^-^ Fan is Fun ^-^

b back soon

2008-07-18T00:23:00.000-07:00

suffered a terrible summer because of VISA stuff.
now just waiting for the response from the ambassy.whatever.just let me go back.

haven't been updating for a long time because the internet sucks~~~
how's everything goin guys.hope u all have a wonderful summer.

BTW.

I got a new camera. Panasonic DMC-LX2 . have nothing to say but OMG it's awsome.!
can't u wait to see my new products???

proud of you baby

2008-04-02T21:10:00.000-07:00

Chinese pop singer XiaoDong Chen's new EP has been on air . The one who made the remix is dsystem, a young talented Chinese producer.

And he is my boyfriend.

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I know you are busy these days baby. I can understand.
Two minutes ago, I called you. It was noon there, but you were sleeping after the whole night working on music. Your voice was so tired that I could hear. However you continued talking and talking, explaing to me that you were so busy these days . I know you mean you are sorry that you didn't have time to chat with me, you feel guilty.

It's okay, baby. Really, I'm fine.
I'm working on my projects, I begin to do them early instead of doing them the night before due date. I tried to use new vocabulary and make things academic rather than those casual things that I 've used to . I eat a lot these days and feel like having better apitide. I wanna be healthy, so you won't see an unhealthy girl when I go back home.

See, I can take good care of myself. So just focus on your work and take care.
Miss you.

Den's night

2008-03-16T21:43:00.000-07:00

Believe it or not, this is the first time that I have been to Den on campus. There are several reasons.1 When I was in ESL program, most of my classmates liked having fun in real pubs where the atmosphere is better. 2My passport has been missing for almost 2 months...

Anyway, not an exciting night but fine. Some of my classmates , Eric, Slava, and my fiends from lecture 2, Lisa and Sharen all came and had fun. Eric even invited three of his friends , Tommy Sam and Chen. Chen's English name sounds like "guaduate" which made all of us confused and laugh a lot.

I am just wondering that why do boys like PSP so much eh? Even before the order came, the four boys quickly took out thier PSP and had a game...What is so interesting man? Maybe that is the difference between boys and girls.

When it comes to the wings and drinks, I think they are pretty nice. Although not as good as those that I had at the Kilkenny, considering about the price, they were good.

We wre planning to have a party next week, maybe on Thursday, I do hope it could be successful and everybody have fun . haha Let us see what Scott and Murray will be like when they are drunk!!!!!!

Tequila's Night

2008-03-12T09:11:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Murray's advice, Lisa and I didn't go to the club early as what we usually do in China.You know that Chinese people are seriouse somehow, and do not like to be late even for the parties. However, Murray told us that nobody wants to be the first one to party here. Well, sounds kind of wierd because people may come later than later. which means, maybe the starting time should be at 10:00p.m. but most people will appear at around midnight...haha

The day before yesterday , I saw somebody selling tickets for a "graffiti party" at MAChall. I have a lot of friends who are designers, MC, producers, rappers and dancers. yepp.gansta style buddies. Some of them are really good at graffiti. Since I have never seen people working on that, I bought two tickets(one for Lisa) and decided to go and check it out.

When we arrived there, OMG, though we were half an hour late, there were still so few people...Those who are from international relations club were wearing the same white shirt and drawing on each other's shirt,just names or signatures...you call that graffiti???!!! damn....

Lisa and I had no choice but ignore them and have fun by ourselves. We drank a little, and get into the dancing pool. To be frank, I really really really hate the music there. Ain't my style at all. We danced until 1:30a.m. when I suddenly found somebody we both know, felicio in lecture2. haha I had no idea he 's a party boy before, because he is always smiling, and quiet. WOOO, you will never know a boy only at school eh? As it was quiet late, Lisa and I deceded to leave. Just as we pick up our clothes I saw a familar face. A boy from U of C who comes to the starbuck where I work quite often. We said hi and chat for a little while.hum..speaking journal :)

Anyway, it was a nice night though not perfect.
I feel like I'm addicted to dancing more~~~~~~yo

two worlds same happiness

2008-03-10T14:20:00.000-07:00

It was one of the traditional Chinese festival on Sunday. Most call Feb 2nd (Chinese calender) is the day when dragons lift up their heads. So on that day, the custom is that most people have their hair cut in order to have a productive new year. Usually the hair salons will be full of people who are waiting to cut their hair.

