Its Puasa

Hey all,

I am taking this opportunity to wish all muslims all around the world no matter where you at, what age, what race, what country, what continent SALAM RAMADAN AL-MUBARAK! MAY ALLAH BLESS ALL OF US!

Remember those who are not as lucky as us and be thankful for what ever given by The Almighty.

ALHAMDULILLAH!

Love,

MARL!

500th

ITS MY 500TH POST!

You Made Us Very Proud

HARIMAU MALAYA MENGAUM!

walaupun tewas tetapi penyokong tetap setia menyokong

WE WILL NEVER LOSE FAITH!

WE WILL FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

Its a lie if we say we are not disappointed but it was a good fight.

Frankly speaking, I wished that the same team who won against Indonesia in Suzuki Cup plays for this game.

What ever it is, it was a good fight.

ROAR ROAR ROAR!

WE LOVE YOU!

p/s: Hero of the day: Khairul Fahmi Che Mat.

The New Family Member

Bonjour mademoisselle et monsieur.

How are you guys doing? Fine? How's holiday? Everything good?

For this post, I want to introduce the new family member that joined us last week. Its Looney/Fuzzy. Looney is the name which I gave but Fuzzy is the name which Hakim gave. She is young, energetic, behaved, anxious CAT!

Yes, you saw it right. A CAT!

Hakim and I have been wanting a cat since forever but was not permitted by our beloved mummy. However, last week I don't know how Hakim did it but he managed to persuade both my mum and dad in having a cat at home. I guess its the child aura. Well, both of them agreed on having the cat at home. At first, my dad wanted to buy a cat from petstore but I suggested why not just adopt one from animal shelters. Its more humane and of course cheaper. He agreed and we went to the nearest animal shelter to our house, The Paws at Ara Damansara.

The place was a nice shelter. We can see that the animals are all well-kept and well-maintained. We wanted to adopt the youngest cat ie kittens but it was against their policy. Their policy is that the kittens cannot be adopted cause they are just too young. Each and everyone of us was attracted to different cats but this one cat that we were all attracted to and she is Looney. She was not the friendly type of cat. Other cats would want to come near when we approach them but not Looney. She was very insecure. I had to hold her very tightly so that she would not run away. Finally, I survived the journey back home. As soon as we reached home, my dad and Hakim both were busy preparing the cage for Looney but I had to soothe her and calmed her down. She was scared. Of course, who wouldn't, right? New place, new people, new environment. Of course she will feel a little bit insecure. All in all, we all survived the first day.

It has been almost two weeks now. She is doing great but still she was not feeling secured when we bring her in the house. She is not yet comfortable and it took her few tens minutes before feeling comfortable in the house everytime. However, I can see the different in her. She is more approachable and nice and friendly. She likes people soothing her and rubbing her back. She is OK now. Although not 100% feeling secured yet.

The most proud achievement today was that I managed to give her a bath and she slept on my bed for the first time. That shows that she is finally comfortable in the house and in my room. Cats will NOT fall asleep if it didn't feel secure. This she slept right next to me for about one hour, not moving. That made me so happy and she finally felt comfortable in the house.

As a token, I gave her something special for lunch. Real fish tuna with something something. I could not remember. It was fulfilling! I am very happy yet excited on days to come.

p/s: pictures will be uploaded soon

Love,

MARL!

Its The Experience That Matters

Hey all,

I have not been doing this in quite a long time, have I? Well, now I am back to blogging. Been busy with life and studies and other activities but now I am totally free. Free like a bird.

Some of you might know that I had a moot competition named LawAsia'11 National Rounds from 22nd July to 24th July 2011. This was my first time moot and I was so anxious and excited to be apart of the competition. However, the process of going into the competition was exhausting. Late night sleeps, back home late at night, reads loads of cases, mastering the advocacy skills, drilling with coaches and seniors, reading law, memorizing law. It was pretty exhausting yet fun and exciting experience. You know, when you think about it that's how law students' life should be. Literally lifeless but that is the fun part of being a law student. You are exclusive to your own kind. You and only your clan who knows what you are into. Other people may not understand your work or activities but that is exactly how it goes in a real life.

The practice and drilling experience was fairly PRICELESS. It was nothing like I have ever imagined. The seniors and coaches were so helpful. Not forgetting my batch friends. They were very helpful and selfless. They share they teach they educate they advice. That is how its supposed to be. However, not every team is perfect. There will be one or two arguments which was completely normal for a team. You must have some clashes of mind and you would want to defend yours. There must be an argument but all that arguments help the team. We became closer and tighter. Not to forget, the FOOD! It was like leaving in heaven. Food is everywhere. If there is no food in the court, someone must have gone out to buy something. Food is never an issue in the moot court. Gosh, I have been putting relations between moot and food and that is not good. LOL. All in all the practice went on smoothly and everyone was dedicated in their work and all worked out well.

The Competition

22nd July 2011: All of us gathered at the Faculty to sort things out between all of us. The one who drove were me, ellena and fikie. We called it 'THE THREE SAGAS". We all started our journey to KL at around 1pm. As soon as we stepped our foot in the hotel, The Zon (100 feet from KLCC), all of us were anxious and nervous at the same time. We had a briefing session at the KLRCA (Kuala Lumpur Regional Arbitration Center) at 4pm which in real started at around 4.30pm. It was basically a look-at-your-enemy time but the first-timers were focusing on our own nerves. I personally, I did not feel the heat just yet but maybe a slight heat and that was due to the ACTUAL SUN HEAT. After all was done, all of us went back to the hotel and walked to KLCC for dinner. It was a marvelous dinner. Though we only had dinner at the food court but still, the excitement was awesome. Everyone was excited and happy. Then, we went back. Packed stuff for the next day and had some last-minute read ups then sleep.

