She shook her head. “It sounds suspiciously like Nirvana.”
“What’s wrong with that?”
“Pure Spirit, one hundred percent proof–that’s a drink that only the most hardened contemplation guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.”
“This is better,” Will insisted.
“You mean, it’s more delicious. That’s why it’s such an enormous temptation. The only temptation that God could succumb to. The fruit of the ignorance of good and evil. What heavenly lusciousness, what a supermango! God had been stuffing Himself with it for billions of years. Then all of a sudden, up comes Homo sapiens, out pops the knowledge of good and evil. God had to switch to a much less palatable brand of fruit.
You’ve just eaten a slice of the original supermango, so you can sympathize with Him.”
– Island, by Aldous Huxley
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Drifty, 22, a law student. I like reading, good music, and good food – but that’s most people, given a chance. I don’t really know what to say. I like pretty dresses, driving late at night, unexpected gifts that make me smile. Putting people on edge, surprising them with things I say. I like to offer pretentious insights and make everything into a metaphor. And the usual: alcohol, fast cars, dancing on painful heels, poking fun at friends. I’m in the Netherlands, but I’m going home soon. I buy things on impulse, and I hate any fruit I have to peel. I take pictures of things I want to remember. I make up food recipes as I go along when I have to use up food in my fridge. I thought I would like green fields and mountains, but I prefer bright lights and paved roads and getting lost in dark streets in the middle of the night. I love it when boys smile at me. Smoke bothers me less than it should. I am possibly condemned to ogling my law books for the rest of my life.
I want a love that will come to me in time.
Wen Yi 11:25 pm on May 29, 2007 Permalink
hey, i chanced upon your blog while searching for info on nus law. i’m a j3 waiting to enter uni and am currently torn between reading law at nus and studying in the US (parents’ money, unfortunately!) to cut a long story short – i always planned on going abroad to study International Relations, until i got accepted into NUS law, an option which my parents want me to consider because of the fundamentally useful nature of a law degree, as well as the much cheaper local tuition fees.
i don’t mind the idea of being a law student per se, and i appreciate the versatility of a law degree, but i’m not exactly one of those people with an inherent and burning desire to be a lawyer either. if you’re not too busy, i was wondering if you could provide me more information about what it’s like studying in NUS law, such as:
- whether the curriculum is very dry (although i suppose it has to be dry to a certain extent)
- whether a lot of memorization is needed
- whether it’s true that the workload in the first year is the worst
- how easy/difficult it is to get into a particular overseas exchange program (based on the seniors that you know)
- how easy/difficult it is to graduate with honours
my email address is rhythmize@gmail.com, i would appreciate some advice/insight in order to make a more informed decision about my choice of university and course. thanks! :)