I’ve just finished my last exam – statistics – for this school year. Finally my third year of university is OVER!
This year was truly a breeze compared to previous years though. I
only took a total of 6 courses for the entire school year (from
September to April), which is less than half of the number of courses I
took in my first and third year. The main reason for this was because I
transferred faculties and therefore, was unfortunately unable to register
in any of the courses I had previously planned to take this year… which
resulted in my sad empty class schedule. Before school started, I
already knew this year was going to be a lot more chill than my previous
years where I was breaking arms/legs trying to stay not too far behind
with the coursework for 6-7 classes a semester.Anyway, I had planned for
this year to be productive! I was hoping that although I didn’t have as
many classes as I did before, I’d use all that spare time to be as
productive as possible, and by being productive I mean WORKKKK!
Unfortunately, I should have known myself a little better. I tend to
be the kind of person to be all fired up to do something, only to lose
all the passion when it comes to actually doing it. So, like
you may have guessed, I ended up not doing any work, not doing anything
productive, and not taking many classes. Hmmmm.
So what exactly have I been doing these past – urmmm – say 8 months?! Aside from the necessities of eating, sleeping, toileting, I’ve spent a great, great deal
of time watching korean and chinese dramas. Do I only watch these? Well
no, I also watch some american tv shows and japanese dramas. To be
honest, I’ve never really understood the difference between a drama and a
soap-opera and a tv show. And my conclusion from googling … is that
dramas are short and soap-operas are long? And I don’t think I’ve ever
referred to the shows I’ve been watching as soap-operas… it’s a really
foreign word/phrase that just doesn’t roll well on my tongue. I would
NEVER say “Do you watch any soap-operas, oh kind sir?” I’d probably ask
you “Oh do you watch any tv shows/dramas?” Whenever I say dramas, I
really mean korean and chinese dramas like ‘In Time With You’ (taiwanese
drama) and Reply 1997 (korean drama). Oh wait and there’s the term
sitcom! Oh sheesh! I will refer to them all as TV SHOWS! But then when I
say tv show I really mean shows like ‘Desperate Housewives’ …
Getting back on topic - I want to make a change in my life! I’m
twenty, but I’m still relying on my parents to pay for my tuition, to
pay for my food, to buy my plane tickets – golly, I haven’t really made a
cent in my life and I’ve never “worked” before. Yep, my resume is as
clean and shiny as a resume can get. Besides my telephone number, my
name, my email, there really isn’t much about me that I can put on my
resume.
I always think about getting a job, but when I look at my
resume, I get discouraged. Why? Because it’s empty and I don’t think
many employers would even give my resume a second look. But EVERYONE has
to start with an empty slate right? So why not start now? Why don’t I
put myself together and start to build up this resume of mine? It’s
better late than never!
And yep, that’s how I ended up here, making a blog, typing away my thoughts, my goals, bits and pieces of this and that.
I recon that if I publicly write about my goals, there will be a
greater chance that I’ll follow through with them. Enough with the
chit-chat and on with the important stuff!
So here’s my Official 2013′ Resolution:
1. Learn to cook – It’s not that I don’t know how to cool at all. I can cook spaghetti, rice, noodles, egg, mashed potatoes… but I’m not good
at cooking. I want to be able to get my hands on some random chicken
wings or pho noodles and be able to cook something decent tasting. I
don’t want to always experiment and end up failing like I usually do and
lose confidence in cooking. This summer when I head back to Taiwan I
shall learn from my amazing mom! Being able to cook nice dishes is quite
important to me because cooking = saving money. The prices for
dinner/lunch are so priceyyy and it’s SO much cheaper to cook. And
because I’m a super picky eater… if I get bored of some food, I can
never stop myself from the temptation to buy some other yummy food to
make myself feel satisfied, which results in me wasting a lot of money
on junk food and expensive dinners/lunches. So I guess this goal is also
my goal to cut back on bad spending? (win x2, yay me!)
2. Work – Yes, I REALLY NEED TO START ON THIS. I
don’t want to spend my parents’ money forever. Sometimes I regret coming
to Canada for university because it’s so much more pricier than if I
were to study in Taiwan. Heck, the money it takes to study here for a
school year can cover all four years in Taiwan… I want to become more
independent and be able to pay at least some part of my living
fees/tuition. And I don’t want my parents always worrying about when I’m
going to get a job, when I’m going to do this, do that… so yes, I
should start building my resume!!! So my real goal here is to one day,
be able to not let my parents pay for things for me, and instead, pay
things for them. They’ve been such amazing and supportive parents these
past twenty years and I really need to get a grip and make them proud!
3. Learn Korean – I love korean dramas, and one of
the biggest woes of being an avid korean drama watcher is NOT BEING ABLE
TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON WITHOUT SUBTITLES!!! Sometimes I have to
wait days just for subtitles to come out and it’s really a PAIN. And
no, I’m not just trying to learn the language in order to watch dramas –
ha! (although that would be an amazing plus if I could understand
without subtitles, hehehe). I think the korean language will become
really useful in the future. Especially with Samsung becoming a rising
international brand and Korea becoming a leading technologically
advanced country. I think it would be really useful for me if I learned
Korean so that I will be trilingual (Chinese, English, and Korean aha!).
It would also come in handy in Vancouver, with the booming Korean
population here. I don’t believe there’s a single class I’ve been to
that does not have a single Korean in. You pretty much hear Korean
EVERYWHERE on campus here, not even kidding. Oh, and this will
definitely be a plus to my resume too! I’m actually quite serious about
this goal as I am most likely going to be going to Seoul National
University Language Education Institute (SNU LEI) this summer for their
Korean regular program. I’ve been accepted to the program and I’ve also
paid the tuition. The only problem right now is the impending
possibility of a war… oh please north korea will you PLEASE get a grip,
it’s the freaking 21st century, grow up already? *_* If war really does
break out, well obviously my plans will go to waste and I’ll probably
stay in Taiwan and work this summer. But if it doesn’t, then I’ll
definitely be heading over to Seoul to study Korean ^_^ One of my
sub-goals to this goal is to pass the TOPIK examinations, which I plan
to take in Vancouver when I come back here for next school year.
I guess those are my 3 big goals for next months/years of my life!
Future self, be prepared! Work hard, do your dishes, stop being lazy, oh
and another mini-goal : sleep normally (which means NOT sleeping at 3am
OR 3pm!). I’ll be heading back home to Taiwan soon (next week actually)
so 加油 (jia-yo) me!!! I may update sometime soon again, hopefully if I’m
not too lazy. I hope this blog becomes a regular thing for me so I can
look back at my own progress with these 3 goals (not even that many!)
and -hopefully- relish in my amazing achievements ^_^
And with these goals, I begin a whole new epic journey in life! YIPEEEE!
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