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If you could peer inside me, what would I look like? If you could see through me, what would there be? Stained glass, colorful but unyielding; a bolt of silk, exotic and expensive; grains of sand in an hourglass.
I am black and white but I dream in Technicolor.
a.k.a. the slackest module ever.
First lesson of Topics in I.P. Law (D), the lecturer comes in and says:
So I hear we are supposed to have a research paper at the end of the course. I don't think we should do this. It is complicated for both you and for me, and I don't think it is necessary. Maybe we will have an examination. I will set some multiple choice questions for you on some concepts. For now we have to start the lesson, but we will discuss this later.
MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAM IN LAW SCHOOL. YAYNESS x 100. And do think that I only did this module for some sort of break from the humdrum of corporate modules.
Anyone interested?
Hiya all,
It's time for the thirteenth Singapore Open Gaming session. It will be happening on 10 March 2007, from 1pm-6pm. The location will be the same as the last time, at Blk 3, Queen's Rd #01-139.
As before, the gaming session will be open and casual. Bring whatever games you are keen on playing. Bring snacks/drinks if you feel like it. And just have a good time.
Feel free to invite your friends along. If you know someone who is keen on gaming, and just having a good time, bring them along. If your regular gaming buddies are looking for a decent gaming location, come on down.
So here are the details again:
SOG XIII
Date: 10 March 2007
Time: 1pm - 7pm
Venue: Blk 3, Queen's Rd. #01-139. Resident's Community Club Hall
Cost: $2
Sha (very observantly) pointed out the little pink hearts in my eyes. Whad'ya know. I was gonna put up some cheesy love song but ah well.
From τελέω - to end, that is, complete, execute, conclude, discharge (a debt): - accomplish, make an end, expire, fill up, finish, go over, pay, perform.
Literally, It Is Finished.
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Postscript - on the class roster, there are 30 LLB and 20 LLM students registered for the class, making a total class size of 50. In the IVLE workbin for submission of assignments though, there are only 48 files. Wonder which 2 poor souls didn't submit theirs.
As my CTR essay slowly but steadily eases itself towards the 5,000 mark, I can't but help glance at the tiddly bar at the bottom of the screen every couple of minutes or so. Thanks to the good folk at Microsoft, the new-for-2007 version of Office (well, Word but you get the idea) allows you to track word count changes word for word.
Much like how interminably time passes when you are excruciatingly bored, the word count seems to be inching upwards, even though I seem to have been doing a flurry of typing. Odd. Well, slightly under 500 words to go. The end is near!
Research for globalization essay starts next week.
That one day...
Oops, wrong blog.
Anyway, though I have been sleeping normal amounts, I had a dream last night. Unlike people who spend their lives perpetually in bed so they always dream, I don't dream very often. What was weirder was that I can actually remember it!
It was my wedding dinner, and I had inexpicably agreed to sing 'A Whole New World' from Aladdin as a duet. Unfortunately, halfway through the song I forgot my lyrics and people started throwing chocolates (I guess, the gift you take home at the end of the dinner) at me. I tried to catch some but I didn't manage to. So I just stood there feeling stupid.
Then my brother woke me up cause it was time to go play soccer.
Who can explain it
Who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons
Wise men never try.
from the musical South Pacific
Snurp, v. A method of ingesting spaghetti or other noodle pasta through the nasal cavity.
Cockchafer, n. A device used to prevent the excessively fat thighs of broiler chickens from chafing each other.
G.S.C.C. Guanzhen Sells Cock Chafers!
We've Never Been Licked: Movie about an undefeated netball team who faces up to another highly talented team, the New Hampshire Tongues.
All my assignments would look something like this...
