Thursday, July 21, 2011
Infinite - Be Mine
Be Mine MV
I've been in love with this band since their debut days. With their first full album release, we fans are presented with the title track "BE MINE".
The song describes a man who aches in pain as he watches the love of his life suffer in the hands of another. He, who is not notice by her, wish to take away those pain and promise to only put a smile on her lips.
The MV is made in black and white with a touch of blue/pink from Sunjong's clothing.
The storyline of the MV coordinates with the song in that the members are watching the girl suffer in pain while she does not notices them.
I like the beat of the song and it's very catchy to my ears. It doesn't have an annoying tune that clings to your brain for hours, but it's very addictive. My only complaint is that the maknae, Sungyeol would have more lines. Yes, he got his lines for himself, but...."Do you hear me" x2 is barely even a line for me. Maybe next time? He's definitely moving up the ladder though!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Final Week
For most high school students, college is not something they would worry about till their senior year. I am the same way. Only now, during the summer of my senior year, have I started to plan for my college life. I do regret a little bit that I haven’t done this earlier for right now, it’s a bit stressful. It feels like the due date for all my scholarships and paperwork is just right around the corner. This feeling is not something I want to deal with. However, it is too late in regretting my tardiness on preparation. All I can do is get everything done as soon as I possibly can.
For Summer Scholars, one of the projects we have to do is to help a child to plan for their future career: Service Learning. The purpose of this is to let them get a head start on things and not wait till the last minute like me and many other soon to be seniors. They will be one of the few fortunate who won’t be as stress out when it’s their time to start their college preparation.
For this Service Learning, we work with one other Scholars member in completing four tasks with a child of our choice. The one rule is that the child is from a program (Scouts, Boys Town, etc) and is between the fifth and eighth grade. The kid my partner and I had was from Girls Scout, Huyen-yen, a fifth grader.
Our first task was to make a collage. We asked Huyen-yen to pick out the top three careers that she would like to be. Her choices were pediatrician, a chef, and a bakery owner only she didn’t really knew the specific names of these careers. This was when I realized that I too, didn’t knew what I specifically wanted to be till eighth grade. From there, we helped her to select pictures from magazines and the internet. We then put these pictures on a poster board and decorated it. The final product was a collage of the three career choices Huyen-yen wanted to be.
The second task involved my partner and I to make a power-point of Huyen-yen’s three career choices. In these power-points, we had information of what these careers were and the educations Huyen-yen needed to become them. The hardest part here was the researching. When I was in fifth grade, I didn’t even thought of what I wanted to be. Huyen-yen, on the other hand, is now well informed out her career choices after we presented the power point to her.
After having a better understanding of her careers, we asked her to pick out her favorite one. She chose pediatrician. We made a skeletal outline beforehand and gave it to her after she chose her number one career. With our help and following the outline, Huyen-yen wrote an essay for her pediatrician career. I think this has to be the most thoughtful paper a fifth grader would ever have to write. I was a bit surprise how much thought she even put into writing it. If it was me, the paper would just be words and would not have much meaning to me.
The final task was to make a S.M.A.R.T. plan. We had to help Huyen-yen to make schedule for her junior and high school life. It had specific events that she would try to accomplish by a certain time. The first plan was to achieve at least a B average. This would be an easy task for she is already a B/A average student. The second plan was for her to join college bound and at least three other extracurricular activities. I am sure that this can also be done with ease for she is an outgoing girl. This plan may not mean much to her right now, but I am sure it at least gave her ideas on joining clubs in school. I didn’t really joined anything during my high school year and I regret that for my transcript is pretty much blank. Hopefully, she won’t have to deal with that when she is my age.
And that concludes the Service Learning. When I first started, I wondered why we picked such a young age to work with. While working with the child, I reflected on the past and realized that there were so many things I could have done but didn’t cause I had no one to help. It’s too late for me to relive those days so I hope that Huyen-yen has learned from these experiences with us and would not have to regret anything.
For Summer Scholars, one of the projects we have to do is to help a child to plan for their future career: Service Learning. The purpose of this is to let them get a head start on things and not wait till the last minute like me and many other soon to be seniors. They will be one of the few fortunate who won’t be as stress out when it’s their time to start their college preparation.
