Equity & Markets!

Hey Everyone!

How you all doing? Quick update on life at uni. Fun stuff huh? Lately I’ve been locking myself away to get my Equity coursework done and huzzah I finished it a few days ahead of the deadline and submitted it so that is one less worry. However, big old company law coursework still looms over my head at a whopping 3500 words, my reaction: eeeeeeeeeeeepppp but I will resume writing that up.

This past week has been filled with extra long days and nights attempting to get my head around proprietary estoppel, assurance, reliance and detriment. On the surface it appears to be a hard concept to grasp but like I always say when you persist with something it will usually get clearer. I hope that will be the same for Company Law. There is so much material available that aided me in understanding the concept of proprietary estoppel it is always about reading things a million times before you understand it and finding different sources if you don’t understand one.

So now I must focus my attention on Company. It’s annoying that the sun keeps shining and the sky is blue yet I am stuck inside trying to resolve some made up legal problem.

Anyway on a completely different note I wanted to share with you some of the nice experiences I have had recently. I’ve been so moany lately but there have been some really fun and nice things that I have done. I am a big fan of flea markets and London is packed full of them! I think I have already mentioned Camden; there is of course Greenwich market which during the summer time is simply magnificent. Covent Garden, one of my favourite places ever. It is a brilliant place to soak in culture, relax and enjoy the street performers. My favourite being “Chainsaw Juggler with Great Arse”, not joking that really is his name; I believe there are clips on YouTube of his performances.

A few months ago I discovered Borough market which is a haven for cheese fans. It has fresh beautiful and exotic fish. Some of the produce are so fresh that they are still moving. There are delicious mouth watering desserts. Taste one and you’ll want to try the lot! The people on the market stalls are even friendlier offering you free tasters without the pressure to actually purchase. This so far is one of the best markets I have been to and I highly recommend a trip there. Enjoy the pictures!

My Affliction Laying It Bare

I thought I would write again about “My Affliction”. Many people will never understand what depression is, indeed many will say they feel depressed down etc but that is not the same. Depression is a deep affliction of the mind and it takes a lot of will power to overcome it and to face everyday life. Lately my affliction has been getting the better of me. It is like a permanent grey cloud that forever looms over one’s heart. Soon I shall be setting an external blog page from this which will be completely open. This grey cloud darkens each day, it is like a having your hands and feet shackled, your breath stifled, your vision blurred and speech restricted, it is a rock placed upon on your heart. For me it has restricted me from functioning normally, everything has become a struggle. Of course, the depression has been brought on by several issues although in fact it has been present for the great deal of my life; surrounded by much too much death, too much betrayal, abuse I guess it takes its toll.

This month I have two pieces of coursework 19^th and 26^th March. This year has been the greatest struggle whether that is due to the million personal issues urgh. I have had many friends wanting to drop out but even then I have told them that this is the last hurdle, just a few months and we will be done.

Despite all the downers I try to think positive and hype myself up by focusing on the small things that lighten up my moods no matter how dark. So I know lately I think these blogs are turning so morbid and just so uuurrrghh. I want to spread the positive despite all the bad energy that is around.

I think to myself that despite all the rubbish that has happened in life, despite the deaths, the arguments, the illness, betrayals etc I know I have come so far. This journey at uni is my own and so is yours. No one can take it away. Yes, there are so many obstacles will be there for you to overcome no ever said it would be easy. It ain’t anyone else’s battle but yours. People will always get in the way and bad stuff happens that cannot be helped; life is always a learning process. It is hard but persistence and determination will prevail and it will make you stronger. 

Fragments of My Mind I

Walking back into the past

Surrounded by a bunch of ghosts

I guess it is time I try to lay you at rest.

Don’t worry I remember how you said life is a test

But deep down inside I’m praying to come back to the nest

Keep looking back on to the past,

Keep searching for your hands,

Keep looking to see what I last saw,

Keep looking back to feel what I last felt

Keep wanting to break free from this reality.

Wanting to reach out and take a hold of your hands the way it should be,

This time tell you to take me with you.

Silly pictures on the wall, they tease me, laugh at me,

No longer do they comfort me. Just a mockery.

I inhale, take a deep breath,

I try to remember your scent

I remember each step,

I remember each slight detail

I try to envision us back then. Care free. Happy.

Now tears a are plenty. Happiness just a word, a distant memory.

Waiting for you to come set me free

Love just a fairy tale.

Something now that everyone continuously fails

On us they repeatedly bail.

I walk the path of old, going over your steps. I wonder can you feel me? Can you hear me?

Next time I’ll tell you don’t let go.  

My Downside and Upside to Uni

So many people have said that once you come to university you will make lifelong friends and in all honesty I never understood this but over these last few years I have met some really amazing people who I know I will never let go or lose touch with.

