Post Raya

My current situation is best summed up by my current FB status:

"three types of rendang, lemang, nasi biryani, ayam masak merah, dalca, acar, bread & butter pudding, chocolate cake, muffins later....diarrhea...okay not exactly, more like chilli overload...and my stomach cant stand too much chillies."

So I felt a bit hot inside my stomach and of course its acting up right now. My mood is OK although quite a few things made it hard to start the day.

First of all I would like to congratulate myself for writing so much this month. It must be because I've got new books which made me stayed up until morning to finish them and somehow it made my mind flowing with words and the excitement to write it down.

My stomach acted up since last night. I was reading Inkspell until 3am in the morning so I didn't exactly was sleepless because of my stomach. I managed to sleep until 6.45am and when I woke up went a few rounds to the loo. Anyway, I warmed some of the food from yesterday (even though they are the cause of my stomach ache) and get them ready to be brought to the office. I tried so hard to figure out a way not to throw away all these foods because I know I can't eat them all by myself (still figuring out. any help?).

I went again to the Big Bad Wolf warehouse sale on its last day yesterday. Everything RM8 went down to RM5. I managed to get Cormac McCarthy's and another. I also bought traveling book on Singapore. Well I know its just across the sea but since the book was cheap and it has maps and everything else to rectify my noobness of that place. I planned to go there during Christmas. However, I didn't save up anything to prepare myself for the trip except the accommodation. I am so worried that I will feel so bad if I went anyway without enough money for my shopping spree. I am still figuring ways to get around this problem though (and the book made me so excited too).

Being random and for the record, I drained my newly bought toner today and I feel that it is such a waste. It was my favorite too. I had packed (throw) everything into my backpack this morning as I shall live in my rented room during office days. So when I throw my backpack into the car boot today I saw that it was drenched. I know I didn't have my water bottle with me so I knew it had to be the toner or the eye make-up remover. I wished it was the eye make-up remover instead. Apparently I didn't screw the cap tightly. I am so down (as I always do when I feel things go to waste) that I can't wait to go to Singapore and buy a toner. It had to be from oversea to compensate my feeling of loss. And we are back to money issue again. WHERE DO I GET THE MONEY TO SHOP IN SINGAPORE is the question.

As Geraldine said (and I know she is bored with my ramblings on money shortage) I am forever with money issues. But of course, I will always be so until I earned at least RM3k. Although I know by the time I earned RM3k it will still be not enough. In short, I will forever have the money issue and people will be so annoyed at me for thinking that I had money issue. In my opinion, I can think I have money issue all I want as the outcome is good i.e always be on high alert on your money consumption. I also believe that I need to be this paranoid to avoid from really being a shopaholic. I mean I love to shop but I always went for the high quality things with good price and I still can stop myself from buying everything that I want.

So the sum total of my morning is the feeling of wastage, money issue and how to go on a shopping spree in Singapore. Oh I forgot to note that I am so happy that 70% of cars are not on MRR2 today! I believed that 60% of KL citizens consist of families with school going kids. Which also summed up that they are the ones causing traffic jams. Which also means somebody should take measures to ensure children safety when they board school buses so that less car can be on the road just to send and fetch them from school.

