raffles? I don’t have my own bed. I don’t have my own room. I seriously hate sleeping in the living room. This however is great ammo for me to argue to rent a place with a bunch of friends but it will still be difficult for them understand the convenience and economics of it all. But I hope they understand. I really hope they do. Especially now. I need the space to do things that I want and need to. I am an adult.

As uncertain as the future is, at least I know I have a few things right now.

1. Friends
2. Family
3. Fun
4. <3

Thank you all.

In the midst of all the mad laughter singing to songs,

In the midst of all the mad highlighting,

In the midst of watching random youtube videos, especially that of ‘Friends’,

In the midst of having lunches and dinners (and the ever so rare breakfast) with awesome friends,

In the midst of reading up on Restitution for Wrongs and Equitable Wrongs and Breaches of Contract and memorizing quotes from Hiroshima Mon Amour and The Tempest:

I have discovered how to keep sane throughout all the madness. Something that I’ve always known ever since common sense entered my brain early in JC – friends are the source of support and smile. Awesome friends amazingly know when something’s terribly wrong and never fail to make your day. They spur you on to study in the most ungodly hours, sometimes till 8am in the morning. Together with friends, seriously anything can happen and will happen. Anything. And everything.

And you inevitably find out new things about each other and discover new music and new movies and new tastes in everything. Like how I found a few awesome Britney Spears songs coming up in her ‘Circus’ album. Pls pls pls listen to 1) If U Seek Amy, 2) Circus, 3) Kill the Lights and 4) Shattered Glass.

Hi ppl… The first week of school has officially ended! And OMG. What a week it’s been.

I end at 9.30pm 3 times a week and if I don’t get to change my Evidence tutorial from Monday evening to Monday morning or afternoon, I am absolutely gonna die. I’ll end at 9.30pm 4 times a week. The only saving grace thus far has only been Wednesday. I think. I end in the afternoon at around 4pm. I think.

And I’m already stressed. The first sign? I bought a can of red bull on Thursday night to last me through my readings. I slept at 6.30am that morning and had to wake up at 8am for a 9am lesson. For which I was late for because I woke up 30mins later than intended. Lol. And I’m slowly having a backlog! Omg. It’s only the 1st week. And I’ve got tons of stuff I’m supposed to have read but have not. Die.

But so far, I like the modules I’ve chosen very much! Maybe except for Evidence. But maybe that’ll be something I’ll like as the Semester progresses.

This semester, I’m taking 5 mods!

1. Evidence (8 creds)
2. Islamic Law (4 creds)
3. IT Law II (4 creds)
4. Restitution (4 creds)
5. Intro to Literary Studies (4 creds)

The modules are pretty exciting thus far (except for IT Law II which will only begin in the 2nd half of this semester because it’s an intensive module).

And I woke up this morning at 10am, refusing to wake up when the full morning heat hit my bed in hall. Haha. I’m going home later so hopefully I’ll relax a bit but I’m bringing back readings to finish up.

The reading list for Restitution is MAD but I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be manageable once I start finishing up chapter summaries and case summaries for at least the 1st topic. I’ve a feeling it’s gonna be as time-consuming as Contracts with rewards only at the end of the Course itself. =)

And hall looks set to be a fun-filled semester once more. Orientation ended last week and I’m still loving all my freshies in the OG!

That’s all from me as I turn back to read Andrew Burrows and his words of wisdom. 60 more pages to go. Jiayou.

Jiayou everyone!