For this Service Learning, we work with one other Scholars member in completing four tasks with a child of our choice. The one rule is that the child is from a program (Scouts, Boys Town, etc) and is between the fifth and eighth grade. The kid my partner and I had was from Girls Scout, Huyen-yen, a fifth grader.
Our first task was to make a collage. We asked Huyen-yen to pick out the top three careers that she would like to be. Her choices were pediatrician, a chef, and a bakery owner only she didn’t really knew the specific names of these careers. This was when I realized that I too, didn’t knew what I specifically wanted to be till eighth grade. From there, we helped her to select pictures from magazines and the internet. We then put these pictures on a poster board and decorated it. The final product was a collage of the three career choices Huyen-yen wanted to be.
The second task involved my partner and I to make a power-point of Huyen-yen’s three career choices. In these power-points, we had information of what these careers were and the educations Huyen-yen needed to become them. The hardest part here was the researching. When I was in fifth grade, I didn’t even thought of what I wanted to be. Huyen-yen, on the other hand, is now well informed out her career choices after we presented the power point to her.
After having a better understanding of her careers, we asked her to pick out her favorite one. She chose pediatrician. We made a skeletal outline beforehand and gave it to her after she chose her number one career. With our help and following the outline, Huyen-yen wrote an essay for her pediatrician career. I think this has to be the most thoughtful paper a fifth grader would ever have to write. I was a bit surprise how much thought she even put into writing it. If it was me, the paper would just be words and would not have much meaning to me.
The final task was to make a S.M.A.R.T. plan. We had to help Huyen-yen to make schedule for her junior and high school life. It had specific events that she would try to accomplish by a certain time. The first plan was to achieve at least a B average. This would be an easy task for she is already a B/A average student. The second plan was for her to join college bound and at least three other extracurricular activities. I am sure that this can also be done with ease for she is an outgoing girl. This plan may not mean much to her right now, but I am sure it at least gave her ideas on joining clubs in school. I didn’t really joined anything during my high school year and I regret that for my transcript is pretty much blank. Hopefully, she won’t have to deal with that when she is my age.
And that concludes the Service Learning. When I first started, I wondered why we picked such a young age to work with. While working with the child, I reflected on the past and realized that there were so many things I could have done but didn’t cause I had no one to help. It’s too late for me to relive those days so I hope that Huyen-yen has learned from these experiences with us and would not have to regret anything.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Third Week
I have never met them, shook their hands, or even said hello face to face. But, they are the only people who had ever made an impact on my life: ever.
These people are members of a Korean boy-band called DBSK (Gods Rising from the East). They debuted in Korea, but are currently working in Japan as well. I can confidently say that say that I am a devoted fan and has been watching their transition from one country to another. It is from these movements that I am able to learn about their hard work and devotions for their dreams. It is these men that influences me into finalizing what my future life will be like. Thanks to them, I am no longer the old indecisive girl I used to be.
About a year after they debuted in Korea, they rose to the top of the chart. However, they wished to be a part of the Japanese music industry as well. So, they dropped all their fame in Korea and moved to Japan as complete beginners. They did not knew the language and were treated as foreigner, invisible to the audiences. For three years, tears were shed and pain were endured as they climbed emotional ladder of entertainers. There were times when they wanted to give up and go back to the place where they were appreciated and praised, but no, they were no cowards. They continued on this painful road and soon enough, they started to be recognized by the people. The award was their song being ranked as number one on the Oricon Daily Chart (the most famous and important music ranking in Japan).
Three years, it is a long period. To watch these boys trying so hard makes me want to work harder as well. I am planning to go out of state and even study abroad. These coming time, I will not have my family for me to run to when things get too hard. Remember these boys and how they had survived that three years will be the encouragement that will push me through the years to come. I too will shed tears and endured the pain that will be unbearable, but somehow, I will survive through it and succeed…just like DBSK.
Since I will be living somewhere far away, traveling will be another factor that will cause me problems in college. DBSK is an international name throughout Asia. These men often travel from country to country to interact with their fans. Since they are both artists of Korea and Japan, they would go back and forth between the two as if the distance is only a few blocks. It is no longer a surprise to see them alternate between the two countries four or five times a week. Airplanes are practically their third home. Sometimes, all these traveling even leads to their sickness, which, they would ignores for they have a performance to go to.
