How court legal system work, a brief understanding

 

After watching 我们恋爱吧5. I started another of my favorite variety show 令人心动的Offer6. Their trend are only filming mostly lawyers intern / architect intern. Both career is very 卷。Often with absolute deadline, unreasonable working hours etc. Therefore I guess there are so many people who wants to enter the industry primarily for the status and money.

I am sharing above clip cause at the 7mins mark. There is a very brief but concise of a court case. It is very fundamental and I love keeping a copy for my future reference as knowing how some stuff work briefly will have a lot of good benefit for us.

I was only briefly introduced to the juridical system when I follow the johnny dep and Amber case. All the objections and what can be objected are explain in this video above.

When I am watching this video and the intern doing all the paper work and writing proposal for client or to the court judges they present the paper or case in a very similar way like how I used to do credit writing for trade in my past job.

Credit writing was a very good corporate writing and can train me on how to structure my arguement to the credit officer. Too bad I had got more time to learn the rope for credit writing. I do enjoy writing you know. It quite challenging as I am not good at writing structure sentences at all. But I can see myself being very proficient in credit writing if given another 2 more years in the business. It is not difficult, you just have to keep learning from my boss, senior and refers to other people with good cases put up. End of the day, given enough effort I believe everyone is able to do it. 

People might find that being a lawyer might seem difficult, however it is the same. Just lawyer needs a lot of law background but I can also argue credit writing also needs a lot of trade knowledge from all business nature. I don't envy people with degree or master. Given enough time and effort, I believe everyone also can do a master. It is not really that difficult. 

The 4 hours workweek Timothy Ferriss Summary

If rich dad poor dad is a bible to MLM, then four hour work week by Tim Ferriss is a bible to "digital nomad".Every backpacker read somehow this book. Tim Ferris is known for coining the word "Lifestyle Design" and also know to define the current mentally of the Millennium group aka The New Rich.

It centric on defining differences between financial freedom from being wealthily rich. This book talks about how to escape the 9 to 5 rat race trap and living a more meaningful which is geographically unrestricted.

2012 resolution & wishlist

The last day of 2011, and its time to set my resolution for the up coming year :)

Let's do a recap of the past 2 years and see what I did manage to achieve and what are the things that need catching up:

2009
comestically make over : Attempted in poly time, now revert back to old self
get grades enough for me to enter uni: Achieved the grade, (very good job)
quit smoking: Attempt a few time, quitted twice, once with Liwen and the other time in Bendigo
treasure the most important person in my live: Still didn't change much
socially more confidence and out going: Bad to worst
overcome stage fright: Joined Toastmaster and host Lilian's wedding dinner :)

2010 wishlist
Renovate my room: Not done
Buy a good bed frame and matress: Achieved
Second hand espresso machine: Achieved
Ceiling fan in room: Not done
Optional game console: Achieved
Nexus one mobile phone: No comment cause its optional

2011 no resolution

I reckon that I didn't follow much to my new year resolution but did manage to obtain quite a number on my wishlist. In my poly time, i was quite productive and achiever. After i start working, things completely changed. I felt I lost all my mojo, live is such boring and mundane. Nevertheless, setting resolution had became a routine so here it goes.

2012 resolution
Manage the admin renovation completely:
Joint venture into handphone counter before July:
Buyincase.com achieve 5k profit this year
Ebay shop need to set up properly:
Go dinner with colleague more often:
Treasure the most important person in my life and be more patience
Complete competent communicator project 10

Toast Master Project 2: Organising your speech

I thought I am able to pull off the prepared speech unprepared. I was assuming I could flow out my presentation impromptu for project 2. Seem I had overestimated. In reality, my content flew left right center, all over the shop. Got myself a recorder standing of 36 false filler for the evening. I was so engrossed in my thoughts I didn't realise my time had exceed 7 minutes, and I was still carried on and on. Until the 3 repeated bells then I realised that I exceed the allowable timing by 1:42s.

Nevertheless, I am grate I went through, although I had to redo project 2. Thanks Sam, my mentor for the motivation. He's my role model sia, within 1 year already managed to attain ACB. Thanks Peter Lee was the motivational speech on "just do it", thanks Jimmy on the "pursue of happiness" that taught me the moment of life is to have fun at that moment, "Why So Serious".

