Word of the Week

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Word of the day:

pauvre. Poor in French.

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First and for most, I would like to give a great credit to someone so funny, important and freaking smart, Mr Arnold, to inspire me this post.

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I'm having a 7 hours class in a stretch today. From freaking 10 to 5. No lunch taken. However, this is not what I want to say today, so lets move on.

Mr Arnold picked up where he drop last class, ie, charitable trust. So, we studies the main aim for having charitable trust, which is, okay, this is not my revision blog post, so not going to type the whole topics. Lets jump straight to the point I wanted to stress.

We came across this phrase, the prevention or relief of poverty. It's one of the charitable trust's categories. So, Mr Arnold, as usual transfer all his knowledge to us, and he mentioned this case, Re Coulthurst, where Sir Raymond Evershed M.R states that 'poverty does not mean destitution..... due regard being had to their status in life and so forth!'

Based on the statement, we started a fight. Not literally. And finally Mr Arnold manage to splash us some cold water to cool us down. Not literally. He made a statement himself. As long as you can show that you do not have enough money for tomorrow's living, it is sufficient to say you are in poverty. And this is how the law should be apply in this principle. This statement got us all shut up and confused. POVERTY DOES NOT MEAN DESTITUTION!!! 

So, lets say, I have 10 bucks today(Friday), and I bought dinner for myself, so I left 2 bucks for tomorrow. Do I consider in poverty now? Not really in Malaysia. We can get 7-Eleven's nasi lemak or mee goreng for only 2 bucks. So, I still manage to buy myself food for living. In this situation, can I say I am in poverty on Sunday? Yes. Hence, I am entitle to go for YMCA's sup kitchen since I'm in poverty and they are having sup kitchen for the benefit of the society, aim to prevent or relief poverty.

Ha!! I can apply what I've studied in the real life!!

Kudos Mr Arnald.

So, I'm in poverty now. Seriosly. I have to pay RM6.50 EVERYDAY for the freaking parking!! Is there someone, anyone, generous enough to have spare RM130 for me to go for law ball? Its a very kind thing to do to set up the charitable trust for my law ball ticket*!!!

  

Love,

Nichole

*No tax relief /exemption for this trust.