July 2010
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可望而不可即.
I’ve been wondering recently what would happen if I just stopped caring. So far, this summer I see friends all around me work their asses off and take classes for nearly twelve hours every day and living in some sort of austerity just so they think they can “survive” in junior year. Imagine how nice it would be if none of this matters and we do not need to worry about a thing. I...
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望眼欲穿.
I have these phases where I just cannot stop thinking about life, why we live, what we are supposed to do in life, and what happens after death. I do not really know why I constantly think so much about these things, and it always just utterly confuses me. This is a collection of my recent thoughts. Before I get blasted about the contents of this post, I give you a warning. This is my personal...
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時不可失.
This summer has been pretty disappointing so far; nothing exciting has really happened. Shi bu ke shi means that there is no time to waste, with a “seize the opportunity” or even carpe diem idea. Only if I can actually embrace this and do something useful.
This past month of my summer has been shaped by studying Chemistry, volunteering at CalPhil once and going to TA at Chinese...
June 2010
8 posts
California Philharmonic.
Yesterday night was pretty interesting. It wasn’t as boring as I had expected, and I met some new people (even though they all made me feel so old, LOL). And to my surprise, I got eleven dollars in tips, a heck of a lot more than some other people. There were a lot of volunteers, sometimes it seemed like more than was actually needed, and it made everything feel so disorganized.
I was...
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感恩的心.
I’ve come to realize how selfish I am. These past few years have been difficult at times if not devastating, and most of the time I just kept telling myself that I did not want to lose my father and I want him to be able to be in my life for a very long time. A short time before he decided on operating, however, I had a conversation with my mother which made me come to see what he must be...
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心神不定.
Xin shen bu ding means that one does not, or at times, cannot have peace of mind in the moment. Although this may not be the perfect idiom, it is the only one that comes to mind which is the closest to how I feel, a mixture of happiness, worry, and immense anxiety about what is to come.
The school year has yet again come to a close, and I feel like this has probably been the most disappointing...
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Playlist Updates.
新七小福 - Go Asia! / ZE:A - All Day Long / Jay Chou - Superman Can’t Fly / Gummy - As A Man / dance flow - Little Tricks of Love / A-Lin - No Guilt in Lost Love / 蔡依林 Jolin - TAIWAN’S HEARTBEAT / 伍家輝 - I Crazy You / 嚴爵 - Thank You For Your Beauty / Gummy - There Is No Love / 2AM - I Did Wrong / RAIN - Love Song / 3rd Degree - Fly / Kim Tae Woo - Memory and Remembrance / 嚴爵 - I Don’t...
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精益求精.
To pursue perfection, excellence. Is that what I or anyone else really wants? This time around, the Chinese idiom is read as jing yi qiu jing, used as an idiom it means to “pursue perfection,” and as a noun normally can mean “excellence” as well as “perfection.” I feel like that is what Arcadia has told us to work for, and it sure feels disappointing to not get...
May 2010
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超級星光大道.
No, it’s not a Chinese idiom. it means Super Star Avenue, a Taiwanese singing competition, my favorite TV show. Today marks the beginning of the 星光傳奇賽, or literally Star Legends Competition, where contestants from the previous six competitions come back at another shot at getting a record deal.
I started crying watching it. It reminded me of how much older I am compared to when I started...
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生命短暫.
That’s right, life’s short. Very short. But I’m kind of sick of it at the moment.
I almost had a mental breakdown today, I still have headache. AP’s are over, school should be easier, right? Of course not. I realize that I am not in a better position than many of my fellow students to get into a good college, seeing as that at the moment, I have no clubs, no academic...
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少年不識愁滋味.
This time around, my Chinese idiom is something I feel I am against. Shao nian bu shi chou zi wei roughly translates into “the young do not understand the difficulties in life, do not understand real depression.” While it is true that we young people do not know the real, true difficulties in life, I feel like by our age, we have a good sense with what goes on, and I know that some of...
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失望.
Once again, I’m disappointed with my family. Not my immediate family, but relatives on my mom side, including my grandma, uncle, and aunt. Yesterday being Mother’s Day, it was only natural for us to visit my grandma (on my dad’s side) at Rose Hills, pay our respects. but my living grandma, uncle and aunt, with their families, went to rose hills to visit their father, my deceased...
I have no extracurriculars, I'm in no clubs, none...
