ok dudes.

so yesterday i had my property law and practice exam, and i blitzed through it like a house on fire and finished with half an hour to spare. half an hour. i thought i’d missed out a 25mark question so i had a full-on panic-flip attack, and then realised that i’m just much too intelligent for the exam. *smirk*

right.

and then we had hainanese chicken rice for dinner at the best friend’s. maaaaan i missed chicken rice. no one believed me when i said wee nam kee sells great chicken rice. everyone can tell you about boon tong kee, but that is so populist. i prefer my wee nam kee, thankyouverymuch. we had to make do with sambal oelek (from tesco’s no less, impressed c’est moi) with garlic and lime as a stand-in for real chicken rice chilli. like my grandma makes, a bottle of which is living in my fridge for special occasions. mmmmm…

and we made the chicken from scratch. none of that prima chicken rice paste nonsense. ok, well, not exactly we. i was sous chef, chopping up the garlic and ginger and eating goat’s cheese on jacob’s crackers in-between soaking the chicken in ice-cold water and giving them the best massage ever in sesame oil. but, without my assistance, it would never have happened. i am/was integral to the process, okayyy.

it’s such a shame that my boyfriend doesn’t eat meat. most of the great stuff i remember from my grandmother’s kitchen involves meat in one form or another, so you can say that it rather cramps my style. no matter, meat is not essential to south-east asian cooking. it’s time to find a recipe for kick-ass sayur lodeh.

i am really craving me some pineapple tarts.

and can someone explain why all the banana cakes i’ve ever had in singapore have those little black bits in them, while the one i have here is just disappointingly greyish-yellow?

now that i’ve finished a a third of my exams, my brain just can’t seem to want to function. i have TRIED to revise, but wah lau eh it’s damn difficult. but at least i got 18 out of 24 mcq questions right, so that must count for something. i think. and hope.

i shall now go have some cake and eat it too. and try not to think about ang zhao chicken and yu sheng.

the LPC is amazingly boring and yet amazingly interesting at the same time.

i think it’s the fact that this is actually what i’m going to be doing and applying in real life in the near future that’s exciting. but the rote learning right now is so boring. practice makes for instinctive responses and sub-conscious reactions. not having done this for the past X number of years, this is just hard graft.

but still, at least i can tell you all the deadlines to avoid a judgment in default and how to negotiate a better lease with your landlord and what to do to avoid liability as a director.

the thing is, i know all this. getting marks for them on an exam is a whole different matter.

exams.

yet another round of a seemingly endless cycle of sit, read, write furiously, creep home and weep.

incidentally, i have noticed that my class seems to be very aggressive and very insistent on knowing HOW and WHY and WHAT FOR. we aren’t satisfied with answers that go along the lines of ‘oh, you just have to learn it, that’s all. don’t think about it. don’t ask why, just do’. we ask all our tutors lots of questions, so much so that my business law tutor is afraid of us and the questions we constantly throw at her. her stock reply seems to be ‘i don’t think so, but i’ll have to check and get back to you’ aka lawyerspeak for ‘i really don’t know and i’ll have to go back and do some research about it at your expense’.

anyways, back to the topic du jour.

granted, i’ve only done about 3 days of revising so far, i’m pretty much enjoying the process. it’s very satisfying, putting all the pieces together and being able to look at the topic as a whole as well as being part of a bigger picture. also, it’s just very glee-inducing to look at a past exam paper and say ‘ooh! i know the answer! it’s section whatever-it-is that says whatever-it-says!’.

i’m really just very geeky and very nerdy at heart. i mean, hello i spent an hour chatting about CSS and HTML and which code-checker is the best yet. and i like doing maths and calculating tax liability. if i weren’t so self/image-conscious, i’d so totally have pocket protectors and pens in multicolour sets of 5.

so, yes. i like revising. it’s probably a good thing that most of what i’ve been learning isn’t very intellectual and is really just about knowing things and understanding how they fit in with the rest of the stuff that we’ve been taught and what procedural steps need to be taken. there’s no brain-aching over whether or not some theorist really meant what he said in the translation of his work from extremely technical and verbose german, or whether the aims and purposes of a particular legal doctrine is actually capable of success and how else would it be achieved etc. it’s all very simple, the hard part is remembering all of it in detail.

but, enough chatting. nose to grindstone, and all that jazz.