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Monday Just to start something since Blogland doesn't seem to be active these days (wait a minute is it exam time?). No flames please just nice constructive criticism OK? Of course, before we start, a disclaimer (occupational hazard) that I don't subscribe to women are greater than men nor men are greater than women crap - I believe both sexes have their strengths and weakness and we can learn from each other - enuff introduction, let's get to the meat. It was an article on the Sunday papers on the changing role of the sexes in society these days. It was entitled "The Men Don't Get It". This is named after a rather well-known slogan used by one credit card line in Singapore aimed at women. According to the writer, women are getting more influential. As more women are better educated and are exposed to the idea of women excelling in their career as opposed to success being bringing up family in the more traditional and conservative role of a homemaker, men are supposedly losing their purpose in society and are suffering from anxiety by this isolation (men comments?). I'm not exactly sure how the writer justified such a harsh conclusion but the article stated that women were doing well in their careers and enjoying it, so much so they would rather stay single or avoid kids if married. Accordingly, the writer is of the belief that men are increasingly finding themselves reduced to the role of gene carrier. Politely put, the writer (can't remember name and whether man or woman) was pointing out that like the lion, men are only good for a sc*ew and then they're ejected out of the matriach society where the lioness reigns supreme, providing for herself and the kids. Pretty harsh but thought intriguing. Remember a sci-fi like that being in the primary school library (ok, trust me to find such weird books when I was less than 1.3m in height). But it is amusing. In the animal kingdom, it is the male that preens and courts the female to no end. Female animals are usually drab but HOT commodity to the males who scramble for a mate. For a good part of the human civilisation, it was the female human that did the preening. Corsets to tattoes, starvation exercises called diets to bone lengthening exercises (breaking bone and setting it so it grows back longer - painful and risky), women braved everything and put up with all sorts (not saying men are all abusive but women used to hang onto their man even if he was a wife bashing sicko). Would be rather odd if all that was reversed tho' I'm sure the lioness as well as all female animals have been laughing at the human females for the last thousand years or so. Then again, maybe it's my brain being weird. Have I announced how much I love this new workplace. A boss that takes your side instead of the bullying clients (he was actually afraid the client had been rude to me coz he said she's not unkind but hell of the rude - to which I replied, you pay me I put up with almost anything) and bosses who drink with their subordinates. Where have I been the first 3 years of practice *bashes head on table* It's not perfect but I'm happy, even if perversely I get more work here. Ok, enuff bumming ... must concentrate on work. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Kim I have to agree it would be quite a sight if she ever met Fuuma. 5 minutes ago, Sanzo was still there. One Harry Potter trailer and blogging later, he morphed into one sexy Fuuma. Hmm I'm going to be a meanie *dangles offer of Lawful Drug translations in front of Mura-chan* - PS: Do you need it? Granted tho', progress is slow >_<;; Aiiieee ... back to work, MUST LEAVE BY 4! Listening to Korean music while doing work. Mmmm, music is more soft than Jap but less than Mandarin pop. Metamia ... drop me a line gal, I need your physical addy. Got to send you stuff hon'. And have I ever said how much I love my oniichan? Two people own my undying loyalty - Oniichan and Serene at kino. Going to buy Nana - by same mangaka as Paradise Kiss *drools at picture of George* ... imprisoned within my blood ... So my plans to leave by noon today are not happening ... anyway, 4pm is the planned exit time - but in the meanwhile, shallow fangurl me has taken to drooling over Malfoy senior's hair over lunch. Woooo ... dye it black, get some glasses and I'm just going to gawk till kingdom come. Reins was right. I should have glomped that French Clow look-a-like ... gooshhh, he had baby blues but if the eyes were brown and he had an English accent, I would have just DIED. Mmm, mum's potatoe salad is so yum ... I want to go back and sleep. I've taken to cleaning my room and packing my manga collection and listing the same - gosh, I didn't quite know I was such a mess until I had to pack. Spent 5 hours yesterday clearing one corner of the hall. 2 more corners and a bedroom to go *sweatdrops* Clow - I told you to be less messy ... I'm not helping Kit - This coming from the inventor of the ERASE card *smirk* Clow - >_<" *twitch* Kit - Someone sent me a fanart of you today ... with your hands all over Yue ... pretty even if it makes my eyebrow twitch Clow - >_<;;;; *massive sweatdrop* Kit - Reins, I've taken to a new bish, George from Paradise Kiss. Twerp's bi, drop dead gorgeous and mean as hell *sees a pattern and sweatdrops* heh heh ... Clow - You're not normal you know Kit - Hai :P I'm abusing my blog here but I'm bored. If I've got to be here despite being on leave, at least I'm goofing off longer than usual Clow - You know, 4 pm you twerp? Kit - *grumbles* but I probably have to come in tomorrow too Clow - But going off early won't be SO bad right? Kit - Heh heh ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Sunday Finished class ... was supposed to go to work but not feeling good so crawled home. Will nap and then try to work. Supposed to be on leave until Tues but need to clear one file first. Home IMAC still won't run i-explorer so no social blogging for me. Warner's Brother's Gotham Girls are hilarious - go to www.warnerbros.com Still cool people ... while I indulge in Paradise Kiss *BEAMS* In the meanwhile, lookie here. Kareshi Kanojyo no Mise is taking calendar orders for 2003 Kodansha Calendars: - Ah! My Goddess - Akamatsu Ken (Author of LOVE HINA) - BECK - Chobits - Get Backers - G-taste - redEyes - SAMURAIDEEPER KYO - TOKYO MEWMEW - Tsuruta Kenji - VAGABOND - What's Michael? - YAMATO NADESHICO 7-henge - YOKOHAMA KAIDASHI KIKOU Kadokawa Shoten Calendars: - CHRNO CRUSADE - FULL METAL PANIC! - GUNDAM / GUNDAM, FIRST - MABURAHO - SCRAPPED PRINCESS - X Shueisha Calendars: - Hikaru no GO - HUNTER X HUNTER - NANA - NARUTO - ONEPIECE - Pyu~ to Huku ! JAGUAR - SHAMAN KING - STONE OCEAN - THE PRINCE OF TENNIS Other (Movic, Amada etc...) Calendars: - AKIRA - Azmanga daio - Azmanga daio - BEYBLADE 2002 - CAPTAIN TSUBASA - Chobits (A) - Chobits (B) - Detective CONAN?…@?…@?…@?…@?…@?