LYL’S WORLD REVIEWS

During my two-week holiday, I watched this police-criminal drama and discovered that Taiwanese dramas have plenty more to show after they had made another breakthrough.

This drama required plenty of shoot-out techniques which the director, 蔡岳勳 himself found impossible around five years ago. It was true that he had this in mind at that time, but only to give up after knowing that it could not be done with the budget and technologies available at that time. However, his determination and will helped him to make such exciting drama.

Initially, it was a drama designed for F4 after their dramatic start in 流星花園. The director wished to show different aspects of F4 to their fans other than the cool look they presented. Five years later, only 周渝民 (Vic) held his character, 陳在天 as planned and another handsome guy, 趙又廷 (Mark) got his first drama chance to be 吳英雄 after defeating other short-listed potentials chosen from the public.

Vic no longer showed his cool and blue look in the screen; he turned into a play boy in this drama which might be something fresh to his fans. In the drama, he would chase after every single pretty lady with his flowery words. I guess he enjoyed this very much. XD Below is a scene which happened in a pub which involved 陳在天 and 陳琳 which I found it funny.

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陳琳: 你这个人是不是有毛病啊? 人家随便跟你讲两句. 你就买了五箱(酒)耶! 我们只有三个人好吗?

陳在天: 小姐啊, 你又不是不知道我这个人什么都硬, 就是心肠太柔.

陳琳 (showing her middle): 见鬼啦! 我看你根本就受不了人家身材好, 随便讲你两句就买一堆. 神经病!

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On the other hand, 吳英雄 was a responsible police in the drama who was ready to sacrifice his life to get his job done. He held on to his principles closely until 陳在天 changed his thinking.

Both performed well in the drama although I still thought that Vic’s facial expression was weird when crying. He also had a habit of showing ‘The Rock’ eyes when peering at others. I am okay with it but it might not be necessary in some circumstances. Vic made good use of his experience to lead his partner, Mark and it was praiseworthy. Meanwhile, the newbie, Mark played into his role maturely.

I wish that either they both or Show Luo wins best actor award in 金鐘獎 on 16th October as they have really won my heart with their performance. =)

Other characters in the drama performed well in their respective roles, notably 藍西英 by 张钧甯 (Ning) and 陳琳 by 陳意涵 (Ivy).

Ning is one of the Taiwanese actresses I love after watching her acting in 白色巨塔. Her eye contact has been impressive and has always looked mature and confident. Looking at her acting, I never doubt about her ability to put in extra dimension to the drama she ever takes part. However, what I do not understand about her is that she is a Law Master holder and she takes a big U-turn to become an actress. Bernard also has such talent in acting. Can he be the second Ning? Haha… Maybe he is not young anymore to take such risky U-turn in his life. =]

To me, Ivy is new. This is the first time I saw her in the screen. 陳琳 was damn rude but lovely sometimes. She played the character very well. Perhaps, 陳琳 was indeed like the girl next door whom we can easily find one. Direct, lovely, helpful, friendly…

It was sad that both of the actresses were not in the nomination list for best actresses in 金鐘獎. However, their performances were convincing enough to be nominated at least, in my opinion.

Overall, the story is exciting and simply unpredictable. Well, the director does not wish to put a stop to it. So do I. Therefore, he will continue this story in movie version in order to fulfill fans’ desire as well as his own dream.

It is a drama worthwhile to watch as it is rather very different from typical idolatry drama.

So, what are you waiting for? Watch it!

Yesterday, LJ, C, HY, KX, J, AL, EC and I stayed back after MIS tutorial class.

Well, we had all the gossips in our talk including the love rumours that were happening around us recently.

Many would expect each class to produce at least one couple at this tertiary education level.

From the very beginning AL&G to SC&LJ lately, none of these rumours had turned into a real one.

I was actually surprised that there was yet a couple in our class.

HY and C talked about the most essential element in LoVe, FeeLinG.

I had been emphasizing this with my friends since F4 as ‘FeeLinG’ was my popular wording with extraordinary tone.

I agreed with them on that but undoubtedly I was not looking forward to it right now as I felt that there was still much uncertainty ahead of my future.