#include <readings.and.research>
#include <vocabulary.of.synonyms>
#include <plagarism.checker>
/** The more than and less than signs usually used to enclose libraries don't work because of html so I replaced them with the block brackets **/
/** Sandra helpfully pointed out that the code for the correct signs are & l t ; (without the spaces) and & g t ; . Huh. You learn new things every day. **/
int wordcount
main()
{
for(
wordcount<5000;
printf("rand(readings.and.research)";
wordcount++;
)
if(plagarism.checker) = true;
then (synonimize);
else()
return(essay)
}
DISCLAIMER: This does not bear any resemblance to real code and my programming skills are sorely rusty. sighhhhh.
Well, the survey's a little meh but I thought the picture of the girl was kinda cute...
| Your Mind is PG-13 Rated |
 Your mind is definitely a little dirty. You're naughty, but not trashy. You don't shy away from a dirty joke, and you're clearly not a prude. |
Did you know that cyclically permutated 3 digit multiples of 37 are still divisible by 37?
E.g.
37 x 19 = 703. 370/37 = 10
37 x 23 = 851, 518/37 = 14
Try it!
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For the exceedingly mathematically inclined among you (although I suspect that out of the readers here it's most probably me, myself & I) it also works in other number systems.
E.g. for base 16:
0x37 x 0x19 = 0x55F. 0xF55 / 0x37 = 0x47
Another day, another team visiting Stamford Bridge only to lose by a wider margin than their performance deserved. For much of the first half, Norwich City gave as good as they got, coming agonizingly close by hitting the post and with Cech sprawled and most probably beaten, had a goalbound effort hacked away by (*gasp*) surprise surprise, Khalid Bouhlarouz. (who, just back from injury, was later unfortunately injured again)
But then again you sensed that Chelsea were always in control of the match, and once SWP saw his shot fortuitously deflected into the Norwich net it was always going to be one team going into the draw for the quarter finals on Monday, and that team wasn't the one owned by some chef/cookbook author.
To be brutally honest, 2-0 or 2-1 would have been a fairer scoreline, and Chelsea generally looked disinterested and pedestrian after Drogba went off. Shevchen ko put in a good performance though, and while you can't really say he deserved his goal I'm sure no one will begrudge him his effort just before the full-time whistle.
In other news, Happy Lunar New Year of the (Muddy) Pig
True story!
It took me less than 5 minutes to produce this lovely collage in Picasa, which would have taken me at least an hour in Photoshop.
Oh and, Happy Birthday Sha!
Or even if you do, but just don't feel like doing it. Why not pop some bubble wrap?
But since this is the internets, pop it virtually of course!
Pop some bubble wrap
See how long it takes for you to finish a sheet. I managed to shave my score down to just under a minute before I decided I had better things to do in life.
Well, not women, one woman in question.
Simple young lady with complicated needs... well, needs a man to treat her like a lady.
Highly driven, outrageously successful, mindblowingly interesting, exceptionally hot and a painful, painful TEASE... In other words, you can GO ELSEWHERE(i.e. get lost) to get your fix from a slut cos I'm not one.
Need a man who
1. HAS AN EXCELLENT COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE(for the love of god!)
2. Is just as successful and driven(otherwise you'd look REALLY, REALLY stupid beside me)
3. Is preferably also in the legal field(and I don't mean paralegals/pupils dripping with green snot)
4. Is either Brit, American, Phillippino, Middle-Eastern, Hispanic or ABC
5. Is BIG- at least 1.75m tall and 80kg- in other words, no scrawnies please
6. At least knows that Frasier Krane is not something you eat with your spaghetti(Kelsey Grammer's incredible talent is open to debate even though I'll smack anyone who so much as tells me he stinks); well-travelled too
7. Loves beautiful cars and sports(so we'd at least have something in common)
8. Is NOT a lecher or sex-mad frog
9. Has a sense of humour and wit about him(very important!)
10. Knows how to appreciate the uncommonly beautiful
And... it would help if you look like Colin Firth or Julian McMahon =)
Most of all, I need you to be at least 35. No boys please. Comprende?
