It's 1.30 am..

And I can get no sleep. It's Spring and the sun rises before six and sets at eight. Long days and short nights. And I had to make the day longer by taking a cuppa and redbull... Heh.

How time flies... For the past 4 weeks, I've been squating in my bro's place in his lounge. How I miss the sweet caress of a bed.. Ah well, sleeping on the ground must do wonders for the posture.

Student living conditions are always appalling I have to say. If you take a step back and look around, you can just how badly kept the place is. Ah, but like one of my bro's housemate's say.. eventually you do get used to it. At times, I just can't tahan and end up doing stuff like vacumming, wiping the tables, taking out the trash.. then again, I shouldn't complain coz beggars can't be choosers.

Can't say I haven't squandered my time away this hols but yet I can say I could have made better use of the time. I finally got around to try my hand at making omelettes and making Cabonara. Add that to my repertoire of making sandwiches, making fruit juices/smoothies, milkshakes, making/frying wantan.. and I've still got a looong way to go. I'm no Jamie Oliver yet but heck, maybe one day I'll get there. I seem to learn better when I get thrown into the deep end. At the moment, my bro does most of the cooking and I do most of the clearing/cleaning up. We had kolo mee (a Sarawakian Delicacy) with char siew for lunch. Great stuff. He usually cooks Italian tho'. (ie: loads of Olive oil, cheese and pasta)

It's weird. I've been apart from my bro for the last 4 years and yet somethings still don't change when we're living under one roof. We still 'compete'/race to finish the tub of ice-cream first, generally quarrel over the hoard of food, and we still get into fights whenever I take his comics into the umm.. 'reading-room'. Yeap, comics can be a big flashpoint for the both of us.. it's like 2 countries claiming property over a giant piece of rock bordering between their countries. But I digress...

It's funny how people comment how uncanny me and bro are alike. Our mannerisms and apparently the way we speak. Especially when we both try to perform magic. Damn genes! Lol.
All this gets me all self-conscious and yeah, it is true.. whether we like it or not, we do share the same laugh among other things. Apparently, I have a deeper, sexier voice. Hah! Lil bro 1, tai kor 0.

It's something I have to get used to coz I'll be moving in with my bro next year with a friend of his. It's a small, well-kept house not too far from the one I'm current squating in. It'll probably take me 15 minutes on foot to the law building. We've got a whole community of Malaysians living in the general area. I can see it now...Lan-game parties, BBQs, Cook-overs and watching football at whoever has subscription to Skysports. Lol.

3 weeks plus left to year-end exams. My plan for the nxt 3 months is.. possibly go for a quick holiday (1 week) after the exams are over on the 24th of May, stay back for summer in the UK for one and half months to work. Go back to Malaysia around mid July and stay there for a month plus. While back in Malaysia, I'll try to get some experience in a law firm.

In all honesty, I feel the prospect of me going back to practice is rather bleak considering the stories I've heard. Dealing with the incompetant courts back home where it's common for court documents to be lost and how clients tend to take drafts from lawyers and then look for other lawyers who will do it for a lower price.. such stories dishearten me. Explains why some lawyer prefer to handle corporate stuff where they keep their hands off the courts.

Mm.. law. It's bad enough I'm heading down the path to fire and brimstone and damnation.. But they've got to make it harder for me? *shakes head*

For next time, I've got to make some decisions. I've got to choose which modules to take which is alien to me. In the first year, it's compulsory for us to take undestanding law (for the 1st term), tort, constitutional and contract. For me, it's more of a matter of interest rather than ease when it comes to making the choice. Commercial law is where the dough is.. Family law is something I've had a affinity towards.. I like playing peace-maker but at the same time this is an area of law which can be extraordinarily emotionally exhausting. Another option is to do adminstrative law where I can definetely look forward to bringing actions against the government... Wheeee!

Hm, I'll most definetely be taking a module out of law. We can do so in the 2nd year and I'm looking forward to doing economics. Philosophy in sex would probably be my 1st choice but they took it off the list this year. Darn!

I've been back to reading the Economist. It's not all that boring as people may think. There was a write-up on Malaysia's 9MP laying praises but also criticisms on it. Its sad how the aid doesn't really go to the people who need it the most but rather the people who cling on to power. It's true what they say about absolute power. 'Open discrimination' is something I do not look forward back home.

Another write-up was how easy fame can come to some. There was this clip which was posted on Google where 2 chinese guys in Rockets basketball jerseys were singing along with a Backstreet Boy's song. They've been dubbed the Back Dormitory Boys by the Chinese Media and bombarded with requests for appearance on radio,tv, etc.. Even their roommate who is playing a computer game (looks like DOTA) in the background gets star treatment! It's kinda like that that guy who got famous after singing along with the Numa numa song. However, that didn't end up too well for the kid as he ended up hating the limelight.

It goes to show globalisation has made it possible for normal people with tons of guts or possibly lack of foresight to achieve fame.

Well, it's now 2.30 am. I really should be getting some sleep. Gotta slave the next few weeks for exams.

That's all for now. Overandout.