Smile

The awesome folks at International Christian Fellowship gave a farewell booklet to all those who're graduating this year. It struck me how often my smile was mentioned:

When I was about 12 or so, I remember practising my smile in front of the mirror countless times. Looks like it paid off haha. Maybe I don't need braces after all.

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I don't know if my smile is particularly obvious, or whether all the other graduates got the same comments too. But I do think that my default position is to smile. Like when I'm stumped for answers in class, I just put on an insanely wide grin and hope that the lecturer will move on to other prey.

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It's kinda interesting thinking about what other people's default reactions are. I can think of other people who seem happy all the time, some who seem worried all the time, and some who seem sad all the time. I wonder if we're born a certain way, or whether it's how we were brought up that determines our default response. Probably a combination of both, as with all things.

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So that you don't miss my smile too much! :P

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PS: I'm blaming my big brother for the little chip on my front left tooth. Can't remember how he did it but he did it I'm sure.

Crybaby

I have cried a grand total of 3 times in law school.

Best place to cry: A toss up between the toilets (can be anonymous unless you have a distinctive sob) and the cellphone chat rooms in the library (cos no one ever uses them).

Worst place to cry: In front of the lecturer in his office.

Side note: The windows in the library consist of 2 slidable panes, top and bottom. The bottom panes have been locked. Being vertically-challenged, I have always been annoyed at how I have to climb on a chair and onto the window ledge to pull down the top panes when the rooms get suffocating. Recently, I found out that the reason why the bottom panes are locked is to prevent possible suicide attempts. Ahh, what a happy place this is.

Things I learnt at law school

Having less than 10 days before the last exam of my undergrad degree, I feel that I am in a position now to impart my eternal wisdom to those unfortunate enough to still be captives of the law school dungeon. Hopefully, these tips will make the sentence just a teeny bit easier:

• If you want to eat while at the computer, either go to the Honours room at Level 2 or the G01 computer lab.
• Make as many friends as possible in first year. Second year onwards, everyone’s got friends and they don’t need more.
• If you aspire to be class rep, wait til 2nd year onwards when no one wants to be one.
• Never go to Alberto Costi outside office hours.
• Be nice to the librarians. Might get special privileges eg free photocopying cards and fine waivers.
• Be a volunteer note-taker. Makes you take pretty notes.
• Do NOT make a habit of asking more than 1 question per class.
• On that note, people who talk most in class probably know the least.
• Never sit at the back row. Lecturers ALWAYS pick on people at the back.
• Failing a test isn’t the end of the world.
• Coffee is your best friend.
• You will get the most marks for the stuff you spent the least time on.
  Smile. As if law school isn’t unfriendly enough already.
  

Read Your Labels

I am somewhat of a health freak. Part of that involves scanning the labels of almost everything I buy. It’s a habit which I developed in my teens, when I was super highly weight-conscious. Also, I get bored in the toilet, so I got used to grabbing whatever stuff with lettering on it to read, such as shampoo and conditioner bottles. You get a few surprises now and then, for example:

Innocent-looking coconut-milk

Porn?!

Innocent-looking body shop lip balm

With cannabis

Don't play play, person you kiss might get high...