Now let us go on to Raya stories. hehe. I am not sure how I feel when my 28 year old cousin said he is not sure to tie the knot with a girl who was doing her chambering the same time as me because she is a (future) lawyer like me and people like me argue a lot. Ok basically they argues a lot and in short he thinks we lawyers argues a lot. I asked in front of his mother and mine including my second aunt on why hasn't he made an honest woman out of her yet since they had been together for such a looooooong time. He answered with a question: Why you have no boyfriend?
I immediately know it must be related to the stigma that lawyers either talk a lot or argue a lot or opinionated or all of the above. So I just non-nonchalantly list all of the above for him and he picked 'arguing'. But I also somehow picked out that his mother was not so fond of the girl because she is a lawyer. I feel so sorry for her because I had met her and because my aunt must have based her judgment on me. Because I was so opinionated and live my own ways since I was 18 which is quite a taboo as she is quite traditional and my cousins listened to her. Even my younger brother listened to her on whether he can or cannot sleep at my house when he went back to our parent's. I didn't say it was altogether a bad thing and I didn't say anything about my brother because it is somewhat good for him.
I am the only one in our family network who are going to be a lawyer soon and it seems nobody are following my footsteps. So I didn't blame her if she based her opinion on me. Although I do feel that it is quite shallow and what a lost. Because my attitude is rare even among future lawyers. I am somehow the weird one. It only confirmed that people like them (and there was so many of them) will forever avoid educated women from entering their family. Which is why there are so many delinquents and juveniles out there. Because future husband and in-laws choose uneducated women into their family as they are easier to control and had almost no opinions at all. So these uneducated women will just give birth and have no idea on nurturing children's mind.
Well at least educated women do received formal education and it's proven by their qualifications. Surely people with knowledge are different than people with none. Surely there are exceptions. But this is the general rule. Surely there are difference between children borne by a graduate and children borne by, say, SPM graduate. Surely.
What I am saying is, it is such a lost to my family that my aunts simply had no interest in securing educated people as their sons and daughters in law for the well being of mankind. Its a different story if there is no one else but this person. The problem is when there are choices they simply choose the timid one. It also baffled me when all of them went to universities too. Well I guess I'll just settle with my blog and let out all my opinions to random people as in the near future I shall have a very thin chance to have a family discussion without hurting their feelings because they don't get what I mean or couldn't accept my boldness in stating the obvious. As it is, all my female cousins my sister included didn't get me and while they enjoy calling each other stupid and fat they simply cannot have an ordinary conversation with me because I am so weird.

Brother's Graduation

I took one day leave today to go see my brother at his graduation day. All I can say is...it was worth it.Before i got to Uitm Shah Alam, i bought a flower bouquet for him. I totally forgot, what do they call 'kekwa' in english? anyway, i'm glad i didnt buy at inside the uni. its expensive and ugly. and i can see that he liked it (and i dont expect him to say that its pretty because he's a man). Later in the day, we went to the studio and he took the pic with my bouquet. he got quite a few from each of my kids sisters and from my aunt.
All of us had not planned to be there on my brother's convocation together. I actually planned to take only a half day leave.My father didnt take any leave. my mother did. my two kid sisters skip school and another sister goes to her short semester classes as usual.But somehow or rather, before my brother come out of the graduation hall, all of us were there. It is quite a rare sight because we dont quite live together in one house anymore. I live in my own place. My brother live with our cousin. my sister live near her campus.

My father and my mother are university graduates. However, they did not attend their graduation ceremonies. back then they were too busy to do so. It was my first time too. but i explained to her about the protocol, the dean's list, the vice-chancellor's list etc etc. btw, i go into the hall with my mother because my father couldnt make it in the morning.
We couldnt see my brother in person except via the screen in the hall. not many family members were allowed into the main hall. only some people who came early got to go in there. anyway, we were glad that we didnt have to sit outside. we got into the next air-conditioned hall.after the ceremony ended, we got to see my brother. his skin is already dark due to his outdoor job. his robe is navy blue and he wore everything in black. I told him that black is not suitable in the circumstances. i did asked about his graduation outfit some time ago. he said he got everything covered (Its so hard when he is so far away. I cant even double check the outfit for him).Then we went to take some pics outside the hall. my brother had with him two friends with professional cameras to snap all of his pictures. I didnt bother to check the model and brand. We were like celebrities and people actually leave our group alone due to the photographers tagging us everywhere. at one point of time all of us conquered the whole billboard as our background without having to share it with othe graduates and families. its amazing.
I wonder if the same effect will occur if i do the same for my convocation this october? haha.
Then all of us went out of the university to go to a photo studio. we didnt want to go to the one set up near the hall. we predicted that the queue is going to be long and the price might be unreasonable (just like flowers).
It was the first time in give or take 10 years since we grouped together as one family and get our pictures taken together.btw, all pictures will be uploaded soon. stay tuned! (:P)
hehe. i just wanna see how it feels like to wear a robe - feels good. even when its not yours. hahaha

