Saturday, September 29, 2007
my favourite CBD area, with ocean towers at the top left corner and high court at the bottom right of the picture! i so love shenton way!
i have been in london for almost a week already. it's been madness. settling down in a new flat, getting use to school (after three months of slacking), drowning in piles of never-ending readings, attending to all the obligations i have. but i guess i am slowly adapting to this lifestyle again. studying in london has caused me to lead a double-life.
ever since coming back to london, i always get bouts of surreal familarity. there are pockets of familiarity in a place that is supposedly foreign. it is just so queer to feel like i know this place (london) well when this is not my home. it amuses me everytime i start feeling nostalgic, when revisiting places that i share many year one memories.
oh, and it never fails to startle me when i realise i can use the word 'back' on two places so far away. "i am going BACK to singapore" and "i am going BACK to london". it's like i belong to two places at once. hmmm, food for thought!
to stun everyone, i actually fried vermicelli! and it tasted not too bad. a little burnt, but i can work on that! :) it's a pity i don't have pictures to provide evidence. a lot of people are sceptical of my ability to cook. hmph.
i went to the ikea in london today! it was so fun. i am going to beautify my room and when that is complete, i will post up pictures.
happy birthday spongebob shum wai keong! hahah. i miss the spongebob family! and I MISS SINGAPORE! :(
who lives in the pineapple under the sea? spongebob squarepants!
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hush pretty pink lady ;
at 11:59 pm
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
i woke up on monday morning feeling absolutely awkward. not being in the office sure felt a lot different. and the clock told me it was ten in the morning. my first reaction was "shit, i'm late!", only to realise i didn't have to report to work. i waited for time to pass till i met novella and candace. we were going to 'trespass' ocean towers and march into drew & napier.
and so we did. i felt so excited as i rushed to orchard mrt to meet novella and candace. we were hugging each other when we met. it was so exhilarating. also, we managed to see all our mentors. i saw werner, who kept insisting that he did not miss me. but i shall choose to believe that he is not speaking his mind. hahaha. self-delusional.
dinner at ricciotti (suave eugene's favourite place) was ever so enjoyable. conversation went well and we all laughed like mad. i really like hanging out with the spongebob family. they are just a bunch of really fun people. a pity mr 'are you gainfully employed', aka plankton, aka wei hong, was on MC and could not join us.
i am so going to miss this lovely group of people when i fly off to london. i really hope our friendship remains as strong and they'll all still be in drew when the three musketeers return to intern next year (that is if we get it again).
question: why do lawyers go to hell?
answer: because they do not miss their lovely interns!
hahahaha. this is a personal joke. but it's damn funny. tell that to your mentor, who takes you for granted, today.
dinner at ricciotti: mich, novella, candace, clive, darrell, wai keong, nicholas, daniel
(clockwise from top left): nick acting cool, darrell and daniel soo, michael with us, eugene aka the one with the aura, the three musketeers at toast
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hush pretty pink lady ;
at 9:56 pm
Saturday, September 01, 2007
the internship has ended. thirty-first august two-thousand-and-seven marked the end of my drew & napier clerkship. i really am going to miss everything and everyone at this wonderful law firm. i know it is too early to commit myself to one law firm, and just dismiss the rest, but i must honestly say i like what i see in this particular one.
the culture of drew is very appealing. lawyers there are friendly and approachable. the working environment is never dead, quiet or cold. people are always willing to provide a listening ear. i must say i have never enjoyed work so much before. i actually will look forward to the weekdays so that i can go to the office.
one of the things that drive me to work is to be able to see my darlings! candace, novella and i make up this infamous clique, which we call ourselves 'the three musketeers of drew & napier'. the three of us are like a single entity and inseparable. i have grown so attached to these two that i really can't imagine life without seeing them day in and day out now that clerkship is over.
of course, i am also going to miss:
1. my dear mentor, werner, who laughs at me all the time and thinks i am one of the weirdest and most bimbotic person he knows. oh, also that i am a hardcore shopaholic. hahahaha. my novo shoes!
2. daniel teo, who gives me that straight face all day but i know deep down that he is a really nice guy. he bought us coffee! and he taught me a lot too!
3. wei hong, aka mr 'are-you-gainfully-employed', who never fails to disturb me. despite that, i think i really am going to miss him because he does treat me very well. in fact, he talked me through one of the hardest time during the course of my internship. and for that, i'm grateful.
4. wai keong (spongebob) and clive (patrick), who brighten up my day with their funny antics and banters. oh, and their in-sync chants of 'so can dance'! :)
5. nick, novella's mentor. as much as he keeps saying that i am very irritating and violent, he is a nice person to talk to. he treated us to coffee too! hahaha.
6. the rest of the lovely associates and support staff that i managed to be acquainted with. i really treasure the fact that they provided joy to an internship i expected to be absolutely mundane.
i will never forget this wonderful august of the year two-thousand-and-seven. and i certainly hope we can all meet again soon! cheers.
(clockwise from top left): nick, werner, wai keong, wei hong, clive
(clockwise from top left): ming yi, wan, daniel teo, ian koh, christine
(clockwise from top left): priscilla, the three musketeers, daniel soo, at bikini bottom, lunch with a bunch of funny associates at penny black
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hush pretty pink lady ;
at 3:07 am