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疑問.
At times like these when we are supposed to study our asses off and “try our best” on the upcoming AP exams, I keep asking myself why we push ourselves, and why does society, at least our immediate society, push us to do these things. Does it really help you? In a school where a class can consist of almost a thousand students, is taking that one extra AP, getting that four or five...
April 2010
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持之以恆.
I learned a new Chinese idiom recently, Chi Zhi Yi Heng, which is Chinese for perseverance. These words sank in deeply as I first saw them, it reminded me what I really needed to get things done. What else can we do now but persevere?
AP tests are coming up, I’m taking the AP Mandarin and Biology tests. I’m simply ecstatic. Mmhmm. I’m not all too worried about the Mandarin test, because I am...
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AC.
I know I have a post a while back on just how amazing these guys are. I feel so comfortable and I feel like I fit in completely around them, sometimes more so than with the people I hang out with everyday at school. Each and every one of them has something so unique to bring to the table, I forces me to keep thinking and continue to try harder. This is why I love advertising. It’s not a job,...
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歇斯底里.
Well, maybe not hysteria, but life seems to be on the brink of it.
I haven’t made a decent blog post in a while, and although I know from formspring and comments that most people don’t give a crap about my life, thanks for following my tumblr. Seeing that this is spring break, I decided to write something. Not really a rant, but something for myself.
Last week, on the day before...
March 2010
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First Graders.
Today, during the Chinese class, one girl finished her classwork and was doing her homework. She raised her hand for help, and I come over. She asks, “What does ‘date’ mean?” I replied, “In this sentence, it means going with someone somewhere-” A fourth-grader in the first level Chinese class interjects, “When you go out with a boy (if you are a girl) or a...
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APENG.
Me:
I thought over the conversation we had in class today. I must say, I was extremely nervous to talk to you about it. I had considered not taking APENG because I am nervous about not just the workload, but also the pressures of the course. Although I did get an A- last semester, If I remember correctly, I barely got that A, with, I believe, 878 points. I still don’t think that my...
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奶奶, 已經四年了.
3/16
奶奶,
你現在好嗎? 我還記得四年, 爸爸媽媽跟我說你已經先離開人世了. 我是想跟你說, 我和妹妹, 也因該可以包括姊姊, 都很想您. 你走了以後, 我們全家開事一片混亂, 爸爸生病, 媽媽和姑媽吵架, 我已經好久沒有看到姑媽了. 我知道, 假若你在, 一切都會平安, 大家都高高興興的. 我非常想念你給我們的愛, 我永遠不會忘記那麼溫暖的感覺.
蕭煌奇有一首歌, 歌裡是這樣寫著:
阿嬤你今嘛在叨位 阮在叫你你甘有聽到 阮的認真甲阮的成功你甘有看到 阮在叫你你知影沒 阿嬤你今嘛過的好麼 甘有人塊甲你照顧 希望後世人阮擱會凍來乎你疼 作你永遠的孫仔 擱叫你一聲”阿嬤”
這首歌裡就表達我對你不遺忘的愛, 的笑容, 和關心.
雖然你不在了, 不管你在哪裡, 不要忘了我們, 不要忘了你的兒女, 孫子女, 還有非常愛你的家人. 您真的成功了....
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I've decided my classes, officially.
After talks with my mom and thinking over it for a long time, I’ve made some changes to my previous list.
Here are my classes for next year:
REGULAR ENGLISH (so excited) APUSH AP Calculus AB AP Spanish Language Graphic Design Psychology A/B
My mom thought taking a science over the school year is dumb when I’m taking Chemistry over the summer.
My junior year classes.
APUSH AP Spanish AP Calculus AB Chemistry (Honors?) Regular English Graphic Design.
NOT DOING A FOURTH AP BECAUSE OF TIFFANYANDFANNIE. >:O
I think this will be okay.
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Five places I must go to before I die.
1) Barcelona, Spain
It’s beautiful. I want to experience the culture and the life of the Spanish, especially in this beautiful city. To me, this beats Paris, or even Rome, because it seems to be more timeless and simply different. According to National Geographic:
“Long pegged as a mere “smokestack city,” Barcelona has come into its own since the 1992 Olympics, and today is one of...
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formspring.me: on disaster aid.
sorry i just get really worked up when people think helping anyone else other than themselves is stupid. you’re a great guy, i just don’t agree with your views sometimes. and yes, child labor is wrong.
