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☁　19 august 2022　☁

had a talk with ds yesterday before cob on the possibility of early release. hr got back to me this morning and said that my supervisors agreed to entirely waive my penalty fees (bless!) my last effective date is confirmed as 28 aug!

early morning meeting today with a case presentation on tech dd & an afternoon seminar on vie structures & put options. also tabled a timetable for the procedural order. still waiting on client to respond with cost & damages evidence.

exhausted, but i came back home to this lovely blue / pink sunset. :)

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a short lil’ intro from yours truly!

hello! i go by rose or yun, she/her. i’m a 23 y/o hoping to achieve a postgrad certification in law. the plan is that once i achieve the qualification i spend 2 years as trainee and become admitted as a solicitor.

some other facts about me:

fluent in 中 & EN! feel free to converse in either

i’m left-handed w slight ambidexterity

enjoy gaming / dnd / true crime / writing

love calligraphy, bujo, pretty stickers !!

on my days off i enjoy cafe hopping & museums!

you can also find me here :) - instagram / goodreads

why am i making a studyblr?

school is going to kick my ass come 29 aug. i’m planning of keeping a log of my study progress for accountability purposes (100dop, here i come!) & to find some like minded people to vibe with!

currently, i’m still working full time as a paralegal in a top-tier firm until 26 aug & the overtime is bad. it’s really just 60 hour work weeks back to back ugh. hopefully i can manage to update sporadically in the meantime, but if not, post schedule will pick up when school starts.

aaand that’s it!! thanks so much for reading! if you think i’m a passable human being, lets be friends! (…that’s how friendship works right)

an update !! ya girl has graduated. revamping this into mostly a work / bookblr + the occasional life update. my plan is to read a bunch this summer as i have free time in between school / work. :)

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☁　a productive weekend　☁

went to a friends house for hotpot on sat. we played piccolo & smash bros & drank waaay too much. her doggo is so cute tho. <3

on sun, i looked into a bunch of 2025 TCs / 2023 vac schemes, taking notes on ones i was interested in applying for & adding app. deadlines to my calendar. there’s a vac scheme that i have my eye on & it’s open until mid-oct - planning on applying to that after i receive my ref. letter from my current supervisors. i also completed a bulk of research about contract interpretation due for work tmr. will tidy up the findings on mon.

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☁　25 august 2022　☁

gosh, the past few days were so busy!! there was a deadline for doc production  to tribunal & i had to sift through 1000s of pages of badly translated docs & fix all the issues - didn’t manage to get home until 1am on mon & tue. the new paralegal just came in on monday too, so i had to prep handover materials and brief her. we had a team lunch to welcome new team members on board - coincidentally, it acted as a farewell meal for me too, which was pretty sweet.

also got onboarded for my postgrad cert course! attended orientation and dealt with all the pre-enrollment issues - gotta enroll at the uni in person on sat morning. i also received reading materials & my timetable - i got a long weekend ahead of me welp. fortunately, another new trainee on rotation turned out to be an alumni from my course, so she kindly offered her notes to me :)

luckily, it was storming today & i was able to work from home, which saved me the 3 hrs i usually need to get to and from the company. completed research for a rejoinder memorial, revised an evidence list & briefed the new paralegal about a witness statement. gonna take some time to destress & exercise before my last day at the company tmrw!!

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☁　27-29 august 2022　☁

spent the morning enrolling to my new university & visited the uni library (its huge!!!) to get some reading done for my civil litigation classes on monday. heading home right now - i’m waiting for the shuttle bus at the train stop. gonna shower when i get home and then apply for some training contracts + churn through some more readings, if time permits. went swimming & ate hotpot with my extended fam !! 

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☁　6 september 2022　☁

small group sessions just started this week and they’ve been kicking my butt ! there was a session from 7-9pm yesterday & 2 back to back sessions lasting until 8pm today (on top of 2 lectures!! oml). i’m also sooo not ready for the one tmr morning ugh, but alas…

despite how busy i am, there are still nice things to look forward to - going to catch up w a few friends later in the week, which is nice! i’m going bouldering and well… welp. wish me luck. i’m also gonna grab a bday lunch w my parents on thu, which is <333

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face-off between Jonathan “paprika is too spicy” Harker and Lucy “never liked garlic” Westenra for the British throne

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☁　SMOL UPDATE　☁

just passed midterms week!! i had 2 exams which were both orals - a criminal bail application to mag court + a summary judgment advocacy application - both went fine i think! all my courses for my degree are pass/fail only, so i'm not too worried about it - the only way to look is forward. i have two exams upcoming on the 12th + 19th and then 5 final papers that are worth 100% of the subject grade in early dec, so i can't afford to slack! i pledge to hustle hustle hustle !!!