Well, even if I had this feeling right now, I would keep it deeply in the heart without expressing it.

The reason was very simple.

Expressing it might not solve anything but would cause problems to another party instead.

Being on the route towards success, I was shocked with the change in my own mentality that decided to put ‘FeeLinG’ aside.

Hopefully the day when I have cleared the mist of my life, she will be there waiting for me behind the mist…

While trying to show my concern on other group’s problem, turmoil finally broke out in my group. It had some signs of happening when we did our business law assignment and only to burst up yesterday.

During FA lecture, our lecturer distributed the assignment which she promised last week. What was so frustrating about her instruction was that she insisted us to form a group of 4 persons.

“If your class has 25 people, then you will have one group with 5 persons.”

The very first question came to my mind after she said so.

“What will happen to the groups if we have 27 people?”

We had 35 people. Therefore, the situation I mentioned would be the same as the one which our class experienced. I immediately told AL to ask about that.

However, before he managed to raise up his hand and ask, the lecturer told us the answer which would cause problems to all the seven existing groups in our class.

“Then, 3 groups will have 5 persons each.”

The turmoil started here.

When I was thinking which group would be willing to give up their men to form a four-person group, I accidentally saw SC showing KS that he wished to form a group with LJ, LY as well as KS himself. His act did stun me at first but very soon I calmed down.

One year ago, we had an verbal agreement among us: SC, EC and me. We promised to stick to one another for the assignment group. Due to this, EC and I had given up quite a number of chances to work with others. He was the loudest when declaring the agreement but he was also the first to make fault to the agreement. He should have discussed with us at first instead of making his own decision. Moreover, KS should not try to mess up the situation while I was trying to settle it with tutor this morning. Well, I shouted at him in the class, of course. No one could stand this if this were to happen to anyone. The situation deteriorated when he took J from G’s group without her permission. He took others’ group member without asking permission from the leader. It was disappointing but I always learned to take up challenges from time to time and did hope that G was okay with that.

You might be wondering why I could calm up so quickly. Well, after deciding to join TARC for my place fore tertiary education, I would know that this would happen sooner or later. Should I be glad for it to happen so much later than what I expected? I would not want to say much about his personalities but they might be disturbing sometimes.

The most important thing was that I was more than prepared to solve this turmoil with EC. We believed that we could go through this with ease.

Now, we have another problem:

Who is still available to join EC, KL and me?

To whom it may concern,

Tolerance is a very essential element in our life in order for us to adapt to different environments as well as people.

Our characteristics may not suit the environments well; others’ way of doing things may not fit into what we wish exactly. However, we do have tolerance which will help us to adjust these inequalities.

Sometimes, in our life, environments will force us to do something that we dislike. For example, we have tests or exams which require us to swallow in whatever we have studied. It is tough for sure as none of us likes it. The same happened to everyone of us, i guess, when we were small. We were restricted to do this and that by our parents and were asked to follow their advices at the same time. We may still be reluctant to follow their words sometimes but we will find the usefulness of their words sooner or later. I did desire for freedom in the past, as you did, but only to find out that with the freedom, I could not do much beneficial things. Complying does not sound bad in reality. It is just that we have the wrong mentality such that complying is equivalent to surrendering. As a result, most of the time, we choose to resist against changes. Report said that whenever we choose to dislike something at our very first sight, we are actually repelling it without giving it a try.

Unfortunately, environments can barely change. We must change in order for the environment to change. Why do we say so? When you are more than willing to accept those against our will with open heart, you do feel that you are happy to change yourself to cope with them. In the case of tests and exams, those who fail to do well in History subject shall understand me. Well, I used to fail in History subject during my secondary years as well as KH and GEO in my first three years. I admitted that I did have the same mentality which I mentioned just now. I did not even care about those subjects while continuing to depend on Maths to survive in CLHS. My mom did say to me that if I ever tried my best, I could have done even better. It is true, in fact. I have problems in memorizing, of course, but perseverance gets me through every time. Whereas, in the aspect of family advices, following their advices is of no ease as we will be easily prompted to follow friends’ steps instead of parents’ at our age. We must learn to listen to them. Tolerance can fit in here as well. We make ourselves to believe and accept parents’ thinking willingly. I would stress the phrase ‘accept willingly’ as it is the major element in tolerance. We must understand the concepts and benefits behind their views in order to accept them willingly. “Sleep early”, “Don’t have cold drinks so often” and so on are those which we may resist at some time of our age but to realize them later on.