At home people eat home-made dumplings. Last year when I was still in my university in China,I gathered all of my classmates and organized that at residence. All of my classmates are from other cities while I was studying at the university in my hometown. Since I thought they might miss home a lot at that time of year, I didn't go home but stayed with them. Some of us went to go shopping in order to get the materials we need and others talked with a restaurant to ask whether we could cook the dumplings their. We had a good time making dumplings by ourselves.

This year I am far away from those guys. They still hold the dumpling party and sent their miss to me when I called.

No matter where I am you guys are always my family. Best luck for all of u this semester

dance workshop

2008-03-02T17:06:00.000-08:00

I went to the workshop this afternoon on campus.Juat around 30 people or so.The instructor is Kareline, a nice girl.In order to relax I talked to several girls and got to know them along with the courses.I've never studied dancing professionally before, nd evything seemed pretty new and interesting to me.After 2 hours , I was all wet and tired. It seems that I need more exercise.

2weeks ago I left a message on the forum of the hip-hop and funk style club. Those guys were very nice, they added me on facebook, encourage me to take part in activities.Especially Gabe, a very nice Bboy who's from HongKong, he sent me e-mails and let me make up my mind finally to make a move rather than just watching..to be frank I have been watching that forum for a long time.I went to meet those guys and learned breakin for the first time in my life.

When I woke up this morning I saw Gabe left me message on my wall and called him. And 1 hour later, I was there, meeting new friends and enjoy poppin.

My roommate said it is really a boring place. Actually, that was what I really thought for the first 2 or 3 months. Now I have made friends at work, during activities and even on facebook. I work 9hours a week just in order to have fun. I hold activities like skating and swimming to gather friends and drive them out of getting bored. Now I' can't wait to go to the next workshop.

It won't help if I just sit there missing my old dudes. Make new friends and have new fun. yoho. life is more than perfect! Isn't it?

nothing perfect

2008-02-29T16:17:00.000-08:00

I was not surprised to know that the students from Lecture 2 were going to complain about their teacher. In fact all of the students have heard too much bout that from them.

In my opinion. It is dangerous and risky. If they succeed, congratulations; if not, WOW... suicide guys...

And, it's childish.

I have to say I am lucky that I have always been in the best class since I was first to school. In China , I was in the best class in the whole school from elementary school to university. When I came to Canada, in ESL program, I had Murray as my grammar teacher, Dora as my reading and writing teacher, and Karen as my listening and speaking teacher. Now I have Scott and Murray. I am a lucky dog. HOWEVER, the fact is that I usually got better marks in the subject that was taught by unpopular teachers, especially in high school. I did not care too much about what others thought about the teacher, and the shortcomings of that teacher. So when they were complaining about that teacher I quickly adjust myself to his or her teaching style. Well, nobody is perfect, teachers are humans too. Being students even we, ourselves are not perfect why should we ask for a perfect teacher? Even you did not behave well in class, have your teachers asked to kick you out of the school? Never. It is their job to help us with our studies and in turn, it is our responsibility to be a good student.

There are always reasons that why the teacher is in school even though in sb's opinion he or she doesn't fit that job. But the truth is he or she loves teaching. Maybe he or she just hasn't found the most effective to teach, but everyone deserves time to improve themselves don't we?

I fell like I can feel the pain which will hurt her several days later. I do not think a teacher should be like that,racist, lack patience though.

Anyway,

Respect. Support. Advice.

Complain. Conflict.

What can make life easier?

morning

2008-02-18T12:05:00.000-08:00

PS by Fan

presentation and mid-term

2008-02-16T12:05:00.001-08:00

It was really a short week because of the tests and presentation.

I felt something changed during my test, for instance,the writngting test.I ususally did a draft before I wrote the final copy,well,at least a draft in mind.I knew how to do a brain storm but I just couldn't get used to it.But this time, I did a brainstorm and I didn't write a draft at all.What surprised me more was that I didn't feel hard to write 400words,in fact,I wrote much more than that.Maybe I'm making progress I guess.

