The dumb bored things that I've been doing at home: Indoor badminton with my brother. shuttlecocks flying out the window and crashing into the computer monitor. Watching TV,TV and more TV like I've never watched TV before. Came up with lots of new culinary creations that only I will eat cos I’m the only one who is really quite sure what exactly went into them.

Interesting discovery of the week: My mummy has been violating my intellectual property rights. I made this salad with strawberries and lots of weird stuff and I stupidly told her how I made it. Later, my sister saw her typing the whole damned recipe into the computer and putting it on her damned eBay account to sell. Damn am I dumb. With a money-minded unscrupulous mummy like that, I should have learnt to be more careful by now. When I confronted her about it, she said that I don't have copyright cos I didn't write it out and had the damned audacity to claim that she had the copyright cos she typed it out. So I got pissed and told her that I still have intellectual property rights (like damn was she trying to mess up my brain with her ex-lawyer crap? Come on... I just wrote a GP essay on patent, copyright laws and got an A) Blast it all. I've got this action plan to publicise the whole recipe on the net so no one will actually buy it from her cos they can get it for free. But then I decided it wasn't that good a recipe anyway and no one 'cept an idiot will buy it. It's a small matter but that's not the point. It's the principle of the thing.

Oh fish it, a lawyer (unprincipled) will always be a lawyer (unprincipled). Lucky the kid of lawyer (unprincipled) was born in the great tradition of politicians (who are far more evil than lawyers)

Did I mention that my father has been coming home drunk? I wouldn’t let him into the house cos he couldn't walk in a straight line. That's a small matter. What really bothers me is that he's been driving home drunk. What if he causes and accident and dies in it? Please don't misunderstand me. I'm just a really concerned daughter who really wants to know what's written in his will. You see, I'm the eldest but I'm not a boy. Since my father is one of those parents who prefers sons, there's a significant chance that his assets might be willed largely to my brother.

Alright, we'll stop right here and not wonder why people like me can only think of money. We shall not speculate if I was affected by my mercenary mother. We will not conclude that I am a great politician in the making.