Snow is Back, IPIP and Pilates

I'm going to start to be a good student and use headings to organise my writing from now.

Snow
The snow has come back today! It hasn't snowed since I returned from the reading week. The huge piles of snow has started to melt and the roads were slippery and wet instead of being covered in snow. However, this morning, I woke up and was surprised by the sight of snow-covered carpark outside the window. The snow has come back but i'm not really excited. I guess my romantic conception of the snow was totally annihilated on the second day of my stay in London, when I walked for 20 min to Masonville in the snow and was trapped there for a further 2 hrs as I was too intimidated by the snow to walk out of the mall.

Classes
Today is the last day for add/drop. I've settled all my courses: Litigation Practice, Corporate Finance, Private Law Theory and Intl Protection of IP. I think taking up LP required a kind of huge leap in faith in myself because it is alot of work (rumours abound) and it requires advocacy skills. But I do not think I am going to regret this choice because the practical skills would be so useful to have as a pupil. I guess it is never too early to start to learn how to manage and organise a case file and do docketing etc. One other issue was that I may be overloading a little for this semester as I am taking the max of the required credit hours. But I think it'd be fine cos I'm quite used to juggling 4 modules in a semester, just that this semester is short so everything would be a little congested in the course of the term. Hope it'd work out anyway.

I just completed a special permission form and gotten Prof Wilkinson's signature so that I could take IP IP despite not having fulfilled the pre-requisite IP course. Although it feels quite scary as I am effectively waiving my right to appeal of the basis that I have not completed the pre-requisite course, I guess the waiver is inconsequential as I could not imagine myself sending an appeal by saying "I do not deserve this grade because I have not taken this course before". This does not make sense to me. Anyway, the course is about international conventions which I think it should not require a great amount of background knowledge on IP law. I've borrowed an IP text so that I can have a quick read-up, although I do not foresee myself going through it in detail, of course.


Fitness
I went for my first pilates class at the Recreation Centre! It was good, the 50 min passed by so quickly so I guess the lesson was enjoyable that's why it felt like a short session. As quite a few of us were first-timers, we did mostly simple stretches and I think the pace was just right. I cannot tolerate slow classes because I'm impatient by nature. I wonder how the yoga class this evening will go.

I'm looking forward to more fitnesses classes this term! Haha...actually I guess it's good that London is quite boring except for dining, cos then I will spend more of my free time in the fitness centre. I hope the swimsuit and cap that Joey is helping me buy would reach me soon- everytime I look down at the pool from the pool gallery I just feel like jumping right in and do the laps. But Joey was highly sceptical that I would swim everyday once the swim suit reaches me...haha I think then I should have at least 3-4 times a week as a target?

News
And one exciting news this week: Adriana is coming to NUS for exchange in Jan 2010! Woohoo~ I didn't expect that at all. I'm already thinking of what we'd do when she comes over :)