Now that i had attended my brother's convocation. I had some rough idea on what should be done for mine. and i had no qualms of sharing it here:
1) I might want to wear something vogue for a skirt (baju kurung perhaps) since thats the main focal point after we wear the robe.
2) I will have to buy a new shoe (thats the next focal point).
3) I will have to plan in detail how to manage my family on that day (from morning til the end, what should they do?) maybe i should get one of my friends whos still in the U to be the program manager? seriously!
4) need to scout for the best studio in gombak area to get our pic taken right after the ceremony as its hard to get everyone together after that.
5) need to make sure they wear their best on my graduation day.
6) need to arrange something with my photographer friend.
7) must make sure that my parent stashed some cash for me so that all of the above can be done. (of course i cant pay because i'm poor).
8) need to get the ceremony schedule before it actually happened. or at least most info.
9) will have to decide when is the best time for other family and friend should come and go.
10) apply for a leave one week earlier.

well thats all for now. i'm tired already...i need sleep...tomorrow is work day!
to be continued!

Muslimah

those two last papers was really tough. I wont be surprised if for the first time I'm going to retake a subject. talking about being a repeaters, i have this ex-friend who repeats papers. Recently, she called me a bad muslimah and not amanah. well, i kinda dont get her definition of good muslimah or amanah. because my informers told me she skipped classes and tutorials, didnt do her course works, even had the gut to tell my friend to lie to a lecturer because she have not finished her work. that aside, how can a good muslimah and an amanah calls another person as not? Sure, i am defective in every ways.
but haha, i dont think i am as bad as that.
so what i'm thinking is i might be nearly on the same level as her when i do repeat a paper. heck, how can an amanah person and good muslimah repeats three subjects? here's what i want to propose. if i do repeat subject next semester i'm gonna believe you that i am as stupid as you. trust me, i am really degrading myself here. I really do not hate you. I just hate your stupidity and am allergic to it. haish, how can i be so sharp. but in return, i am allowing you to revel on my downfall should i really fall next semester. btw, i have a nickname for you: MUSLIMAH. thats a good name lah.
may u REALLY WILL turn out as a MUSLIMAH. (amin). like they said, love your enemy (though u arent) and they'll hate you for it.
i repeat, u're not my enemy coz just dont flatter yourself kay, i am my own worst enemy. why this sudden reference to this Muslimah? well, just now after exam i was really scared and feeling like a mountain is sitting above me. suddenly, out of the blue our faces met and we looked into each other's eyes. and i am like: YA ALLAH IS THIS MY FUTURE LOOKING BACK AT ME? yeah baby, this is what will happen to you if your result is bad.
Sheeesh, i'm a monster.
I wanted to breath fire. and you just happen to be right in front of me.
I plead insanity.
btw, please read my disclaimer if you dont like what you read. lol.

Note: I checked my draft today (28/2/2010) and found this entry. when i wrote it (17/4/2009) i decided not to publish it because its not nice and i dont want any bad karma come haunting me on my exam results. however, i have finished all my exams. i have technically graduated. plus, that certain someone have no chance to revel on my downfall since i didnt fall. and the reason why i want to publish it now is because i disagree at how people can go on labeling people another while pretending that they are holier. Maybe i dont take criticisms positively. maybe....
There are some people that i know that i believe are holier than me. and i dont resent it. in fact, i admired them. i have no problem against people that are holy or whatever.
I have a problem against people who are not aware that they might be beneath me.
Perhaps i am saying things harshly. However, i have always behave rightly in my social life. I acted according to my principles. some people may say that i am blunt, brutally honest, brutal, scary, intimidating and etc etc. But not one of it involves me taking anything from anybody. I always believe in placing things in its rightful place. what i take is what i interpreted as mine to take.
and i was never jealous of other people about what i dont have. because its not mine to jealous about.
In short i dont understand why people acted dramatically towards me. whereas i hated drama the most. i live my life to avoid drama. Only Allah knows how tired i am of the drama of my life.
I seem to be repeating myself here, but when i disagree with something i say pointedly about what i disagree about but when nothing change i walk away. simple. no drama.