…@ - DIGIMON FRONTIER - FIST OF THE NORTH STAR - GENSOMADEN SAIYUKI (A) - GENSOMADEN SAIYUKI (B) - GUNDAM / All GUNDAM - GUNDAM / GUNDAM SEED - Hikaru no GO (A) - Hikaru no GO (B) - HUNTER X HUNTER (A) - HUNTER X HUNTER (B) - InuYasha - May & Neko-Bus (My Neighbor TOTORO) - NARUTO - Neko no Ongaeshi (Ghibli Studios) - Ojamajo Doremi - ONEPIECE - SAKURA WARS 4 - Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi - SHAMAN KING (A) - SHAMAN KING (B) - Sister Princess - Saint Seiya - STUDIO GHIBLI COLLECTION - TENCHI MUYO ! GXP - Tenshi na Konamaiki - TEZUKA OSAMU COLLECTION - THE PRINCE OF TENNIS (A) - THE PRINCE OF TENNIS (B) - The Record of 12 countries / Junikoku-ki - TOKYO MEWMEW - Tokyo Under Ground (A) - Tokyo Under Ground (B) - HAMUTARO - YU-GI-OH !4 ... imprisoned within my blood ... Saturday Freak, now I know why Shir's is in love with Paradise Kiss - Good grief ... I want the Jap version for its beauty and the Taiwanese version for the translations - BEAUTIFUL is an understatement. I think I'm in love with the series ... George the bisexual designer is hilarious. When Yukari asks him if her hairstylist a beautiful guy is his ex-lover, he answers "but I love you" ... Yukari goes green wondering why he had to use the word "but". HAHAHAHA ... Jap classes tomorrow. Had fun meeting up with friends today tho' we're so worried about R, hearing rumours that our very good friend's bf has major problems with committment and monogamy is not something good. Sometimes I wonder. Is it true humans cannot be monogamous? But isn't the committment in a relationship the special gift one undertakes to one's partner? COnfusiNg ... and horrifying that at my grand old age ... while peers are worrying about more serious stuff, I'm still the baby kid. Hmmm, better finish work and "giah" home. Eline, got your note ... send you an email or no, I'll call you. If anyone's in Japan and wants to be my manga/doujin pimp, please drop a line onegai ^___^ ... imprisoned within my blood ... In case anyone needs to know, I'm sloshed ... completely sloshed. Spent the nite drinking and SMSing Reins. Eline, Alv says he's keeping an eye out for the manga you wanted but so far no news. Eden is out in Chinese. I might get it. And I've got a lo t of manga tonite including Saiyuki Reload and Paradise Kiss - Shir's likes it too and Alv's complaining she buys the series in Jap, and Chinese X2 - HK edition as well as Taiwanese edition coz the Taiwanese translation is better but the HK edition prints the manga better. Completely sloshed ... goodnite, I've got basketball and piano later today and meeting up with friends too. And I got sloshed last nite with my bosses ... today with my colleagues again, the partners declined on the basis they were too old to get sloshed 2 days back to back. And I've got Jap this Sunday ... oops ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Friday **** THE PROOF THAT reinselft IS EVIL **** R E I N S E L F T 82 69 73 78 83 69 76 70 84 - as ASCII values 1 6 1 6 2 6 4 7 3 - digits added \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_/ 7 7 8 2 3 - digits added Thus, "reinselft" is 77823. Subtract 1875, the year first newspaper cartoon strip was published. The result will be 75948. Subtract 4691 from the number - this is the year Beatles with "Can't buy me love" topped the charts in a very mysterious way, written backwards. It gives 71257. Add 5991 to it - this is the year O J Simpson was acquitted for double murder, written backwards - you will get 77248. Turn the number backwards, subtract 1957 - the year DEC was founded. The number is now 82320. Turn the number backwards, subtract 7 - the sacred number of Illuminati. The number is now 2321. This, when read backwards, gives 1232. This is 666 in octal, the number of the Beast... Evil, QED. Hehehehe^^ Site link ... imprisoned within my blood ... Aaaargh. Phone dead and I had to forget to bring my charger to work. Ummm..... In all cases, I most probably be busy during lunch... need to finish my submissions. If I am free, I will be at ODFM by 1 pm or so. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Thursday Eline ... look Hellsing doujin ... I want *goes into neko mode* ... imprisoned within my blood ... Zara is in Singapore *faints* ... imprisoned within my blood ... Got my credit card bill today O_o;; woooohhhh ... It's scary when I decide to let go. Damage is fortunately, within control but I need to save up for the Bangkok and Sydney trips in November >_<" Clow - ^___^ Kit - Stop gloating, there were quite a number of get-togethers, birthdays and weddings in this month okay? Clow - ^___^ ... imprisoned within my blood ... Wednesday Snucked off early yesterday to go to the yacht club with my aunt and uncle ... dinner was pretty good - chicken breast stuffed with cheese yum - by the sea except it took forever for uncle's dessert to come but nothing beats the ice-cream mooncake saga. Yakked nonstop ... I think I talk too much. Clow - Oh REALLY? kit - *ignores Clow and continues yakking* I want membership which is a steal at S$8,000 but the place is only accessible by car which I don't have coz I don't drive and coz it COSTS too much to own a car in Singapore and personally I don't subscribe to the idea I should get a guy so I get driven around :P I think I'll stick to dreaming of owning part of a beach and setting up a cocktail joint there. The response to Friday's department drinking session is shaping up nicely ... a bunch of drunk lawyers *sweatdrop* I just realised ... I missed piano classes last week *double sweatdrop* Nahhhhiiiiieee ... shoving some work to the weekend, dangerous maneouver but here's the scoop. My sis is so charmed by Eriol she went to order a sheep for herself to put in her work place. I've convinced her to name it Fujitaka (sis works in a Jap firm - giggles) and I'll buy one more myself and name it Clow. It fits doesn't it? Fujitaka = works at a Jap firm Eriol = works at a law firm - since we practice common law, the English connection is there if weak Clow = stays in my house - recluse, Chinese ... BINGO I say, BINGO, at which stage in our conversation, my sis turned to Steve and said "and you thought I was mad". Hee hee, she's sore I didn't save any of the imitation Royce chocolates for her *evin grin* Clow - O_o;; Kit - Yeah, the sheep to be kept at home and tortured is going to be named after you :P Clow >_<'' Yikes, back to work *runs off* ... imprisoned within my blood ... I was only able to tell who's who based on the fact the doppelgangers were wearing their old clothes. Hmm, take care you and some employers (emphasis - SOME) do allow you the first day off but I think they dock it from your annual leave. Still, you being a teacher could give the class homework for the morning ... until your evil juices start following again? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Tuesday boohoo.... something's screwy with sanji.org..... anyway, what's up with your chatter box? Feel the urge to hantam it some more... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Naiiii ... group trip for friends this year - toss up between Perth and Phuket. Phuket is cheaper and beachy. SIA is having a sale for tickets to Perth - $400 for a round trip and I might get to pop in our friends. Sigh ... choices ... so little time so many things to do. Eline, what's with the last panel? Hakkai outclassed Sanzo *niko niko*? THAT shirt was awful in b/w. I'm sure it's more gross in color. What kind of color-blind guy wears that kind of shirt anyway. ~ Give me a smiley bespectacled (or even not so smiley) bish in a crisp white shirt any day. ... imprisoned within my blood ... I think I've cracked the receipe for the Royce chocolates. Hee hee ... true chocolates that melt immediately in your mouth to release a smooth chocolate liquor down your throat. I need to work on presentation but at least I've worked out the consistency which is somewhere in between liquid and solid. Colleagues wedding dinner was really fun yesterday. Strange how surnames A to K (mine's C involve the most riotous and "mad' people in the office). How do I know, coz tables for the office were arranged according to surnames - and boy was our table noisy last night, really noisy and laughing like hell. Hmm ... I like hanging around people who are noisy and laugh a lot ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Monday Look's at Ko's "Keiichi the Radical Revolutionary". LOL ... Thank Ko for this bit of info too. Kaori, the manga you wanted is now back in stock at Comic Connection JP. I can finally see Eline's layout at work - GORGEOUS!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ...
