Second Week In The Strangest Land
From now on it’s only appropriate that I identify myself as a Law student. Gives me that kick in the ass, you know. I have to work really hard now.
It’s
really just been another week of pure….boredom. We didn’t have much
to do but sleep around, talk about things we probably would’ve talked
about the last ten minutes and me delving into conversations and asking
questions I normally would NEVER, ever, ask. I’ve made it a
point to finish up on Seige 1942, but so far I’ve only come up till
page..erh…100—-something. Might be less.. Who knows. I’m too
stoned to tell…We felt sleepy almost all the time, and walking around
is just not my thing. The whole entire week was rubbish basically. They
could’ve let us go home and let us do something more productive with
our time *like watching youtube for instance*.
But I’m pretty
happy. Getting exempted for both English and Computer class is cool. I
was ecstatic. But was quite surprised by how easy it was to get
exempted. Stupid system? Who knows. I’d have to say yes, though. You
can shoot me if you want.
We had a Course Briefing for Laws
today at 1430hrs at AMF Hall. It was…welll…how should I put
it….boring. They just managed to make Law such a bohring
subject when in fact it’s the exact opposite! It’s exciting and full of
adrenaline rush, and that’s what they missed out on when they were
giving us the briefing. A quartet of second year Law students (and one
girl with an ATROCIOUS American slang) reading up the current events on
a projection screen with barely and interesting graphics on it is
really quite mundane to say the least. The Lecturers were…fine I
guess. Would’ve hoped they were more enthusiastic and motivating like
the Indian Law Lecturer from KDU College. I guess that’s where the
perks are *private*. *sigh*. They were basically telling us things we
could read by ourselves and telling us things aspiring Law students
should already take note of, like the top firms (Shearn Delamore, she
mentioned. Good. Finally someone who knows what tha hell that is),
options after the LL.B., and things we have to do as Law Students.
Don’t just say…owh…you have to read. And READ….like your life
depends on it. Yeah. Then you’d be just like all those other dumbfucks
out there. A sarcastic buddy in my head was nagging "No wonder you’re
here for 2 years!". Bad, I know. Fact, it still remains.
I am
kind of annoyed at the overpopulation of Law students, some of which I
know don’t even want to have anything to do with Law. They just like to
talk. Honey, if that’s what you like to do you can be a funfair deejay
for all I care. Just don’t crowd the space. They’re not even serious
and professional about it. They yap and yap and yap nonstop and scream
all of a sudden and are quite blatantly stupid-sounding. What makes me
tick the most I guess is that the fact that they think of Law as an
easy degree and a trash can of sorts. And the fact that they treat it
like on too, that’s worse. Yeah, it might be the easiest to get, but
please. Do me a favor. If you guys wanna treat this stuff like shit, I
suggest ya’ll piss off ASAP.
And again on the English here. Yeah so everyone speaks it, the lecturers and blabla I mean. If their English is like that,
how the hell do you expect the students to improve, man????? Some
seniors have these fake accents (Brit+American, haven’t heard any
futile attempt at Oz. Yet.) which would not have troubled me had they been perfectly emulated with a good sense of grammar and pronunciation. Duuude….So
at times I don’t understand what the big deal is if a Malaysian has an
American or Brit accent or an Oz accent for that matter, because truth
be told the language is not our own, however we Manglicize *phwar!* it,
it’s still an import, therefore it is only natural that we speak it
with a tinge of foreign accent, because that’s what we get from
tv/radio! To make it Malaysian, in most of people’s opinions, is to
detach the accents and make it as plain as possible. Or go easy on the
r’s and t’s. Fine. Again I shall state that I do not fuckin mind if
accents are used as long as they are perfectly executed; grammar,
pronunciation, and intonation etc. This is, I guess, my curse. I can’t
ignore it. It’s a disease….To think about it, an example of
good-sounding Brit accent is from one English lecturer, forgot her
name. Hers sounded like those old-time English teachers who have been
Brit-educated, thus retaining the accents from their teachers, and they
do it ever so well. The stresses on the r’s and t’s and the flow was
flawless, and it made me happy. Sick as that may sound.
Can’t wait to start class, might be next week. The subjects sound cool,
which is good, but in Semester 2 we’ll be learning General Principles
of Law II, which has got Criminal Law in it…YAY!!!!
I’m good for now. Can’t wait to study. I aim for a good 4.0 CGPA. Best of luck to everyone too~~!!!
P/s: If by chance there are any law studnets out there who are reading/passing through, nudge me or somethin will ya. It’d be nice to have people to talk to bout studies and all.
