Spent another morning listening to mom ramble on about my cousins (her sister's daughters) in Australia. Honestly, is it really such a bad thing to be ordinary? I mean I love my cousins dearly, but how anyone can literally study 24/7 is beyond me. I think my head would either explode or implode from all that studying yet both of them do so, and apparently rank in the top 100 for highest GPA's in Australia. I can understand how Tina can be upset. I mean 99.8% is enough to drive anyone crazy. Just to think.. if she could have gotten that 0.2%, she could have ranked in the top 10 or 20 as oppose to 70th-something.

My other cousin, Jenny, from dad's side of the family was in national forces or something and as a result of her outstanding academics, was rewarded with American citizenship for her entire family. From what my mom was telling me, it was a really big deal. The FBI went to her house and presented her with all the legal documents to sign and everything.

*sigh* Is it really so bad being ordinary? I know what the problem is actually. I just don't work, that's all. My aunt in Australia keeps telling me "You barely raise a finger to study and can get marks in the 80's. If you study even 1/4 as much as my daughters do, you'd probably even exceed them". Yes, yes.. I know that.. it's just.. it's very hard to study if I don't exactly know what I'm studying for, as stupid as that sound. And in anyways, I think it's because I know I'm smart, so I don't study as much =____=. I'm just lazy, lol. But this semester.. I really gotta work hard. I'm not saying do nothing but study like my cousins do, but at least 1 or 2 hours day. Wow.. that sounds so little in comparison. But then again, I usually don't look at my books at all when I get home and rely on cramming the day before the test, so my new plan is looking pretty good... Anyways, better get ready for school =___=
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Hmmm... I can almost say with certainty that I'm definately applying to Concordia as opposed to Mcgill. I say almost, because I've yet to visit Mcgill tomorrow. The only dilema I have now is to decide which program I want to go into. Still can't decide whether to go into the business one or the film animation one.

On one hand, I'm already in commerce and their student exchange program looks really tempting. I knew from the start that I want to study abroad so this is a really good opportunity. Apparently, Concordia gives all their exchange students 1000$ a month as allowence in addition to the salary they'll make during their co-op if they get accepted.

On the other hand, film animations sounds awsome and I really wanna do something that requires a little creativity and imagination as a profession. I'll need to submit a portfolio though, as well as a letter of intent along with my registration form. Hmm.. let see.. I already have four canvases from last semester, some doodles, a few sketches, plenty of photoshopped art, a really short and crappy flash movie, and a really bad unfinnished remix of a few songs I slapped together during the Christmas break.. wonder if they really meant it when they said "the quality of the work doesn't matter. We just want to see what sort of work you've experimented with". Ah, we'll see I guess.

Or I could do this: get my degree in business, get a job and work while taking the film animation course, and possibly start my own company once I'm done. That way, I'll get the both of best worlds, not to mention plenty of connections and whatnots. *sigh* Decisions, decisions...
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Finally!!! The forever more dreaded, heinously ugly first week back is finally over!! *sigh* I don't know how I'm gonna survive this semester. Only the first week back and already I'm 30 pages behind in my English class and 2 chapters behind in my business law. If I hadn't already taken accounting, I'd be 2 chapters behind in that class as well =______=. Have some compassion!!! It's only the first week back!! I haven't even adjusted yet and already teachers are pilling work on me. Feels like I woke up in the middle of an exam week or something. All I see in my agenda are deadlines, deadlines and more deadlines.

See, that's the setback to having good teachers: they're all too organized!! Other than March Break, there isn't one week where I don't have either a test or something major due. What was I thinking when I agreed to the peer tutor thing?? From the way things are going, it doesn't seem I'll have the time nor energy to do my own work, let alone help someone else with theirs. Counting chinese school and my painting class, I'm taking a total of 9 classes this semester. 9 classes!! And I hve to worry about university applications on top of everything...*cries in agony* How am I ever gonna get through this??
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Think it's only starting to sink in now that this is my last semester >____<. Think I'm really starting to feel the pressure now that the registration deadline for universities are slowly but steadily approaching. Urgh.. hate this time of year. Looking at all those application forms and procedures is making me depressed, yet I'm suppose to be excited. I just feel... overwhelmed? It just all seems so rushed all of the sudden. Almost as if my future happiness depends solely on getting into the right school, which is not very comforting seeing that I still don't really know what I want.