... imprisoned within my blood ... Saturday I so agree with you El. How difficult is it to plonk a mooncake on a plate and serve the damn thing? It's a good thing Alvin was willing to wait a little longer for us. Okay, before I forget, her name is Shirlene. Really nice gal. Johnny was being "mean" as usual. Not much manga but the new manga by Ai M is good. Uhm, there's a chobbits narration book but I think it's about 30 dollars *sweatdrop* GTG, cousins here for dinner. Sorry about twahing you today El, me having diahorrea ths morning so slunked into bed the whole of today to sleep it off. I so claim I suffer from foetus trauma. When I was due to be born I was premature. Secondly, my dad was arrested by a bunch of CID officers while trying to flag down a cab for my mum. Handcuffed and slamed onto the pavement with a gun to his head. Me as a foetus in mummy's tummy was scarred for life. BTW, aunt yelled at police officers so much they drove us to the hospital where I was delivered about 1 - 2 hours later. And thus I have problem with rules, problems with authorities, problems with police and a stubborn refusal against wrist watches or bracelets. It's the handcuffs I tell you. That's the story of my life. *bows and runs off* ~ so I lied about keeping away from the computer but I can't assess anyone's blog at home (even mine) as netscape is being idiotic. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Friday Public Service Announcement - Kino Bugis is having a 20% sale on Sat and Sun. Public Service Announcement II as to release of Taiwanese manga at Comic Connection will be made tonite. Technically, this does not count as a breach of my undertaking not to surf the net for fun until Monday. I'm doing research and using the blogger post halfway thru research for public service is not surfing the net. ~ kit in denial about net addiction and elated about fact it's manga day ... imprisoned within my blood ... Okay I lied. I didnt' cut off the cord with the net and was at the ODFM with Reins this afternoon - but seriously no more online tomfollery after this post. Before I go off (really) but here's an important warning for people who visit Japanese fan-art sites. BE WARNED. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Val's selectors are extremely beautiful I couldn't resist. Anyway, I've just cleared my in-tray ... into my bag. My brain is dead having worked with the big boss on a file. The man's brilliant and he probably thinks I'm a floozy ... *shrugs* I need a brain break - never been forced to use brain so much before. But that was one experience ... wow. I wish I was /tat/ smart but obvious am not *double shrugs*. Perversely, one wonders if brain cells got smarter from experience or did they implode from overload (wait a minute, that sounds catchy). Going to go slow today. Office will be closed for weekend so lugging as much as possible home ... I know, logically I should try to clear today but I'm pooped out. I'm so freaking exhausted even my dad, the advocate of office punctuality is calling me up like 8:45 am when work starts at 9. Meeting El tonite. Hope oniichan's got books ^__~ Oh yes, the selector -  Your Pet is Shukou, a female Dragon People mistake you for indecisive, but the truth is you're just multifaceted. Here's a pet to go with your unpredictable demeanor. This powerful Hon Long princess comes with three different heads and ever-changing personality sets: Shukou, the serene, Kanan, the violent & Junrei the innocent. You'll never get bored. Just make sure the three heads don't fight or the world could collapse. Maybe I'll try to clear as much as possible, it's only "normal" but my dad assures me I'm NOT normal in any liberal sense of the word. I wonder if I could hide his stamp collection in vengeance. And because I haven't played with quiz selectors in a while.
take this quiz! Offline until Monday, later babes. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Bleh. That's all I have to say for now. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Thursday My big boss' house sits on land the size area my whole flat block occupies O_o;; But I'm happy in my little flat really. There's really something to be said about being one of the masses ^__^ ~ philosphical when having to haul one's a** out of bed at 6 ... imprisoned within my blood ... Wednesday To the person looking for MOS burger Taka branch takeout line, I don't have it but the Caltex branch does takeout and their number is 65-65388303. There, my quasi good deed for the century :P I'm dying ... I need more snowblowers ... UGH!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... More files O_o;; oooh, Clow honey ... help ... *dies* ... imprisoned within my blood ... I've worked for all the partners in the construction department here in less than half a year. Go me. Yeah right. Leareth, I don't need a spade. I need a snowshover machine. A crane. Anything. But yes Reins I will. Ange, apologies to your mum. Been swamped lately, I'll get back to her tomorrow. Sorry. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Tuesday Neko take care. El ... are you snowed in too? My whole table is now my in-tray. Funny and scary at the same time. When I get my brain back, I'll hit full blown panic ^___^ v I need Clow - NOW! That "ERASE" card of his would come in very useful. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Am alive. Barely but am. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Monday Last nite was fun ... meeting up with old friends and all. Quite distressing and interesting that the attached ones are bringing husbands and boyfriends. Interesting coz you're getting to know more people, distressing coz you really can't help but acknowledge you're no longer a teen *hangs on desperately to delusion she is not old - ugghhh ...* One of the guys my old classmate is seeing is actually a colleague of mine ^_^;; and it feels odd coz both of us know we behave in one way at work and here at my high school gathering, it's a different set of rules altogether (or rather the lack of). Gosh, and internally my Peter-panned self screams, refusing to grow up. Did research in school this morning, was posing successfully as student asking for help, well even managed to fooble off the fact I was doing research beyond the scope of a usual law student - until lecturer came up and said, "Hi, I thought it was you skulling around, haven't seen you since we both left *insert name of old firm*." Whoops. But then again my firm is a member of the library so technically since I'm there on firm's business, I'm supposed to be able to use the library - I'll just claim I left the membership card in the office or something. Anyhow, since I was done with research and since my friend didn't feel like doing work, we adjourned to his office and had a long chat in my friend's room. Strange how we are all so grown up now. His door reads "professor so and so" and he's gripping about how unmotivated law students are these days. Bizzare coz how I used to be the one getting it from my tutors about not paying enuff attention to classes. Anyhows like I told my friend, he shouldn't stress himself out, he can teach but students won't absorb unless they want to. Besides, there will always be people who don't pay attention in class but will study on their own, at their own time - in my case, I would only look at my materials for the first time, one month from the exams. Then again, I'm not a prime example of a good student so there :P The big boss just bumped into me in the lift and asked if I wanted to do a case with him. I'm tempted but I'm afraid I can't handle it. What to do? Wonder if he'll accept a "I've got quite a bit of work but I'm interested so unless you want to shove off the other files off me." UGH!