If anyone interested to see my unfinished speech, that I brought up to stage on my Samsung I9000 screen:

Toastmaster Project 1 : Ice breaking

Ice breaker

Hi, a very good evening madam president, fellow toast master and friend. My name is Gary. Today I will be doing my first project. “Ice breaking”. Okie to start off, let me point out one mistake a lot of people is making, … unintentionally. My name Gary is spelt as G A R Y and not G A R R Y. Let me teach you a way to remember it, just remember this 4 words “Girl always remember you”. You take out the first letter of each word, that make up my name.

For my today’s project I will be telling you what I had done in the past, what I am doing now and what I am going to do in the next future. Basically it will be like a fast track short story of my life in 6 minutes and under.

Doing Table Topic

Yesterday went for second session of toastmaster, schedule were as usual. Prepare speeches to evaluation to table topic. I guess the only involvement was the self introduction and table topic. Second session but I have been volunteering table topic for both session. Something to be proud of. People were saying I am very courageous and motivated to learn.
I drink too much coffee that afternoon, getting all rowdied and restlessed. Butterflies in stomach and heart pounching really fast.

Table topic was hard. Question : “If music are to be in human voice, it shall not exist in the first place”. I don’t think I understood the sentence then and till now I don’t think I quite get what it is trying to say.

I always got those hard and irrelevant topics, where I can’t apply my experience in life. So had to threw out trash. I think I didn’t do as well as the previous attempt, I rate myself 6/10. I construct was all over the place, idea were not conise and lack the punch line. I had 13 false-filler where 5 were “eh/ah” and 3 “so” etc. Displayed nervousness was 8/10. Bernard said he didn’t sense that I am nervous. I didn’t know whether to believe him or not.

I am going to crash other club with Bernard and Sam soon. I have to wait for 2 more months to do my first project. I am glad I paid for the membership and did 2 table topic, show that I am committed to improve my public speaking. All of the best of being MC for Lilian’s wedding 

Word for the day: Inimitable = Unparrellable

Workplace interpersonal skill at MIS

Attended the "workplace interpersonal skill" workshop at MIS. Special thanks for the trainer Celiecia, for being so motivating and encouraging. She helped me to open up and unleashed my true nature.

Sucess in a way I built rapports with everyone including the trainer. I felt appreciated. Some of the remarks were as followed.

"-its fun to have u in the class
-i liked ur working attitude
-u have to work on ur spelling"

"hi gary, i liked the way u present your problems at ur workplace. U are so direct and honest. U have the potential to do a higher level of job. Keep it up"

"like: you are a joker
Dislike: be confidence"

"be focus
Good out going nature"

"evina and gary are outspoken persons. They are sharing their views in the class which is very useful"

" -A fun person to work with
- be sensitive to others"

" i liked the way he made the whole class laugh with his humor"

These are small annoymous notes circulating at the end of lesson for reflection and they made the whole course worthwhile.

The night didn't end here. Being so motivated, I went to Toast Master queenstown division the second time. Back to back, enroll a member and took up Table topic for the night. Straight away present can.

So the impromptu topic was; What is the different between a wild beast and an evil friend. Wild beast endangered your life while evil friends endangered your soul.

Surprisingly, my "ah" counter was no bad at all. Perfect score for "ah/eh". Couple of "em", "so" and repetitive words. Overall, grading 6/10. I did okie but not great.

A small reunion talk as I bumped into Maggie for spear Coy. Maggie is a guy so Liping do not worry :)

No U-turn syndrome (NUTS)

No U-turn syndrome (NUTS) is coined by Sim Wang Hoo, director of Creative, to mock the conservative behavior of the people in Singapore. A common social behavior to seek for approval to higher authority prior to any action taken. No U-turn Syndrome uses traffic system in Singapore with comparison with other country to illustrate this phenomenon. Both systems serve the same purpose albeit in a different approach. However the social repercussion is significant.

In Singapore: Drivers are not allow to make a U-turn unless a sign specifically allows them to so.

Oversea: You CAN U-turn freely along the road, which you deem safe to do so as long as "No U-turn sign" is not present.

The "No U-turn Syndrome" permeates into the life of every citizen including our parent, which drove down this concept into our brain as little as we are 4 years old. Our lifestyle and decision since young were rule based. If there is no rule for you to do, then it’s NO DO.

In his articles, he further elaborate that we were nurtured to be easily manipulated so that foreign MNC would be attracted to establish their sub base in Singapore. They came in, set a rule and system from oversea headquarter and all our citizens were always ready to comply. No question asked.

And due to the rigidness of our country's educational system and culture, everyone had to follow other people's paths. If everyone has a degree, then we have to get a certificate even if it means giving up our integrity, passion, lifestyle, dream and creativity.