Criminal Law B exam
9.30 am, 29 October 2007
Okay, this is the end of Criminal Law in law school but this does not mean I can forget everything about it. I am contemplating my sheer dumbness.

Elements Made: Burglary because there is trespass.
There is clearly assault in the question. Naturally, this means I need to write the prosecution have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that there is aggravated burglary and guess what, I didn’t mention about aggravated burglary! How dumb! =(

Policy Questions:
Oh my Lord! I have spent hours and hours over topics which are said to be assessable and end up getting a question which I have a little say about. All I did was ramble about strict and absolute liability, drug offences and sexual offences. With all my precious time preparing for ‘perhaps-in-the-exam-policy-questions-answers’ (instead of sprawling under the sun and have a good run), I didn’t manage to state all the law reforms because I ran out of time.

Note to Law Exams:
They kill students with such a limited amount of time and a whole load of offences which could be made out with so many elements in which the prosecution needs to prove.

Note to Others:
Just because I just so happen to get a HD last semester (which was actually a very borderline HD = 80%), does not mean that I am going to get HD this semesters, or that I am smart, or that I will just get HD even though I said I screwed up the exam or tell you guys that I had not finish my policy question and did badly in the exam.

Long sigh. But I still hope I get an HD, I really did enjoy studying crim because I had a brilliant lecturer and the cases are definitely interesting.

Note to Self:
I know legal theory is very boring, in fact, extremely boring, tremendously boring, awfully boring and possibly the most boring subject in law school, but you are in no position to choose whether or not to do this exam. Just nail it! That means you are to leave now! Shoo!

P/S: I know this is a nerdy post. hah.

Minds speak.
And in the wee hours of this very night, mine spoke. Of regrets, of wonders and of doubts.
I thought of you and I had an epiphany.
You stop dead on one of your tracks and you left a precious something in the storm.
And so, I have questions. Have you managed forgiveness?
Have you conquered forgetness?
The howling wind, the pouring rain, the melancholy mind.
Have I conquered forgetness?

“Think how much easier it would all be if there was some swift surgical procedure to whisk away all the ugly memories and mistakes and leave only the fun trips and special holidays, but until that day arrives, what to do? Rely on the same old needle point philosophy of forgive and forget? Can you ever really forgive, if you can’t forget?” Carrie Bradshaw

I have found the magic. It is magical realism.

And because I love fascinating stories...

I had never been up in a plane before, and the experience of passing through clouds… was spookily like the images of After Life in movies, paintings and story-books that I got the shivers. Was I traveling to the country of the dead? I half expected to see a pair of pearly gates standing on the fluffy fields of cumulus outside my window…
“I feel as if I have slipped in time,” I told the friendly stewardess some while later. “But whether into the future or the past, I cannot say.”
“Many passengers feel that way,” she reassured me. “I tell them, it is neither. The past and future are where we spend most of our lives. In fact, what you are going through in this small micro-cosmos of ours is the disorientating feeling of having slipped for a few hours into the present.”
The Moor’s Last Sigh

P/S: Exams are 23 days away. I am dead.

On another note...
C is my favourite writer and it is because there is magic in her writing.