Leisure

Going shopping, travelling, watching movies..forget about it. It is not the leisure I’m currently engaging in. This is also not something that I planned. Rather it is just happened on impulse. Lying on the couch with a book in my hand and music played on the ipod that I’m so into these few days. With a clear tone I say no to friends who asked me ‘aren’t u bored to stay at home for the whole day’? yea at least not this time. haha it is rather weird because I hardly stay up late just to read novel or story book, yea except for harry potter that dragged me till really late at night (not the whole series of harry potter, just one of them).

At first I was glancing idly through the book and it excited me as it exposed the loopholes in law and also the fascinating expose of the ways in which law is just a black and white sets of rules and principles that the judiciary and lawyers are not lived up to sometimes. Or perhaps it is just the way I interpreted it. Often time movies or novels involving the courtlike scenario are too far from what the reality is, yea too far from I have learned at Law school. The series on‘girl, sex and money’ for example, how could a state prosecutor prosecuted a defendant where she’s having sexual relationship with a defendant’s brother? Another annoying example of an American show where the prosecutor and the defence lawyer have a relationship and proceed to prosecuting the defendant without disclosing their relationship to the bench and withdrawn themselves from the case. Where is the fiat justitias (let justice be done)? That’s a rather obvious example of bias and the defendant has been denied a fair trial. Another lie is where those shouting and foul language fill the court’s atmosphere. It is rather a solemn presentation of case, you can even hear the fly flies If I need to say it to give you a clear imagination how the real court system like.

The book that I’m reading is different from usual book involving the court-like system maybe because the author is a Botswana’s first High Court judge. Although, at the beginning I suspected it to be the same as normal book, I was wrong. In the end of the story, it explained why the Judge did not withdraw himself in the first place while hearing the case of his granddaughter who has been raped by a maniac man. It turns up that he did not know that she was his granddaughter. And yea in the end, the case was not heard in his court and this secret has not been revealed to the public.

The novel makes my mood swings ups and downs. It’s all about rape and abuse cases. I like the character that the prosecutor played. She’s very fierce not only the opponents but to the judges whom to her mind do not live according to the spirit of law.

Sighed...I finished reading the novel already. Then what to read next? Romance novel. No way. I’m not fond to reading those. They make me fall asleep.

That’s my leisure for these few days.