Top of the Lake: China Girl

Top of the Lake: China Girl is the second season of the series, and currently the last, despite being aired in 2017. Honestly, the first season was kind of boring. I knew most people prefer the first over the second, rather overwhelmingly, but to me the first was boring. I remembered getting bored, wanting to end it as soon as possible because the progress was slow. Perhaps it just wasn't my cup of tea. The first season was filmed and set in New Zealand, but the second in Sydney, Australia. Well, Elisabeth Moss's Australian accent still sounds peculiar, incongruous actually. But otherwise, I like the second season so much better. The storyline is good, I actually was hooked on and wanted to finish the series. The ending though was a bit anti-climatic, and justice hasn't been served, but I guess the point of this series is that not all crimes are always met with justice. One thing though: They are not China girls. They are Thai. Not all Asians are Chinese. Otherwise, awesome series. Love it. Couldn't wait for a third season.

SCOTUS LGBT Ruling

You know, I studied law as part of my undergraduate study. But even before taking that unit, I already fell in love with law. Law is fun. Anybody who loves languages would love law, barring the technicality that it entails. I love law, I love reading judgments although admittedly I so far have only studied common law. The argument, the hundreds of pages long of arguments just to analyse the impact of using 'and' or 'or', is mind-blowing. It fascinates me, especially since many of the justices analyse the words with so many facts and that semantics and language play such an influential role. Malaysia's judgments really pale in comparison with the US and the UK. 

This is the latest court judgments provided by the United States Supreme Court on the discrimination of LGBT people. Surprisingly, despite having a conservative majority, the court ruled in favour of LGBT, and what's more surprising is one of Trump's appointee sided with the liberals.

I read it because it was a surprising result. The judgment the justices wrote reminded me what I love languages.

BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY, GEORGIA

And damn that judge Samuel Alito. I knew he is a textualist but he is beyond reasonable in his analysis and reasoning. 

Here's To Us - Glee

I don't watch Glee. But I like many of the songs in it.

I know it's many years late. Forgive me.

Lea Michelle has one of the greatest voice. Ya, recently some news about her nasty behaviour surfaced but I don't gossip.

I started looking into Glee music because I learnt both Supergirl actress and The Flash Grant Gustin were in there. So I dug up the episodes Grant was in because I heard he played a villain and I noticed it has been 10 years since he acted in it but he does not appear to ever change a tiny bit. Damn, he's really a great villain. I like the Warbler simply because they dance and sing. I have no issue with New Directions - it's just that their singings are just not as impressive (except Rachel's I like her) and their dancings are not entertaining. 

I do not think I'll watch Glee though. The content of the show is as nasty as I could have imagined - teenage drama, rage, jealousy, bullying. Nah, I'll give it a pass. I'll just enjoy the music.