My new pair of Nike-s are named Pepper (singular name for the pair).

I really don't know what I'm doing. It just seems like I'm going with the flow of events, moving from one piece of assignment to the next. Reading up on topics just to regurgitate it onto an A4 paper, to be submitted before almost every other Thursday before 12pm. If not that, then it's preparation for tutorials twice, sometimes three, times a week. This sounds a lot like complaining. That's cos it is. For the most part. Just the usual weak rants of a Law student sick of the strain but there's a little bit more. Weak rant+1. I'll get to that further down.

Look, I'm not saying Law School wasn't the way to go. I'm enjoying it, the information, the new perspective, the mind-sharpening and grammar-obliterating exercises. What the +1 that I'm looking for is the purpose. I can do with all the work but i need to know the purpose. It's not the money, I know a career in Law can get you some serious cash, and it's not the thrill, I know the adrenaline rush you get when you step in court (or at least moot court) or finding that elusive winning argument you've been looking for in a losing case, I'm sure that feels awesome. I talked to a guy, it was his second or third year working in a law firm (not including chambering), he went on about how dirty some clients can be and how equally dirty the lawyers representing them are but then in the last minute of the conversation he just manages to squeeze in the sentence "but we lawyers also do a lot of good".

Do they? I wanna do some good, really, if good was a chick i would do her all night long (not that i can last that long, but you're not taking this seriously anyway). I'm not saying I wanna save the world (though i would like to save the cheerleader), but having a law degree and practising should enable me to help someone out there, right? You know, make someone's life easier a bit. I haven't seen it yet. I hear about it on the radio, i read it in the newspapers, it is happening but it just seems surreal and distant, like it doesn't involve me. Back in Form 4 I had no idea why i was studying Physics, it was so pointless to me, i knew my future had nothing to do with Hooker's Law (it's Hooke's law, i think) or Flemming's left hand rule but whenever you ask someone, they'll just say "Just study now for your future, don't bother with why, just get an A".

I'd like to think there's something good for me to do out in the world but I don't see what it is. But maybe it's the weakness of Man to believe that he serves a higher purpose than his own desires. Just a little lost.

Okay, enough with the ranting, have to get back to Land assessed work due next week.

2010

When I hit puberty back when I was younger, I was disappointed to find that my cracked voice did not sound like John Rzeznick from Goo Goo Dolls.

The White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland

In Alice in Wonderland, Alice followed the White Rabbit into the rabbit hole which linked to Wonderland. An interpretation of White Rabbit is adulthood. Always late, always busy, grumpy and condescending to underlings, suck-up to the establishment.

......... Law students are white rabbits.

For an alternate view (how very Law textbook author of me), the White Rabbit is also knowledge or an idea. The White Rabbit woke Alice up from her daze at the riverbank, and throughout the book she searches for the White Rabbit like a quest for knowledge.

I don't update much anymore. This Friday I'm going to go watch Storm Warriors with the Law classmates.

Things are different in second year. Remember in A Levels Biology (I'm sure I'm getting this wrong.... hell, I'm doing Law) in creating a culture of micro-organisms for a vaccine or something you put the micro-organisms in a flask and put in all the nutrients they need, then transfer them into a petri dish and see if they can match up to the big evil bad-for-the-human-body bacteria or something. This is second year law. They give you a week, a textbook, a casebook, and a bible. Then they match you against two tutorials in a week and a non-assessed complete with replacement class or compulsory event. You should just DIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!! Then come back to life to finish your work. I don't even have time to read a newspaper, What happened with the GST?! I get four hours of sleep a day, i wake up at three in the morning..... Jia Sen more pro, all-nighter with latte in the morning.

I am running out of money here. For ambience and wi-fi (cos my home has crappy internet service) I have been frequenting Starbucks to study....... a lot. What is a lot? In one month, I have succeeded in obtaining the Starbucks 2010 planner. Yes. The one that requires you to either pay twenty bucks straight up or get eleven stamps on a 'wish it' card. The one that I have is the 2009 planner (2009 is running out and i need a new one, though the 2009 planner is leather bound and looks nicer and you won't get curry stains on it, but still i like the planner). How do you get a stamp? Buy a grande sized drink. What's the price of a grande sized drink? Before tax, one grande sized caramel macchiato is thirteen ringgit. What is thirteen ringgit times eleven? It's not your fault, you're doing Law, we have bad math skills. A hundred and fourty three ringgit..... i think......before tax. Elisa helped. Together, we have spent close to, if not exceeding, 150 ringgit in a month at Starbucks.