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Saturday Owl Post #1 Dear Kim There used to be a Jap site potraying that pairing in YnM. kind regards kit PS: That sketch cracks me up. ... imprisoned within my blood ... My sis' bf is at my house so often it feels like he's living here. Sigh ... anyway this gives. I was playing FF VII with my mum again (yes, my mum of nearly 60 plays fff series IV to IX) and we were "to" save the town of North Corel from the runaway train. Perversely I tried to accelerate the train to kill the townsfolk unfortunately I accelerated it so much I broke the engine and saved the town instead. UGH!!! HOW CAN THIS BE, I MEANT TO KILL THEM!!! I don't care I'm going again and this time I'm not touching the controls *fumes* And my dad fumigated Eriol ... *cringes* ... imprisoned within my blood ... My office is flooded O_o;; fortunately my cubicle is fine. For safety Eriol is home with me. *shudders* Anyhow Hana Kimi 18 is out and I've got North Side and South Side - yeap, Clamp's latest release. The lawful drug pics look good but no Clow >_< Clamp fans better hurry, limited stock at Kino. Zero Sum October issue is out too. Last call for calendars. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Friday Oh oh, for some reason I'm in a foul mood and I've misplaced stuff so considering my insane obsession with inanimate objects, I'm internally hoping mad. Still, one must learn to control one's temper ... must be coz I forgot to eat dinner. Anyhow, the point is this. There's no point to this post. Hi El, glad you're home. How was the fish counting? Reins, here's the fanart of the "fantasy marriage scenario" - click here to see it. Comments (friends of mine can click and have a good laugh too)? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Sneaked off for tea with the girls - came back to find YK in my cubicle. How he got in is interesting ... anyway got to see my friend, got my Saiyuki DVDs and Nanzca VCDs back and he bought me a Dinga Cat ... it's so grouchy it looks like me :D ... imprisoned within my blood ... What do you mean by turning my Zoro into some possessive bish? *sobs* ... imprisoned within my blood ... Quite a fun day. First met close friends for lunch at pub. Long nice lunch while we all chatted away. Whole pub was crawling with lawyers. Imagine the vibes generated ... but it was good to have everyone together and picking at each other's chips. Then had some colleagues over for the evening. Mum swears lawyers and their likes are very noisy. I suppose she's amazed how much noise we can generate at my little gatherings every now and then - for one, I guess we laugh louder than most people. Ate thai food at Thai Express at HV before trooping for magaritas ... yum, had a whole jug. Trooped home and watched GAT while SMSing our other colleagues - LW next time maybe dear? Hope you had a good rest. Laughed our way through the show. I'm watching it for the 4th time but it's still funny. They left with some of my manga and VCDs so I better keep track. I'm running a library I tell you. Hana Kimi should be well-received. Work is not getting less but I'm having fun. I've got a little scheme going, I hope it works. UGH, too late to prepare fudge as I promised onii-chan ... ahhh too bad :P and I've forgotten his gal's name - oh no, I'll have to ask discreetly again. I wonder if PX or Johnny will be there tomorrow? If it's PX, I've got an ally against oniichan but if it's Johnny and my cousin-in-law around, I've got more opponents. Hmm, maybe I'll get my onii-chan-in-law on my side *grins* I like my life better now. I may have troubles still but it's less painful to bear but somewhat deep down, it still hurts. But pain is a sign you're alive I guess. It's late and I'm mumbling. I need to visit soon. I can't live in regret, not again. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Thursday Mura - you're a genius. Mutilating manga scans is fun ^___^ ... imprisoned within my blood ... Kim I got the owl post but me thinks you put too much sickles and knuts in it already. Would you like me to send the excess back or I'll hold onto it to set-off your future purchases? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Wednesday HaHa Ha ... we'll see ... the kitten is insane and unstoppable ^__^ in her quest for mayhem and mischief! *whips out book of trouble making suggestions and continues adding new entries* ... imprisoned within my blood ... 11 September 2002 - condolences to those who have lost a loved one. Lesser in the global scale of things but of importance to me - I need to sue a hospital ... I really need to for a certain hospital has written to the home to say that since gran can't be saved they will not admit her. Hmm, yes I see the point they can't wake her from her coma but I don't think it's correct to say that patient should literally be allowed to die no matter what. One I don't believe in euthanasia (forgive the bad spelling but I'm not in the mood to care). Two if any, that decision should be made by the family not some f*wits of a hospital. ... imprisoned within my blood ... More doodles ... as usual I suck at drawing hands: huggles *hearts* Why do I put up with you? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Tuesday Oh the email fraudsters are getting more creative. Initially it was the "government" of a certain certain African or thereabouts country asking for help to move monies out, then it was some government factory in China and Russia asking for "sure win" investments and now it's an ulba rich widow seeking for assistance through her dubiously named lawyers from some bogus English law firm address. Do they think we're stupid? Seriously, solicitors would be hired to handle estate matters not barristars, dummy. Yeah you, I've got a good mind to forward the emails to the police so the next idiot who tries to send me trash mail about assisting you in some "move billions" out of some country scheme better rethink, do you seriously want trouble up your alley? ~ Listening to Chet Baker's "my funny valentine" ... imprisoned within my blood ... Hee hee ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... I so dig him - doesn't he remind you of a certain cranky magician I so adore? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Actually it's not so much of I want a wolf to keep in the house, more like I wished instead of being the urban jungle it is, Singapore was like one of those places with woods at the back and I could run with a wolf or something. Wolves once domesticated are no longer wolves. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Inu-chan, are you responsible for this search on barristers immunity hall v simmons? If you're not, you might want to check out this link - you need acrobat tho'. Amazingly scary my blog is the first hit for the search ~_~;; More on Hall v Simons from Freshfields - "The landmark judgment of Arthur J S Hall & Co v Simons (2000) LTL 20/7/2000 eradicated the immunity from liability for negligence in court previously enjoyed by barristers. Now both solicitors and barristers can be held liable for their negligent conduct of a case, so long as the basic requirements of a negligence claim are still met. Advice given by solicitors or barristers will not be considered negligent where a reasonably competent adviser might have given the same advice and where the client was given sufficient warning that that advice could be wrong (Simmons v Overbury Steward & Eaton & Anor (2002) LTL 11/3/2002). The actions of solicitors and barristers are measured against the range of actions that a reasonably careful and skilful legal representative might take (Shirley & Ors v DJ Freeman & Anor (2001) LTL 19/12/2001). Any breach of duty established must be causative of the client's loss (Ramatrielle SA v Kiers (2002) 12/3/2002) and that loss must be a foreseeable consequence of the lawyer's breach (Peterson v Rivlin (2002) 31/1/2002). Once those requirements are met, damages will be assessed as at the date when the loss occurred (Aylwen v Taylor Joynson Garrett (2001) LTL 31/7/2001)." Check up http://www2.bailii.org/~jury/cases/ScotCS/A5555_01.htm too? I think I'll lure some global claim searches my way - global claims, global cost claims, total cost claims, cardinal change, quantum meruit. Well? ... imprisoned within my blood ... I only played this coz Reins did but here goes: "You live in a House. You're married to Clow. You drive a ferarri. Your car is the color red. You live in the state chicago. Your honeymoon is prague. Your occupation is a lawyer. You have this many kids: 3 (3 male; 0 female)." Whoo ... 