On Death.

  I am typing this while nursing a headache. Maybe not massive enough to stop me from typing but still enough for me to grit my teeth every now and then when the throbbing ache comes around. Nothing like a spot of sickness to remind you of your mortality. That your flesh is slowly breaking down until finally it is food for worms and bones for the ground. That ours is a brief existence, our...

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Bully

Baru-baru ini aku ada diminta untuk mewakili seorang pentadbir estet si mati berkenaan dengan keengganan satu firma guaman untuk melepaskan suratan hakmilik asal satu hartanah milik si mati. Cerita pendeknya, sekitar tahun 2002 Si Penyewa yang merupakan kenalan si Mati telah dihalau keluar dari rumahnya. Kebetulan pada waktu itu Si Mati baru sahaja berjaya membeli rumah mampu milik (hartanah dalam cerita...

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Hang Solo

When I did my very first trial under my own firm name I was lucky enough to be able to rope in a more experienced friend into helping me out. At that point of time my cross examination skills was rudimentary. I have the basic theories right but the execution was horrible. The said friend did criminal trials on almost weekly basis. I’ve seen him in action a few times and the way he sweet talked witnesses...

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Satisfaction.

 For the longest time I had been eyeing a book at the Curve’s Borders. It was a book about dueling entitled Pistols at Dawn. When I finally got the book I was in my fifth year in practice and the book had shifted from the normal shelf to the almost-bargain bin shelf facing the open glass walls. Years of exposure to the Sun had bleached the spine into an ugly off-green colour. I got a nice discount...

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The Patriot

This is not about Mel Gibson terrorizing redcoats with his tomahawk and merry band of militias. Not about ‘Murica at all. No sir. This is not a piece meant to tell you to love the country. Much have been written about that. You can love or hate the country. It is up to you. This piece is not meant as a virtual keris rattling for me to exhibit my faux Malayness. After all, I identify as a Mongol....

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Seeing the Elephant

Semalam pendengaran pertama aku di Mahkamah Persekutuan melalui Zoom. Aku seperti biasa, jadi counsel demi keterujaan, pengalaman dan sedikit wang. Okay, sebenarnya lebih kepada keterujaan sebab dapat beraksi di Mahkamah Persekutuan. The highest court there is. Mumakil of judiciary. The Elephant. Persoalan yang ingin dibangkitkan pemohon adalah sama ada Seksyen 347 dan 348 Akta Syarikat 2016...

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Jah Work

Aku teringat satu scene dari cerita Enemy at the Gates bilamana sewaktu itu Battle of Stalingrad masih lagi tengah berlangsung dan tentera Kesatuan Soviet tengah teruk dibantai tentera Nazi Jerman. Teruk tapi belum betul-betul kalah. Dalam satu bunker, pemerintah tertinggi teater tersebut (aku tak ingat nama) sedang disekolahkan oleh Nikita Kruschev untuk dapatkan penjelasan kenapa tentera Soviet...

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Stock Taking

I was doing some calculations when it unintentionally led to the calculation my years of practice. I was surprised to know that this year would be my tenth year of practice. A whole damn decade. Yet I still feel like it was not too long ago I was called to the Bar. I ought to make myself a cup of tea in celebration. But really, was there anything to celebrate? I still dare not associate myself with...

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