Movin' out

Soooooo, the exam is over. as usual, I (and you) only realized what we have been studying this whole semester those 24 hours before the examination. Makes me wonder whats the point i've been attending all those classes and missed a lot of sleep and fun. I mean, we totally can just dont go to class, consult lecturers only to receive tutorial questions, or assignments etc etc for our CAM. but we totally CAN DO IT without classes. Its totally archaic to go to classes. we dont even have much LECTURES but we go to CLASSES. The only difference between this place and my old high school are: (a) i have to get in and out of different classes after one hour, (b) i can choose my own time, (c) choose the lecturer (teacher? er, how can we have a lecturer when we have class not lecture?) i mean TOTALLY RIDICULOUS.
talking bout ridiculousness. As usual, another admin probs that simply wont go away until everyone get up and educate themselves and upgrade their brain.
This semester, i had to fully vacate the hostel (mahallah) and not allowed to leave anything in the store. I've been thinking on how to transport all these stuff i have from level 3 to car park. So i get this idea to apply to the mahallah to be allowed to get my brother to help me move out using this old form that i had collected a few semesters back. Today, the staff told me that the form is no longer in use and i am not allowed to bring my brother. I thought about writing some 5 pages of complaint but thought the better of it. all i am asking is one hour for me any my bro clear out the room. !#$@#$@$%@$. will think about the solution later. plus, BOXES, i really need some BOXES. i am too tired to solve my moving out probs right now. I am writing now because i must clear my brain and put it out in my blog fore i can go to bed.

(this paragraph will not be published)

Monday Wrath

Budak ICT: "Slm.Sarah,kite prsnt rabu nti blh x?Aku xsiap g part aku..Aku nk setel prOjek aku dlu..1 kene submit mlm ni,1 g submit esok.."

Aku Budak LAw: "xpe ko present je rabu. aku present hari ni."

Budak ICT: "Present sorg2 ke?Bkn group?

Aku Budak Law: aku present lineage je yg part aku je. yg lain camne? khatir n onn? diorang present ble?

Budak ICT: xtanye dorg..Kathr kate ari 2 present ari ni

Aku Budak Law: ok


i dont know why people always get misleading notion that they are busier than me. hello, i'm just a person who does my job on time, do it with approriate time management, and be cool about it.
I'm just not the type to freak out, act as if the world is ending and act like i dont even have the time to lift my face and greet people nicely and speak nicely and normally. I just dont feel the need to pull the long and busy face. eventhough I AM ACTUALLY BUSY.
if some people ever saw me do that to them its only because they did that to me. just returning the favor. but honestly, i'm just acting. honestly, i dont even HAVE to pull that look.
i'm laid back but not stupid. mess with me and u're on your own. since when ICT or Engineering is more important than Law? since when law students are not busy? okay, even if you people are sooooo busy, try to ponder the fact that i am a final year student. and one thing from that is clear: I AM BUSIER THAN YOU NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY.
gosh, even my fellow course mates thinks they are busier than me. even my best buddies.
okay here's an education for you: UNLESS YOU ARE BETTER QUALIFIED THAN ME OR STAND HIGHER IN SOCIETY THAN ME. I AM NO LESS BUSY THAN YOU. AND AS LONG AS THERE IS 24 HOURS IN THIS WORLD FOR EACH PERSON, I AM NO LESS BUSY THAN YOU. SO STOP ACTING IMPORTANT. ITS NAUSEATING.
discriminating apart, it is true that sometimes crazy lecturers gave work in the last minutes. but people, do not do antything you cant handle. so, if based on experience you know that you wont be able to do this things people gave you. in the first place DROP THAT SUBJECT so that you wont be MESSING WITH MY LIFE . registering a course carries the obligation that you must do your part. you can fail the subject coz the effect is only on you. but dont ever fail your teammates. because their life got nothing to do with you.

well because i met a lot of people like this, i am always prepared, i prepared another powerpoint in case i had to do it alone.heck, i even had time to be overly prepared, how come these people are busier than me? hey dude, nobody suck sarah's blood. i'm gonna let you die of exposure first before u can do that.

P/s: i am hungry and pissed off and this post is intended in all directions it hit. whatver!

Public Intl LAw I Tutorial

wk 14 asgnmt 12 state jurisdiction & immunity:

whether Malaysia have criminal jurisdiction over X, a foreign national, on a foreign vessel, registered in state A in following cases:

(a) X discharges firearm which kills someone on the Malaysian shore while the foreign vessel of which X was on board is passing through Malaysian territorial sea.