3 sons *sweatdrops* gulp ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Uhm, sorry for scaring you guys. It's the anniversary of another very good friend and I kinda miss our days of madness together. No, gran's okay ... for the moment. Sorry about sounding so morbid. Eve, storage space in Singapore is very expensive. I need to work this one out. Anyways, if I sell I'll only sell the ones I don't love so much but I've got about at least 10 cupboards of manga so to be objective I see why my family is complaining. I need to work on doggie thingee too. Mum and gran (the one I live with) are not keen. Ohhh, made marble orange fudge too. Fun. Question is do I dare to add more milk and try to do a royce chocolate imitation? The last time I tried it was way to much milk and I ended up with ice-cream instead. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Monday “Funeral Blues” by WH Auden Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone Prevent the dog from barking with that juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let the aero plane circle overhead Scribbling the message, “He is dead”. Put crib bows around the necks of the public doves Let traffic policeman wear black cotton gloves He was my north, my south, my east and west My working week, my Sunday rest My noon, my midnite, my talk, my song I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong The stars are not wanted now, put out everyone. Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood For nothing now can come to any good. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Oh no Jo, it chewed on your pens? I want big ferocious black hounds ... actually I wanted a wolf as young as a kid but they don't let you keep those do they *sulk* ... anyway they only promised to vote in my favour. That's 3 votes and unless my sis votes in favor too, no doggie. My manga collection reduced? Nooo ... although if I ever do, I'll let you, aine, kaori and meia be one of the first to know. The amount of manga in my house is getting scary tho' - maybe I will have a sort of online garage sale ... maybe *thinks* I want my manga and my big sleek black hound *wails* ... imprisoned within my blood ... Greek and Norse myth is good fun although yes, the ones they had in our primary school libraries are major-ly censored. Speaking of censorship, GAT suffered some cuttings you know - wonder was it to make the show fit the tight time slots or ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Note to self: Do not wear white shirt, boots and brown pants to work. Reason: Everyone looks at me funny. Uhm, and I'm not even wearing my ear cuffs. Rationale: Must look (a) really ugly or (b) like a transversite Note to self 2: To consider aunt's proposal Aunt and dad have promised to vote in favour of buying a puppy and that my dad be forced to take care of it while all I do is play with it, effectively upping my campaign to buy a dog against my mum and gran who have vetoed me for years. Condition: To reduce manga collection by 2-thirds *shudder* Rationale(?): Aunt and dad are sniggering about fact puppy might eat my books if half my collection lies unprotected around house *shudder shudder* so I might as well reduce collection. Always wanted a dog but chances are it can't be too big (sis doesn't mind small ones but with the exception of dad and me, family members not fond of big dogs - I want a big long ferious black hound damnit!) so that reduces attractive factor (me no want toy dogs). UGH!!! CHOICES and then again, I've only been promised votes from previous neutrals and a condition that is hard to swallow ... *replots moving up scheme* ... hmmm ... *tears hair* ... imprisoned within my blood ...   ... imprisoned within my blood ... Someone sent me a screensaver. It smacks of "virus trap". I've deleted it coz I don't recognise the email address. In case anyone I know has sent it, send me an email to confirm ... if it ain't anyone I know, it makes me a little nervous - do strangers hate me so much as to send viruses? *whimper* ... imprisoned within my blood ... Okay ... spent the weekend at home - at home, not in the office *cheers* No actually I spent it concussted in my bed. It's amazing how I can do things like that to myself *sulks* Needed to go play ball. Anyhow, now that me am in the office, me can drool over Ko's layout - kawaii - silly netscape on imac at home was making it hard to read since netscape ignores layers. I need to get IE for the imac ... it hangs when css gets to difficult for it - it takes ages for Mura's and El's blogs to load as well as inu-chan's and hangs when I try to read Reins. Anyhow, Clow's miffed everyone thinks the Korean dudes are cuter than him. Even my sis liked the movie enuff (yeah I bought the VCD) to tell her friends to call her after the show - for a girl who I describe as depending on the phone like an IV drip, that's not common. Speaking of drips, Gran is off the IV and back to the nursing home. Should see her soon. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Saturday Oh, and I got a set of Saiyuki Reload cards off Sharon for those of you who are interested in such things. El (actually you won't read this but I'm making a note here) Sharon says she's agreeable to our proposal and told us to "jia you". I've got way too much manga - never thought there would be the day I would say that but my collection is starting to scare even me. There's simply no more space in my shelter I call home. So reluctantly am planning to sell some of them. Without being too pissy, due to my neurotic preoccupation with inanimate objects, my second hand manga is in almost top class condition - almost first hand. Interested takers may contact the deranged owner of this blog when she lists her loot for sale. Gosh, maybe I should set up shop *winks* ... imprisoned within my blood ... Mura chan: 1. There is another manga by the name of Loveless but is totally unrelated to cat ears. 2. Run that by me again? You got SS 2 and ZS 2, Saiyuki Reload and what else? I just sent of SR and that arrived so quickly while everything else is still not there? Either Mexico is being wacky or screaming at the post office does wonders. Kimmy's and your packages moved a lot quicker after I yelled. Got WA2 yet? And there's until Sept's issue of ZS to go. *plots to murder post office* *fumes* stupid post-office, stupid hospital and stupid credit card company - everyone got a shelling from me on Friday for various stupid things and if they don't fix the problems they created soon, let me say my three years in practice have thought me how complaint letters should be drafted. Inu-chan, sounds good. Let me know when your hols are on. Cross-jurisdiction paper sounds fun. Apologies to everyone from using my blog for profit but might as well *shrugs* Very tired. Will sleep now. Meta-chan, life with bro sounds fun. I wish I had a brother too but I might have bullied him to death. Hee hee ... Reins, I'll pick up the book the next time I go to KL no rush at this point. Aiieee ... left out one case, must go haunt law library tomorrow again. But seriously the photocopying company rep was soooo irritating *sulks* ... imprisoned within my blood ... Sis bought Royce chocolates for me. Yum ... but as I was teasing her, it's raining red rain. Tried making royce chocolates before but used too much milk and ended up with ice-cream instead. Tired. Did a lot of research but need time to digest. No idea what to do tomorrow but better figure out soon. Oh, Inu-chan I'm reading this manga about a bunch of school kids who are playing prosecutor, defence lawyer and judge. It's so OTT but so entertaining at the same time. SF, I was a little worried about some of the other reviewers but you can't stop MS-wannabes *shrugs*. At the risk of grovelling, me like your writings. Do continue. Social blogging tomorrow guys. *looks forward to watching Guns and Talks and My Wife is a Gangster with EK and LW soon now that she's got all the vcds* Oh, Liz remember that time you said you didn't want Spirited Away unless there were English subs - well they've just released the VCD with English subbing so are you still interested? