So today is Saturday, as usual I went to badminton. Since its exam weeks for most people, there was only Ming and I. Originally I booked a court for badminton at 12 noon. When I got there there was no courts available. So I met up with Ming and we walked around Woodside Mall for about 35 minutes. Then we headed back to the court, and there was on available. At this time, the guy that usually takes the money isn't here. So we just played until the so call "Drop-In courts" opens.

Ming and I played for about 1 hour and 15 minutes. For some reason, there was no one going around asking the other players to pay for the drop-in fee, which is $5 per person. So when we are done playing, we just left.

I call this play and run (霸王球) instead of eat and run LOL.

Also tested my brand new racket today. It was a little weird on the first try cause it too damn light, but it does give it more control due to the lightness. As they say, new things needs to be broken in.

One last thing to Tony, Jonathan, and Daniel, Ming and I broke two shuttles. So we need to get some new ones soon.

OH YEAH. My new badminton has just arrive at my place. This is the most that I have spent on a single item. The racket is awesome in a flamy red colour. It is super light, less the a toothpaste I think.
The awesome thing about this is that I ordered last night at around 7 pm, and it arrived this morning at 11 am. I am shocked that it got here so fast, gotta give the thumbs up to Purolator.

Second happy thing is I am done school. Just one more tiny presentation to go. Really looking forward to having some fun this Christmas.

This time of the year is what I hate the most of all times. When the weather gets colder and colder. Exams piling up for me and my friends. This entire week I have spent most of it at home except for one day which I was at school doing presentations. All these free time has made me realized that I hate free times. Especially when I am doing nothing fun or exciting at home. .

I have created a daily and weekly routine for myself since the beginning of this year. Get up before 1 pm. Checks email, check online course material, surf the web for awhile. Then I watch The O.C at 1 pm. The O.C is actually pretty funny and good. After The O.C, I will watch some cartoon on YTV. I mostly enjoy watching Back at the Barnyard, its about these talking farm animal doing human stuff while hiding from people. Then grab some lunch and continue watching CSI (Which ever one is on). At 7 I begin to make dinner, eat it, watch TV / On Computer, then bed time. And this practically runs through Sunday through Wednesday and Friday. For Thursday I go to school for group projects. And on Saturday I usually spend hanging out with friends, chatting, playing badminton, and having dinner.

This week was even worst then the usual weeks. My favourite activity of the week didn't happen. Friends was either working, not in Toronto, studying or can't be found. So I ended up spending my one and only good day doing the same things I usually do at home.

From all those time at home, I realized how boring my life is really. Nothing new or exciting has happen in my life for a long time. Excluding parties or event that I went to. Those were fun and all, but they only happen like once or twice a year. And as my routine has been on for a considerably long time, I don't really find anything else besides badminton being fun. Maybe I need to get out more, but only by myself would still be the same. What are some things I find fun when I am out...Well dinner is all the same I guess, just the food that I eat is different. Karaoke is fun, but that doesn't happen everyday. Of all, I realized that I hate being by myself.

Finally satisfied with the looks of my blog. Added some of my favourite songs from my favourite singer Jay Chou. Also some more info about me is added on the side bars.

Come to think of it, I nearly spent an entire day working on my blog. Hm...Tony and the others might be true, this blog thing is addictive :).

I hope that I always have something to write about when I am doing nothing at home.

Well, as you can see the time of this post, its pretty late (Only for me, Eve can stay up all night). Night ppl.

WHAT THE...How come my clock says 3:20 am, and my post time says 12:20.

Once again I have heard a really great and old song by Jordan Chan. It's call "神啊救救我". Meaning God please help me. The story of this song is that the main character has been alone for his entire live and is still believing that God will bless him that he will find love.

上帝会保佑我的 爱情总会来的 God will bless me, Love will always come
我在梦中一切都有 可惜现实呀 I have everything in my dreams, but the reality
常常是相反的 is always the reverse
爱她的男人很多 那我又算什么 Many men loves her, so what am I?
我在雨中喝着悶酒 反正幸福呀 I drink boring beer in the rain, Anyways Happyness
对我是奢侈的 is like a luxury to me (Can't be attain I think)
心里太清楚了 其实她不爱我 I know it in my heart clearly, she doesn't love me
奇怪 地球上怎么会没有人 看上我 Weird, how come there's no one on Earth that loves me
神啊 救救我吧 Ah God, please help me
一把年纪了 一个爱人都没有 I don't even have 1 lover at this old age
孤独是可怜的 如果没有爱过 Lonely is pitiful, if you haven't love before
人生是黑白的 Your life is like black and white
神啊 救救我吧 Ah God, Please help me
一个人晃了半辈子了 为什么 I have been alone for half of my life, why
我这样的男人哪 就快要绝种 I am the kinda of man that is almost going to extinct
她呢 又在哪儿 Where is she?
上帝会保佑我的………… God will bless me...

Hm...this is my second time translating lyric from Chinese to English, I am actually not bad at this.

I believe that many people has thought about this at least once. But I do believe that there is always an Yin for my Yang.

WTF, I am beginning to hate ONLINE COURSES after this semester. Basically all of my course for this semester are online. This was such a bad idea, I feel like I have been even more ripped off of my tuition money now, which I though it was impossible to top already.

