Life As I Know It

I went back to the college. I thought I’d feel a little nostalgic, that I would have this movie playing in my head remembering friends in the dreamy hazy way they show in movies. It didn’t happen. The kinship was never there. I went back to judge a moot court competition. I remembered how KT and I were always placed in a court hall with the toughest judges or the meanest ones. How people always hated us for winning. The little taunts from seniors, the seniors promising to help us with research and at the last minute ditching us to join the competition themselves. The over confident teams who swore to take our breaths away. The magic pencil. The Sean Kingston dampener. The diary. The star wars swords! And the very very very powerful 4 am call saying, “May the force be with you”. Axis point and the photograph that proved lucky every time. The pig faced charm with the awesome dimple. The fake fight that KT and I always had because I was worried about buri nazar ! All my memories abo...

The weekend was very interesting. I learnt a few things about myself. That I can be patient, angry, sad, happy and confused all at once. The result is a major giggling fit. I NEVER giggle. People who giggle always annoy me. So I guess I was also annoyed with myself. Apart from my emotional irrationality I FINALLY found one thing that I liked about this guy that I don’t like all that much in my class- He has PRETTY feet! I like pretty feet, never seen them on a guy though. This weekend I also had the moot court competition. Our team gets the second highest score in the memorials. We won the oral arguments in both the rounds--- BUT we failed to qualify to the next round. Why? I DON”T KNOW! I just got my score sheet via mail. I don’t want to call those people up. So this is IT for me. No more mooting. I had more fun in Delhi, when we’d been to the Dunant moot which was SO much fun. I enjoyed the journey(48 hrs), during which my friends and I were generally making conversation. The co...

For almost the whole of this academic year I haven’t felt like a part of this college. I have been here for over 4 years and yet I feel no sense of belonging. No emotional attachment to this place. Just pure joy of graduating in two and a half months. I don’t know if it is me or the people in this place. I have asked myself if I ever gave this place a chance. I think I did, if not completely definitely in parts. All the friends I did make have graduated. I can count them on my fingers. It was when I was with them that I didn’t feel completely lost. Last year I knew when two of my most loved friends were graduating that the final year would be unbearably sad. There has been only one other thing that has kept me afloat in this college – Mooting. I voluntarily retired from mooting in September, but it’s so addictive I had to go for one last moot. We started researching for a moot this Monday. While working on the moot I feel like I belong here. Even if it is only for a while it’s nic...

The first time I represented my college for a moot court competition was at Kerala Law Academy. It is the best National Level Moot Court Competition in the country. The problem is usually with respect to violation of Fundamental Rights. It being my first time at a competition out of the college I was obviously a little apprehensive. I'd finally know if I could actually moot and place my arguments before a panel of judges. In college the judges for our competitions are lecturers, and they don't make me nervous, so when I moot in front of them there is no lacking in my confidence. We reached Perurkada and were escorted to the girls hostel, that's where we were to stay for the duration of the competition. In the afternoon we were to go register our team and we would be given our team code. On our way to the registration counter we passed by the other teams and they looked nervous and were trying to do their best to hide it. When i'm nervous I don't really absorb whats ...