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Friday Got Mythical Detective Loki - goreous!!! Except my volume 6 was filled with ocassional blank pages - only realised reading it at home but called oniichan and he says he'll change it for me. Got introduced to his gal today, she's so sweet, what a kawaii girl. Ade, the VCD is out? Yeah ... me will go get it, heck this means I may have the Korean movie weekend fest earlier than expected. Oh, and Ade, I have the manga you want to read. Call me as to when you can pick it up? Someone named Kim has got a lot of cute boys on her layout *winks* ... hehe hee ... Tez needs to play, I've got up to volume 12 of the manga and I still haven't seen him smash a ball or two. Gaiden's going to be on ZS (go see Joy's blog) - weeee ... As El says, it makes the subscription more worthwhile. El, have fun and may no fried mee or bum boats stop you this time. ... imprisoned within my blood ... inu-chan, me turn to ask for your opinion: what is australia's position on variation to contract? does it adopt the cardinal change principle adopted in US and Canadian law - i.e. that it is possible by the order of variations, the party ordering the variations may change the nature of the contract such that the party abiding by the variations may declare that the contract price is invalid and that he is entitled to claim for a new price based on the principle of quantum meruit? need rough guess only. I've done research and Australian law appears to be silent on this - any luck you can harass a tutor for me and pretend that you're just curious to help me confirm? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Have fun your trip yo. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Leareth look at this scottish case of O'Keefe v. Kilcullen [2001] IESC 65 (23rd October, 2001) for an application of Hall v Simons. Old law - In the past, barristers were granted immunity from negligence suit with regard to the conduct of trial. This immunity was limited to the conduct of suits and cases have indicated that negligent acts prior to a suit e.g. in the giving of pre-litigation advice are not protected by the rule. The old rule also did not extend to solicitors nor persons engaged for the purpose of litigation - e.g. experts, who could be sued for negligence. The main points of rationale for the old rule was as such: 1. public interest - a lawyer could not be put in a position where his duty to the court could be compromised (cab rule considered) 2. finality of litigation - no risk of an issue of relitigating the judgment 3. "free expression" in court - no issue of being sued for libel etc. There were further smaller considerations which could be grouped under the above 3 general categories. New law?: The HL in Hall v Simmons stated that they were of the view that the first "rationalisation" is a myth. The immunity given to a barrister cannot be justified as compared to the duty of care owed by other professionals who also have public duties e.g. doctors. He cannot be allowed impunity for his conduct vis a vis the client since there was no real risk to his duty to the court. A barrister could not be negligent if he had acted in a manner because he had perceived that he should have done so under his duty to the court. The HL also stated that the judges could be trusted upon to determine what were genuine complaints by clients and what were instances of unreasonable disgruntle. There was also no injury to public interest as such, and this rationalisation could lend no support to the continuance of the immunity. The HL was similarly of the view that the 2nd issue was a fallacy as there was no issue of relitigating the earlier judgment ... I suppose in the same way that if a defendant to an action brings a separate action against a 3rd party when he should have brought a third party action, he cannot deem the judgment in his action with the plaintiff to bind the third party. Examples most commonly found in construction law. The developer sues the main contractor for defects in the works. The main contractor chooses to sue the sub-contractor in charge of those works separately ... even if the main contractor is held to be responsible to the developer for defects, he cannot use this judgment to force the judge in the separate action between him and the sub-contractor to come to a judgment that the sub-contractor is automatically responsible to the main contractor for the said defects, i.e. he must still prove his case against the sub-contractor. With regard to the 3rd point, the HL held that the removal of the barrister's immunity did not change the law on protection against libel etc. as that was separate from the duty of care owed to the client by the barrister. Submissions: With all due respect while the HL is correct in legal principles, this case creates a number of practical problems. Statutory intervention may be required to ensure that the decision does not go further than expected. 1. A barrister has no control over the court timelines etc. While the HL indicated that judges would be understanding, the truth of the matter is that you can't comment on the workload of lawyers unless you are a practicising lawyer yourself. There may be an argument that barristers should not take on more work than they can handle but really ... wake up and smell the coffee. The cab rule may be dead as far as legally viewed but in practise can one tell a client you will only accept one case at a time from him? A solicitor may similarly be over-worked but in a sense, he doesn't have the problem of directions etc. made as his work progresses - a simple case may grow into a nightmare due to the interlocutory applications that mushroom along the hard road to trial. 2. More importantly, what is the test to be applied? Something similar to the Bolam test? Or the Whitaker test? Indications in the HL's judgment point that it is likely to be the Whitaker test. But is this practical? While judges practise law like a lawyer, the 2 are different creatures. 3. Even if one accepts that the Whitaker test is practical, how does one determine if the act was negligent? Lawyer A may decide a point is important and should be higlighted. Lawyer B looking at the same case may think the same point is actually a disadvantage and should be played down. Similarly, is a lawyer negligent if he does not grill the witness like a kerbab? On one hand, one type of lawyers may like to squeeze the answer out of witnesses. On the other, some lawyers believe that trying to gain his co-operation is more important. How does one determine if a choice in the course of trial was negligent? 