Review: Pocahontas

One of Disney's "Pocahontas"
movie posters.

So today, I've just watched one of the 'old' Disney Princess movies, Pocahontas. Yes, I am a full-time Disney Fan.  And I hate to admit but I have fallen in love with it: the characters, the story line, and the meaning.

The Story Line: (Warning: Spoilers if you have not seen the movie)

I shall began with my love towards the story line. It's sort of quite different from the other old Disney Princess movies because in the beginning it doesn't start off with our protagonist, Pocahontas, but with our deuteragonist, the handsome captain John Smith. (Yes, I have a fan-girl crush on him). And then similar to all my other favorite Disney Princess movies, our protagonist meets her problem. In this case would be the death of our handsome brave Koccum; it's sad that he have to die but without his death the story cannot continue. (Your death is not in vain, Koccum) Koccum's death cause the spark for the Indian to start a war (which did not even began) with the British settlers. And yet once again our hero saves the day with her courage and true love. However here's the difference, the movie ends in a cliffhanger as John Smith gets shot and sent back to Britain for saving, and Pocahontas chooses to stay in her village. Would the two love birds ever unite again?

If you know what happens in the second movie, don't spoil it for me please.

The Characters:

Pocahontas: Our protagonist. I just love her! She doesn't have the old typical western princess grace and poise, but she has the 'attitude'. <- And that's what I love her. I mean she has the bravery to jump of a waterfall and jump across a huge gap between land. Tell me which other princess can do that? Okay other than Merida, but she comes like a decade after this movie. 

Flit - Pocahontas' Hummingbird

John Smith: Our lead-male. Just look at that hair. How does it keep it shiny all those days without showering at all. (Same goes for Pocahontas) Well, that's all I got to say for him, he doesn't really have a character development in the movie for me. I simply love him for his looks.

Flit: I simply just love that hummingbird, I mean which bird would do all that for his owner? That guy got an attitude and I love it.

The Meaning:

The meaning is a hard one to explain; simply because that everyone has a different meaning toward a text. But for me it's that 'never judge a book by its cover'. I believe in this quote so much, because sometimes I'm being judged by my peers by my actions. And my actions are my cover. However some might disagree. But the main point is that don't judge something by just the way they look, no matter it's an animal or person. Always get to know them first and it's still not to late make your judgement then.

"You can own the earth and still, all you'll own is earth until you can paint with all the colors of the wind." - Pocahontas

A New Year, A New Start

Yeah, I know I've not exactly been keeping my promise of posting blogs weekly... And its been a while... Fine, a few month. But I just want to say that now that I'm back I shall be posting more things on the blog, including reviews of books I've just read or movies. Yeah and I'm gonna be continuing the Truth about My personality series. Yeah, so there's many things to look forward too.

“A Sunrise is God's way of saying, "Let's start again.” ― Todd Stocker

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I'm back!! (and so is school....) / Summer

So yeah, the title says most of what I want to say. I know I have been quite for a few weeks... maybe months but the important thing is that I'm back. To be honest, it's a miracle already that I remembered I have this blog. So I will try to publish at least one post per week.

So far I already survived a month of school of my sophomore year. *applause* Yay!! And I already have home-works... I already had a Spanish quiz, a English assessment, and I'm having a Math quiz tomorrow. Hooray for me! (sarcasm) Enough about school... Let me tell you about my summer.

So my summer went pretty well, I guess. I went to Korea. No, not for vacation. I went to SUNY (State University of New York) in Incheon to prepare for SAT. (I'm a sophomore already!! I only have to more years!!!) I had to stay there for six weeks, six d@mn f*cking weeks. (please forgive me for my language). You know what's worse? That I'm not allowed to have electronics during the weekdays; they take your iPhone, iPod, iPad, and laptops away. Why? So that you wouldn't play during lunch and dinner. But seriously who would have time to play when you're weekday schedule starts from 8:30 in the morning to 11:00 at night? Who would have the time? Oh there's more, we have a vocabulary test everyday, around 50-100 words per day. And its cumulative, so for tomorrow's test, you need to memorize today's and tomorrows. And so on. The good thing is that the list resets every Tuesday. So after you take Monday's test, you just need to remember the words for Tuesday. Yeah, at least koreans have some kind of humanity in them... Just kidding, Koreans are super nice people! Three of my good friends are Korean, and they are the nicest, kindest, smartest (duh), funnest (is that even a word?) people I know. Back to the main topic, so that's my summer. No need to pity, this is the life for an average Asian...

