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| the past 4 months have been tough for me, not so much because I have been doing 14 hour days, but because I have been doing 14 hour days with absolutely no guarantee of my future. there will be no guarantees of my near future for another good year's time.
before i dived into this routine a friend warned me, what if i do all this, and still, things don't turn out the way you want them or expect them to? i would have wasted a year of my time, and i would have also wasted my specialised degree.
i responded by saying, i dont know. but i am doing it anyway because it is what i want to do, so it is what i have to do.
i have come through working full-time, i know what i am capable of, and where i belong. i know that i will end up in a place i deserve and that i will enjoy what i do.
that is what i fight for everyday when i get up in the morning to go to my unpaid work. i am doing this for not only my professional experience but for my personal experience. there is so much i learnt about the unforgiving workplace that working for free almost repaid itself.
i go about my routine knowing that a world of opportunity awaits, because i know if i work hard and put my best into everything that i do, i will be who i want to be, and that is what i strive for. i double check and triple check my work before giving it to my supervisor, looking for that bleak smile on her face knowing that it would be all too foolish to expect even a hint of a compliment. harsh supervisor? maybe. feeling unappreciated? definitely. know you can do better? most definitely. sympathy for working for free? in my dreams maybe.. this is the real world..
this has been a stark contrast to my protected and shielded high school and university life. i have learnt that you must live life to the maximum, and take every opportunity as it comes, as most, if not all, will not come twice. more importantly, the simple but hard truth that you are the only person who you can rely on to help yourself cannot be overstated..
i have also learnt that if you decide to commit to a path, that you must stick through its ups and downs. i question what i am doing in the big picture almost twice a week, and i'm tempted to just give up.
but i know i must stick with what im doing, because i believe that i can, and that i will do it.
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| IB owns A-levels
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/06/nucas06.xml
an excerpt:
"A new points tariff announced by Ucas - the
Universities and College Admissions Service - made a relatively modest
IB score of 35 points (out of a maximum of 45) equivalent to four and a
half A grades at A-level. An IB score of 38... was deemed to be
equivalent to five As at A-level. Oxford and Cambridge typically ask
for 40 points, equivalent to five and a half A grades. Even
30 IB points is judged equivalent to three and a half As at A-level,
sufficient to secure entry to most academically selective universities."
actually, i think they might have overrated IB a bit..? fuck, why do i even care.. i have graduated and i'm working..
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| suen's new life
so i've graduated.. now im doing 13-4 hour days every weekday.. law school is a breeze compared to this.
my typical day is something like this..
8.30 wake up.. get out before 9.00am
9.30-45 get to the office, sometimes a bit late. i work at prince's building, and its convenient cos my minibus stops right outside
9.45 - continue on task i was assigned on, or some other lawyer assigns me another task
10.00 - recently i've been doing some due diligence work (which is as boring as commercial work can get).. our team heads out to another office, sit down with other interns and trainees and sometimes a solicitor, and start flipping through endless 500 page contracts to look for particular shit..
12.45 - lunch at the office with the other interns, CANTEEN. food is good enough (and free) that we don't bother going out.
2.00 - work resumes..
5.30 - work is supposed ot end.. but
6.00- don't get out until the last minute possible.. MTR to kowloontong.. CITYU
6.30 - arrive at cityu for my LLM classes
9.30 - classes end, go out into festival walk for dinner, or go home for dinner if i'm not too hungry
10.30 - get home.... fucking tired... shower, go online, watch the news, apply for a job
1.00 - SLEEP
have i mentioned this shit is TIRING?.
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| heard of how a butterfly's flap can start a tornado? the butterfly effect is an amazing thing.
it fucks you up the ass so hard that no amount of apologies no matter how sincere, or money no matter how much can truly solve the problem.
now, i wish i could just dissapear for a while. but i can't, and i have to face it.
maybe this is what they mean when they say you must take responsibility. you must cover what you actually aren't entirely responsible for, but you must cover it because no one else can or should be responsible.
on the bright side, things can only get better, and that is what's keeping me up. back to work, at least i'm enjoying that.. | | |
| getting results of your mother of all finals is a mixture of extreme anxiety and excitement. the feeling is unbelieveable... one moment i'm so nervous i swear i could have cried, another i'm so excited i could have wished i opened the envelope right in front of me and just shout IM DONE.
well... I AM DONE WITH UNIVERSITY. DONE. DONE. AND DONE.
AND I CAN'T BE HAPPIER. i'm glad everyone is so satisfied with their results.
congrats to jeannette, nadia, nick, marc, siti, esme. WE DID IT. WE MADE IT!!! THIS IS IT. law school is OVER.
and to all you first and second years, your time will come too!!!
Heading off to Corfu Island, Greece in 2 days!!!
7 days of sunshine, beer on the beach, clubbing till 6am, wakeboarding. a completely worry-free holiday. I CANT WAIT.
this is how university is meant to end!!!!!!!!!!!
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