Hi everyone! It’s been a LONG time since I’ve updated this blog. And I’m feeling terrible. Seriously terrible for leaving you all high and drive with every detail of my life. But let us let bygones be bygones. It’s a new year at school and a new time for everything.

I’m hard at work trying to keep up with school and the new year has brought many many changes.

I’m now living in a new house off campus at 42 Randall Road in Kenilworth.

This is my room. It’s not much but today, finally I can call it my own.

Here’s a quick recap of what you missed on the Jerrick Show.

- Last Meal before leaving for the UK

Wk 0) Arrived in the UK after long arduous flight. House in squalor, coughed and coughed and felt ill. School hadn’t started yet, internet not installed. Went to

Wk 1) School starts, work starts, stress about lack of internet, miss home – not enough, MUN, work, Musical.

Wk 2) Seminars Start, Stress about stuff – French Classes Start – Fun. Warwick Amazing Race over weekend – Fun. House Warming at PK etc. House – Fun. Victoria Lim visit London – Best day so far, 4 Seasons dinner, and great time to be had. Internet Installed Thursday after much much handwringing

Wk 3) Work stressing out, OXIMUN ICJ preparation killing self, behind on seminar work, begin stress about everything else – Warwick Skills programme start – boring but feels important. Feels like 3 months already what? It’s been only a month?!

Wk 4) Still ongoing – Came back from SingSoc elections. Curious about final choice and worried. OXIMUN starting Friday.

Yeah. It’s already been super intense and I’m already beginning to feel like this is COMPLETELY different from last year, and so much more intense – I don’t know if I can take it.

Law, MUN, Stress, studying, Work

The exams are halfway done. Well slightly more than halfway done and here’s a semi-post mortem mortem. Tomorrow I have Property and here I am typing this blogpost. What scares me the most is the work that I have not done. I don’t think I’ve done enough for my exam. For this year almost. It’s a scary feeling to think that you’re getting by on the skin of your teeth and all those around you have that much more drive and that much more enthusiasm or fear, or a mix of both.

The fact of the matter is, the stuff that I’m studying right now, don’t make me hungry. They don’t make me wanna be a lawyer, or a kickass litigator, or a barrister. Whatever these topics are, they are stories to me above all; sometimes funny, sometimes sad stories. And I’ve outgrown stories. All I feel like doing with them is drawing threads through them and forming some sort of coherent overview of the way law looks like, a novella of the law if you will. This does not a law student make. These cases, these precedents do not offer anything but a glimpse into the law in the past, but nothing about what it can or should be. I don’t like that. I don’t like that it just seems to be a memorisation exercise at times and the detailed work is beyond most competent minds let alone mine. At this point, I’m just tired of it all and compared to those around me, I can’t even call myself the most hardworking.

Of course to those around me, this is something they don’t see. And that may be a symptom of my demeanor. I’ve never been one to mope. I can’t mope. I can’t be really dejected. In a moment of anguish, or fear, I’m more likely to crack a joke or just be alone. Never indulging in the frivolous exercise of self pity. What’s the point anyway? There’s always tomorrow to wake up to and tomorrow you hope to be a better person. A better, more intelligent, more hardworking person.

fear, Law, studying