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Category Archives: Melbourne

Cultural differences in drafting pleadings

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

It is convention in Victoria to use plain English, be concise, and even be nice when drafting letters. In contrast, the ones I’ve seen in Singapore tend to be “aggressive”, and not a few use legalese extensively.

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Fruity Dominance

Friday, November 24, 2006

The weather is gorgeous here today in Melbourne, and I took a walk down Swanston Street (this street runs down the center of Melbourne CBD). Out of every 10 people I saw, at least 5 had earphones on. Every pair of those earphones were in signature white.

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Ballroom

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

The men were ok, but the women were gorgeous. There’s just something hypnotically pulse-racing about the shimmering sheen of sweat on their skins as they move to the music

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Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures: The Creative Commons

Sunday, May 8, 2005

Update:
Kim Weatherall has her perspective on the lecture. (Kim’s a lecturer at my school.)
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I went to a public lecture today, when I really should’ve been at home trying to complete a Property Law assignment due tomorrow (statutory interpretation of the Native Title Act…gah).

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Chinese New Year away from home

Saturday, February 12, 2005

It’s not a pleasant feeling to miss one’s family this much. I spent Chinese New Year studying. No, its not that I’m super hardworking, its that I missed 2 lectures in a row and therefore need to catch up. Yup. Sad.
Apparently there was some celebration thingy going on at Chinatown, but I finished by the [...]

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Australia
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Australia