Now, if you are thinking to yourself "A question raised with regard to this issue is whether Ikram lacks common sense for not applying the principle of cost and worth and in a system of balance, find favour with expending twenty ringgit to acquire the property in personalty?". I would say that you have the makings of an equity judge. Let me honour that question with an equity judge-style answer.

"My learned colleague is of the view that the principle of cost and worth comes into play with regard to this issue. I regret to say that I am not of this view, judgment set out as below. [The facts of the case are read out], following the general principle set out in Teenage girl v Cleanser and Toner 2-in-1 sale Ltd, quoted from Lord Justice Blake Carrington;

".......the test to apply in such a situation is a three-pronged approach..... 1) Is the value.... of the property increased.... if so bought with the sales.... item? 2) Is the cost of the item in anyway less as compared to the original price of the..... item? 3) Was the..... calculation obtained from the.... two earlier tests done by person or persons outside the..... school of law as we are incapable of doing calculations....."

I consider the law on this matter to be well settled and it is of crude timing and inappropriate gesture to step on its well established principles. In such a situation as to the purchase of an item with a rather confusing discount option, the three pronged approach must be applied in such an instance. This is not the case. I shall have further chance in elaborating this in due time.

I shall now proceed to change the topic multiple times to confuse equity students as to what is going on with many references to trustees, beneficiaries, lack of formalities and more references to cases which doesn't really have anything to do with the matter at hand and just to let you know if you haven't figured it out already, the matter at hand has nothing to do with equity what-so-ever but this Court is still able to exercise its powers with regard to equity due to the Judicature Act which has, as Lord Denning and Diplock stated, fused the courts of two jurisdiction like susu pekat and milo in milo fuze, though there exists an alternate line of thought who think Denning and Diplock are senile and delusional. Now, back to my judgment.

The matter pertaining can be distinguished from the hallmark case of Teenage Girl v Cleanser and Toner 2-in-1 Sale Ltd by the facts of the case. The Defendant has somehow succeeded in distracting all of you into thinking this has been about the planner. I just said i wanted the wi-fi and ambience. If i want the wi-fi i need to buy a drink. I like caramel macchiato. Small sized caramel macchiato is twelve ringgit before tax. If i just add one ringgit, i can get a bigger sized serving and after eleven purchases, obtain a planner.

Lord Adiel Emir Ikram of Taylor's

I agree with the judgment of my learned brother and stress that I do not have anything more to add to his judgment."

Wah, i damn puas.

Elisa, I'm really happy being with you, I love you, Kins.

One year anniversary with Elisa, woohoo!! One month celebration!

I miss my gilrfren...... Elisa went to Australia for the weekend, leaving me behind... i feel lonely. I feel so lonely i resort to talking to Nicol on MSN messenger. This was the conversation.

Adiel Emir Ikram says:
nicol......finish equity tutorial edi?

cong says:
no

............. I miss my girlfren.....

I am so sleeepppyyyyyy............*insert Sharon antennae movement*

Hey guys, i went to watch Sorority Row, Surrogates and Beyond Reasonable Doubt now in cinemas.

I liked Sorority Row best. Okay, I've gotta say, I watched the movie out of desperation, hadn't been to the cinema in weeks and was getting withdrawal syndrome, dragged Elisa to go see it. Had no hopes for it whatsoever, expected the suckiness level to be on par with House of Wax..... it was... okay. Now, i say this begrudgingly cos i was wrong about the movie. Sure, it was a typical slasher flick with no originality, cliche' right down to the 'oh my god i so did not expect that guy to be the killer (even when you so did)' and the' oh my god, the twist right at the end before the credits roll signifying that the nightmare continues (which was just lame)'. But it was still fun to see five hot chicks get killed one by one. It was therapeutical.

The premise of the movie started out just fine, okay yeah, sorority prank gone wrong resulting in the death of a 'beloved' sister and the best course of action would be to chuck her down an abandoned well and cover it up, i get it. When I was a kid, I broke my mom's vase, i buried it in the yard, so I can sympathise with the sorority sisters and the actions they took. Then, it gets stupid (if that wasn't stupid enough). A year later, at a grad party, the sisters involved in the murder and cover-up were being killed by some dude with a pimped-out tyre iron. By the way, i also buried starfruit seeds with the vase, i went through this phase when the onli fruit i ate was starfruit (it looked like Ultraman Joe's color timer).