(c) X has been accused by State B of having committed acts of piracy and the foreign vessel has just arrived in a harbor within the Malaysian territory.

if it does, what type of jurisdiction would MAlaysia be exercising?
How would your answer differ if X was a naval officer and the foreign vessel was a foreign warship?





.....Dear Friends (tagged or untagged...doesnt matter...), if you happen to have the answer to this questions especially handouts by previous students i will appreciate it very much to be able to obtain it from you,
the thing is...i've been spending the whole day answering this but it turned out to be wrong and I dont have the energy to re-do everything......since i have to move on to next assignment. thanks for ur time....thanks in advance..... T_T

Hari yg gelap

HAri ni aku tekanan lagi. Haih, tak habis2 tekanan. risau lak kalau tetibe aku jadik mental. tak ke riuh sekampung "Sarah blaja law sampai jadik gile". ishk2 mintak simpang ler. Final Year ni aku membuat rumusan bahawa kepandaian otak tidak lagi menjadi ukuran. sebaliknye kepandaian anda membodek lecturer-lecturer dan samada anda boleh buat-buat yang anda bodoh dan menerima apa sahaja arahan lecturer tanpa banyak soal walaupun betapa tak logiknye arahan tersebut. setakat ni aku punye integriti diri belum lagi membenarkan aku membodek lecturer. otak aku belum boleh terima arahan bodoh. diri aku belum mahu melaksanakan arahan bodoh. maka disebabkan itulah aku tekanan. adakah aku patut melupekan diri aku sendiri dan buat sahaja mengikut arus?
Memang sekarang ni lecturer akan banyak bagi arahan kerana subjek tahun terakhir lebih banyak coursework. ada beberapa subjek yang assessment mark nye 60% dan exam 40% instead of the other way round.
Mungkinkah aku akan menjadi the next encik Karpal? ya, memanglah dia hebat sekarang tapi mase kat uni dulu dia sangkut gak (ini lecturer aku yg satu university ngan dia yg ckp kat aku). Aku tepon rumah cakap yg maybe sem ni aku akan sangkut. and selepas mak aku mendengar hujah2 aku (termasuk la perenggan pertama tadi) maka mak aku cakap takpelah kalo aku nak fail. nak wat camne kan. of course la aku takkan saje2 failkan diri tapi ade high probability la nak fail sem nih.
aku ni memang ego tinggi dan keras kepala. tapi disaat-saat begini ego dan kepala aku dalam keadaan berbelah bahagi. pertama aku rasekan adalah benar untuk aku mengekalkan ego dan kepala batu aku dalam menghadapi kebodohan manusia. on the other hand, mase depan aku boleh terancam. yang mane patut dikorbankan? mase depan atau maruah?
Jangan ade sape2 nak blame aku diatas hal ini. hakikatnye mmg betul pun kebanyakan ahli akademik jurusan undang-undang mempunyai otak yang pusing. termasuk le practitioner. lihat saje encik Karpal. tapi utk menguatkan hujah aku....
ada sorang lecturer kat uia ni dah mental. padahal pernah tulis buku yg bagus utk student.
ada judge bunuh diri.
ada lecturer bergaduh dgn kwn baik yg jugak lecturer law sampai conteng buku yg diorang buat sama2.
ada yg hari2 oggling student atas bawah sebab nak tengok ape aurat dia yg terpapar dengan alasan nak marah kalau nampak. pastu sindir2 and siap bgtau lagi ape yg dia nampak. (aku rasa ini kire berdose gak...ko pehal nak tgk aurat perempuan? alihkan pandanganmu sudeh, takpun g ah soh lecturer perempuan yg tegur) - aku marah jek tapi tak pnah jadi mangsa dia nih.
ada yg kaki gossip. kalah gossip girls. haaai penat jek blaja sampai phd tapi kekampungan kekal melanda.
eh kalau aku nak list down memang satu blog pun tak habis daaaa.....
ape yg aku cube sampaikan adalah: kat org mcm ni ke aku patut hormat dan menuntut ilmu?
well aku membuat keputusan bahawa aku disini bukan lagi untuk menuntut ilmu. tapi untuk belajar cara-cara survival dalam menghadapi attitude orang. kire ilmu gak la. tapi ilmu yang tak perlu dibelajar kalau semua orang bijak dan baik. tapi disebabkan manusia jahat dan bodoh adalah seperti buih di lautan maka terpaksa la. bagus gak untuk hari2 bekerja nanti.
aku dah pun merancang mase depan aku based on semua di atas. memandangkan hidup aku sedikit sebanyak akan dimusnahkan oleh org2 mcm ni maka aku pun melupekan hasrat nak jadik lawyer. kalau ada rezeki jadilah. kalo takde aku dahpun mengisi borang SPA. pilihan kedua: pegawai penyiasat. mwahahaha.
tapi buat mase ni aku masih tensen kerana sejak sabtu aku tidak memproduce apepe untuk mengurangkan kesibukan aku. sebabnye aku takde mood. tapi sebab terbesar adalah aku menemui jalan buntu. drafting CP taktau wat. homework PP taktau jawapan. study untuk mid term ungs2050 - banyak sangat tak larat nak baca. study utk midterm PP - takde notes and taktau la hape nak dibace. maka dengan ini aku tensen tensen tenseeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
sekian.