Apparently she's 22, so if she is in the 'legal field', that would put her as a.... fourth yearer? *boggleboggle*
Sigh, sucks to be an almost, but not quite, 'pupil dripping with green snot'.
After what seemed like an eternity of procrastination, I have finally buckled down and begun writing my CTR essay. And well, whad'ya know? It isn't all that hard? After about an hour or two of mucking about, I find I have close to 500 words already. That's just about 10% of the paper done, in 2 hours! Plus I wasn't even putting in full effort and concentration.
Yay. I just might be done in time after all.
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And for what it's worth, Happy Otherwise-meaningless-if-not-for-mass-consumerism-aimed-at-loving-couples-with-a-point-to-prove Day.
Here's a rose each,
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which doesn't require carrying around and is immortalized here for posterity's sake.
And specially for sandy, a balloon:
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Sha - don't says:
100% exams and u don't really go "what if i screw up"
Sha - don't says:
40% test and u are freaking out
Sha - don't says:
geez
shevchen ko says:
BECAUSE
shevchen ko says:
ITS CLOSED BOOK
Sha - don't says:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sad but true. After 3 and a half years of open-book goodness, I have lost the ability to take closed book exams. Not that I ever had the ability in the first place, if JC was any indication. But I have just about 9 hours to cram 4 weeks worth of law & econs into my head. A head which is, mind you, already chock full of all sorts of useless knowledge there is no space for anything useful in there.
Although I /can/ tell you the 50 US States and their capitals.
New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
Start spreading the news, Im leaving today
I want to be a part of it - new york, new york
These vagabond shoes, are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it - new york, new york
I wanna wake up in a city, that doesnt sleep
And find Im king of the hill - top of the heap
These little town blues, are melting away
Ill make a brand new start of it - in old new york
If I can make it there, Ill make it anywhere
Its up to you - new york, new york
New york, new york
I want to wake up in a city, that never sleeps
And find Im a number one top of the list, king of the hill
A number one
These little town blues, are melting away
Im gonna make a brand new start of it - in old new york
And if I can make it there, Im gonna make it anywhere
It up to you - New York New York!
Geek style, of course. What else is there?
From beerandnews.
So we all know there are some law firms with showers, etc for when you'd rather not go home but pull an all nighter. You'd look fresh, but what about your clothes? Enter the T-press, which (surprise surprise) irons trousers for you, making sure your trousers have the freshly laundered look to impress that hot intern the client you overnighted for.
Hmph, could've used this while I was in the army too.
On the right, you might notice a link to the archives. For some reason that I am inexplicably unable to fathom, blogger insists on showing the number of posts in each month's archive. As far as I know, this phenomenon does not occur on anyone else's blog.
Can some enlightened soul point out to me what's so special about my blog, that it seems to feel the need to show me the number of times I have posted each month? And even better, deign to impart to me the knowledge on how to rectify the problem?
Materazzi headbutted again as Inter extend winning run
Inter Milan maintained their 11-point lead at the top of Serie A and extended their record run of consecutive league wins to 14 matches with a 2-0 victory at 10-man Sampdoria.
But the game was marred by Inter's Italian international defender Marco Materazzi once again being the victim of a headbutt.
Materazzi was the man infamously butted by French superstar Zinedine Zidane in the World Cup final last year.
On Sunday, it was Sampdoria's Gennaro Delvecchio who was the guilty party and he was sent off in the seventh minute for the assault.
Angered by a late challenge on Inter keeper Julio Cesar, Materazzi exchanged angry words with Delvecchio before the Sampdoria midfielder's head hit him squarely on the chin.
An expanse of water must be a few kilometers wide in order to show any noticeable signs of the coriolis effect.
Toilet, sink, and tub water spin in a direction determined by the shape of the bowl or the direction of flow (toilet) or agitation (drains).
Ergo, it is a folly to think you can tell whether you are in the Northern or Southern hemisphere by the way your toilet flushes.
