More from my corporations law textbook

… directors breach their fiduciary duties if they issue shares for improper purposes. If the directors who breached their duty are also the majority shareholders, they will act oppressively or unfaily if, as shareholders, they vote to ratify their improper actions.
I literally LOL-ed when I read that. Silly directors. So naughty!

More of THE GUIDE

Sometimes I feel like self destructing in a massively spectacular sort of way.
Like fireworks.
Only bigger.
With a cherry on the top.
If I were a movie reviewer, I’d have a review that started out:
Some movies turn out exactly the way you imagined. Then there are the brilliant few that turn out to be so much more. This [...]

On stuff. Which is a rather ideal thing to write about. That is, as opposed to nothing much at all

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are [...]

A bit about my day

After going through a rushed morning completing and handing in my essay, I had a slow and quiet lunch by myself in a nearby cafe.
I ordered a coffee and read a reasonably well written if somewhat whiny book before ordering lunch.
I just didn’t waste days in the way I had wasted the day before. [...]

Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Obsessive parents know who they are and are generally proud of the fact; non-obsessive parents also know who the obsessives are and tend to snicker at them.
The fact that this is the best quote in the book thus far is woefully indicative of its subpar standard.
Sensationalistic is the word that keeps popping into my head [...]

Grimble

This is a story about a boy called Grimble who was about ten. You may think it is silly to say someone is about ten, but Grimble had rather odd parents who were very vague and seldom got anything completely right… Usually when [Grimble] left home in the morning, his parents were still asleep [...]

Apple crumble and Player Piano

On the other side of the limousine’s rear seat sat Doctor Ewing J. Hylard, of the United States Department of State, a heavy, florid, urbane gentleman of forty. He wore a flowing sandy mustache, a colored shirt, a boutonniere, and a waistcoat contrasting with his dark suit, and wore them with such poise that one [...]

More on my short time in Singapore (amongst other things)

Would you believe a song is nice enough to warrant my blogging about it?
Yeah, I wouldn’t either. But Switchfoot’s You from their album The Legend of Chin is pretty damn good. How I love my last.fm and its wonderful supply of songs.
Today has been fantastic (sorry again Michelle). I ate a [...]

More on my short time in Singapore

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Dear Oxbridge Rejects,

It is with the greatest pleasure that I write to you in this, our Society’s seven hudredth year. Seven hudred years is a long time and it is a tribute to Rejects, past and present, that we have reached this milestone so soon.


When our founding fathers first established the OXbridge Rejct Society for all those who have failed Oxbridge, they can have had little idea how far it would journey or how large it would become. Not only is the Society soon to enter its eighth century, but last year a greaterr number of people failed Oxbridge than ever before, bringing our present membership to over 250,000, and making us one of the largest organizations in the country.


As membership of the Society is conferred automatically, I have no means of knowing exactly who our 250,000th member is, but I will venture to suggest that this Unknown Reject fully appreciates why the Society was created, and is proud to be a member. I am also sure that he or she feels the same sense of belonging that unites us all.

But though there is much to celebrate, the war has yet to be won. I have no doubt that all members of the Society are as worried as myself about the world in which we find ourselves. Competition and the pursuit of excellence are openly being hailed as the solutions to all our problems. Yet we have all competed, and we have all pursued excellence – and our common experience has taught us that embracing these overrated principles is not entirely without its share of unhappy consequences. The Society’s role in spreading this message has surely never been so important as it is today.

I would like to take this opportunity to extend a very warm welcome to all those new members who have recently been rejected by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. You should not consider your rejection to be a reflection on your abilities – we in the Society realize that the examinations you sat were simply too difficult, and the grades required of you simply too high.

You are joining a Society at an historic moment in its history, and to you, and to all other members of the Society, I extend my very best wishes for our eighth century.

I remain your obedient Reject,


Susan Browning

My father, who has just come home, would like to add that the book really is very good, and he highly recommends it. Oh, and tell me if there are any misspellings cause I haven’t actually bothered to go to the trouble of re-reading all that. Especially since it’s unlikely many of you would’ve actually made it this far.

Jane Austen Book Club quotes and names I like

Hi! Here I am blogging again, in less than half an hour. I only wish you read the previous post first, so that there’ll be a sense of chronological order.
Anyway, I just wanted to talk about the Jane Austen Book Club. I think it could quite possibly be my most favourite book of all time. [...]