Game and Crazy Lecturers - totally unrelated

Yeay! I'm finished with Westward III. although I am late from my target. it should be done on Monday but i was so dumb so it had to be today. Anyway, its not completely my fault. the power that be only grant me, well uh, a not to be proud of laptop.
Had it been higher specs, i might be able to play it perhaps in a day or two.

Anyways, whats new today? The usual cursed administration matters. We had come back from holiday to classes and found out without notice that most classes had changed venue. I had to change class twice for being in the wrong class just this morning. I mean, WTF? The least they could do is place something on front of that classes or else dont change the venue at all. I mean, there's nothing good about the new venue anyway. just the same. might as well dont change at all. What I most cant stand was I had to be late for 15 minutes for Prof. AB's Jurisprudence class! Of course this persona is the coolest human being while maintaining his greatness (take a bow. lol) while all of us shuffle into the class. We checked the new venue and actually waited there but some students plus the lecturer didnt know about the new venue so they just stayed at the old ones. While they started the class already, we were still waiting at the new venue. The lecturer thought we came from a class. actually no. but still, it wasnt our fault. So he had to lecture US on being a three quarter lawyer and everything so we must'nt be late and the lecturers should disperse the class early and condemning the administration for putting classes far away from one another etc etc. I dont mind he veering out of topic cos he always gets back on track in the end plus whatever he said is gold (well mostly) coz he's THE Prof. AB. Well it doesnt matter anyway cos Jurisprudence is a reading topic. Plus, final year is mostly like independent thing, so whatever the lecturer said doesnt matter much cos we must study by ourselves.
By the way, I went through a lot just to get into his class. Loved my schedule this semester. I havent had distinguished people teaching me for quite some time. I dont exactly know how long but its been a while. I cant drop my lecturers name for fear of being discovered haha. BUT I did worked for 'Prof. Dumbledore' and had submitted the completed task some days ago.

The second most important thing is I avoided STR class. I initially was in HIS class but I did what i always did when i want something and i made it! so i am now in MR class. Sorry STR, but ure just too crazy for me. How can you not understand that we are already in the only place in the coutry where the system requires us to take double of everything, and yet HOW DARE YOU act like a DIVA. oh well, you didnt get me NOW so I have nothing against you YET. Oh well, I'm EMO cos I just escaped from a NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE. I feel sorry for the remaining victims though. Already saw STR 1000 pages notes at the photocopier. As if we only learn THAT subject this whole semester. well good luck reading people!

Well thats life. you got medium lecturer all the times, crazy ones almost equal but the great ones well just a bit. I had PSYCOPATH lecturer last semester. even my MOTHER agreed (my parents always disagree with me) and even offered RM50 for re-checking should i ever flunked that subject. that one didnt even come to class but thats not an excuse for that one not to mark our paper and impose his/her expectation as if we all aspire to be the textbook author. I got C for that one. I cant start on this one. its going to be never ending story.
We had some lawyers teaching us practical subjects this semester. One guy said he will bar us from examination for three times absence. Wargh! so crazy! the ordinary minimum requirement was seven (i guess) but no, he had to had three. BTW, WILL I GET AN A FOR ATTENDING YOUR CLASS? (well, its not like aku ni kaki ponteng tapi memang takleh blah la bile lecturer nak DIVA-DIVA ni).