Well, not exactly overheard, but only in law school will Bible references be referred to as citations.
Ross: "My next citation will be from 1 Corinthians 1 verse 10."
- because I'm too lazy to write it all up coherently, here are some random thoughts floating about in my head.
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poor sheva. again :( Salomon Kalou was a decent sub though, like the last time. Looked lively, and had a decent attempt on goal seconds after coming on.
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Yay, John Terry is back. No more leakyleaky defence. In the words of Mourinho, "Now that Terry is back, the gap [between Chelsea and Man U] will never get larger than 6 points again."
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Anyone else remember Wayne Bridge being this good at crossing the ball? And why does Chelsea have 2 left backs of such quality, yet have absolutely crap right backs?
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Is it just me, or did Liverpool display a total lack of imagination trying to break down the Everton defense? In a game they knew they absolutely had to win - Merseyside derbies are like that, plus with Chelsea playing the second from bottom team you'd figure they knew they needed 3 points to keep up the pressure on them. Yet they kept to the same strategy for most of the match, involving Jermaine Pennant or someone knocking the ball into the box for Crouch to chase, even when it became obvious that Stubbs and Yobo were relishing the prospect of knocking everything as far away as possible. True, it worked against an exceeding makeshift defence of Essien and Ferreria - both not centrebacks, mind you - but as they say, not everyday is a Sunday!
And in the final irony, arguably the best chance of the game fell to Andy Johnson - at the other end of the pitch, mind you - which you figure would've been a goal had he been at full fitness.
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And on to the local scene...
Really, the Thais only have themselves to blame for not winning. 1-0 up, Singapore playing exceedingly badly (even by our own standards!) and presenting Thailand with a number of gilt-edged opportunities to go 2-0 and kill the game, yet they didn't grab their chances. And then they conceded a goal, and that was that.
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I totally missed the play right before Singapore's goal - the tv was showing some replay, and they suddenly cut to the action and in 2 seconds flat the ball was in the back of the net. Anyone actually managed to catch what happened before that? Or is my brother right in saying that the cameramen were slacking off and there's no footage of the action before the goal?
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Both teams are really liberal with the magic spray!
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Oh, and the Singapore team physio/doctor(?) is sorta kinda quite cute!
Girlfriend pregnant error, [A]bort, [M]arry, [I]gnore?
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Oh, I had a whole bunch of things to say about the Elephant Love Medley, but I went to sleep and sorta kinda forgot about it the next day. I'll try to finish it up some time but right now I can't be bothered.
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So Kevin Tan is having some talk at 2 p.m. and I'm thinking of going. And I've been offered odds that I'll be the only year 4 LLB there. So, anyone wanna go along and split half the pot with me?
No, not me. The real thing. Your heart really goes out to the poor guy. What does it take for him to get a goal? A proper Premiership goal, mind you, not some freebie from opposition playing in leagues twice removed. Against Blackburn he had 6, possibly 7 pretty decent chances, but a combination of a poor first touch, weak finishing and a lack of self-confidence really let him down. Plus some last ditch defending from the Blackburn defence didn't hurt.
And to rub salt into the wound? Salomon Kalou comes on for him in the last 10 minutes, and within minutes of coming on he gets a goal, which you suspect Shevchenko would probably have either missed or hit right at the keeper if he were in the same position.
As an aside, there's some form of contradiction in the way the Premiership is working out right now. Blackburn come to Stamford Bridge, play attractive, open attacking football, and what do they get for their troubles? A 3-0 defeat, which seems harsh on them. On the other hand, some other teams come with the "well, a draw at Chelsea is a really good result so let's play for that" mentality so they shut up shop from the opening kick-off. With that sort of negative play Aston Villa managed a drab goalless draw, so what does that tell you? Moral of the story - everyone behind the ball doesn't seem to bode well, yet that's about the only strategy that'll get you remotely within sniffing distance of a point at Stamford Bridge. Talk about a conundrum.