4. Tendency of clients to complain about conduct of case is no joke. If they intend to lift the immunity, there should be mandatory mediation by statue - i.e. mediation involving the lawyer, the client and the relevant law society of that jurisdiction before the matter may proceed to trial. ~ Hey, want to do a paper in your holidays? Hopefully by then I will be less-swamped and we could do a 2 jurisdiction paper or something? ^__^ Still haven't even done that webring for lawyers and law students yet *coughs in embarassment* and lots of projects undone *sheepish* ... heheh ... *nervous laughter* ... imprisoned within my blood ... The perfect Integral and Alucard song (fine I’m biased): Let me fall Let me fall Let me cry There’s a moment when fear and dream must collide Someone I am is waiting for courage The one I want, the one I will become will catch me So let me fall if I must fall I won’t heed your warnings I wont’ hear them Let me fall If I fall Although feelings may or may not rise I will dance so freely Holding onto no one You can hold me only if you too will fall away from all these useless fears and chains Ohhh … Someone I am is waiting for my courage The one I want, the one I will become will catch me So let me fall if I must fall I won’t heed your mournings I won’t hear Let me fall If I fall There’s no reason to miss this one chance, this perfect moment Just let me fall ~ produced by Rhys Fulber and sung by Josh Groban ... imprisoned within my blood ... Good grief - Mary Sues abound ... El wasn't SF's fic supposed to be an exercise on the ridiculousness of MSs. Are people kidding when they say they are inspired to write more MSs or are they serious? MSs are only funny when they're not taking themselves seriously or good for one funny laugh but the wonderful beautiful and over-talented token female character from nowhere is BIZZARE!!! Been goofing off today ... bad bad kitten. Kaori, it's big ... I don't think it's possible to scan. Maybe I'll get a photo instead? Hmmm, time to get a digital camera? *scratches head* Writing a book with EK, "the 101 non-PC things female lawyers say and/or do". Kee hee hee ... Hey co-authors of the 888 lives ... ano ... whose turn was it? ~ Want more Guns and Talks posters. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Thursday Oh no ... a bit late but happy belated? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Mura you have just got to look at this referrer - here. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Ugh ... strawberry stain on fav white shirt. The white shirts in M&S in UK are better than the same make of white shirts in Singapore. Scratched and/or dented new phone with law report!!! UGH!!! Only consolation is it's not too large a dent ... Must buy phone cover. But other than that am happy. Spent last nite haunting harbour. Standing there with the wind in one's face is good. Just came back from shopping with EK. Fun fun fun ... we did lots of silly things but fun fun fun. Giving Clow a short break but he'll be back. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Thanks Kim. Met El for breakfast before sneaking down to NUS to do research. Was caught in traffic jam *sulk* - I'm so horrendously not punctual. Despite horror stories of them checking people to see if they're students, that has never happened to me altho I see some law students looking at me a little quizzedly trying to figure out if I'm one of their classmates who appear one at the beginning of term and disappear until exam times. Then again, I was carrying a lot of law reports. I've been told I've a lot of evil clones of me running around. Hmmm ... Have fun in Tioman El. As I SMS-ed her, I've got a movie poster of Guns and Talks. Ugh!!! The show's off so my colleagues can't watch it until I manage to get the DVD from J (when she gets back to Singapore that is). But I'VE GOT THE DARN POSTER!!! Had to cut quite a bit of the border tho - torn too much to bear. You see, they had removed all the Guns and Talks posters except the one near the pop-corn stand (this is one of the most popular cinemas in Singapore in case anyone's interested). Looked around to see if management would change their mind and let me have the poster but didn't even manage to ask as staff was very busy and had no time for me. Sulking coz the movie was off and no one was giving me the time of the day, me went back to poster, panicked majorly for a while when I realised some kids (actually teens) were tempted by the fact I had been drooling over poster and were contemplating taking it. Fortunately for me, they chickened out. THEN ... spotted cleaner. Decided it was not good to swipe so asked cleaner if I could have it. He said yes!!! *cheers* He tried to help (altho I much rather he had not as he tore the sides quite badly) but he was nice so I couldn't have screamed "stop, you're tearing it" ... As a consolation to myself I tried to rationalise that original poster is wayyyy too big and after trimming off the sides to remove most of tears cleaner made except one that was really quite bad but fortunately not on an face part, it fits my cubicle nicely. Pinned up trimmed poster, called colleagues over and we burst into fangurly squeals that made the male lawyers wonder what we were up to. Conned everyone by claiming I stole the thing and ran and they should watch the evening news for footage of security guards chasing a suited fangurl running with a stolen movie poster. Hee hee ... Gran is still sleeping. Met dad onway out of ward. Poor dad-skins is exhausted but trying to make everyone feel better. My dad is the greatest. I'm biased? Well this is my blog *grins and huggles Clow* Gosh ... I so want a Clow-look-alike as a slave ^___^ but anyone who looks like either of the Guns and Talks cast won't be too bad *evil grin* Clow ^___^;; El they aren't bimboes or himboes but there's immense pressure for everyone to turn into law-abidding adults with normal lives - i.e. happily married with the Singapore dream of condo, car and credit card. I don't buy any of it but they're trying to psycho me into turning into a normal person ... NoooooOOOOOoooo ... my folks are cool. My mum just asked "you sure you don't want a slave to boss around?" to which my dad said "ouch!" before we all burst out laughing. That's me, noisy and always breaking out into insane laughter. Aiiee ... look at the time, time to look through this morning's research ^___^ but anyone who looks like Clow Read and is interested in being my slave, please send resume by email accordingly. Don't call us, we'll call you. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Wednesday See ya for breakfast El. Thanks Jo. I'll check it out. Norse mytho is good. 30% at CC? Wow, must check it out. Uhm, no worries El, I was just gripping ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Hee hee ... cool Weiss layout!!! Saw the translations? Jo the Mythical Detective Loki sounds good. I've always thought Loki was cool. Evil but cool ... is it on sale at Kino or Comic Connection? Does it have a Chinese name? Take care you. Liz - prettwy ... Take care Met - drop a note when you settle down no? El thanks. Have fun on your trip. Catch up for dinner or something next week or when you get back? Can someone buy and send me a copy of the Malaysian Contracts Act (1950)? Please ... And my insides are rainbow-colored? Uhm ... Should stop blogging ... treating this like a toy, which I tend to do when stressed ... well uhm ... Had lunch with a friend. She's a little depressed but I was of the view the thing she was stressing over was really not her fault nor in her control so just cracked jokes none stop until we both were laughing madly - I'm a bit of an escapist here and not comfortable with dispensing advice. How can one dispense advice unless one is in the situation? She said I was a guy through and through but she missed laughing like that - so I think that should have been alright. Kinda funny when she asked me what kind of guy I wanted. No prizes for guessing my criteria - grins, why lookie, isn't he bundled up there? But that did trigger a minor panic ... I know this sounds foreign to some of you but at me age when everyone around you is getting hitched and in a society where it is assumed a woman doesn't get a guy only when she's a loser, it's scraping at my self-confidence (but no worries, I've got an ego the size of an iceberg so it'll take some time before this really starts bothering me - I hope). Okay, I really should stop sprouting nonsense. ~ listening to un amore per sempre (insane kitten so loving opera and arias) ... imprisoned within my blood ... Law question - haven't done this in a long time ^ ^;; Anyone with research on global claims and "cardinal change in nature of contract"? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Hyde!!! Weee ... he looks so pretty on the CD cover no? Movie with Gackt and Hyde in it? Wow ... what's the name of the movie? Looks like Outlook is giving you a lot of trouble. Personal rants: Going to see my gran tonite. She's one of toughest birds I've even seen. I hope she wakes and gets well but if she doesn't I know one day I'll still see her again. Without sounding cruel, I rather her happy even if we have to be apart for a while. Looking at her fight, I don't know if she doesn't want to leave us yet or whether there is still unresolved issues that she wants to settle. Since most of you don't really know my family, with the exception of one or two of you, I'm just going to blare my feelings here - the beauty of a blog is you can yell as much as you want without too much consequence (or so I hope) - 1. The hospital which is so near a MRT station which the home insists on sending her to due to distance is woefully incompetent 2. Where the hell are my uncles and cousins? My mum is getting disgusted and disgrunted by the fact my uncles who are so called more moral beacons, aren't around squat - they had talked so grandly about how when she dies, they'll give her a grand funeral the first time all this happened ... F*? She's still here yo! I'm not saying everyone has to hover over her bed 24-7 but at least check on her? She had her eyes open yesterday and I don't know if she really could see but she kept holding her left hand out if someone stood in front of her when her eyes were open - especially my dad who gets on best with her. My dad says they do visit but are busy - I think my dad is too kind, he always has been. My uncles I don't hate but I don't believe them - you see when my gran was a bad tempered person her whole live so I know if they feel queasy about visiting her when alive - as such my dad was like literally her only son for a few years prior to this comma thingee - no one's bitching on this. At the time she first went into a comma, my dad was like totally exhausted taking care of her prior to the comma (he seriously lost weight and he's skinny in the first place so imagine what happens when a skinny thin guy loses weight) and I had already planned a hol months in advance for the family (in between jobs then too) so we did want to go quickly altho we would cut short the hol if anything happened. My uncles said no. My dad was not to go coz he had to attend to the funeral. (i) Why the preoccupation with her death? Isn't love and care for the person while they're living more important than wailing at the funeral? (ii) My dad was about to burn out - was a short holiday too much? My gran was extremely difficult before the comma and my dad went up to visit her everyday even my other gran (mum's mum) got worried about his health. (iii) Where the F* were and are my cousins? Especially the hot-shot engineers in US? An airplane trip costs yes but how many grans do you have? On the other hand, neighbourly crisis is reaching a peak. Water, bridge and all, haven't we discussed those contracts like 3 times already with them reneging on their contract 3 times? One cannot help but start wondering what makes us think they'll keep to the latest bargain even if we make it through? Please, this is not meant to start a fight especially with those I call friends ... it's just my insignificant brainless voice yakking away. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Tuesday "Greetings all! Good news! The lease for The Anime House's shop space has been extended for another two months :) So, we'll still be hanging around in the same place for now :D" mail from Kareshi Kanojyo no Mise ... imprisoned within my blood ... Erjika - gomen for taking so long but here's the word for word translation for Executive Committee Chapter 1. Mura and Kim might like this too. I'm exhausted ... going to come in early tomorrow instead. Sorry the translations are taking so long. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Meia that show is so Weiss. Yeah I guess the leader is somewhat Youji in his playboy way ... except we (me and El) did see the cold manical leader side in him that smacks of Aya. Me keeping my eye on poster too, in the meanwhile, I could send you an image of the 4 dudes ^__^ so if you want so let me know. And would be grateful if you could let me know when you can find the VCD and poster ... I might be able to order the DVD but would rather save on the shipping costs. Lots of fake VCDs in the market say 4 hours drive from Singapore tho? Watching it on Thurs again *drool* ... imprisoned within my blood ... Momopeach ice-cream = chocolate coated nut centre made to look like peach pit, surrounded by peach ice-cream and coated with white chocolate and raspberry so product looks like a peach. Stick made of chocolate and fake leaf = viola an ice-cream momopeach. On the other hand, I hate the doctors at the hospital I REALLY DO! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Monday Hmm, my gran had a heart attack and is in the hospital. I don't feel too good. I wish my dad told me coz I really could have gone to see her instead of playing with my layout but she's okay for now, subject as usual to the doctor's dismal view of her condition. I'll see her tomorrow. I hope. Everytime my work piles up and I can't see her, something happens. I'm a jerk. ... imprisoned within my blood ... To the person looking for "Donoghue v Stevenson (law OR legal OR legislation OR regulation)": Dear, it's an English case on negligence and has become part of the common law of England and many Commonwealth countries. I don't remember it being expressly drawn up as a legislative measure tho altho it is the basis of many negligence principles since. You can get the citation off [1932] Appeal Cases at page 562. If you really need the case, drop me a note. Can people whom I owe things to remind me what I owe you? ... imprisoned within my blood ... El, I'm sorry. I just got your SMS for 11am at 1:30pm and had left earlier at 12:45 thinking you were either not in school or really busy. Sorry, next time? Stupid mobile network *sigh* ... imprisoned within my blood ... Someone swiped my phone and made me miss my flight home. Someone used up my battery and my phone is flat. Someone is getting his just desserts - Reins, I wanted to introduce a gag but would that be overdoing it? He is an ouji-san afterall. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Sunday More Love Hina Reins? Yes, it's a Sunday morning and guess where I am? I'm pathetic I know and Eriol (the sheep) is giving me dirty looks. ... imprisoned within my blood ... ... how long will it be before I lose control ... how long will it be before he finds me? ... oh preserve my soul, preserve my pride Preserve my sanity thru this nite ... |
