absolutum dominium

the firm started officially at 12pm today, but i went in early coz i'd gone to court at 9am. i enjoy going to court, like any other new excitable young thing. and after tt i'd to help research on the case for the partner, and tt plus a really fucked up printer, kept me busy for most of the day.

tt being said, i love work. i love work at this firm. the more work they give me, the happier i am. i'm excited tt i'll be researching for this paper. i'm excited tt my mentor takes the trouble to come into the library just to tell me what he wants me to do.

i did however, miss my baby. who was still a sick dog. so sick, tt none of my messages were replied. and then later sick dog can still complain tt when he message me, *i* never reply. nb. *sticks tongue out*

but tt being said... *muakz* still love you. (i'm mushy coz he's sick, ok?)

after work and running around tying up some loose ends, made my way down to his area for dinner. intended to get soup for him but he'd already come out of his house, so we had mee hoon kuay (sick man's sustenance) for him, who was trudging along like an 85 year-old, and laksa and red ruby dessert for me, who clearly wasn't. bwahaha.

and then i sent him home and came home.

read the online newspapers, and i am... disturbed. interestingly, they actually reported the silent protest in support of mb. and better than tt, even though in the article itself, it was reported tt the police made no move to disperse the protestors or interfere in anyway, the headlines nonetheless read: 'cops looking into gathering in support of mr brown'.

is tt a threat or is tt a threat?

let's face it. the climate of fear is diminishing.

when you know you've done no wrong, when you know you fight for justice, for what is right in this world, you have no fear. and rightly so.

it seems tt in the usual light of the pap 'light touch' mechanism, vivian balakrisnan has to come out to do what the ruling party does 2nd-best - damage control (or is tt 3rd best?) - by using his name and position to smooth the feathers tt tt coteck in his ministry ruffled.

obviously though, no matter what he says, he knows as well as the rest of us tt no one is buying anything anymore. you can tell someone not to appeal to emotions, but then again isn't what emotions what any politician, including urselves, appeal to all the time? isn't tt how the st usually angles its articles to get its readers to think a certain way? and in this case... is it mb's fault tt the issues tt he talks about happens to affect *him* and his family and his friends... on a very emotional level as well?

i mean, not everyone can afford to have $1.5 million dollar salaries and never have to worry about taking cabs or paying for electricity you know.

secondly, obviously not everyone can offer solutions all the time. i mean, mb is just an ordinary guy on the street. he sees all these problems, but he can't have the means to solve them. i mean, isn't tt why we're paying all our ministers $1 million and above a year to do? solve the problems tt we bring up? and even if you can't, it's not like people like the wp didn't ever raise solutions before. you just happened to shoot them all down.

the role of the media and any self-respecting journalist - no, make tt any self-respecting citizen - is to look out for any problems tt might trouble him, his fellow neighbours, and his country, and highlight them to the caretakers - the so-called government - in hopes tt these problems will be looked at and resolved. if this non-self-interested patriotic discourse is considered 'partisan' just because it is not pro-government, then what does tt say abt the govn?