Corner Office Shaikh

Driven by curiosity’s sake.

  • Coke Studio, Billal Khan and a Lazy Sunday

    Been really feeling this song from Pakistan’s Coke Studio production.  I also really appreciate the other songs, but its been one of this lazy Sunday’s where a song like this just seems fit. Read more

  • C.A. Esquire- The ‘thing’ is coming!

    I feel that I am constantly looking for something besides the “thing” because the “thing” at the end seems so far off. But the video below points to another major problem, the sole focus for the “thing” at the end and never any desire to look at all the things between the place you start… Read more

  • Bridging Community- The Documentary Trailer, 2011

    Passing the Legacy Down Trailer from Marissa Kitazawa on Vimeo. Read more

  • Progressive, Even Under Occupation

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  • C.A. Esquire- Being a Lawyer Better be awesome

    <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px”> Hell ya, A friday night and a Saturday that I could have spent out doors enjoy an amazing summer-ish day or out with #occupyLA or #occupyOC folks supporting #occupywallstreet.   But no here I am studying law trying to make a responsible choice for my future by taking on loans… Read more

  • C.A. Esquire- Law School the Musical

    Who says my generation doesn’t have any musical sensibilities, here’s a song that sums up my life and I’m just 2 months into it.  What I really admire, and totally jealous about, is that folks have time to put this together.  Doing blog posts seem near impossible most times and here they are putting this… Read more

  • C.A. Esquire- Mantra 2: Stay in the library.

    Fill you in on the background I wrote a post recently about the necessity to develop mantra’s to help me cope with the insanity that is law school.  In the comments someone posted “if they can do it, I can do it to” and that goes along the lines of what I was telling myself,… Read more

  • C.A. Esquire: A kid in a candy story

    …who happens to be a fat kid that enjoys gorging out on candy, like Augustus Gloop from Charlie and Chocolate Factory. Thats me and the law now.  I came into law school with the idea that I will not narrow down my area of legal focus until I had an opportunity to survey whats out… Read more

  • C.A. Esquire: That moment in class when…

    …I fell asleep.   My classmate had to poke me twice, another colleague slammed her book right next to my book, but not in a way that interrupted the class, but definitely woke me up.  The sad thing about this experience was that just the other week I was sitting in class watching a couple… Read more

  • C.A. Esquire- 5 Mantra’s of Law School Sanity Retention

    Sustaining my legal education drive- not so easy. “Affad Shaikh,” I tell myself while studying Civil Procedure, “this will not work at all, you have to stay focused.”  But truth be told, I am starting to loose some steam in studying.  Sustaining that level of intense focus on the law is not easy, in fact,… Read more