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Archive for June 2007

Oh. Revived.

14 June 2007, 7:32 am. 15 Comments. Filed under Holiday.

Thanks for everyone’s support in the past couple of days. I really felt I had to rant out my feelings because oppression drives people nuts and letting it out helps a lot :)

Well, after all that, I finally finished my exams this morning. It was law and… Surprisingly, I found it much easier than the past paper questions. First and second essay was alright but the third was just crazy hard: “Discuss the development of these changing perceptions…” It was a little hard to elaborate on the development of changing perceptions because… What happened? Social changes feed into legal changes, so courts decide on cases in different ways. In the end, I ran out of time to finish the final sentence of my final conclusion. So we leave it at that.

My friend has her last exam in five days so she was pretty relaxed about it and we went shopping in the city, shopping at the local mall, and eventually watched Shrek 3. It was funny and yeah… Finally getting to talk to someone out of my family for the first time in two weeks felt really great.

Post-Menstrual Syndrome

10 June 2007, 3:13 am. 10 Comments. Filed under Rants, School.

I just need a person to talk to, a shoulder to lean on and a hand to wipe away my tears when I cry. It’s truly a lot to ask for, isn’t it?

Perhaps it was a mistake to skip to university a year earlier. I miss being in high school and all my friends are still there. Now, I have one close friend in uni, and barely any time for us to chat face-to-face. Over the last semester, I had five classes in a row per day, but with two extra days of break per week. When I stay at home, I still have no friends. One could argue to say that I have my virtual life, with my laptop as my connection to the rest of the world, but I don’t want to be “just another person behind the computer screen” all the time.

From the beginning of 2007 till now, I’ve been out three times with my own friends. (1) Dinner party with workmates; (2) Movies/pool with some friends in April; (3) School ball in May. This is a true case of “deprivation of socialisation”. So I argue with my mum, and she says socialisation is not important for me. How great.

When I lost my ace of hearts, I replaced it with a joker. I wrote “A <3" on it, but I can't rub off that grinning joker face.

Bloody Lawyers?

7 June 2007, 1:35 pm. 12 Comments. Filed under Rants.

Despite my long-term aspiration to be a lawyer, I do have to agree with the adjective that’s often linked to the law profession–”bloody lawyers”.

A judge who was seeking $67 million from a dry cleaners that lost his pants has loosened the belt on his lawsuit. Now, he’s asking for only $54 million…
(sourced from USATODAY.com)

As studied in class, the professional view of law is neutral and separate from society, politics, economics and culture. And I thought… Judges and courts are supposedly there to mitigate the system of justice. Just how desperate can a judge be when it comes to… pants? Could this be a case involving racial discrimination perhaps?

In this particular case, I would, without doubt, hold the view of the “value antagonist” perspective on law, where the law is used as a tool for social “elitists” stays on top of the social heap, reinforcing inequalities of power. This was evident in many of NZ’s past statutes/cases concerning the Maori (natives) but I wasn’t quite expecting such apparent discrimination(?) in the courts at this modern age.

How distorted can one’s character become when they gain hold of strong power in their hands?

(I do have to laugh a little. I’m blogging about law. Exam next week dammit.)