Here's what happen today. One of my online course is a Research Evaluation class, the main purpose of this is to learn how to hyperlink source out from a wiki. This course consist of 10 quiz (40%) (Which I completed in 1 night), and 4 assignments (10%, 10%, 20%, 20%). So here's the thing, I kinda procrastinated until 3 days before the deadline (NOON of DECEMBER 1 TODAY). But I did completed all my assignment. When I was about to post my assignments on the this wiki that the prof created. I found that I was able to post all but one of the 10% assignment. That wiki was close off. So I email the prof and I got an auto reply message. It says that he has started to making everyone's assignments, he has about 150 email from students asking for help with last minute problem about posting or what not, and if he doesn't get to my email, and the deadline has passed, then I am out of luck, then he also said that he doesn't accept assignment through email attachments. So Great, I am out 10% of my overall mark because he started marking earlier. And there won't be any compensations. SO...ONCE AGAIN THE TITLE OF THIS BLOG!!!

Looking at the titles of my friend's blog, I felt that the title "Jay Xu" was really boring. So I decided to come up with a new one. A title that means something. So I came up with "面具后的秘密...". This actually comes from an inspiration of the movie / song "不能說的秘密" which staring Jay Chou and sang by Jay Chou. The second part is from the anime Bleach (The mask that Ichigo wears.

Another main reason that I came up with this title is that I felt as I have two faces. When I meet new people I portraits the image of being quiet and hard working. But when I am around my closest friends, I tend to be the most active and but lazy one when it comes to school work. Which this made me wonder, who is the real me.

I truly believe that people will have two faces, some might have even more. I believe that people has 4 faces.
1) At work
2) With Friends
3) With Lover Ones
4) When you are alone

These faces are like masks. One would put on a mask to hide their true identity. But how do one distinguish which is the real one?...

My racket is getting old, so I have started to look for new rackets to buy. I found this really great racket for about 100 dollars.



http://www.sweatband.com/head-lite-30-badminton-racket.html?utm_campaign=KSB

This is actually the best racket I have seen, regarding the weight and the looks. And for 100 dollar is pretty low compared to other rackets that I have seen. But the only thing that I am worried about is that the racket will be shipped another country. I wonder if I should buy it...

Most people are good at a lot of thing; like being good at math, computer science and programming, cooking. But when someone asks me what I am good at, all I can say is badminton because I am "OK" in everything else. So I consider badminton to be something that I am actually good at.

I fell in love with badminton the very first time I played while I was in grade 4. After that, I have played badminton every chance that I can. Whether its playing in a friend's backyard or playing it during school class like physed. I have improved dramatically since the first time I have played. In my last year of high school, I even took racket sport (A grade 10 gym class) just to play badminton, I didn't even cared if I didn't get a credit for it. That's because I have already taken a grade 10 gym before and I have already completed all my necessary credits.

I sometime wish that I can relive my Grade 8 - 12 again. This is because then I can teach those cocky bastard a thing or two about badminton. And maybe played a decent game with my Grade 8 teacher. I fantasies about reliving my life a lot, so this might be a be weird. HAHAHA.

Back to present. I still am in love with badminton. And I play it every Saturday with my friends. WE usually booked a court and played for two hours. Usually 4 people, sometimes 5. Just to be cocky, I would said that I am the best of the 5. Not jsut based on skill lvls. I based on couple of things; like the enthusiasm toward badminton, the will to improve in badminton, energy lvls, and the enjoyment of badminton. Speaking the truth, if you don't feel excited toward playing badminton, then there isn't a point in playing it. The will to improve in your game is also important, I see a lot of beginning lvl player playing each week, but they seen to have not improved at all. Energy lvl is really important in badminton, for me I can play for like 2-3 hours non stop with water breaks. The most important thing for me is the enjoyment of badminton. I enjoy badminton very much, so no matter if I win or lose the game, the most important thing is the enjoyment.

I rather play a challenging game then winning an easy game. Sometime this happens during my Saturday games when my friends are dead tired and I am still filled with energy. Right now I am trying to help my friends improve their lvl of plays so that I can have more of an exciting game every single time we played.

Here I was watching Music videos on Youtube, and I came across a really old song that I used to listen back in high school. The song is call 一句到尾 by Jordan Chan. The story behind this song is that a guy has been in love with this girl, but the girl doesn't know. Here is the chorus of the song,

圍繞身邊已600天　你喜歡過我60秒嗎
　還期望知道這段相處裡　被我暗戀得快樂嗎
　如果喜歡你是笑話　你都有開心過60秒嗎
　旁人話總會有日感化你
　待你這麼好有用嗎　還有用嗎
　而你默然　還要問嗎

Translation: I hope I did this right.

I circle your life for 600 days, have you liked me for 60 seconds?
I want to know the time we known each other, did you enjoy it?
If liking you is a joke, were you happy for 60 seconds?
People around me always said that there will be a day I move(emotionally) you.
Is there a point treating you this good? Whats the point?
You are silent, do I have to ask?

This song, the lyric really brought back some memories of high school. And the sad thing is that the lyric seems to be written by me or about what I went through in high school.

Grade 9, the first time I saw her was in the hall way. People were rushing to the next class, in that crowd of people, I saw her. She caught my attention instantly, but I don't know why. And I didn't even know her name until grade 10.

Grade 10, she was in my class. I can't believe that she and I are in the same class. Another unbelievable thing was that she was in three of my classes for that year. We became friends in grade 10. At that time, I wasn't sure if its love or not. All I know is I like being around her and seeing her smile and acting crazy all the time.

Grade 11, this year she wasn't in any of my classes. But her locker were close to one of my class. So I would walk to class early each day hoping to run into her. Some days I see her, some days I don't.

Grad 12, YES she in my class again.

Basically what it come down to is that I have been around her life for 600 days, but I didn't tell her and she doesn't know anything. The feeling comes back every time i listen to 一句到尾. But we haven't seen or talked to each other after grade 12. Until two weeks ago, I ran into her the day before my Birthday. For me it was like an indirect gift from her. It was nice seeing her again, at least she remember me. :)