Emily gave it to me straight, cold and brutal over dinner tonight. 'Drop him,' she said. 'He's never going to satisfy your emotional needs. He's never going to change [his non-communicative habit]. You're just going to get hurt.' Later, when I hypothesised rather pathetically that it could have worked out if it weren't for the fact that I was going ( Read more... )

You know a judgment is really bad when there are new things about it that completely stuns you, and not in a good way, when you re-read it again for the millionth time. I re-acquainted myself with the parts of Lim Meng Suang that dealt with the separation of powers and the Court of Appeal's self-limiting vision of its role under the aforesaid, and ( Read more... )

I spent about an hour this afternoon re-reading Lim Meng Suang v Attorney-General and it just got me so bloody angry and annoyed. All I can say right now is...oh my god, @ndrew Ph@ng, please go back to pontificating about contract law and leave constitutional law alone ( Read more... )

I don't care about American Mark anymore, but it did take me a week to reach this stage ( Read more... )

I had a great time entertaining myself by reading Justice Scalia's trademark scathing dissenting opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges. He hasn't lost his comedic, sarcastic touch, and even though I hardly ever agree with him, I love the way he pours scorn all over the majority opinion with which he so obviously disagrees.

Here are some choice quotes:

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I just had a phone interview with Cambridge's language centre; it was part of my English language assessment. The purpose of the phone call was solely to examine my speaking skills and the interviewer made it clear that I wasn't assessed on content. I took that as a carte blanche to be really informal and to say whatever came to my mind, such that ( Read more... )

My internship has, for all intents and purposes, officially ended. I go out of my way to avoid sentimental situations and it is perhaps objectively true that 4 months are too short for anyone to say with some degree of conviction that he or she would miss a place; hence, I don't think I will miss it ( Read more... )

When I went around telling people that I was going to fail the multiple choice component of the QLTS, I was being completely honest and not at all self-effacing or fake-humble (we should all know by now that I simply don't do humility). I really thought that it went horribly, especially the afternoon session. In the same vein, when I moaned and ( Read more... )

I'm archiving my 2006 entries and I am struck by two things: how devastated I was when Cambridge rejected my application to read English at its historic, hallowed grounds; and how much I hated law school when I first entered it ( Read more... )

The next time I come to Rome, I will come armed with a list of good restaurants/cafes/bistros to go to. Never again will I randomly walk into a restaurant, especially when I find myself stranded in a mega touristy area for at dinner time. After tonight's dinner, I have finally learned the lesson that my tiramisu from two nights ago tried to teach ( Read more... )