Venial Sin

Having finally finished my revision for Monday’s exam (not quite, but almost done; the only thing remaining are some incidental details about judicial organisations such as the Privy Council, which in particular brings to my mind disgusting connotations of bowel movements and latrine cleaning), I thought I’d take a quick break. I definitely made some enemies this week. Additionally, there’s nothing good on television at 2:00 a.m.; as a matter of fact, Sky TV’s only managing a lacklustre broadcast of [...]

Big exam on Monday. Panic attacks about not having studied enough. Aced one practice test on paper, flubbed three online. Not coping well. Back later. Expect more posts after Monday or Tuesday.

Con Carne is leaving for Karachi tomorrow morning. She stopped by earlier this evening to drop some stuff off because she was too tired to carry it around, and we were going to meet up, but she got sidetracked. About five minutes ago, she came by to pick up everything. I gave up an orgy with three Frenchman, two Italians, two Irish men and three Brits to be here for her when she showed up. I’d bloody well better be [...]

I have a marginally shameful confession to make. It has recently come to my attention that Borders and Waterstones, two of the largest presences in the book-purchasing community here in London, have 28- and 21-day (respectively) return policies on books. And I am, quite shamelessly, availing of those. In effect, despairing of ever being able to buy a damn’ book as well as not willing to go through the shock and trauma of having to box up tomes and perhaps [...]

I’ve said this already, but since some things are destined to be repeated, I wasn’t very fond of high-school. I came across a blog post by a friend on her site just a few hours ago, in which she mentioned searching for our old high-school’s presence on the internet, and overcome by curiosity of my own, re-enacted that search. In all of the images I found while trawling through the websites, there’s only one of me (in which I look [...]

It seems to me, after long and hard deliberation on the matter, that I’m cursed. Cursed to be followed about the world by people whom I either dislike intensely, cannot stand, or otherwise drive me batty. It should be a sign of how incredibly irked I am that at 3:33 on a Saturday night/Sunday morning, I’m sitting at home in my apartment, venting my spleen via blog while eating red curry chicken. In fact, here’s a quick recipe, since I [...]

I was browsing aimlessly through websites today when I came across a link to something called Dante’s Cove. From the website, I quote: “The sexy, young residents of a peaceful beachside town are plunged into a world of intrigue, secrets and shifting romantic ties when their town’s sinister, supernatural past comes alive. Fleeing an unhappy home life, Kevin is excited about moving in with his lover, Toby, at a beachside apartment complex, the Hotel Dante. However, the young tenants of [...]

I’m too tired to put up a full blog post today, so you’ll have to make do with a simple recipe from me instead. I made seared tuna steak with a soy and ginger glaze, accompanied by an egg-noodle & wasabi pea stir-fry for dinner tonight, and here’s how it goes. Be warned though; I tend to cook by approximation a LOT, so it is a bit of a trial-and-error process, but just work with what tastes and flavours you [...]

I had an interesting Saturday night tonight. It shouldn’t have come as a complete surprise to me (yet it somehow did) that I went out and actually had a really good evening. I suppose spending four hours struggling with EC/EU Law had to have its karmic reward somehow. While I was trying to understand what had possessed the idiot member states of the European Union to adopt “co-decision” and “co-operation” procedures, I got a call from my friend the Media [...]

I was complaining to H.C. earlier today inan online conversation about how it’s fucking impossible to get a job in London, or at least about how it seems that way. See, as I told him, to become a lawyer here, one either gets an LLB (Bachelor of Law) degree as an undergraduate, or takes the GDL/CPE (Graduate Diploma in Law/Common Professionals Exam) if you already have an undergraduate degree. Following the academic training, you have to either take the BVC [...]