8 Days

THE NATIONAL IN 8 DAYS!

I can’t wait to enjoy myself for one night after this hell week (oh wait, every week is hell week) is over. It’s a Sunday night though so I’m not sure whether I should indulge my lazy side and skip school the next day or try to be one of those students who pride themselves in being ‘awesome’ by having 3 hours of sleep each night. I think I will choose the former.

I’m extremely tired now but I must power through some readings. It’s probably not ‘awesome-like’ of me to want to sleep for at least 6 hours a day, but I think getting to live a longer and healthier life trumps appearing awesome to my peers.

Cupcake Cushion

A cushion I made for Shane for his birthday.

It’s already Week 11 of the school term. Suddenly my friends and I realize that it’s time to plan our degree and think about our internships. Things are going by so quickly, I don’t even know if I’m sure of what I’m doing. Some school mates are extremely gung-ho about everything they do, and people are telling me that it’s important to keep up, and so I just try to keep up and do the things that people tell me are important. Graduation will come before I know it, even though it seems very far away for now. All I can do is try as many things as possible for now and hope that eventually the future-me will go “Ah! That’s what I want.”

 

Scrap what I wrote earlier, I’m still having a terrible week.

Perfection

I was feeling pretty darn shitty today, until I came across a quote that turned things around (I usually do not believe in inspirational quotes because they never help and they all seem to stem from common sense but this one seemed to struck a chord).

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not, but remember that what you have now was once among the things only hoped for.”

I use to dream of going to law school, to finally meet “the one”, to remain best friends with the people I loved, to find a passion in something.

I’ve been feeling rather crappy lately because law school is far from a happily-ever-after and I’m starting to have regrets of not taking the chance to study overseas, Shane and my best friends are on the other side of the world, and I haven’t had the time to indulge myself in the things I like to do. But I guess another way of looking at things would be that I’ve actually attained everything I had hoped for when I was 14, even if all of it isn’t perfect. Not too shabby for a 20 year old I suppose.

There are still things that I hope will happen in the future. But hey, 3 out of the 4 dreams I had when I was a kid are the most important in probably anyone’s life, and they’ve all already happened. I think I’m pretty much set for life.

Salvador Dali in Film

Salvador Dali is bat-shit crazy. I can’t tell if if the stuff he draws is what’s really going on in his mind, or if he is constantly thinking, “Hmm how shall I make this look bat-shit crazier? Oh, I know!” His stuff is great, but I wish I could understand it, or maybe we’re not supposed to really understand it.

But one thing’s for sure, I will never look at snails, lobsters and unicorns the same way again.

Google > Law Databases

Stumbling upon a relevant article (okay not really stumbling upon it, more like seeing it in tiny font in some footnote in another article, trying to find it on Lawnet/LexisNexis/Westlaw and every other law database to no avail and resorted to googling it and found a free ebook download of the book on some obscure website) for my research paper makes me extremely, extremely happy, especially when I’ve been tearing my hair out over it for the past week.

The wonders of Google indeed…