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” - George R.R. Martin

(Romantic) Relationships

First of all I want to say, I'm a huge fan of romance. Any sort of romance, lame, doopy-gooey, tough, simple, you name it. And I was sort of in a relationship with this guy, but then only after a few days, I feel like the spark was gone. No more. Just disappeared. Or it might be the fact that I don't feel comfortable being with him alone in public, or even with my friends. There was always that feeling where this whole relationship is wrong. He was two grade higher than me anyways; a big huge difference. I know that for adults, age difference doesn't matter at all. I mean whats the difference between 30 and 27? Nothing, there like almost the same. But it's different for teens; a guy who's 17 dating a girl who is barely 15. Not that's serious. It's almost child sexual abuse. Not saying that there is but you get what I mean. I just don't feel it's right. And if that guy is reading this, then I want him to know that he will always be my favorite Junior/Senior. But I'm just not ready yet. And he will be an important part in my heart.

Back to the more serious business: the lesson here is that don't fall in love so quickly. You don't know if it's a real or not. Additionally teenage years is the best time for education; don't give yourself distractions from your education. I hope this is a big lesson for me in life.

"Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful." - unknown

Exam Review (Day 3)

This will be a quick post on day 3 of my Exam Review plan. Long story short: FAIL!! Probably the worst day ever. Didn't work at all. Yeah......

"Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails." - Robert Half

I really need to start learning from these quotes... 

Mother Day Special / The Truth about My Personality (Part 1)

Sometimes I feel like people only think I am annoying because of my personality. However they don't know the truth behind my current personality. So I'm planning to write a series about it here. I hope people can understand me better after reading this series. Some might think I'm making an excuse but I'm really not. I'm just telling the truth. :(

Part 1 - Why am I so competitive?

To be honest, I'm not always this competitive. It's just that when I was young, probably when I was a toddler, I was always behind the other kids. I'm always late in my development stages. For example an average kid learns to speak words and phrases when they are 1 years old; I can't even speak a word until I was 3! Or an average kid can crawl when they are 7 month old but I only started crawling when I was nearly 1 year old.

My parents, mostly my mom, were worried about me. What if she has a disorder of some sort? Will she always be like this? So my mom brought me to training camps every summer to practice my balance, and brought equipment to trigger my brain to let me speak (which I didn't like, but on the hand my brother liked it and used it more often than I did therefore making him learn to speak way earlier than me. And he was the younger one). And when I start speaking, I had pronunciation issues, so she enrolled me to a school for deaf kids to help me practice my pronunciation. Which leads to the 'me' now.

What I'm trying to say is that the reason why I'm competitive is that I just want to repay my mom for all the time and sweat she sacrificed for me. I don't want her to think that even after all her hard works, I'm still not as good as the other kids. I want to tell her that I am as good as the other kids and even better than them.

“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” - Willie Nelson

Last of all:

Happy Mother's Day!!

Eagle Point 2007

Kumon 2008

Yunan 2010

Shangri-La 2010

Taipei 2013

Surprise!! Two quotes in one blog:

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." - George Washington 

Exam Review (Day 2)

Definition of exam: the act or process of examining (testing by questioning in order to determine progress, fitness, or knowledge)

So it's day 2 of Exam Review and the energy has sufficiently decreased a huge amount. So this is a basic list of what happened today:

1. Woke up at 7 am
2. Fell asleep on the sofa 
3. Second time woke up at 11 am (4 hour gap of sleep)
4. Start reviewing for English
5. Ate lunch at 12 PM, English review progress - 5%
6. Continue English Review
7. Leave house at 5:30 PM, English review progress - 20%
8. Return home around 8 PM
9. Continue English Review
10. Give up English Review, English review progress - 23%
11. Continue on Science Review Flashcards
12. Finish Science Review Flashcards, Complete Science Review progress - 80%

So that's basically it. I finished with all my flash cards for science, and tomorrow I will be mainly focusing on that since that's my first exam for next week. And I'm gonna do my English with my teacher. Yeah bye!!

"I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would." - Mary Leakey