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☁　24 - 29 october　☁

catching up on lectures & readings as of late. various course leaders have made past papers available to us online, but attempting them has made me realize how behind i am on certain concepts. final exams are in a month so i really can't slack off!

that being said ... i went drinking w my postgrad tutorial group tonight & played darts & poker lol. the compromise was that earlier today we attended 2 tutorials (pc+mn) & prepared a mock script for the mediation assessment on the 12th. all in all quite productive, if i may say so myself :)

i have a house party to attend tmr night, but asides from that the weekend will be for studying :x

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☁　october જ⁀➴ november　☁

life has been pretty sweet lately !! been spending time catching up on readings & making sure i'm able to digest the content at bare minimum - still, it feels like it's a massive hurdle that i cant quite get past. there's way too much to do ugh. on the bright side, i don't have too many classes this week, but i'm going to have to work throughout tomorrow - hopefully i can get some good revision in today and tomorrow and provide updates on my library visit! :)

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☁　library visit - fourth of november　☁

whew! super productive day. studied 3.5 chapters of civil litigation including answering relevant problem questions & i looked over a whole bunch of lwd drafting templates + tidied up previous assignments / group work and annotated them for the final exam.

for tmr: i have a 2-4pm class on professional conduct - going to get some more civil lit revision in beforehand & will probably stay behind on campus to revise pc a bit more.

i'm going to be celebrating halloween w a friend tomorrow night - we're planning on watching a movie & grabbing dinner !! i know its late celebration but we make do Tv T

here's to hoping that tomorrow is fruitful !!

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an update slash intro to the book community !! ^ ^

this used to be a studyblr but i was in a one year graduate program and ya girl has graduated. revamping this into mostly a work / bookblr + the occasional life update. my plan is to read a bunch this summer as i have free time in between school and finding work.

i will be posting book updates + stray thoughts as i read !!

2023 reading goals:

will read more women fiction !! that means more women authors, women leads and representation! no sexy lampshades here.

hoping to read from more cultural voices, especially sea ones!

expand book genres. usually favour classic lit / literary / historical fiction but i swearrr i will read one (1) fantasy book this year

everchanging tbr: click bolded titles for book tag!

the symposium, plato

7 husbands of evelyn hugo, taylor jenkin reid

death of a salesman, arthur miller

where the crawdads sing, delia owens

hidden pictures, jason rekulak | ★☆☆☆☆

the diamond eye, kate quinn

the three-body problem, cixin liu

the song of achilles, madeline miller | ★★★★☆

the power of the dog, thomas savage | ★★★☆☆

galatea, madeline miller | ★★★★☆

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the struggle in finding beautiful, evocative prose that you wholeheartedly enjoy because you yourself as a writer love to purple prose and write vivid imagery; loving the aching blossom of a beautiful, tragedic dynamic sprawling across a page, the portrayal of a simple, unburdened joy before a storm

versus

acknowledging that the piece of fiction you stan is inherently flawed because of the creative liberties taken to actively dillute the history. glossing over of topics like r*pe / war tr*ffick*ng, villanizing thetis for no reason, reducing deidamia and briseis to 'obstacles' for the otp and hetronormativity of forcing petroclus into a stereotype for no reason.

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food log :)

THU

lunch:

chicken rice

stir fry veg / scallop / edamame

an apple

latte

snack:

wasabi peas

macadamia nuts

x2 egg rolls

banana

dinner: (with 1/2 bowl of rice!)

stir fry chicken / onion / baby corn

scrambled eggs w green bean

wax gourd & salted egg soup

FRI

lunch:

spicy potato noodles

chicken / edamame / baby corn / poached egg

vanilla ristretto

snack:

fruit biscuits

dinner:

tbd

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01.12.22

meal one:

2 sunny side up eggs

a small slice of luncheon meat

toast w butter and avocado

baked beans

half a banana

snack:

half a cream of mushroom soup

half an avocado + 2 shrimp crackers

an edo cracker pack :)

meal two:

stuffed tofu pok

kai lan vegetables

steamed ribs w plum

old cucumber & pork soup

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OH MY GOD the cutest thing is that momo let he tian feed him even though he has a set of perfectly good hands to eat himself :cries:

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UPDATE TOMORROW!

I havnt had time to think what could possibly happen next chapter! 😫