Maybe that's why so many people take a break after college before going on to university. As tempting as it may seem, I know for a fact that I won't be able to do that. It's just not in me to put something as big as this down and be expected to pick it up again. It's such a headache @_____@.

Been thinking about what fields I can go into as a commerce student, and it seems that in the next few years, there'll be a huge demand for accountants and financial analysts. I have no idea what financial analyst is, but do I really want to go into accounting?

Hockenstein's pretty much killed the subject for everyone who had/has/will have him as a teacher. Everyone who knows me can more or less testify that I've done nothing but rant about his incompetency during my first semester. It's kinda funny cuz every single person in my accounting course this semester has failed the course the first time around because of him. I mean, he took a whole week off for a trip to Toronto in the middle of the semester. What normal, responsible teacher does that??? He never shows up the class before our tests, and "teaches" by skimming and skipping through powerpoint slides made in the same wording as the textbooks, and badgers us on why we don't understand the material. Well hello, if we knew what it is that we don't get, then we wouldn't have a problem, now would we? =________=

Anyways, long story short, we've pretty much spent the majority of our accounting class bashing Hockenstein^^. What a great way to get class unity, lol.
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Come with me
Let me walk in through the world that I currently stay in
You can take a look around and tell me if I’m mistaken
You can even talk to everybody that I live with
Maybe you could tell me why everybody’s so distant
Is it me or maybe, when I look around daily
I don’t even know the people I can put my trust in lately
People that I used to hang with now they're actin’ so different
I’m still the same person why doesn’t anybody listen
Can somebody please just explain to me
What happened to the way that we always said we’d be
Right now I dunno why I push through the pain that I got through
And I’m losin’ hope

Deafening voices
That frequency inside my head that says
I’m going at it the hard way I focus
Get everything inside out of my brain that claims
I’m going at it the hard way

Come with me
Let me walk in through the world that I currently live in
Not a thing is forgotten, not a thing is forgiven
Nobody can hold their own underneath the weight but
Nobody can take the blame for their own mistakes so
What do you do when somebody lets you down
And you wanna say something but you can’t cause they're not around
Inside you think they know the extent of the pain
But they won’t even admit that they were the one to blame
Can somebody please just explain to me
What happened to the way that we always said we’d be
Cause right now I dunno why I push through the pain that I got through
And I’m losin’ hope

Voices in my head

Can somebody please just explain to me
What happened to the way that we always said we’d be
Right now I dunno why I push through the pain that I got through
And I’m losin’ hope, give me one reason not to

~Fort Minor
|| Helena mindlessly rambled @ 7:17 PM || 0 comments ||

New Jay Single!!! *shrieks of exitement*!! I would serioulsy, flat-out, die for concert tickets. Well actually... get concert tickets, rub it in everyone's faces that I have tickets after a major shriekfest, be on edge and have little to no sleep for the days prior the event, attend the concert and scream, sing (or at least attempt to since I've accepted the fact that my mando comprehension is completely and utterly hopeless), jump and just spaze out those who are even more Jay-obsessive-fanatics than I am, and then happily die of most probably dehydration and lack of sleep at that point, after I get to meet him in person and get his autograph... yep... sounds good to me^^ heehee...




為偶像李連杰拍霍元甲MV 周董允舞又允武
For his idol Jet Li, Pres Chou danced and showed off his martial arts skill in the Fearless MV

Source: http://tw.news.yahoo.com/
Translated by: CJay (www.jay-chou.net)

周杰倫為「功夫皇帝」李連杰的電影「霍元甲」寫下同名電影主題曲，除親自執導MV，更在MV中大跳一整段融 合嘻哈和中國風的舞蹈，此外，還仿效李連杰大膽耍弄三節棍，允「舞」又允「武」。為了偶像李連杰，周董可以 說是整個人都「霍」出去了！
Jay Chou wrote a theme song with the same name as the movie "Fearless" for the "Kung Fu Emperor" Jet Li. Besides personally directing the MV, he even danced a dance that combined hip hop and Chinese style dance. He even imitated Jet Li and boldly showed off his skills with a 3 jointed nunchuck and thus "danced" and "showed his martial arts skills." For his idol Jet Li, Pres Chou can be said to have done everything he could (including the things he usually doesn't do).

