A quick note (because I am tired from tennis in the morning, 3 hours of editing a textbook chapter on international organisations written by a Swiss-German professor at Espresso Library, and some packing in the evening) on the past couple of days ( Read more... )

A month ago, I emailed a contact at Hong Kong Uni to ask for help to disseminate the call for abstracts for the doctoral workshop that I am organising. This contact is organising his own doctoral workshop at HKU and suggested that I applied. I wasn't going to at first because it's a few days before my own workshop and it seemed to be a bit of a ( Read more... )

I am absolutely shocked and embarrased by the number of typos that the second-most recent entry contains. My standards have slipped quite a bit, haven't they? In my defence, I was (probably) quite tired when I wrote that entry...but still. It is so bad. I need to be more alert to these things ( Read more... )

It has been an utterly unproductive day. I had to wake up at 7.20am for the 9am research training seminar in the law faculty, and I was not at all awake for the seminar. My attention drifted in and out, and I paid attention only to the interesting bits. Halfway through, I went to the toilet and discovered that I got my period - which effectively ( Read more... )

Today was mildly productive. I was in the NUS law library for the afternoon and managed to write out some thoughts, as well as get a vague sense of what the first year paper is likely to look at. I still feel, however, that I am not doing enough work (because I am not doing enough work) and that I am not reading enough theory. I hope I really get ( Read more... )

I am really tired and I don't know why. It cannot be jetlag because it's 2.42pm in the UK now. It is not really my being out all night at ZoukOut with Rui either because I've been feeling tired at about 5pm for the past week. I hope this fatigue passes soon; it is very annoying ( Read more... )

I am a bit mean sometimes, just for the fun of it, such as this afternoon over lunch at a surprisingly decent Chinese place. The eatery was a bit small and it was kind of crowded, and so Dominic and I were squeezed into a tiny table. I struggled a bit with my bag; I'd placed it between the back of the chair and the small of my back, and it felt a ( Read more... )

This entry is interesting, especially this paragraph:

I apologise if what I'm about to say sounds absolutely and disgustingly indulgent and self-absorbed, but I have to say it: Sometimes I really wonder if life wouldn't be much easier if I were more plain, less intelligent, more average. There is so much baggage attached to looking a certain way ( Read more... )

Today is one of those days of waking up on the wrong side of bed, coupled with a relentless attack of PMS, making everything go downhill and feel worse than it is. I am besetted by a sense of melancholy and restlessness, a loss of motivation, a stab of homesickness, and petulant irritation with how provincial it is, the place in which I currently ( Read more... )

I paid the price heavily on Saturday for sleeping at 3.30am. I couldn't sleep in that much due to the noise from upstairs, and I got up at 10.30am, had a long lunch, then went to the faculty. I couldn't stay there. I couldn't read. I couldn't do anything. I was falling asleep; I fell asleep; and then I gave up ( Read more... )