Oh my, sorry if I offended you. I don’t think I worded my status very well. I never meant that I don’t think helping people is bad, especially in times of a natural disaster,...
February 2010
13 posts
What happened in my birth year.
What Happened In My Birth Year?
What happened in
1994
In 1994, the world was a different place.
There was no Google yet. Or Makeuseof, for that matter.
In 1994, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was The Lion King. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.
People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not...
My eyes are still swollen.
Jennifer, I realize much of what I said was very heavy, and a lot to take it.
But it was the sum of my feelings from the past eleven years, especially the last four.
I apologize if anything was too much, or if I was wrong in any of it.
I wouldn’t be able to bear to lose a friend like you.
姊.
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MWC
This year’s Mobile World Congress has ended. Here are what I think are the highlights:
Yet another amazing piece of work from HTC. The HTC Legend not only sports Android with HTC Sense, but has that drop-dead beautiful aluminum casing. And what!?! OLED SCREEN. What works: That trackball, it’s gone! Although it is very un-HTC, it’s a bright step. What doesn’t: Probably...
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I’ve been really pessimistic lately, and if you’ve been affected by it, I’m sorry. It’s just that there is a lot going on right now, more than ever. I’ve been feeling pretty down recently, only realizing this during fifth period today. Nothing seems to be going in the right direction. Grades are already falling down the drain, piano test coming up, AP Chinese testing...
SAGITTARIUS Spontaneous. High appeal. Rare to find. Great when found. Loves being in long relationships. So much love to give. A loner most of the time. Loses patience easily and will not take crap. If in a bad mood stay FAR away. Gets offended easily and remembers the offense forever. Loves deeply but at times will not show it, feels it is a sign of weakness. Has many fears but will not show it....
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I think about life a lot. About what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen. It bothers me that I can’t change the past, I don’t know what decisions to make now, and not knowing my future. I look around at some of my closest friends, and some of them are in happy relationships, and I realize that this is something I long for that I don’t and probably won’t...
To J.Chou:
happy birthday! feliz cumpleaños! 生日快樂! joyeux anniversaire! 誕生日おめでとう! 생일 축하합니다! buon compleanno! gëzuar ditëlindjen! عيد ميلاد سعي! všechno nejlepší k narozeninám! hartelijk gefeliciteerd! Hyvää syntymäpäivää! χαρούμενα γενέθλια! जन्मदिन मुबारक हो! С Днем Рождения!
This color test read my future.
Most every job I’ve considered is listed below. Wow. Blew me away.
Best Occupational Category - You’re a CREATOR
Keywords: Nonconforming, Impulsive, Expressive, Romantic, Intuitive, Sensitive, and Emotional
These original types place a high value on aesthetic qualities and have a great need for self-expression. They enjoy working independently, being creative, using their...
SuperJuniorM - SuperGirl / 2AM - Can’t Live Without Your Love / 林宥嘉 - Hysteria / BEAST - Ready Go / 大嘴巴 - Rock It / 潘瑋柏&Akon - Be With You / SuperJunior - SorrySorry/ SNSD - OH! / SHINee - JoJo / 羅志祥 - Get Used To It / 大囍門 / 林俊傑 - X / 楊丞琳 - In Your Eyes / Taeyang - Wedding Dress / 黃小琥 - Not That Easy / 梁文音 - Love Is Forever / 8Eight - Goodbye My Love / SuperJuniorM - Blue Tomorrow / 梁靜茹...
January 2010
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Stop making fun of the iPad.
Yes, it does seem kind of stupid. Yes, the name is pretty funny. Yes, there’s no flash. But people, stop. This is the same reaction to the iPhone years back, and the iPod a decade ago. Everyone thought it was dumb. Who’d want a phone like that? Who’d need a mp3 that expensive? So if you do have an iPod/iPhone, don’t be surprised if you own a iPad in a few years.
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What type are you? →
What font are you? Four simple questions.
The password required is “character”.
I love this. I think it is so accurate.
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Dream job.
Advertising, advertising, advertising. Oh how much I love you. You’re the perfect combination of logical and creative sense, the perfect line between thinking and living.
Oh yes. Ever since the lovely Z has opened my eyes to graphic design and advertising, I fell in love. The bonds, connections, you make with your group/team/class members are unbelievable, and your work changes how people...