I JUST DONT GET IT. these people they dont understand. out there, not many people have all the time in the world to investigate why your CGPA is below 3 etc. they wont understand when we said we had to do extra works. more classes than ordinary law students at other institutions. we had to study more. we are graded on those subjects. we dont complaint on learning extra knowledge. we just want them not to burden us more than necessary. some lecturers even checked our notes (like in high school), ordered us to buy new statutes just because we own handphones, and watch what we wear. We want to be lawyers not some crazy people like THEM. So, just get done with it already. dont you had enough already? just let us study peacefully so that we can take care of our CGPA because now thats what matters. Well maybe when people start checking how we handle our financial, our notes, our attendance and our books to land us a job then we can focus on that.

I said all this because its true. I saw law firms vacancies for chambering/attachment students in front of Student Affairs Div. They wanted people with certain CGPA to apply. Its true also that big firms will check your CGPA before accepting you. this is relevant because CGPA signify your performance without having to check in detail. CGPA entitles you for an interview with big firms. now thats when they will have time to analyze. but not before that. kapische?

to study or not to study?

Hark O my dear friends, verily i am done reading the Chronicles of Narnia and verily i was quite influenced by the style of writing but not quite for this style was only featured in a few pages while for the rest of the story it was just like reading bedtime story to children. Nonetheless i was content with the story. Its amazing that while i am still in my exam period i can still start and finish a chronicle. what i meant by 'amazing' is that it is apparent that i did waste a lot of precious scanty times.

Today i went just for fun to check the result of world top university ranking. it was featured on LKS blog. According to wikipedia.org

The THES - QS World University Rankings is an annual publication that ranks the "Top 200 World Universities", and is published by The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The full listings feature on the QS website and on the THES website. They have been running since 2004 and are broken down by subject and region.

The ranking weights are:

• Peer Review Score (40%)
• Recruiter Review (10%)
• International Faculty Score (5%)
• International Students Score (5%)
• Faculty/Student Score (20%)
• Citations/Faculty Score (20%).

lets see how we stand in the world:
UM = 230
USM = 250
UPM = 320
UITM = 356

well not so bad.

UIAM = ?????

what? no UIA? hahahaha....well. whatever man. plus, serve them right for many reasons that only we the students know and also for making us sit for exams on three consecutive days while they gave us only three days revision days.

now back to myself. Thankfully for the first time since i was 19 i didnt suffer from my annual exam syndrome that i had to endure every time its exam. somehow my defensive measure this whole semester worked. when i dont hope. when i enjoy friendship more. i was set free. i am saved. the only time i was down was on the Nov 2nd after my company law paper. the straight exams was very stressful and i became emotionally weak the moment i was safe in my room. the fact that i didnt get to eat rice the whole day contribute to that too. and when i finally went to eat rice that night all the small things nearly brought tears to my cheeks...things like watching Amazing Race contestants reading letters from their families.

the straight papers is not without the good side (albeit very little of it) = we will end the exam sooner than most people. i cant wait for the exam to be over. my last paper was on the 5th. planning on what to do after last paper is very exciting. now i just enjoy the planning and leave the workability later. so what i have in mind?
1) to go to warehouse sale with my mother
2) to join environmental programme in Selangor that a friend graciously invited me to (for 4 days).
3) to Penang
4) to Malacca
5) to read Alexandre Dumas
6) to finish Research Asst task
7) to apply for internship in big law firm
8) to sleep all day
9) watch tv all day

okay okay thats basically most of it. the thing is before i can reach into the doing of all that. i must do my last paper first which as far as i myself see...i didnt study the tiniest bit. u see, those straight exams took my sanity away. the last paper would be LAnd Law ii. quite a dry subject if i must say.now if thy hast hearken my story, i shall take my leave and bade thee farewell. must study!