I do not something that important to do in the places that I will be in, but the traveling is still something I have to deal with. I will need to learn to adapt to the new environment and interact with new people. While DBSK does not have to worry about flying expenses, I will need to learn how to put aside a saving for that purpose. I need to learn to take care of myself between travels and adaptation and not let others worry about me like DBSK fans does. It is a small impact right now, this traveling deal, but I know it will be more important when my college life begins.
DBSK, I have never interacted or has any relation with them. Yet, they impacted my life more than the people who are dearest to me. When my family and friends are not by my side at college, I will at least have these boys as my guiding lights.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Second Week
When I heard that I had to stay on campus for a whole week I was so mad. I've never left home before and the fact that I needed permission to leave got to me a lot.
However, the week stay in was much more fun than I thought.
On the first day of the stay in, we went out to Ashland where there was this crazy obstacle course. I'm not an athletic girl: you'll most likely see me wear heels and skirt to a soccer game. But, I sometime participated in all the obstacles.
What it was was these mini activities that involves you to climb about 50 feet in the air: rock climbing, robe ladder, and an in the air obstacle. When I first looked at them, I was freaking out the most. However, when we started, I volunteered to go first just to get it over with. My motto at the moment was, " I'm gonna see God today." After I tried the activities out, it was not as bad as I thought it would be. It was a nerve wrecking to be so high up the the feeling of accomplishment overpowered the nervousness. The worse thing that came out of these obstacles was that I had to use a lot of arm strength so my arms were sore for days.
As for the stay in at the dorm, I started to not really mind not leaving campus. There were tons of activities prepared for us and it kept me busy. I started to got closer to the other students and finally remembering people's names. The feeling of "I probably won't really contact you after this" flew away and I just know for sure that we all will keep in contact. Actually, we are all friending eachother on facebook and those who doesn't have one even went through the trouble of making one!
The rule of needing parents' permission to leave campus was pretty much overlooked. It was still in affect, but at the same time, it was also easy to leave without it. As long as we asked one of the assistant who were in charge of watching us, the pretty much let us go. Since Wal-mart was down the street, some of us pretty much go there everyday.
The other activities we did were pretty fun as well. We got to play sand volleyball, basketball, had a movie night (we get to vote for the movie), icescream party (my friend and I bought cookies and baked them as an addition), went to the UNO's gym, etc. We had a choice to participate or not since some of us had to study for a test for had to leave for a good reason.
The only down part was that we stayed up late in the night to try to finish homeworks that we couldn't finished earlier in the day. This cause us all to be super tire the next day. Even though we tried not to stayed up late again, the cylcle just repeated itself.
Though the week stay in is not over yet, we only have two more days left. Wierd to imagine that I only two more days to spend with this people the whole entire day. We're not parting ways after this, but we wont be able to hangout as much as we do now. That makes me kind of sad and wish that this can be a bit longer or that we can do this for the last week as well.
However, the week stay in was much more fun than I thought.
On the first day of the stay in, we went out to Ashland where there was this crazy obstacle course. I'm not an athletic girl: you'll most likely see me wear heels and skirt to a soccer game. But, I sometime participated in all the obstacles.
What it was was these mini activities that involves you to climb about 50 feet in the air: rock climbing, robe ladder, and an in the air obstacle. When I first looked at them, I was freaking out the most. However, when we started, I volunteered to go first just to get it over with. My motto at the moment was, " I'm gonna see God today." After I tried the activities out, it was not as bad as I thought it would be. It was a nerve wrecking to be so high up the the feeling of accomplishment overpowered the nervousness. The worse thing that came out of these obstacles was that I had to use a lot of arm strength so my arms were sore for days.
As for the stay in at the dorm, I started to not really mind not leaving campus. There were tons of activities prepared for us and it kept me busy. I started to got closer to the other students and finally remembering people's names. The feeling of "I probably won't really contact you after this" flew away and I just know for sure that we all will keep in contact. Actually, we are all friending eachother on facebook and those who doesn't have one even went through the trouble of making one!
The rule of needing parents' permission to leave campus was pretty much overlooked. It was still in affect, but at the same time, it was also easy to leave without it. As long as we asked one of the assistant who were in charge of watching us, the pretty much let us go. Since Wal-mart was down the street, some of us pretty much go there everyday.
