Monday, April 30, 2007 

What next?

Ah...the hair-splitting days are over! Exams are over! Euphoria! Yay! Ironically, the sleep-deprived nights are not over. These post-exam celebrations as well as holiday outings can sometimes (if not always) be more tiring than a normal academic day. Routine goes out the window, timetables thrown aside, schedules take a backseat.

However, I'm not complaining. A bit of spontaneity is good and keeps you on your toes and flavours the blandness of daily rigidity. I suppose my last remaining week of my break will be more stop-go F1 than bask-in-the-glow-of-sunset-while-sipping-some-drink. I'll be catching up with friends who I have not met for some time now. Renewing ties, reminiscing about old times, and all that jazz.

As my books collect dust on the spiderwebbed decorated table (in anticipation of Spidey's latest movie), I will be contemplating some deep thoughts with my hands on my phone. Just in case someone should ask me out. For some outing. Or another. Yet again. Any takers, anyone? :)

Tuesday, April 03, 2007 

Verbosity at its finest

The next time you think that you've seen a long sentence, think again. Thus far, this is the longest I have seen. Headache!

Per Abdool Cader J. who later became the Judge of the Supreme Court of Malaya in the case, Re Pengkalan Kota Bye-Election [1982] 2 MLJ 265.

β€œOn a careful and considered examination and evaluation secundum subjectant materiam of the alleged statement around which the petitioner's case revolves in relation to its form and content viewed in the light of the relevant provisions of the Act, the law and the evidence adduced, I can only conclude, in a penumbra of phrases knitted in alliteration that the words allegedly uttered by Tengku Razaleigh to the effect that if Barisan Nasional wins, he would personally give money for the improvement of Pengkalan Kota perceived in passionless and proper context of an election campaign often conducted with a fervour calculated to outdo even the Befrienders and invariably pregnant with partisan promises in which some forensic flexing of political muscle is not an uncommon or unknown phenomenon, did not perforce pose or constitute a promise or pre-engagement by him in his personal capacity with any corrupt intention of any designated sum of money or valuable consideration to or for any one or more particular elector or voter for corrupt inducement to exert his or her personal predilection at the polls in favour of the 1st respondent but were in effect and in intention no more than a broad particular articulation in his office as Minister of Finance of the party in power's potential pull on the public purse-strings to pursue promises, propitiate pleas and propel and promote projects and programmes for amelioration and development in the constituency for the benefit and progress of that locality and all its commorants generally if the ruling party gained the seat in contest and that he was personally in position within the pale of his portfolio as the Minister to sanction schemes and endorse expenses on behalf of the government to this end.”

Fuh...not only a mouthful...takes ages to type. And this is just one sentence. Grammar mistakes anyone?  Imagine reading his entire judgment...

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