Vietnam study trip briefing

Yesterday the briefing on this trip was at TBS.

TBS seems to be nicer than the main campus...=)

Vietnamese currency is the Dong

My mom was finding the Dong that my father had with him.

My father has a lot of different currencies.

Anyways, my father has in total 183600 Dong!!

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It amounts to only RM38.468!!!

LOLOLOLOL!!!

I'm bringing my Dong to class on Monday...=P

* I wanna play badminton!!!

Anybody want to play?

Ok...i gtg.

I have 6 cases to read by Wednesday!!!

Ciao.

The moot...

One word....BAD.

I'm not gonna post about the moot here, cause I'm too lazy right now to do it. =P

I'm just glad that it is over, and I don't want to do mooting ever again in my life! =D

Good luck to everyone who have yet to moot!!

Community Service..=)

No...I wasn't charged by the courts to do this....

The Law school has a Community Service club, and most of us are taking turns to visit this home called Trinity Home(I think). A home or orphanages.

We're gonna raise funds for the home to build them a mini library. =)

This is the first week we're visiting them. My group consisted of Maureen, Cassandra, Sanjeve, Sara, Fay/Fei/Fey(I dunno how to spell her name) and myself.

Fay is from the Jan intake of the law school.

Sanjeve picked Sara up, then he picked me up at about 9.20am. None of my friends have ever found it easy to find my place...=P

We met up with Cassandra and Maureen at one of the photocopy centres in front of Taylors. When Fay came, then we left for the home.

Maureen had directions to the place on a piece of paper, and she gave it to Sanjeve. We went in 2 cars, Sanjeve and Cassandra were driving. Cassandra followed Sanjeve's car. The directions were quite simple to follow, and we reached there in no time. 

There were about 15 kids there. Most of them are quite young. There are about 5 kids in secondary school.

The kids were all so cute, especially "Super Star"...=D

We are gonna raise funds by selling cookies and sweets(and cards I think) for Valentines Day.

Sara baked the cookies and brought them to the home to be decorated with sprinkles. The cookies were great!

The sweets were bought by Leena and were packed by the kids. 

After we were done, we played some games with them. Then some of the kids(well the older ones) played football with Sanjeve, Cassandra and Fay.

Sara and myself were playing with the rest of the kids, indoors. Sara played carom, while I was playing Uno Stacko(don't know what the real name of the game is). The kids playing this had their own rules...=)

You can hold the stack while pulling the tiles out! It was very funny the way they were doing it...=)

After a while, those playing football came in to play carom and the stacking game(I'll refer this game by this name...=D).

"Super Star" kept building all kinds of stuff with the blocks from the stacking game. He even built a church!!! 

Sanjeve took a picture, I'll try to get it from him.

The structure was amazing!!

It was about 12.30pm, and we decided to leave. 

When we left, Maureen wanted to go to Mydin to see if there are ribbons for sale there. Sara needed to go home, and Sanjeve needed to take a bath after football.

Cassandra took Maureen and Fay to Mydin, while Sanjeve sent Sara back home and then I went to Sanjeve's house cause he needed a shower.

After that, we met up with Cassandra, Maureen and Fay for lunch at AC.

After lunch, then Sanjeve sent me home. Fay also stays in SS14 and she offered to send me home, but Sanjeve sent me home cause I left my bag in his car. 

And now, I'm kinda tired, but I have to read up on the cases for the stupid moot this coming Thursday...haiz...

Cyaz!!

"NO, I CANNOT!"

This put the next hour or so into almost chaos!!

Today started of o...k. My parents left for Singapore early this morning to sort some stuff for my brother...leaving me and my sis with my grandparents. Well, that's not the story...=P

I had to wake up early to leave as I was driving to college on my own, for the first time I think, to get a parking lot near the SS14 bridge.

Fast forward to contract class.

