Tuesday, February 14, 2006
To Sir with love - Lulu
The intelligence obtained proves that there's a bomb in town. Of course, there are reasons to believe the info was obtained by means of torture.
In any event, it is schedule to go off in a week's time.
The intel received also narrows the perpetrators to be living in this particular high rise flats. Unfortunately, the authorities do not know who they are.
The residents of the flats come from over 90 differing nations.
What can the government do?????
No, the aforementioned set of facts is not taken from the latest season of "24".
It is actually the scenario that we had to discuss during the seminar this morning!
Fun-eh?
It was a seminar on "Terrorism, States of Emergency, and Human Security". There was a list of questions given out earlier (along with the mile long list of readings to be done) - but we were surprised wif the said scenario above when we were in class.
I was up til 6 am trying to read as much as i could - until the words on me laptop screen started ~moving~ by itself!!!! Before i knew it, me alarm went off and i felt like i needed wild horses to drag me out of bed and to the seminar room.
Yet, the moment we started the seminar, i was wide awake - and 2 hours later, i'm still wide awake!!!!! I thought i'd be crashing into me bed the moment the seminar ended. But the adrenaline is still flowing.
This is an example of wat normally happens. I truly thank God that i've been blessed wif extremely brilliant lecturers! I mean, they are super interesting and funny! But more than that, they do not just entertain us - they make us think! And they make us want more!
There was once when this particular lecturer went on and on and did not even bother to stop for the usual 5 minute break at the stroke of the hour. In fact, after the allocated 2 hours were up, she went on - seeing that it was lunch time and there was no one else waiting to use the room. But all of us did not complain at all! In fact, i'm sure we wouldnt have minded if she went on some more - sure, we were tired, hungry, our butts hurt - but all that just din matter.
Time and time again, i would just sit there at the end of the seminar and go "Wow! that was brilliant!", or "Whoa... i never saw it that way before!", or just sit there in stunned silence.
I guess wat makes them really good is that they are all human rights activist themselves. These are the human rights people!!!! The ones who argue cases, the ones who decides on such cases, the very ones responsible in establishing the human rights law that we have today. Can u imagine the wealth of knowledge and experience they have to share wif us?
As if that wasn't enuf, some of them are the nicest people that you'll ever meet!
There are times when i do wonder if i made the right decision to come here to do me Masters. When i think of the quality of the lecturers i have here, i've no regrets.
To Nigel, Geoff, Paul, Franciose, Diedre and the rest of the LLM lecturers - you guys are the best!
p/s - for those of you who are wondering wat was the final outcome of the today's seminar, the answer was the same as always - there's no one right answer. In fact, the final answer does not matter - it's the reasoning and the application of the law that matters!
p/p/s - whoa... now i begin to feel the effects of having only 2 hours of sleep. Good nite! :-)
In any event, it is schedule to go off in a week's time.
The intel received also narrows the perpetrators to be living in this particular high rise flats. Unfortunately, the authorities do not know who they are.
The residents of the flats come from over 90 differing nations.
What can the government do?????
No, the aforementioned set of facts is not taken from the latest season of "24".
It is actually the scenario that we had to discuss during the seminar this morning!
Fun-eh?
It was a seminar on "Terrorism, States of Emergency, and Human Security". There was a list of questions given out earlier (along with the mile long list of readings to be done) - but we were surprised wif the said scenario above when we were in class.
I was up til 6 am trying to read as much as i could - until the words on me laptop screen started ~moving~ by itself!!!! Before i knew it, me alarm went off and i felt like i needed wild horses to drag me out of bed and to the seminar room.
Yet, the moment we started the seminar, i was wide awake - and 2 hours later, i'm still wide awake!!!!! I thought i'd be crashing into me bed the moment the seminar ended. But the adrenaline is still flowing.
This is an example of wat normally happens. I truly thank God that i've been blessed wif extremely brilliant lecturers! I mean, they are super interesting and funny! But more than that, they do not just entertain us - they make us think! And they make us want more!
There was once when this particular lecturer went on and on and did not even bother to stop for the usual 5 minute break at the stroke of the hour. In fact, after the allocated 2 hours were up, she went on - seeing that it was lunch time and there was no one else waiting to use the room. But all of us did not complain at all! In fact, i'm sure we wouldnt have minded if she went on some more - sure, we were tired, hungry, our butts hurt - but all that just din matter.
Time and time again, i would just sit there at the end of the seminar and go "Wow! that was brilliant!", or "Whoa... i never saw it that way before!", or just sit there in stunned silence.
I guess wat makes them really good is that they are all human rights activist themselves. These are the human rights people!!!! The ones who argue cases, the ones who decides on such cases, the very ones responsible in establishing the human rights law that we have today. Can u imagine the wealth of knowledge and experience they have to share wif us?
As if that wasn't enuf, some of them are the nicest people that you'll ever meet!
There are times when i do wonder if i made the right decision to come here to do me Masters. When i think of the quality of the lecturers i have here, i've no regrets.
To Nigel, Geoff, Paul, Franciose, Diedre and the rest of the LLM lecturers - you guys are the best!
p/s - for those of you who are wondering wat was the final outcome of the today's seminar, the answer was the same as always - there's no one right answer. In fact, the final answer does not matter - it's the reasoning and the application of the law that matters!
p/p/s - whoa... now i begin to feel the effects of having only 2 hours of sleep. Good nite! :-)
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