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.

Kampung doors at DEMC.

Okay.

I am in a steady relationship with an incredible girl who is not only supportive but astute (which means if cheat on her, she'll sure find out....but i won't cheat on her so we'll never find out).

I go to Sushi Zanmai and not have the sushi. Any sushi i eat are of the blue plate-omelette variety because i dislike eating raw food. I wanna eat something else when i go there but i keep having the same chicken katsu curry, small (cos it's cheaper..... have to save up).

I like eating fast food. Duh. Damn obvious since I look like Danny DeVito. With better hair. Maybe lah, i dunno it's up to your preference but I'd like to think so.

I have two tubes of hair gel that i never use becos my hair always seems to drop back into the same side-part no matter how much gel i use...... and when i sweat, the gel drips down to my face and it gets sticky. Plus, i hate the smell of hair gel.

I'm okay at making friends ( i mean, i'm not socially retarded.... not anymore) but I'm very bad at keeping them.

I am scared of jungle bars.... i don't think it's called that. It's the thing that's made of metal bars connected like cubes stacked on top of each other. When i was in standard three, i saw a friend who climbed right to the top slipped and fell, this was from the top cube about five or six layers up, she fell, banged her head on the bars, and i think broke her arm when she hit the ground. I never climbed those since.

I can't wait till uni starts again cos:

1) I want the whole lunch at AC while doing tutorials cos last night i fell asleep reading *insert subject*........ okay, i lied. I just fell asleep, i didn't read anything.

2) I miss the Law-mates. I miss my BFFF. I miss Winston (what is Han Solo without Chewie). Justin D. Wong (suddenly sounds so cool, his name) dah takder.... Khiara pun..... but still the group dynamic is intact, i guess.

3) I'm getting new classmates. Can't wait to meet them officially.

4) I wanna ask Wei Guan where she buys the awesome looking nasi lemak..... drooling from the amount of sambal.

5) I want the good old days back. Yes, the good old days (you know the look I'm giving you right now).

6) I was mostly a second lower student in Year 1, I wanna get a second upper in Year 2. If not, Sara dah tak boleh percaya me anymore when i get confident.

7) I can't take much more of holidays, I've run out of movies to watch and things to do and people to meet up with.

People think I'm funny. Then they think I'm emo. Then they get tired of me.

I watched Zodiac last night and I think Leigh Allen did it. I didn't finish watching the Strangers cos it was too scary. I onli watched 20 minutes of it. I watched the Exorcist(the original one) all the way through as a kid. I love horror movies. Cute, psycho chicks turn me on. Possession turns me on. Physical and mental torture turns me on. I would like to know what goes on in the mind of a killer (not any of those manslaughter cases, true insane, lonely, disgusting killers). I wanna play Fatal Frame with friends. In the dark. With nachos. I don't know why people think secretaries are slutty and are the objects of desires but i agree with them. Somehow, they're just hot.

My favourite snacks are TicTacs and Rocky.

I find that life is fun but it's cold and empty at night and i hate spending it alone.

I don't break out in dance and song like i used to anymore.

I would like to own a gun.

I would like to use a gun.

Maybe I shouldn't own a gun.

How do they get the creamy part of the twiggy in the center? Does drinking red wine out of a hollow skull taste better than in a wine glass or is it just for effect?

I would like to own a hollow skull......... don't laugh. I have a gun.

I tend to lie to get me out of difficult positions.

I get more negative comments than positive comments which leads me to think people hate my blog, but somehow they keep coming back to post more negative comments. People don't have nice things to say about me but they keep reading this shit. I feel like Living Lohan.

I do not watch Living Lohan.

I hate Twilight and all of it's preteen madness but i am on team Jacob becos i like my men buff and un-pale with a cute smile. Edward Cullen is like a satay stick with gel. How does he get it to stay up? His hair.

I wish i could stop time without looking constipated.

I just wish i could stop time.

How many of you thought of Hiro Nakamura?

I wanna play Society.

The doors at DEMC are not kampung. Or yellow.

I'm sick, tired and hungry.

I do like to find delight in other people's sufferings, it somehow takes my mind off of the shit going on in my life, makes me feel that I'm not so bad. However, there is no disasters or catastrophe on the news and no scandal on E! so I have to face my thoughts... my very depressing thoughts.

Next week, I kena balik kampung. Okay, some people don't mind that. I do, I hate it. Not only for the destination, Kampung Pulau Pandan in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan (which receives the lowest amount of rain in Malaysia) which is already bad enough, two hours in the CRV with my siblings fighting for legroom, the shit-filled roads and fields (cows and chickens), no movie package on the Astro, no water heater, very bad indoor plumbing, power cuts and muddy water in the bath tub. What turns me pale everytime my dad mentions the word kampung is the family.

Yes, the extended family, the uncles, aunts and cousin-mousins. Well, not really the people so much as the way I have to treat them. It's the smiles. You know, don't you? The smile that's so fake it makes you vomit blood. I have to feign interest in whatever shit is going on in their lives like I give a rat's ass about who got knocked up again or who lost their job for the upteenth time or how so and so got into a public university, wow!! or how so and so flunked out of said university, oh no!! I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!! Okay, it's my fault really cause since I was a kid, all I was told was to jaga hati orang tua and be polite. Well, it's been ten fucking years and the orang tua still aren't dead yet and I'm fucking tired of keeping this up. When raya comes and everyone begs each other for forgiveness, that's two scoops of chocolate flavoured bullshit with crap sprinkles in a cup. Noone means it. Fine, you cry your eyes out and apologise but two weeks later, we're all at each other's throats, gossiping shamelessly. Why do I go along with it? Cos if you don't, tak dapat duit raya. And that's what raya is about.

I'm feeling down right now and noone can make me feel better.