hamkey

ok today started off a bit :/ today is going to be super boring D:

then cabbed to sub courts to watch the zeng guo yuan trial, which was SUPER EPIC, omg jasbender kaur (court 20 judge) is like #2 now on my list of girl crushes :D SHE IS SO COOL HAHAHA and i love how she's so lucid all the time (or at least was throughout the trial, which was um 4 hours long until the lunch break). i feel bad laughing at zeng guo yuan since if he's deranged then it isn't really nice, but omg he's hilarious. no lawyer wants to represent him (since he'll probably ruin their image, as with chee soon juan) so he's doing his own defence, which sometimes gets a bit painful

btw sat on the lawyers' bench for the second day in a row :D

when he was cross-examining the poor police inspector:
ZGY: "When you came to my shop, I was still sleeping. Having my afternoon nap. Was that correct?"
"Yes, that is correct."
"I was still in my shorts."
-pause- "yes."
"I was topless."

everyone had to stiffle their giggles/ smirks. he was trying to establish that the police officer was biased against him:
ZGY: "when the letter was passed to him, he jumped up and down, was very rude to me and didn't act like a police officer."
"I am sorry, Your Honour, but when i received the letter, I did not jump up and down."

&&& FTW:

(to the judge) " I'm in the situation where someone has a bird in his hand. If the bird is alive, then the person squeezes what is in his hand. If it isn't alive, then he lets go of it."
judge: "-half-smile- I don't understand this. So what is the bird in this situation?"

omg WIN WIN WIN i think eugene (the DPP for the case) wanted to kill him because he's really wasting a TON of time by going on circles to make an argument and then shooting himself in the foot.... but omg the most entertaining trial i've ever been to. it even beats the chee soon juan one which actually wasn't that entertaining ._.

yup then went back to forum to have lunch because we were supposed to discuss the activity we have to present tmr, so we missed eugene cross-examining ZGY D: it would have been SUPER AWESOME. everytime ZGY said something strange (which happened A LOT) he would slump down further in his chair, sigh and hang his head lower. his head was practically squashed into his neck at the end, haha.

& omg eugene accidentally addressed him as my learned friend (a title reserved for other lawyers in court) and when he realised his mistake he LAUGHED and everyone else laughed too omg the judge had to bite her lip!!!!! yup so that was fun.

then after that everything went downhill ): the day was SO BORING, we stayed in a room and played cards. and i can now say that i don't want to play bridge/other card games for a super long time D: ughsicles. can't wait to sit in tmr, i hope eugene hasn't finished cross-examining ZGY alr x)

although it really feels like the law programme ended yesterday night, today we were admitting to having nicholas withdrawal symptoms which is SUPER DISGUSTING i swear i could feel my skin crawl when bella mentioned it but omg yea today just wasn't that fun without someone to annoy and to annoy us. ): & i ate tau huay for lunch again hahahaha but ok the three of us just kept smsing him in camp because he said he was super bored and kept starting convos with us ok. yay hope tmr will be fun :)

LAST TIME TO SEE NATALIE D: D: D:

NATALIE!!!!!!!! :D :D :D

hamkey

hmmm i'm really grateful for the past few days, i think God has really had a hand in this amazing grouping :) i love my fellow internees, and today was just a gorgeous end to it all: hahaha an extended dinner over nice food D: & hahaha the person chasing us to go wasn't nicholas (who was supposed to go back to the office and do work) but jane who wanted to go back to drink SOUP *dies* x)

omg all the hilarious photos and videos... amidst all the fun i think i can say that i have really learnt a lot about what a lawyer really does. there is SO MUCH SAIGANG that they don't show on tv and i think we're just all grateful that we got i think the best mentor in the whole of the SAL JC Law programme x) heehee nicholas said that he was really glad that he chose us, so \:D/ yup we'll probably see each other again, so it isn't too sad

but no more nice food for the next two days haha and a constant source of amusement during trials / PTCs omg he is so childish & LAME he started passing notes during the PTCs!!! yup i'm just glad that i've met all the goals i had for this attachment and more, which is to learn what being a lawyer is like, get a feel of the work. and we managed to have a TON of fun as well, so that as great. & if any of you are reading this right now, i will send the videos & pictures tomorrow. hahaha when we gave him the card i kept asking him to cry but he just sat there reading and trying not to look embarrAssed :D then bella sprinkled his face with water and we took photos! omg we have photos of each other cross-eyed & i am super amused by how we managed to make the photo shy nicholas into a photo whore :D strange i think prolonged exposure to bella makes everyone uninhibited in front of cameras.

but i can't stand how he's so smug and sure of himself!!!!!! it's so annoying because the judge suanned him in court and his ego was still as robust as ever - he embodies the essence of the RI boy. & omg he keeps suanning me, HATES!!! haha.

sigh i bet the next two days will be super unproductive - the other interns who have been brushed off by their mentors (which is actually everyone i know in AGC and in other law firms) generally spend the day slacking (watching videos or playing cards). oh well the first trial we're going to sit in in the high court! :D

all the lawyers we've met have been REALLY REALLY friendly. i'm so grateful :) it's been a WONDERFUL experience. love love love!