Next, we have people who appear in our life and do not seem to do things in our way. This would be another interesting part as the situation here is rather much more flexible. The flexibility of the problem can be an aid as well as an obstacle to the problem itself. Obsolete Chinese thinking teaches us to apologize when we have done any mistakes but it does not emphasize that the innocent can also initiate discussion with the guilty to remedy the matter. In my opinion, both parties must intend to amend the mistakes and one of them has to step up to initiate discussion with another party. Even if we are not at fault, it does not mean that we cannot sit down and discuss the problem peacefully with those who are wrong in that situation. We should not be stubborn with the old Chinese thinking which always expects the wrong people to come out and ask for forgiveness. Due to that kind of thinking, many conflicts turn out to be big issues.

In the case of friendship, if we do not solve these conflicts, then we will probably miss a friend. You may argue that even without he or she, your life may still be as lively as before. However, the moment when you decide in such a way, you are not solving the problem but trying to escaping from it. Finding an exit is easy but we should take up the challenge to correct the situation. I do not want to use ‘the innocent’ or ‘the guilty’ as used in court because I think that it is not fair to say who is right or wrong. Everyone has his or her own view. This will lead to different styles of doing things. Being frank to one another will eventually help to improve relationship. Let him or her know what you expect from him or her. Then, perhaps you can provide him or her some advices on his or her attitude which you feel discontented or uncomfortable with. Well, be careful with your tone even if you are right. High tone will just smash the chance of solving the conflicts. However, the most ideal solution is that the guilty asks forgiveness from the innocent. ‘Sorry’ is a powerful word. A sincere one will solve the conflicts within second.

Now and then, conflicts may arise again. So, compromising is indeed the most important of all. Try to think in others’ shoes and you will possibly know how they think. Sometimes, taking a few backward steps is good for the sake of future. We must not only know how to go forward to win what we want but we must also aware that by doing otherwise it may come good as well. Imagine that you are now playing Poker, your opponent is all-in for bet. You must then consider if following his all-in is a good move depending on your cards. Otherwise, you will lose whatever you have in your hand. The same goes for planting paddy. Farmers do not go forward to plant paddy. Instead, they move backward because they do not wish to step on the paddy.

To achieve goals by ignoring friendship is not a smart choice. Do not let the anger get over your head, and if disastrously you do, make sure you apologize even though it is would be embarrassing.

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*Say sorry, not easy;

If no sorry, more to worry;

Forgive me, I’m sorry;

Say it early, no much worry.*

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Below is my equation about tolerance:-

Learn to understand others’ feeling + Expect less from others but more from yourselves = TOLERANCE

Lately, I was bombarded with too much of rumours.

The first one came with an ‘accident’. Then, the story was brought by LLY after I told him what I had seen. He admitted that he saw that for quite a number of times and expressed his opinion as well as others’ towards that girl. Most of them agreed that the ‘accidents’ were made to happen purposely instead of accidentally. They also believed that she was so realistic that she would only be nice to those who were intelligent enough to help her. Well, I had seen the way she looked at those who are below her par. However, she was not the first one whom I knew would look down on others in such circumstance. I was used to that. XD

The second one was my love affair with C. I only found out this during the celebration with M last Friday when RP, G and M were asking me about C. They really thought that there might be something in between us. I just laughed off this rumour. Lolz… However, what I felt about her was nothing more than a friend. She was friendly but sometimes she had to be serious in what she might be saying or doing. This would perhaps further improve her personality.

Well, these two are more than enough to mess up my mind. However, I should not be concerned so much about them as they hardly relate to me especially the first one.

I do hope that the girl is not the one as they believed to be and I do not wish I have such a realistic friend. Btw, she is yet to become my friend. =)

If and only if she was my close friend and showed me her realistic side, then I would consider advising her.

