Dark Days

Ohhh these are dark days indeed. The CLAW exam was a NIGHTMARE. I'll be lucky to escape with a credit. My mum was right, open book Law exams are absolute b*tches. Part 1 was the stuff of nightmares.

Choose two out of the following four questions:-

1. Explain the role of the courts in interpreting broad statutory provisions such as s. 52 (misleading and deceptive). (A/N: *blank*)

2. If you had to suggest three constitutional amendments to the PM, what would they be and why? (A/N: Err Bill of Rights maybe?)

3. How does the common law balance certainty and flexibility? (A/N: Okay I think I know this, sounds like the doctrine of stare decisis)

4. To what extent does the law represent justice? (A/N: Err I think the textbook has a little bit on this :s)

AAAHHHH FAIL! FOR SURE!

Part 2: Contracts (A/N: Okay I hope. I know exclusion clauses were involved)

Part 3: Negligence (A/N: ZOMG horrible. Sometimes when the question is too simple you go brain dead because you only prepare for the exceptions to the rule!!!)

Part 4: As expected, IP and unconscionable conduct came out. Q1: To what extent are ideas protected under the intellectual property regime? and Q2: Can unconscionability laws coexist with the doctrine of freedom of contract? Hopefully I got something right there seeing as I sort of prepared for these questions. Old man, you are so so so mean! If I get a Pass, it's going to pull my average down from a HD to a D!

ACCT 1B which seemed pretty horrible at the time (The Cash Flow was killer! I didn't know that Bad Debts would come back to haunt me!!!) now seems like a piece of cake next to this horror. Econ was do-able, just that there was a lot of writing involved. Andy and I actually prepared one of the written question from the textbook the night before so hopefully it's all good there.

One more paper to go, ECMT! Got the project marks back today, 13/15. It's a HD so not much complaints. I'm reasonably happy; just that it wasn't very nice to see my friend next to me get 14.6 hmph.

But worst of all...

Chelsea 0 SUNDERLAND 3

Omg I know we had like half our first team squad missing but I don't remember the last time we got thrashed at the Bridge. This is humiliating. *cries* Lampard come back, we need you aaahhh.

FINALS

Err okay so I was supposed to update my blog like after the last Macro exam which seemed to be ages ago..guess I forgot whoops. I'll probably do a recap of this sem after I go home and have nothing to do but rot my brains out during the hols. Anyway, finals are starting in two days time so as you can imagine, everyone's in a super sombre/*short-fuse* kind of mood. I've been trying to escape the tension in the house by hoofing it off to Fisher, where I must admit the growth in my y (output/capita) has been exponential, compared to me sitting in my room and trying to bully my brain into submission. There's no denying the tension/stress as you walk down the aisles on the 8th floor, but at least you don't have to face anybody since we each have individual cubicles. This sem's STUVAC seems to be even more intense the last one: tennis at 7am, library by 9-10 am and round the clock studying until 10pm. I've pretty much put in the same or slightly more effort this semester, but the material just seems to be much more difficult this sem. Throw in a killer Commercial Law subject and you have a recipe for ultimate disaster lol. Again, I have revised my expectations downwards (from the ultimate goal of 4 HDs to 3 HDs and 1D) because I probably didn't put in enough work/didn't do as well as the first semester. But I guess that's normal. No one comes to uni and gets a string of HDs all the way to third year since it only gets harder and harder each sem.

The only good thing to have come out of STUVAC is..STUVAC SUPPERS! It was apple pie on Monday, TimTams on Tuesdays, Shin Ram Yun/Indo Mie on Wednesday, Krispy Kremes on Thursday and Indian food/Diwali celebration on Friday (which I missed). Tonight's the one everyone's been looking forward to, Pizza! :) I swear IH is contributing to our misery, by making us fat on top of being stressed and miserable haha. I can't believe that first year will be over in two weeks time, its been one heck of an interesting year and it's really sad to think that I'll only have 2/3 more years of the student experience to go.

As much as I'd love to go on reflecting/waffling, I guess it's time to get back to Econ.

Monday 8/11 ACCT 1002 (55%-need > 47.2% for HD)

Thursday 11/11 ECON 1002 (50%-need > 38.75% for HD)

Saturday 13/11 CLAW 1001 (60%-need > 51.75% for HD)

Thursday 18/11 ECMT 1010 (40%-marks not released yet)