The other activities we did were pretty fun as well. We got to play sand volleyball, basketball, had a movie night (we get to vote for the movie), icescream party (my friend and I bought cookies and baked them as an addition), went to the UNO's gym, etc. We had a choice to participate or not since some of us had to study for a test for had to leave for a good reason.
The only down part was that we stayed up late in the night to try to finish homeworks that we couldn't finished earlier in the day. This cause us all to be super tire the next day. Even though we tried not to stayed up late again, the cylcle just repeated itself.
Though the week stay in is not over yet, we only have two more days left. Wierd to imagine that I only two more days to spend with this people the whole entire day. We're not parting ways after this, but we wont be able to hangout as much as we do now. That makes me kind of sad and wish that this can be a bit longer or that we can do this for the last week as well.
Friday, June 12, 2009
First Week
Summer Scholar, a college program that allows you to earn free credits when you take the summer classes. I signed up for English as the subject of my interest and I ended up with an Autobiography class. I was a bit skeptical about this since autobiography wasn't really something that I would prefer. It was even worse when the book I was assigned to was a political book, another genre that I completely hate! However, I started to change my view on this when my professor entered the class.
I knew that college classes were different from high school, but my professor didn't make me felt that way. For example, she told us that we had quizzes for our readings, but those quizzes were multiple choice. Since this is a summer class, we had to really cram our reading of a few months to five weeks. However, it wasn't as bad as I thought since we only had to read about 20 pages a night, which only took me about 45 minutes a night.
The main assignment we had to do was to write an autobiography. There is a 4-5 page paper due every Monday, but considering that we didn't have to do any research, I think it would be an ease. The hardest part would probably be revising and editing. It also helps is that each day, our topic of discussion help us think of new ideas that we can use in our paper. I started out with worrying about what I should write to having way too many ideas after just a few days of these discussions.
The discussions were also one of the most interesting part of the day for me. It wasn't just answering the questions from our worksheets, but we went beyond that. At times, I felt like I was in a Philosophy class because she made us ponder about the topic so much: what is a race and how do you know if you are that race? It was a bit frustrating because when I thought I had the right answer, and goes and say something that destroys it. It's not a bad thing, but now I really wonder if what I knew was right or not...
Aside from classes, I also did some exploring of the campus. First, I would like to admit that I am a coffee addict, and thankfully, UNO did not disappoint me. There are two coffee stations (one is located within the library and the other in the cafeteria). During my break time, I didn't have to worry about where I should go to get some food since there is a wide selection of restaurants available. I also explored the athletic department. The building is currently in remodeling, but I still think it was pretty sweet. The place was so big! You can rock climb, swim, play racquet ball, and there was even a weight room! I'm hoping that I can work out there during my week stay in.
I knew that college classes were different from high school, but my professor didn't make me felt that way. For example, she told us that we had quizzes for our readings, but those quizzes were multiple choice. Since this is a summer class, we had to really cram our reading of a few months to five weeks. However, it wasn't as bad as I thought since we only had to read about 20 pages a night, which only took me about 45 minutes a night.
The main assignment we had to do was to write an autobiography. There is a 4-5 page paper due every Monday, but considering that we didn't have to do any research, I think it would be an ease. The hardest part would probably be revising and editing. It also helps is that each day, our topic of discussion help us think of new ideas that we can use in our paper. I started out with worrying about what I should write to having way too many ideas after just a few days of these discussions.
The discussions were also one of the most interesting part of the day for me. It wasn't just answering the questions from our worksheets, but we went beyond that. At times, I felt like I was in a Philosophy class because she made us ponder about the topic so much: what is a race and how do you know if you are that race? It was a bit frustrating because when I thought I had the right answer, and goes and say something that destroys it. It's not a bad thing, but now I really wonder if what I knew was right or not...
Aside from classes, I also did some exploring of the campus. First, I would like to admit that I am a coffee addict, and thankfully, UNO did not disappoint me. There are two coffee stations (one is located within the library and the other in the cafeteria). During my break time, I didn't have to worry about where I should go to get some food since there is a wide selection of restaurants available. I also explored the athletic department. The building is currently in remodeling, but I still think it was pretty sweet. The place was so big! You can rock climb, swim, play racquet ball, and there was even a weight room! I'm hoping that I can work out there during my week stay in.
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