When talking about the presentation, being part of the audience I felt very dissappointed.Compared to What my classmate did in the ESL programm last semester,this time was really boring.I can stil remember how fantastic my dear friends did in that programm.Yes, thier English was not as good as my classmates here.But they did it very attractive.I mean, they put effert in it.They showed their enthusiasm and passion. However, nobody seems to be interested in presentation here.I guess it is because of the pressure.Those guys in ESL learnt for fun at that time. ....miss them a lot.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, I also heard something very bad happened in my friends' class.Someone's cell phone rang during the listening test!what?!the third one...that could be regarded as crime!!!She didin't even turn it off immidiately ?Even didn't say sorry to the classmetes after the test?!!!

What the hell was that?BTW ,that test was really hard.Bad Murray ,he's going to kill us...

Anyway, the reading week is coming.

Have a good time everyone.C ya soon.

what a weekend

2008-02-09T14:22:00.000-08:00

Didn't go skating or swimming last week,I planned to do at least one kind of sport or activity this weekend. Not only to keep healthy but also release the mental pressure I've been suffering these days. But as what things usually happen to me, it seems I'll do nothing but a busy boring weekend.

First,the homework.I have to finish typing my research project . Yes,type. When I told my friends at home that almost every homework we've done here needs good copy, they were all surprised. Why do we have to type them out?Easy for teachers to read and mark. We've paid a lot of money to study here and now we need to pay more for the paper. I don't know why are Canadians so confident about their paper production,how they know that after hundreds of years they still have so many trees. Whatever,that's not our trees. For us Chinese, well ,we don't care about the money,we do care about the trees and the next and next and next generation.

Second, I'm now working at the Starbucks. One of my co-work doesn't feel well today, so I offered my help and took her shift,which means I have to work 3 more hours today. What confused me is that there were so many people coming for coffee today. What happened?I even wanted to go outside and check whether there's a poster "free coffee today" or not. Next week I'll probably drink before I go to work.

Anyway,mid-term's coming next week.I have to change my mood and get ready for it.

gotta work

Where is our Spring Festival?

2008-02-05T00:33:00.000-08:00

As everybody knows,the Spring Festival is the most important festival for all of the Chinese.No matter we are at the North Pole or on MARS,we manage our way home!It's time for home!Family! What else can be more important than family?We've already left our family,why must we drop the custom of our country?

Just imagine what if you guys do not have Christmas!

It's unfair.
It's almost kind of political control.

I hate it.
very much.

better

2008-01-29T18:20:00.000-08:00

After having a big cup of berryblossom, my stomach felt much better.Maybe it was because Mr.Ming Lee' E-mail actually.For three weeks I'be been in a low mood,trying my best to smile when being with others at school,pretending I'm all right.But I'm not.I know I'm not Ok.

My mom heard that I might go to university in May,and she said "go to the university and do not go home then"even without a one-second hesitation.What's going on ? Isn't she the one who saying missing me everyday?What does "for your good you'd better go to university as soon as possible,guaduate as soon as possible,find a job as soon as possible.........."mean????Come on
,it's not China,it's Canada!I'm not going to die if I guaduate later than others,I'm not going to have nothing to eat or become a beggar lying in the street when it's -40'C.Since I came here ,I've changes lot of my old opinions.I like this city and this country.It's quiet ,though maybe too quiet sometimes,but I fell comfortable living here.How can I suvive in a new place with my head full of past living rules?

So glad that I may not have a chance to go to university in MAY.Some may say I'm crazy.YeahI know my classmates in my home town are going to have their third year in university when I finally be accepted.They will have been working for two years when I start my university here.What is the big deal?Who can tell me what is the goal of life?Study,work,make
moneyget married,raise children,die.Is this the formality for everybody's life?I don't think so.I know I'm unique.I have enough confidence that I can survive in any culture,anywhere.That's enough.

Now I feel much better.My stress releases on one thing,and I can concentrate on my study now.
YOHO.
Fan is fantastic.
She is back.

skating~~~

2008-01-25T21:38:00.001-08:00

Hey guys,I've just been back from swimming.soooooo sorry...
For those who want to go skating,we'll meet at4:30p.m. at the olympic oval tomorrow(SAT)
C u then.

