The long road ahead

Today's time in at the Christian Fellowship booth was rather interesting in terms of people watching..haha. It's great to see so many people signing up, but hopefully the amount who turn up would be the same. Lol, it's nice to see a few of the semester 1 law students joining CF too. The people watching session garnered some surprising observation revelations. There was this guy who looked like a typical Malaysian Chinese guy with a typical Malaysia accented English and we got a shock when he said he's from China and he's only in Malaysia for the past 8 months! Wahhh..that must be the fastest rate of assimilation I've ever seen! Then another one was a tall Malaysian Chinese girl with a really mature English accent. Instantly, we thought she's like 20 something but goshhhhh..she's actually born in '91 and is only 17 years old! Alamak..people really don't look like the typical first impression generalizations nowadays ehh..haha.

Anyways, for the English Legal System lectures today, I learned about the path of being a solicitor or barrister in England. This is very relevant since it deals with sometime about my path in a few years down. The English Bar Exams, or better known as the BVC, is already looking insanely hard by just looking at the process. Not only does the guy has to be smart, he has to act like an "elite" of the society with all the posh, prim and proper upper class manners. The social interaction in BVC includes judges, aristocrats and lords, so all the Malaysian lahs, lohs and table thumping has to go. This is seriously some divine level of standards that were set..haha.

Solicitor is an interesting job though coz in England, lawyers are divided into two kinds. Solicitors and barristers are lawyers in nature but the solicitors does the office jobs while the barrister head the frontlines at the High Courts. So, solicitors get the good pay of the lawyer but without the attention and prestige of a barrister in the High Court. Haha, in any case, whether I'll even end up doing the Bar in England depends on my exams results first, and then whether I have the finance to pull through it. Honestly, I'm fine with just doing CLP in Malaysia after graduating. Hehe, this kind of stuff is still far ahead and for starters, I should focus on the nearest obstacles called the assignments and mid-sessional exams.