周杰倫是許多人的偶像，然而他也有自己的偶像─李連杰。所以，與李連杰合作，他格外謹慎。
Jay Chou is many people's idols, yet he also has his own idol -- Jet Li. Thus, he was exceptionally careful when he cooperated with Jet Li.

除最近靈感泉湧寫下「霍元甲」同名電影主題曲，周董還叮嚀作詞的方文山歌詞要符合電影的精髓。果然歌詞裡「 天下誰的，第一又如何？止干戈，我輩尚武德。」或是「驕傲的活下去」等，都在在彰顯李連杰在電影中要傳達的 精神，以及喚醒年輕人愛惜生命的訊息。
Besides getting the inspiration to write Fearless as the theme song for the movie with the same name recently, Pres Chou instructed the lyricist Vincent Fang to write lyrics that fit with the essence of the movie. Indeed we see in the lyrics "Who does the world belong to and what does it matter if you're first? Stoping fights is the martial arts virtue of our generation," "live proudly," etc all refer to the main point of the message that Jet Li tried to communicate in the movie along with the message asking youths to treasure life.

此外，周董在歌曲中以女聲腔飆高音的詮釋細膩又有特色，可以說是這首歌的神來之筆。他笑說，「見到自己的偶 像一定要寫一首屌歌，這首歌我非常滿意！Rap的功力更上一層樓了，因為大家都聽不懂。」
Besides this, Pres Chou's imitation of a girl voice singing high tones is detailed and distinguished. This is the part of the song that can be said to be touched by God. He smiled and said, "Seeing my idol, I had to write a 'diao' song. I'm really satisfied with this song. My ability to rap has further improved because nobody understood what I sang."

「霍元甲」電影主題曲是一首中國風的嘻哈歌曲，MV也是中西合併，大家將會看到周杰倫在MV中大跳一整段的 「武扇舞」。
The theme song for the movie "Fearless" is a mix between Chinese and hip hop style. The MV is also a combination of eastern and western styles. Everybody will see Jay Chou dance a "martial arts fan dance" in the MV.
Note: I haven't heard of 武扇舞 (wu shan wu) before, but it literally means a martial arts fan dance. The fan is an object, not a person.

至於李連杰在「霍元甲」中耍三節棍的橋段，也給了周董靈感。周杰倫說，「兩年前買的三節棍終於可以派上用場 」！
The part where Jet Li plays with a 3 jointed nunchuck in "Fearless" also inspired Jay. Jay said, "The 3 jointed nunchuck that I bought 2 years ago can finally be put to use!"

周杰倫還仔細研究學習電影裡李連杰的動作，在MV裡大耍三節棍。他說，「輸人不輸陣」。
Jay also carefully observed and learned Jet Li's moves in the movie and played with the 3 jointed nunchuck in the MV. He said, "Even if I am not as skilled as the person (Jet Li), I want to look just as good as him."

「霍元甲EP」二十日發行，這支MV加上「11月的蕭邦」專輯裡的十二支MV共十三支音樂錄影帶，將一次讓 歌迷擁有收藏。
The "Fearless EP" will be released on the 20th. This MV along with the the 12 MVS from the album "November Chopin" add up to a total of 13 music videos that the fans can collect altogether in 1 purchase.




omg.... I wanna see the MV (TT____________TT)!!!!
|| Helena mindlessly rambled @ 8:26 PM || 1 comments ||

Been so busy for the past few weeks just shopping, gift wrapping, baking, visiting families and friends, watching movies, and snowboarding^^!! Granted, I totally suck at it and must have fell like a zillion times in a span of four hours, but I'm was definately starting to get the hang of it by the time we left. Still don't know how to stop or slow down though, and I think Lisa will agree with me that we have nothing to blame but our stubborn pride for not asking some of the other boarders for tips. I mean come on, there were kids who were half our height who can snowboard with their arms behind their backs @______@. Like Hanh said, it's not very encouraging. That was two days ago, and my legs, neck and back are still hurting >_______<.

Heehee, can't to do it all over again ;). I vote we make this into a yearly winter tradition ^^!! Just hope that more ppl will be able to come next time around. Heehee, ofcourse, that'll mean smuggling even more "illegal immigrants" in the trunk xD.
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