Currently Playing: Susie Suh - Give Me Heart.
Ignore the entry’s title - it’s the last line from this article I read a few years ago, when The Star did an interview with the window washers of the Petronas Twin Towers. I suddenly remembered it today. You see how I have this penchant for remembering useless things?
I had envisioned my 300th entry being one of those cryptic, deep, unfathomable entries which make little sense to all its readers, much less to me, but I have many many deadlines to meet this week so this right here is just a manner of notification of what I’ve been up to.
I’ve been using my time a little more wisely lately. 2 Fridays back I had a paper presentation on Criminal Law (Strict Liability Offence: Its Relevance and Position In Malaysian Law) with Abby and Sheyfah at the UM National Law Convention, which went great, Alhamdulillah (or so we would like to believe). There were no questions posed during the Q&A session, and I don’t know about the others, but I felt a little disappointed. I would have even welcomed criticism, any at all, of the suggestions we made, because it’d would given us the chance to defend our stand or at least to see it from another view. That would’ve been awesome. But silence was what we got, so we took it as a sign of unanimous assent (although alternatively, it could be that we just plain sucked and they were being too polite to inform us).
As for last Friday to Sunday, UIA played host for the Phillip C. Jessup National Moots Competition. No I’m not a mooter (I hear it requires a high level of discipline, so that already amounts to my automatic disqualification) but I got roped in to play Liason Officer with Hakim for the USIM team. It’s been a long while since I last joined a programme, so this weekend really brought me back to the ups and downs of being a committee member. Sometimes doing the job as best as you can is just not good enough, but in the end somehow, you’re able to see how it all adds up and how it was worth your time just to be part of something. It was a heck of an exhausting experience, but I don’t regret anything. The USIM team are generally a quiet bunch, so I felt like an idiot jabbering away trying to get them to talk, but one learns that you don’t force these things. Eventually I got to have some really great chats with some of the girls (only two males in the whole team! Does that spell girl power or what?) and found out some of them actually attended the paper presentation I mentioned earlier. Small world. They said it was good, so now we have confirmation. Alhamdulillah on all counts. =)
UIA as the defending champions emerged to reclaim their spot as the number 1 Jessup Moots Team in Malaysia. Their win made our working from 8am-6pm all the more better. The team will be flying to Washington DC to represent the country at the international stage, so remember to offer them your du’as when you can.
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You know, speaking of Bob Marley, I suddenly remember an Intro To Islam presentation I made with Naj, Yani and a few others back in matrics. What’s the connection, you might ask. We decided to act the whole presentation out, and the play required a Jamaican character high on Rastafarian vibe to sway about somewhat drunkenly (possibly high on crack) and pull a proper Jamaican accent.
Guess who played that part?
We used a pashmina for the hair costume. You know. For the dreadlocks.
I remember it kept on sliding off my head.
Yah MAN. 
Enough said here.