Okay, the characters were the typical chicks you'd find in a slasher movie, you got your nerd, your leader of the pack and number one bitch, the follower of aforementioned number one bitch (asian to add variety), your troubled and slutty junkie-drunk, and your gooodie-goodie heroine. I liked the junkie-drunk and Asian chick. I had trouble believing the characters' decisions and personality for the later half of the movie. Take the nerd, she's spastic throughout the whole movie and in the last few minutes of the movie, she can handle a shotgun and saves the day? Spineless Asian chick who always needs her blondie friend around her somehow declines an offer to stick together and heads alone to switch off a broken jacuzzi with a flare gun. Weird. At least Blonde ambition with a mean streak stuck to her character the whole way. I liked the girls, they were snippy, sarcastic, mean. They had attitude, they were funny, you can tolerate the movie cos the girls are watchable (to me, anyway).

The most important part of a slasher flick, the defining moment of every character, has to be the kill scene. Disappointing. Okay yeah, Chugs the junkie-drunk and Blondie Jessica died in a fitting way, but the movie lacked two very important things, the stuff that made Friday the 13th and the Evil Dead legends, sex kills and gory deaths. You got five uber-ly (does anyone still use uber?) hot and meltingly schmelting girls and not one of them gets a nude kill? Not even the random passerby in the bathroom scene? You couldn't just let her towel drop to the floor as the killer stuck a tyre iron through her? You couldn't have killed the Asian chick when she was naked in the hot tub? Let me explain, sex kills do not necessarily mean a kill while engaging in sex, it could be a simple nude kill to excite the male viewership. C'mon man, give me something to get my heart beating for one reason, then flip it around and get it beating for another. Gory deaths are another matter, it takes skill, careful planning and execution so it doesn't end up looking too on purpose, like you're trying too hard. I'm just saying the deaths in the movie were too clean, too fast. It wasn't gruesome, it didn't make you cringe, you don't go home thinking if it were you getting that treatment, would it hurt as badly as it looked? You can't just kill them, you have to mutilate them. Try Saw. Or the Hills have Eyes.

The killer's motive. Dude, seriously. Too extreme. You just can't believe him. Dude, i would so not do what he did for the reason he did what he did. It was just so stupid. You couldn't come up with a better killer?

Watch the movie if you got some extra cash, RM11 isn't really a lot, the movie is good if you like the girls, just remember to turn your brain off at the entrance. It's also good for a few laughs and it's fun to get out of the cinema and talk like you're an expert on slasher flicks.

By the way, my mom found out about the vase several months later when we redid the yard. I got grounded. Sad.

I think Chugs is a cute nickname for a girl.

School has started once again!! Sigh, based on what Mr H told us in Land Law it seems there will be much sadness to come. And struggle. And prayer. But no butterflies.

I feel kinda good for year 2. I've decided to pace myself. Everytime I start something new, I'll be burning through everything, getting excited over anything, finishing all the work I have, stopping at nothing. Then a month later, I run out of energy and everything feels so tedious. Let's see if I stick with this, hopefully a month from now, I won't run out of energy without ever having burn through anything.

Gave a presentation for Lexicon with the committee members today. Damn, nervous wei. Seriously. I thought it would be just like when we gave the presentation to the Jan-takes. Wrong! Firstly, Professor Austin-Jones sat in for the presentation. That means I could not woo them with my witty charm. I'm pretty sure none of them thought i was cute. Eh, Jan-takes, you all thought i was cute or not? Secondly, I didn't expect feedback. You know when you sit in for a presentation and you hear someone say "any questions?", you shift in your seat and pack your stuff cos that means the show's over (thank God for that, my butt feels numb) but not these guys. It's like they couldn't wait. I have a good feeling for Lexicon this year, we're getting a bunch of eager, excited, fresh and young minds ready to take the reigns of Editorship (Editorhood?) and all the other un-important posts in Lexicon (kidding, you guys do more work than I do, appreciate it a whole lot more than I let on). Can't wait for the next meeting, get to know the newbies and brainstorm on how to make the coming issue better. Yup.

Guys, erm, do I smile a lot? I know I laugh like I have 30 Rock glued in front of my eyes but do I smile a lot? If i do smile a lot, does it look fake? Does any of this bothers you? Maybe not. This was brought to my attention, recently.