Heading Home

2008-01-25T00:51:00.000-08:00

It seems that everybody's heading home in my hometown.After suffering another semester in their university which is not mine any more,my dear buddies are going home without doubt.
But I,I am still here.
When they enjoy their winter holidays,I'm getting my shoes ruined by the endless snow .When they wake up in the morning,actually,noon maybe,I have just finished my classes and started my part-time job.While they are sleeping soundly in their warm little bad filled by teddys or other fluffy friends whatever,I'm taking my morning shower before school with my eyes closed...
3 months,it has been thress months since I came to Calgary and I still haven't changed the time on my laptop yet.Hey buddies,I had told you guys before I left didn't I?I wanna share the same time with you guys,every hour,every seconds.As you say,you are just being with me like ever.
I don't know what to say.I've told you guys hundreds of times that please donnot say you miss me.That will make me cry.
Have a nice holiday with your families.That's the best wish I can give to you guys.Because that's what I really cherish but cannot have at all...

MISS U GUYS

2008-01-22T23:15:00.000-08:00

I'm missing you guys...so much...so much..

fun on the ice

2008-01-20T11:23:00.000-08:00

Last night some of my dear friends and I went skating at the Olympic oval.Againit was great fun!!!

I'm going swimming now,so more detailes will be edited when I come back~~

Let's skip the class!

2008-01-17T18:06:00.000-08:00

Unfortunately,just kidding,guys.o(∩_∩)o

How's your days at school? Boring~~~? (Do not tell Scott or Murray I said so,I'll probably get an "F",even "D"-die maybe)

Last time some of us went skating and it had been great fun.(You can have a look at the photos on either Martin's or my album.)

I've checked the schedule of public skating that，on Saturday ,the Oval will open from 7:00p.m.-10:00p.m.The reason I'm thinking about Saturday is that some of us have already had plans on Friday.so please let me know if you'd in,or want to join the skating but you've got cute guys to hang out with(If so, I'm in) already. We can choose another day so that more people can join us. So don't worry about the time.

It really doesn't matter whether you are good at skating or not,to be frank ,I'm like a drunk penguin on the ice....
Do invite your friends no matter they are in EAPP or not! Evone is welcome.The more the merrier,isn't it?

Have a wonderful night & C you tomorrow.

BTW,please sign up to Facebook (www.facebook.com), add your friends from all over the world. It's way more fun than sending F------boring e-mails.Martin has founded a group at facebook called EAP Program University of Calgary 2008,please join it as soon as you have the facebook.I do hate sending e-mails,it's like a writing test for me !!! -.-#

yours truly,
Fan.

Actually,this is an E-mail I sent to some of you guys,but I don't have evbody's .So just post it here and let you know.

The best way to learn a foreign language

2008-01-17T10:37:00.000-08:00

[writing /Scott] In your opinion,what is the best way to learn a foreign language:in a class,on your own,(outside of class),or a combination of the two?

Whenever a friend asks me how to learn English in a fastest way ,I will always tell them there's never easy or quick way to learn a foreign language.As they say,Rome wasn't built in a day.You can not expect to handle a language only in class or all by youself.Neither the help from the teacher or your own hard work can be obmited.

Take myself as an example(though my English sucks here among my smart classmates and native speakers,it's fine in China ^-^).I started learning English since Grade2 when English became a subject at school in my hometown.Thanks to my lovely mom,who immediately concluded English would be important for my future,I was sent to extra English classes after school.At that time ,I really felt like I was the poorest little girl in the world because when my friends were watching cartoons at home on weekends I was rushing between different classes.It was like nightmares(Thank god my mom doesn't speak or read English at all,or I will probably be killed now)However, I fell in love with English later on.Well you know,the better you are doing something the more interested you will be in it.Yeah,as you can tell,a little proud English girl appeared..

The reson why I say language cannot be learnt without a good teacher is that once formed, bad habits are not easy to get rid of.This cannot be more right when talking about learning a foreign language. I cannot remember how many of my classmetes keep hos'pital instead of 'hospital.They might hear somebody say it but now ,they say it naturally even they know it is wrong.That's the power of bad habit. In view if this,a good teacher is essential for beginners .They help you form the right habits and lead you into right direction.

If I had only taken courses ,listened to the teachers,done my homework my English would never be like this.I may have good scores like my classmates do.However,I cannot use it in communication.I worked hard on my language learning.70%of my English and other language was learnt by myself.In Chinese,we have an old saying that you'd better have no book if you totally believe in your books,which means nobody is always right and sometimes you have to look for the answers yourself.Teachers are not always right either.You have to work on your own.

In all,language is the most valuable thing that a country and its people have.It shows the cult of the culture of the country and the intelligence of people.That's what you can never learn by other subjects.Listening to your teachers advise and working hard by yourself is the best way to get our foreign language improved.