"she" decided to start by recapping what we studied yesterday about fundamental breach. The first person that she shot at was Nicholas(he was sitting next to me). Then the next question was thrown at me...luckily I wrote down what the case was about in my module handbook..*escape*. =P

Any contract class is like 10 days of stress. *Feel free to comment me on this...=)

I think most people left the class with their spirits low...or in Nicholas' case, 'a fundamental breach' to his brain....XD

We went for lunch after class, but Ikram, Shermaine and Deborah had to go for a meeting with Mr Harmahinder.

So I went with Elisa, Nicholas, Justin Liew, Sanjeve and Cassandra to AC. When Nick, Justin and Sanjeve were about to leave for Criminal, Ikram, Shermaine and Deborah arrived...=)

They had their lunch and we had no idea what to do for 2 hours.

Legal Skills was at 2pm.

Shermaine and Elisa went back to college to discuss their moot question. The 4 of us left went to the ECA to play foosball. RM2 for 10 balls. It was fun, but everyone was going for glory and it ended rather abruptly...lols

Lets play again some other time...I'll bring the 50cent coins....=D

After that we played a round of pingpong...if you can even call that pingpong. After the 3rd hit, every ball would fly out...LOL.

Then it was 2pm, and we left for legal skills class, which was actually Mr Lai giving a briefing on what to do for the moot...especially for all those starting next week(me included...*curse*).

The amount of work required to do, after listening to Mr Lai talk, is a hell lot!!

Oh, and for this moot, he said that we could ask our lecturers about the respective moot topic for help or advise. So we(myself, Justin, Nicol and Evelyn) saw "her" and this is what happened.

Justin Liew: Urm, miss. Can you help us with our moot question?

"her": No, I cannot.

*walks further away

"her": Yours is contract is it?

Us: Yeah.

*sarcastic smile

*no comment*

This all happened outside of the class that we just had our briefing.

We told Mr Lai about it...*another smile from a lecturer*

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!!

We decided to see Ms Usha about our moot problem after 2 lecturers did not seem interested to offer help or even advise.

Ms Usha was our former Tort lecturer, and one of the most approachable and student-friendly lecturers we had.

She helped us out by guiding us what to do. I really appreciate her helping us out...=D

Thank You Ms Usha!!!!!

After we left her office, I met Ms Sujata, my A-levels Business Studies lecturer. We talked a bit about some stuff, and then we gossiped....lols!!

After the gossip, she was a bit worried about some stuff. I apologise if I worried her about her son's prospect of studying law at a place that I know very well...

Then she left for her office, and I met Deborah and Shermaine outside the Pre-U Office. We gossiped some more...=D

After that we left our separate ways.

On the way home I bought The Star and a can of A&W Rootbeer...nice.

Didn't have much time to read it as all of a sudden when I got home. The phone rang, Poslaju guy came after i just hung up, needed to find shampoo for my grandmother, phone rang again, took a shower, another phone rang, blogging(paused for a while), ran downstairs to call someone for my grandfather, continued blogging, phone rang.

*all the phone calls were different people

Dinner will be at my uncle's house, but my sister wants to try out the new Japanese Restaurant. My mom said we could do so. XD

So I think I deserve a break...

Don't you think so? =D

*ps.

I for got to add that the bundle of authorities which can be hundreds of pages long, the cost of printing and binding 5 copies of it has to be paid for ourselves!!

And this mooting is compulsory work!!

Cheapskates!!

Back from Kuching

Hello people, i'm back home in Subang.

Just arrived about 2 hours ago. =)

How were your CNY holidays?

Mine was ok...kinda quiet cause not many relatives 'balik kampung'.

Played a bit of Left4Dead in Kuching, some card games...the usual...=P

Only had internet connection when we went to my cousin's house...=)

I'll only be going back to Kuching in 2013...4 years time.

Why?

I'll be celebrating CNY in Reading...lols!!

This trip to Kuching was quite nice, especially the food...and this coming from me...sounds weird.