So I thought I’d write what my personal experiences of the downsides of uni have been. In all honesty I can’t actually say that there are many and the little that I have found are in fact countered by so many other factors.

So for me I think the main downside of uni is knowing that I am surrounded by a number of fake people who do not care about the law but yet ease through it with no hurdles. Of course I don’t know everyone personally so I am making generalisations based on what I have heard and seen.  It frustrates me to know that so many people only care about the money they can make and have no real care for the law and what it is meant to mean.

Many students appear to think that after you have completed your law degree and LPC etc. you will simply walk into a training contract. I occasionally think that everyone needs a reality check. Getting employed people is hard! I have also seen first-hand the amount of peer pressure that is around. One would think that at least by university level peer pressure would no longer be an issue but that is not the case. With so many people bragging about their LPC /BVC applications it does actually put people off and instead of being encouraging it is entirely discomforting to them.

Also, no matter where you go you will always have unpleasant people who remain immature and oblivious to other people’s feelings and emotions and have no idea how to present themselves nicely but hey that is life and no one said this would be a walk in the park. I myself keep a nice large distance between such people so it does not affect me but it does affect the close ones around me which is also very frustrating.

However, having said that, there are that small, reliable, amazing group of people who no matter what time of day it is will always make everything so much better. They are the people who to me make my journey to uni worth it and make the whole thing just that little bit more fun. The genuine people who smile at you for real, who talk to you openly and honestly, who giggle at silly things which make you laugh more, who you can go up to in a lecture room and just cry your eyes out to they are the ones who make uni worth it.

(The opinions expressed here are the views of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the University of Greenwich - Ed.)

Company Law Rhyming

Sitting at a morbid desk,

Typing away and my words are a mess

The smell in the room acrid and grotesque

Sipping on Red Bull

Breaking their silly rule

To do law now I know I’m such a fool

The words in the book blurring,

It is all just becoming too confusing

Actually it’s honestly just too boring

And ever more so just perplexing

It’s become too much of issue I am no longer understanding

They talk about classical veil lifting

Does that even have any real meaning?

Perhaps they actually mean veil peeping

Now my brain is simply melting

All I want to do is keep rhyming

Deep in my mind it’s you I keep missing

The meaning of it never lessening

Despite the many times I keep on repeating

For you my heart keeps beating

Fickle words are never ending

But no one can question the feeling

So staring blankly at the screen

This has become such routine

It’s actually quite obscene

To escape from this foul odour

And away from this building just vapour

To be kept from you just makes me so sour

So I keep on counting the seconds in the hour

Knowing soon I’ll be in your arms gives me the power

Placement Update

Hey everyone! How is everyone getting on? How is uni and everything else in life faring?

So I thought I should give you an update about my placement though at first I absolutely did not like my placement, I have over the many hours come to absolutely admire the ladies/people I work with. Day in and day out so many people call us with a range of issues from housing, welfare, education, employment, the list is quite extensive. Some voices over the phone can be rude, some are erratic, others quiver with so much sadness and tears that even my eyes fill with tears. On my latest day at placement I had two emotional phone calls. The first (as I said before I really can’t divulge details) made me realise that for all the harshness that I am deep down I know that everyone deserves a second chance and that we as society must implement rules that are fair and equal to all. It should not be to hinder them but to help rehabilitate, to support people and integrate them back into society.

The second call the client was in tears and this is the phone call that moved me to tears but of course one has to maintain a professional manner and I told the client to take her time, deep breaths and perhaps a drink of water. What to some people may be a really small matter to another it is life changing and to know that the place I work at makes such a huge positive change in people’s lives is just so uplifting to know.

Help is always at hand it is just about finding the right people to go to. 

Valentine

You my lifeline

No day of saint can fulfil

To even contemplate showing you all that is inside will take time

Printed words on mass produced cards are just so nil

Everywhere I look my eyes search for you

My every heart beat was made for you

And every step leads to you

No words can define feelings so true

If I could show you but an ounce

Perhaps then you would know the power that lies inside

But to show you is impossibility

That only you can make me feel so lively

The thought of your smile can create life

The sounds of your laughter can move the moon

The depth of your words stole my heart

It’s from you I can never depart

To die for you is not my wish

But to live beside you my eternal prayer

And then be blessed with your forever kiss

To lose you my only fear

No boxes of chocolates, no stuffed toy or dying roses

Can ever be enough to spoil you with

So forget the silly teddies, leave behind the strange manufactured food,

Don’t bring a bottle of wine

Nor take me to a crowded restaurant to dine

Just hold me in your arms, keep looking me in the eyes

And never let me go