On the other hand, my C’s love affair is far from being true and therefore, I should not be worried indeed.

If and only if C was my Mrs. Right and we both did successfully have the special relationship, I would announce it. Don’t worry. We will send you invitation card if our wedding dinner is held in the future. Lolz…

In short, two rumours above are yet to be proven their authenticity and reliability. Therefore, forget about them temporarily. ~SWT~

Previously in ‘Deal or No Deal’, I agreed to join the SWC but after meeting Ms. Ng this morning, I reviewed the decision I had made.

Eventually, I was told to compete in the SWC election. Winner of the election will be chosen as the new president and he has all the right to form his own committee. This really sounds interesting but there are perhaps cons more than pros in my opinion.

I had all the thoughts on pros and cons during the English tutorial class. After class, I discussed with my gang members in library. LLY and CKL positively encouraged me to take up the challenge while the rest expressed more negative thoughts than positive ones. I was delighted to talk to them in frank manner but what I felt disappointed was that some of them joked about it which might be an opportunity of a lifetime. Even though it may do more harms than goods, they should discuss it seriously as it is an honor given by Ms. Loh who believes that not I, but WE can do well together in this task. When KSC said that the person called him on this matter could have been scolded, I was stunned actually. Instead, we should be thankful. This was not something bad. It might be out of our ability to do well in both academic and co-curriculum and it might affect our studies as well. However, I do not think that her belief in us should be paid with his scolding.

I knew it was an opportunity that did not fall on anyone accidentally and it might just do not knock on my door again in my life. However, I was not used to those additional loads. Well, if I choose to compete in the election, there must be my own will to lead and succeed. Therefore, when I do not believe that I can readily arrange my time well, it mean that I can see myself fail to do well in either one or both pessimistically. Being a president is a no-easy job. You do not only have to give instruction and distribute the work, you have to make sure that all the committee members complete their work accordingly. This was part of the seasons why I retreated myself from AWS’s major committee  two years ago even though I was the treasurer at that time. I withdrew myself from hectic activities in that society as I knew that academic always had to top my dos list.

Leading the committee requires plenty of sacrifices in terms of time and work. They are very likely to become burden to me as I simply do not have extra time for that. I would consider to help out but certainly not to lead.

If I were to lead well but to fail academically, it was still a failure to me. Things might even become worse when I failed in both areas.

At this moment, Benny’s words came across my mind again.

“To excel in your career and be filial to your parents should always be the major concerns.”

If a chance or an activity turns up to harm my studies, then it should be forgone…

I did a major mistake each in OHR and POF paper which might cost me around 10 marks. Due to that reason, I was particularly worried but nothing went wrong when I checked my result this morning.

It was AA feedback and I was certainly glad about it.

The only flaw in my first year was my failure to retain 4 in my second semester. Otherwise, it would have been my third consecutive 4-strike. Haiz…

Anyway, another challenging year is approaching.

Let’s hope that my mates and I would be able to strive towards another successful year. =) cheers!!