Cause, since I was young, I've never liked the food in Kuching...dunno why my taste changed.

Ate a lot of junk food as well...=P

*edit

Oh ya, Kuching has a new shopping centre called The Spring.

It's quite nice, has the essential shops like MPH, toyshop, Speedy, Manhattan Fish Market, Kenny Rogers and Starbucks(which means WiFi....XD)

But I think The Spring is rather small compared to the shopping centres here...=)

Anyways,

ENJOY THE REMAINING HOLIDAYS!!!

*My bro is leaving for Singapore tomorrow, less one 'kaki' to play badminton ledi.

CNY 2009!!

Happy Chinese New year people!!

I will be away from this evening till next Wednesday...=)

Going to Kuching.

Don't forget to give me ang pau, k. XD

The first year law students, my class, are required to moot against each other.

My team mate is Justin Liew...=)

2 Justins in a team...lols.

We will be facing-off Nicol and Evelyn.

Topic, on consideration and promissory estoppel...damn...

Case: Greedbank v Poorstudent

My moot is the first one on the 12th of February. 

Got CNY holidays to prepare, but got no internet...haiz.

The last few days of the CNY break is gonna be used to read all the cases relevant...=(

That's all from me now...=)

Cyaz!!

I'm full and satisfied.

Tonight, my mother cooked an amazing pre-CNY dinner...=)

This is the menu.

Fried whole chicken with crackers

Steamed cod fish

Braised abalone with mushroom

Scallops and prawns in superior stock

This was under RM150!!

I enjoyed the dinner till the last bite. =D

*Oh, btw America has an African-American President. =)

Gathering?

A few days ago, Erik called me and said, 

Erik: Hi Justin. Are you free on Friday?

Justin: I think so. Why? What's the occasion?

Erik: Well, it depends. If there are more QMs then it is a QM gathering. If there are more librarians, then it's a librarian gathering. If it is just the few of us, then it is an early CNY gathering.

Justin: LOLS!! Ok. =)

Met up today at Hartz Chicken at Sunway Pyramid. Their food is really declining in terms of quality and choice.

7 of us met up for this gathering. Me, Hee Ian, Basil Erik, Shu Ning, Hui Yen and Kimberly. Chong Yong couldn't make it.

Anyways, we sat, ate and talked until about 9.10pm. The we decided that if we could catch 'Yes Man' around this time, then we maybe be able to watch it. Shu Ning went to the nearby music shop to get a pick and some strings for her guitar, then we went to the cinema.

Went up to the cinema to check the times. Yes Man started at 9.20. We reached there at about 9.25. 

We quickly devised a plan to ask a couple near the front whether they could help us buy the tickets. They said yes. While doing that, I called my parents to get their "Ok". =)

Got it.

It was 9.30 by the time we got our tickets, so we hurried in. There were a lot of people watching the show.

The show was quite funny in some parts, but kinda lame in others. 

The show ended at about 10.55pm, and we left the cinema and then only did we start paying  Shu Ning for the tickets(she paid for the tickets first). Watch first, pay later. XD

As we were leaving the shopping mall on our way up the escalator, the girls were walking quite fast, so 4 people got on the escalator in between us and the girls. The girls turned behind to say something to us, but saw familiar faces. 

It was Hee Ian's cousin and her boyfriend, and Pei Yi( i think that was her) and her boyfriend. 

I said 'I think it was' Pei Yi because she looked very much different. 

*Any 5 Beta-ians reading this post, don't criticise me about me not recognising an ex-classmate.

We just exchanged smiles like normal people do, but didn't say 'hi'. 

Maybe she 'thinks it was me'. Do I look different from the days in 4/5 Beta? =P

Anyways, then we went home.

Thanks Hee Ian for sending me back.

And now I'm done with my post.

Like I've been telling some people today, 

"I'm gonna sleep till I can't wake up"

That's how much of rest I need from going through such a stressful week.

Cya when I cya!