A very trying day.

Days like me make me wonder why I'm still here. Well, I still got my head.

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(Grouplove's version is great, but Xaphoon Jones' remix just blows my mind, hence this version here instead)

So. fucking. tired ( Read more... )

Increasingly, I feel like this space has become a journal for journey on quitting the law.

Questionnaire on Giving Up the Law• Do I really dislike the practice of law ( Read more... )

Reasons why my client is a big fucker ( Read more... )

"I've never had bad grades. They weren't especially good, but they weren't bad, either. I could always get the point of things where it really mattered, so I could always manage with the grades. I'm good at that. Which is why I got into a pretty good school, and if I keep up what I'm doing now, I can probably get a job at a pretty good company. So ( Read more... )

dudes, don't blame the judge.
really

24 It was highlighted in her plea in mitigation and not disputed by the prosecution, that there was a canopy of trees along the stretch of road where she had been travelling. She was traveling at 60 km/h and was returning home after unsuccessfully looking for her cousin Charlene Tan. She had heard a loud ( Read more... )

Internal strife at ToP Choice law firm has purportedly reached a state where the Head of department whom I had the interview with, is on the verge of quitting. It had been brewing for a while, but the bubbles had began to pop after I turned down their offer. Hearsay, of course.

I'd like to take a moment to thank my gut for this close call, and my ( Read more... )

I had written a post about the futility of my current predicament, and then my future predicament... if the latter was ever going to happen. The cover letter I have been struggling with for the past 3 weeks is finally progressing from a "draft" to an "execution copy". But to what end? My CV is not the most impressive out there, and my experiences ( Read more... )

"Just think of it as a means to an end"

That used to be my philosophy. 3 months in, I don't think this is it. I'm too damn selfish and too damn lazy to want to work hard for something that doesn't resonate with ever.

About 36 hours ago, I found myself in a peculiar predicament in a tiny godforsaken piece of land in the huge of land of the Middle Kingdom. Chuckles, the partner in charge of the file, had lugged me on a 4 day business trip with him to this place, with nary a briefing on what we were going to do, what the trip was about... or pretty much anything ( Read more... )