Relevancy of the upcoming exam

Today newspaper's article by NST is to be welcomed ('Is this the end of CLP?'). My answer to their question above give a strong urge and hope to yes. And I am sitting for the exam this upcoming July.

I wished they could have scrapped it so much earlier even before I did my degree. At least I can look forward for the Common Bar Course. It sounds more prestigious, established and on par. If people come and ask how I do my CLP, I'd say study..hard, harder and hardest.

I can see that exam questions might not be difficult, but it is the volume of information that needs to be memorised! Like for Professional Practice, we have 5 different set of laws to study. But we are only allowed to bring in one statute book which only cover for 1 topic. The other 4 topics, we have to memorise (MEMORISE) the statutes and cases! Sometimes I wonder if there's external brain for sale.

Last round of hope

Due to the upcoming severe exam stress, I will not be able to blog properly until July, unless I have anything extraordinary to voice out here.

I'm almost in the verge of tears and nauseating for memorising thousands of cases and authorities. Perhaps it's time to boil soup using my notes and hopefully by consuming this 'tasty' soup, I can automatically memorise those cases. Chicken soup, anyone?

*sob sob

Overwhelmingly dumbfounded

Malaysia's 12th General Election 2008. Malaysian's Opposition parties have made history! Not only they denied BN 2/3 majority, they almost took over the government! By 2am today, the results showed that they have managed to take 1/3 of the Parliament seats.It is all rare that results are announced until that late and went beyond 3am. It was the only election where I was soooooo anxious and nervous sitting in front of the TV and computer.

Welcome, the new government. I'm so looking forward to it. All the new oppositions elected, I hope they will be able to do a good job and walk their talk.

Desperate votes needed

You vote, you'll die. You don't vote, you'll die too...This is the desperate situation in Malaysia where we'll have our General Election tomorrow, March 8th.

Today, Prime Minister urge us all Chinese and Indian to support their respective race's political party in order to have their voices heard in the cabinet. Otherwise, if we don't have any respresentatives, our grouses will not be heard and we will only remain as a 'barking dog' in the Parliament who can do nothing but bark. Sad, right?

So this is the 'dilemma' which is going to be faced by majority of the Chinese and Indian voters. Forced dilemma and mind games.

Prime Minister, can you ignore 40% of your citizens who have no representatives in the government just because they did not vote for BN?

You promised the country in your BN's manifesto: Security, Peace and Prosperity, and you will not be bothered by grouses of those who did not vote for BN's either component parties [ or they voted but their votes doesn't give much an impact], eventhough they are citizens of Malaysia?

Oh! Election 2008

I love all these event fevers. What more a 12th General Election 2008. Many dramas are happening all around Malaysia except for the place where I am staying at the moment. Only polite posters were put up, no intentional destructions etc..good. Fair mah.

Peaceful campaign.

But, today newspaper's announcement said that SPR will not use indelible ink to mark voters who have voted. There were allegations that 4 fellas/indelible inks were brought into the country to trick rural folks to mark their finger with that ink before they can even vote. You see, the ink was meant to fight against phantom voters, which is a predominant problem since decade ago during elections. Which means, a lot of phantom voters or I'll called them GHOST, were the ones who decided who get to rule the country!

I'm sure when we're young, we've heard a lot of ghost stories to scare our childhood, but this special ghost story in Malaysia is more of an annoyance than scary.

So what if SPR cancelled the indelible ink plan. Those who can vote are still entitled to vote. Behold, and don't let your spirits be hampered! Elections afterall only comes once in 5 year. 5 years! Your teen kids would have finish their secondary school, those in college would have graduated and you would grow older. Yes, 5 years come and go..but maybe you want it to go in a better way? Vote for a better change!

If phantom voters are to make their grand come back, then maybe the Prime Minister should consider to have the Hungry Ghost Festival as a public holiday, to celebrate what all these ghosts have done for us. Maybe Malaysia can celebrate an early Hungry Ghost Festival on March 8th?