Wednesday, March 05, 2008
It's only been my 3rd day at college. Feels like longer. Now I understand why Sangee is always so tired after she comes back from work and sleeps at 9pm. I am starting to do that too. That is so unlike me. I haven't slept at 9pm in like, forever. I wake up at 6am, leave at 7am, get home at 6pm, have dinner and watch some TV and then POMP!! I hit the bed at 9pm until the next morning. Not something I am looking forward to for the next 7 months, I don't think.Today was already a nice and easy slack day compared to the first 2 days. We got to set up our own law firm in our own names practising as sole practitioners. As a result, we had to fill out a whole chunk of forms. I felt like I had information overload today. They gave us a whole set of forms with a whole set of instructions (which were highly confusing) to fill out and hand in. We had insurance forms, fake cheques, business registration forms etc. AHHHHHH!!! I nearly tore my hair out!!! There were so many things to do!!! Fortunately I had the help of many friends who were also in the same boat as I, so when in doubt, ask right? Apparently if we don't fill out the forms right, they will all get sent back into our post boxes. Cross fingers I don't find any forms in my post box tomorrow or else I'll have to spend time re-doing everything again.I felt that we should have had more guidance with the forms because for many of us, this was our first time filling forms in. Heck, I've never even written a cheque in my life!! I had to write one of my cheques 3 times because I kept screwing them up!! It was pretty frustrating. People kept photocopying forms so that once they made a mistake, they had to redo the whole thing because using correction ink is not permitted. What a waste of paper. The good part of not getting more guidance is that it simulates working environment. When you start out, no one is going to help you. Giving you a set of instructions is already good enough. But I suppose slow people like me just get highly flustered and confused and start to forget things once too much information is thrown at me. Which should not be the case because lawyers work in a highly stressful environment, and I should learn how to deal with these things. Fortunately I had Diane (my group mate) to help me. She finished everything in a second and even waited for me so that we could hand in the forms together (thanks mate!!). Whilst waiting, she designed 5 different types of company letterheads and asked me to choose the one which caught my fancy *faints*. Why are some people so efficient!!?? To think she was falling asleep next to me when the instructions were given!!! *toooooot*It's all going to get harder from next week because once my firm is registered and everything is approved, I have to start receiving clients and keeping files and going to court *faints again*. At the moment I have more respect for lawyers than you can imagine. This shit really ain't easy mate. Lawyers make it look easy because they are so confident but my Lord it's tough. Anybody says anything unjust about a lawyer again and I'll knock their teeth out, I promise!!!Anyway Bryan, if you are reading this, I believe you will enjoy Leo Cussens very much. I think you will find it exciting and challenging and very fun. I recommend it. After your N.S., of course.Today I met Geok Lin on the way out in the morning. He stays in the building opposite mine and he drives to the city because he has to attend classes at a hospital there so he asked where I was heading off to and if I wanted a lift. After 3 days of trying different methods of going to college, it still takes me about 1.5hrs in total to get there. Traffic is crap in the morning and I've never seen so many people in Melbourne out at one time before. Mornings are just madness.Things I learnt today:1. Bring Post-Its so that I can write notes to friends and stick them all over their desk instead of standing around waiting for them, wondering where the heck they are. They may come in handy when I want to write love notes to my really hot group mate LOL.2. I should never touch a photocopying machine because they keep dying on me3. After abstaining from Josh Groban's music for so long, I'd nearly forgotten the magic power of his voice & his music and what it does to me, until I started listening to him again today on the long bus ride home. He's pure magic. It's inexplicable. My whole mood changed after that :)
Met Tanya in the city for lunch. Showed her where we were studying and told her to enjoy her last semester of Uni before everything becomes crummy *lol*. Unfortunately our lunch period was so rushed or else we would have more time to catch up!! Looking forward to catching up with Karen soon as well.I'm REALLY looking forward to the long weekend this week (Labour Day - hooray!!). Looking for a chance to catch up with my best friends and just chillax. :) More tomorrow!!
Yinny was Joshing around @ 6:15 PM
