Xin Nian Dao!

First off, Happy Chinese New Year all!! As I type this, I’m on the train down to London. Unfortunately, I cant stay long as I’m only going down for a KPUM (www.kpum.org.uk) meeting for the day. Lectures will be starting tomorrow. Tommorow, the next term begins! Ahh.. It’s been long since I’ve posted something coz of exams and all. I’ve learnt lots the past weeks as the novelty of being here in the UK has started to wear off. It really does get depressing during the cold winter months and the exams really amplifies that effect. It’s gotten really cold the past week although it was quite bearable after the short burst of snow over Europe after Christmas. I’ll just go through what’s been going on the past few weeks…

1 day ago – Sat/Chinese New Year Eve – I spent most of the day ‘resting’… and when out for dinner with hall mates and a few other friends. Not just an ordinary dinner but a CHINESE dinner at Mandarin, the best Chinese you can find in Notts. I’ve been there once with Seng after the basketball tournament. One cheesing off thing was I made reservations for 8 in our name and we got there separately and when we arrived, we discovered we still had to wait! They basically didn’t book any tables but just gave it away. Bah.. typical Chinese business men! Worse part was the men there were very rude to me when I asked why. Sigh.. I guess the better the food, the more screwed up the people there are. Well, yeah.. We got our table after 15 minutes of waiting and the food was great… it came up to 10 quid. Me and Seng were looking forward to the Pork Intestines which we had the last time but we somehow ordered the wrong ones. >.<>

Lol. We went back to Rutland and watched this Chinese movie which Stephen Chow in it.. I think the title was something-scholar. It was hilarious.. classic Chow Sing Chi! So that’s how I spent my CNY eve. No ang-paus. No CNY cookies. I guess no matter how hard you try when you’re overseas.. Things will never be the same and it’s a fact you’ll have to live with. You just gotta roll with the times. Don’t get me wrong now. I’m not saying that everything back home should be forgotten but it’s always nice to have some stuff to remind you off back home. As the old saying goes ‘God gave us memories as roses in the winter’ (God Bless Mrs Harding, my old English teacher for this saying)

2-4 days ago – Been busy running around doing stuff for Malaysian Night and KPUM. I’ve been busy trying to get myself in shape. Went for a swim and played some basketball.

5 days ago – Exams are over!!! Freedom! This is day after exams and we, liberated law students had a small Chinese Take-away gathering at Jin’s place in Lincoln Hall. We had Hong Kong House take-away.. it’s was good stuff. Chatted, played abit of Magic TCG and some Cho Tai Di.

6 Days ago(Monday(- My final paper! A paper in Contract Law. I’ll have to admit that I wasn’t well prepared for my exams this term. Maybe it’s got to do with the knowledge that the results here don’t really matter. Overall, I think I did miserably… *sigh* If there’s a reoccurring theme this few months is that mistakes are meant to be learnt. In other words, ‘screw up with the first, ace the rest’. No matter what people can tell you, the best teacher would be experience, For the first year in Law, the first year doesn’t count towards the results in the final degree but matters a lot when trying for summer contracts as that would be the only reference point for the firms. However, the understanding law coursework which I was stressing about in the last post has to be passed to move on to the next year. At the very least, I’ve lowered my expectations to just pass my coursework and scrap through this term and ‘up my game’ this coming term. I really could do with better detailed notes and crisp at my finger tips memory of the relevant cases.

11 days ago (Wednesday) My First paper. Yeap, I had only two, It was a paper in Tort (which I basically a civil wrong ie: I cause an accident and someone makes a claim against me)

Well, yeah.. that’s what been I’ve been up to in my ‘law-full’ life, Alright I can hear the groans back there…!! Well, that’s all for now. I’ll have to say indeed that the novelty of being here has worn off and certain harsh truths and lessons are being learnt along the way. At the end of the day, no matter how bad or good things may be, it’s about who you comes out at the end of it. For better or worse…