Ha ha, my friend was talking to me about the aggressiveness

of people in job interviews, and my comment was an excerpt

from a Chinese poem: "why so hasty in frying each other?"

In our amusement it somehow became a fullblown
(crap-version) translation of the whole thing...

A Poem in Seven Steps                Cao Zhi

To cook the beans, one burn’est its stem

The beans cry from the cauldron,

“Borne are we from the same stalk,

Why dost thou make haste in frying me?”

Hahahaha. Lo and Behold, such ingenuity! Methinks

I hath not failed my mentor with such a work; Ms Kwong

would be proud. :D

Lemme apologize for the trauma caused to Cao Zhi, any literary
figure in the Elizabethan times, and any random visitors around. 

*amused*  

Hm, morning uncertainties. Can't say I'm particularly glad,

but whatever.

Also, I lost my drawing pad pen. How in the nine hells I could

have lost it while I was drawing with it, I have no idea. I believe,

however, in the Murphy's Law saying that lost stuff will appear on

its own accord when you're not looking for it. As a devout believer

of  Murphy's Law I will thus stop looking for it. 

AR is being pretty funny today. I can get a page of quotes in just

one hour of class.

1.

(wallscreen refuses to start up)  

"Um, let's look at this white board while we wait for this thing to warm up.
If you look at this board, there is almost a zen feeling to it. You are looking
at timelessness. There is no end – you’re looking at eternity.......

*irritation* why the hell isn’t it warming up?"

(screen lights up)

Raffell: *happy* Oh!

(screen displays: "windows xp shutting down")

Raffell: AAAAAAAAH! $^(%$#

2.

(on a defendant who said he decided secretly not to kill another)       

'Oh, I made up my mind to mildly stab him four times'…now this isn’t really
a decision “not to kill”, is it?

3.  

 (A defendant with an IQ of 80) He is in the normal range of stupidity.
The sort of people who voted for George Bush…twice.

 4.

(In a trial) All the experts are called X…X, for exports. *realization*
I mean experts. I’ve got international trade on my mind.

5.

The policeman said, “because he (the defendant) smiled at me in a particular
way, I know that he is not crazy.” And this is called the smiling diagnosis!
How the magistrate can accept this crap, I do not know!

Um, my list is for the most part...cleared.

.............................................................

*disbelief*

AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHA

*insert insane laughter*

Stuff needing to be cleared in 2 weeks' time:

1. Evidence
Tues
1. Lexis training tutorial
2. LDP presentataion - Globalization

Weds
3. Legal Philo presentation


(btw I owe my Japanese teacher homework...told
her something like  "あさって出すから～>< (I'll hand
it in the day after tomorrow ><)" on Monday...of course,
I didn't show up on Wednesday, either)

Thurs
4. Evidence presentation
5. LDP presentation - policy workshop

Fri
6. ICL draft

Extended
7. LDP paper - policy workshop

Um, I've succeeded in crossing one out, but they seem to be multiplying?

Anyway, not working today, planning on curling up and sleeping off the fever

thing. *yawn* Oyasumi.

Updated 17/11: I swear, I should be too old to feel satisfaction in crossing
                         out virtual to-do lists

Stuff needing to be cleared in 2 weeks' time:

1. Evidence
2. LDP presentataion - policy workshop
3. LDP presentation - Globalization
4. LDP paper - policy workshop
5. Evidence presentation
6. ICL draft

...Out of which 2-6 is scheduled next week.

Er, it's just a matter of weird coincidence that every assessment related to LDP got stuck in a week's - namely next week - time, since we draw lots in deciding when each group presents. But hey, that's quite a jolly work schedule.  

I'll have the wry satisfaction of crossing them out one after another when I finish them, though.

And the joke of the day's japanese class...

先生：A さん、将来何になりたいですか？
Teacher: Mr. A, what would you like to become in the future?

学生A：私はサッカになりたいです。サッカが好きですから。
Student A: I would like to become a soccer ball, since I like soccer very much.

先生：サッカ選手。。。ですよね ^^""
Teacher: I think you mean soccer player...^^""

And a new "オーさん”("Ou"-san) appeared in the class. I think his surname is 王,
but since 王 and 区 are both pronounced "Ou", I still tend to respond instinctively whenever
the teacher calls "Ou-san" = =. Nevermind that she usually calls me ローラさん (Laura-san).