23rd July 2011: I woke up at 5.15am. Took my bath and started to prepare my mind with my script and all while the others were getting ready in the shower and all. At that moment, I finally felt the heat of the competition. I started to feel the nerves and the anxiety. Stepped foot in KLRCA and my team had the first session at 8.30am. But it was the claimant's round so I was only the bench counsel. Dayang and Paan were the ones who moot for that round. I was the respondent so I was not needed to moot. The round went smoothly. The judges were High Court judges and a lawyer, senior high court judges. Can you feel the heat already? Though I was not the one who moot but I was so very nervous at that point of time. The round was good and it got compliments from the judges which was very good. They were quite impressed cause we are part 1 students. Later that day, it was my time to moot. I did not have my lunch cause I was so nervous. Had to go out from the building and took my time to relax and took a last look at my script. At 1.30pm, my round started. The judges were experts in Maritime Law who is working in the AG Chambers, A High-ranking man in Shell and a judge/lawyer if I'm not mistaken. I couldn't remember. It was nerves-wrecking. But, I managed to do well in that round and I got some positive feed-backs. It was a really good experience for me to get to moot in front of important people. Later that night, it was the announcement time for groups who made it to the finals. Without putting too high hopes on my own group, OUR GROUP'S NAME WAS CALLED AS ONE OF THE FINALIST! It was SUPERB! I was so excited. We jumped and screamed our lungs out and all. That excitement followed by tears of joy. I called my mum and as soon as I heard her voice I broke down. That was the TEARS OF SUPER JOY! We then went back to the hotel. Took a shower and had our last minute session again with Aril's team. They too made it to the finals. So, there were TWO Mara teams who made it to the finals. The All-Senior Team and the All-Junior Team (The Virgins).

24th July 2011: It was the morning that I was so afraid of. The respondent was in the first session of the day and I was the one who moot. I was so nervous and that caused me a bad performance. It was literally bad performance though I got good comments from the judges. I thought my performance was bad. I should have done better job instead I stumbled. It costs us a winning round. That was with UIAM and me and Paan were so eager to beat them unfortunately it did not happen instead we were beaten by them, badly. Next was the Claimant's round against ATC. It was a good performance from both Dayang and Paan but I thought they did better in the first round. All in all, all of us did great and I AM SO PROUD OF ALL OF US! WE ALL DID GREAT!

As what have been expected we did not make it as champions instead we were last in the final round which made us the Top 5 team, still! Thank God! Before that, I would like to congratulate Paan for winning the Number 4 spots for the best mooter ranking. I am so proud of you, brother! I want to say that I was so happy to get to work with both Paan and Dayang. You guys ARE THE BEST! Can't wait to moot with you guys in the future.

Before I end this post, I would like to Thank Everyone; coaches (Sir Irwin, Miss Ummi and Mdm Mazlina), seniors (Aril, Zharif, Arina, Ojan, Alia, Kak Q, Fikie, and Bam) and last but not least my beloved batch mate (Ellena, Hannah, and Lala) and most importantly my TEAMMATES (Dayang and Paan), not to forget Rin who could not make it with us (there's always next time aite). I Love you guys!

Love,

MARL!

Moot Journey

Bonjour Hello,

How are you guys doing? It has been so long since I updated my blog. I am not that in the mood to update cause all the stuffs that is going on right now. So, yeah!

However, I suddenly thought about updating my blog now because I have a few interesting events which occurred in my life for the past weeks.

First up, mooting. Mooting is doing pretty great and it is such a wonderful yet tiring experience. One thing for sure is that I GAINED WEIGHT since moot started. Just imagine this, we get free lunch everyday and there are 12 packs altogether. Maximum number of people turned up is around 6 people. There are 6 more packs left and what do we do with the 6 leftovers? WE EAT THEM ALL! We can see that one person eats two packs of lunch box. How can that not be a factor to weight gained? Apart from that, we will not only depend on the lunch box but also other food available either in the moot court itself or outside uitm. We will never turn down food. If all of us are so dang lazy to go out, or to buy some food or even don't have the ka-ching to buy the food, our beloved coach Sir Irwin will gladly buys us food. For example, he bought us a Secret Recipe Cake which was so delicious and mouth-watering! huh! Nice one! So, that is another factor why all mooters are FAT! Well, not all but hey we all are if you can have a look at the way we eat. No matter whether you are Fat or Thin, you are still a BIG EATER once you are in the moot club.

Enough about eating, shall we? LOL. As some people might know that the Maritime Competition or IMLAM has just ended. Unfortunately, the MARA team did not qualify to be in the quarter-finals. The competition was held in Singapore and though I was not one of the participants, I was still so eager to join them there in Singapore and so I did. Me, Khairil, Rahimi, Bam, Dayang and Rin went to Singapore to show our support to the MARA Maritime team and of course to have a cool journey/ vacation in Singapore.

Singapore is a good and comfortable yet convenient place to have a walk-around the whole country. It is so small therefore we managed to go around Singapore in 4 days. How cool is that? So cool~~ We literally went all over Singapore and took pictures at every tourist attractions. The most great thing happened was the idea of me, dayang and rin slept at Backpackers Hostels. It was my first time and it was amah-zing! The place is called Feel @ Home Backpackers. I do really feel @ home there. It was cozy and welcoming. We don't really feel like an outsider there. Though they are many many other foreigners staying but they were all kind people. We even made friends with one UK couple and a Germany girl. The staffs and the residences were all friendly. Such a great place to stay at.

I don't really have the mood to update more on Singapore cause I have no idea what to write right now. This is just the matter of updating my blog. LOL!

Will see you guys soon!

Love,

MARL!