Chelsea had been progressing well in CL this season by defeating Juventus and Liverpool but only to surrender to pep’s men. Their hero, Michael Essien brought them the lead on the 9th minute and when every Chelsea fan thought that they would have another chance to revenge against Red Devils in Rome, Essien’s failure to make clearance neatly was proven crucial as it turned up as an opportunity for Barca to convert it into a goal. Messi’s control over the ball certainly attracted defenders to have an eye on him and his passing to Iniesta, at the same time, had set Iniesta free who put their only on-target past Cech. The strike was purely classic. Barca’s fans could definitely understand the feeling of Reds fans when Liverpool made a few remarkable comebacks. Blues’ players were left stunned on the pitch while Iniesta led the celebration with the fans. It was heartbreaking for the Blues’ side but they held part of responsibility for not finishing off Barca in the earlier minutes. Essien, on another hand, should have cleared that ball neatly. If they made either one happen, they would have made it to Rome. They claimed that they had a few penalty appeals rejected by the referee but the chances they had should be enough to kill off Barca. They could complain publicly like Drogba and privately but they should never forgot that they had decision made to their advantages as well. If they were to repeat their performance against Liverpool, it should be more than enough to play Man. Utd. in Rome. In the quarter final against Liverpool, I could see their efforts in overcoming their disappointment last season. They took advantages over the mistakes made by the Reds but failed to do so against Barca. This would be fatal when playing against attacking team like Barca. Last Saturday, Barca made their league goal tally this season to 100 with 4 games to go after demolishing Real Madrid 6-2. The attacking force was arguably very impressive. Every EPL fans watching that game would say that Real had given Barca a lot of spaces to set up this high-scoring performance. Many did not believe that the potential Spanish League winner could be able to overcome Guus’s men. I had the same thought as well because I believed that the standard of English football had increased so much in recent years. The second leg did prove this right but Hiddink’s pre-match concern became realistic. He knew pretty well that Barca would make them pay for the mistakes they would make in the game. Even team like Fulham had penalized on their mistake last Saturday, therefore Barca would be glad to receive such gift. And decision to sit back and defend was definitely not a wise one as barca’s high-scoring attacking line would punish them if time permitted. They had a string of good midfielders who could score with long shots as long as they were given enough space and time to fire brilliant long shots. It would be a big yes to Iniesta when he was given such condition. He welcomed the chance and paid back with an important away goal that broke the opponent’s heart.

M. Essien is unlikely to sleep well tonight after this game in which he turned from hero to zero together with all the players, fans and perhaps the coach. Hiddink must be wondering why he has always been the stranger to the finale of European stage as fate has repeatedly made Guus bow to it unwillingly.

Guardiola has brought a team which failed to achieve anything last season to current best European team. Well, I would say he do not have to instill much into the team. Perhaps a little bit of inspiration is what they missed last season. They are now one step nearer to their third with them facing Red Devils who will be hunting for their fourth in Rome. This is a dream showdown between two best teams in Europe.

And I’m looking forward to this classic European clash! =)

I was shocked when I heard about this news.

23 May? It could not be… I thought I had taken the exam?!!

Immediately worry and anxiety came straight to my heart as I am currently in holiday mood.

I could not turn away my holiday mood quickly and get myself to study instantly.

At that moment, I could feel that I could not take this news in such a way that my whole body was going to break down very soon. My heart had lost its relaxing function and it just kept on contracting. I tried very hard to grasp for air.

Then, I closed my eyes and tried to calm myself.

1… 2… 3…

The feeling was getting better and better.

And when I opened my eyes, I felt extremely relieved.

Guess what?

It was just a dream…

LoLz…

Maybe I was just worried too much that I got this nightmare.

In fact, this was not the first time.

I had dreamed about failure in completing the BML and QS final exam during semester two.

The feeling was surely not a good experience.

I bet nobody wishes to have that as part of your dream… Haha…

‘Relax o Relax’ This is what I can tell myself. Lolz…

16 April 2009, 11.38am - Someone gave me a call.

Guess who she is — Ms. Janice, SBS program supervisor.

I had expected this to happen sooner or later after being told by KSC a few months back that academically good students would be asked to join SWC.

Even though this was under my expectation, the call still surprised me heavily.

What I did not expect was that normally those students would be chosen under recommendation either from lecturer or tutor.

There was not only one but two who recommended me to join SWC.

Guess who they are.

–Ms. Loh and Ms. Cheng–

That was truly unbelievable.

Indeed, this was a tough decision to make. I was going to have my exam in one-week time and should be concentrating on my studies rather than considering about this offer. Due to the complexity of this offer, I asked for a day to think about it.

Initially I thought pessimistically about this offer. I did not hope that accepting this offer would burden me and affect my studies. If it were to happen, then it must be disastrous to my life.

But when second thought came across my mind, I changed my mind. God inspired me by telling me to appreciate this chance. Well, I wished to take it as an opportunity to improve my dull college life and gain new experience as well.

Thinking  positively will always make your life look greener and more meaningful. =)

With this, I ended my consideration and would go for my second thought tomorrow which Ms. Janice wished to hear from me.