Saturday, August 14, 2004
Woke up this morning and *pow*…..my gastric pains started again……. I thought I was going to die…….then thought again that the pain is so great, that I just want to die so that it would stop……………why in the world would such pain even exist, I think some higher being is playing us and laughing………
Despite the amount of discomfort I was feeling, and the weak steps I took with my entire body hunched over………my grandmother gallantly tells me that I better get a move on or I would be late………..
I’m going to court today……… *sigh*
This was what happened today in Civil Sessions Court 2
I’m in court right now, in a adjourned hearing where defense is currently cross-examining the witness.
First and foremost, the judge is said to be fussy, and thus I was cautioned to stop reading………like my reading would interfere with the judge’s perception of the hearing…………
The defense lawyer is rather strange. His points are jumbled and rather vague……he keeps jumping from different factors of the hearing from the tone of the letter, to its flow, to signatures, to salary employment, to some ex-employee, and now back to the initial letter……all in an hour!!
And just now he had a ‘showdown’ with the judge….hehe…… I never realised one could argue with the judge………..
And for his information in regard to his point…the Japanese already have a different writing structure to English, and tones of letters are always subjective to the reader………….
I wonder if he is purposely jumping around……..maybe it’s to illustrate his case……………
Really at this moment someone should tell him to get to the point…
And there are some people sitting behind me, all wearing the same slate blue coats (suits really), and they refused to tell me why!! When asked, they offhandedly said it was just a fashion thing……hah!! Its secrecy involved…………I bet they are from the commercial police……or the government……..but truly they should have worn black to be more inconspicuous…….
*Ouch*…….. again it’s beginning to get hard to breathe, and I feel this unrelenting ache in my gut……….gastric…gastric……. don’t think about it……………..ugh………….
Duh!! If the witness was a financial forecaster, of course he would have looked at all the past figures of the company!!!
Oh………now the witness is getting shoddy……..maybe that was the defense’s ploy……..
Ah………..now they are questioning relevancy, forcing defense to make his point…he does have one!! Finally………….
Atleast they are talking in English for which I am thankful for………
People are snickering…….. I wonder if they can do that……it is hardly professional……….
Oh my god!!! That totally incorrigible policewoman has even forbidden me to write!!! But the judge has risen and left, so hah!!
I’m feeling hungry……it’s nearly 10.30 a.m and I’m afraid of my gastric pains returning……..
And I just remembered, someone’s handphone went off in the middle of the proceedings, and that policewoman didn’t say anything!! What is she doing singling me out?!
When the judge left, it became such a relaxed atmosphere…people chatting, laughing……..*sigh*……..again I’m wondering who all these people are…some are even wearing brightly colored clothes!! Pink nonetheless!!!
Now it is the prosecution’s turn…hey, the witness is speaking louder and more clearly than he did with defense, and he is less argumentative too…………by the way, the witness is prosecution’s witness, so I suspect that he was merely not cooperating with defense……
Ah, prosecution made a valid point by displaying the dangers of stipulating (by suggesting probabilities and scenes, and then was objected to leading the witness by the defense)……the court cannot make a judgement merely based on stipulations………..so prosecution was able to denounce all of defense’s stipulations………..hahahahahhaa…….
So that was what happened…they moved on to another witness who spoke the national language, so I got out……………and it was a famous case by the way, so there were journalistic cameras trained on the court from the outside, so maybe we would be on the news tomorrow!! But my boss got a little edgy and moved us quickly to a little local café somewhere within walking distance………………….
That’s all for today……….*hum*
Mused by Sukunami Taka around 2:30 PM
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