. Today I received in the mail from ASUS my free Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade disk (Finally). They had a promotion back in the summer where if you buy a laptop, you will receive a free upgrade from Windows Vista to 7! I just installed it (it took about 3-4 hours), and so far everything is great! I didn’t have to format my hard drive, all my programs were transferred with almost no problem! I’m working out the kinks right now, but so far everything seems to be going perfect. I’ll write more on the Windows 7 experience soon!
We moved last week, and here is some pictures from the new house. The view from the backyard is amazing! I can see my school, Mt. Sac, from there! Praise God for bringing us into a new home, and thanks for keeping us in your prayers! I’ll post more when I have time!
Jay Chou is a Taiwanese musician, singer, producer, actor, and director. He is well known for the music he writes. His music covers many different genres, while also covering many topics that songs normally don’t sing about. One of his songs is called “Listen to Your Mother”, and it was a top hit in Taiwan for a quite a long time. He currently has 9 albums released, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide. Currently Jay is probably the most famous musician, if not person, in all of Asia.
Jay Chou was born on January 18, 1979. At the age of three his mother saw that he was sensitive to music, so she began to take him to get piano lessons. Since he was a kid he loved to record sounds and music with a tape recorder. His father left the family when he was 14, so he became very introverted. Instead of hanging out with his friends, he liked to keep to himself and write music. After high school, while working as a waiter, he found out that his friend had entered their names into a talent show called Super New Talent King. Jay played the piano accompaniment and his friend sang. They did not win, but when the show host Jacky Wu, who is a big influence in Taiwan’s entertainment business, saw how complex Jay’s music composition was, he hired Jay to write songs for other pop artists at the time. During this time Jay worked hard to learn recording and also sound mixing. Later the music studio was sold. The new manager, Yang Jun Rong, asked Jay to release his own album, so Jay Chou took 10 of the songs he wrote that were rejected by the other artists and put together his first album, which is titled Jay. His fame quickly spread from that album, and since then he has released one new album a year. Since then he has starred in 6 movies, which includes Secret, the first movie Jay Chou directed, Curse of the Golden Flower, and he will also be in the upcoming movie The Green Hornet. He has also won over 350 singer and producer awards in Asia. In 2007 he co-founded a new record company, called JVR Music.
Jay Chou is my favorite artist because the music he creates is so diverse, so beautiful. He is very musically talented, and the songs he writes, together with his lyricist Vincent Fang, are so complex and different. He is one of my motivations to succeed in music, and I hope to someday meet him, and also be able to compose like him.
If you learned that you only had a few months to live, how would you spend the time you have left? Here is Randy Pausch, a man who learned he only had 3-6 months to live. He was a professor of computer science, and in his last lecture, he spoke on “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” The video is over an hour long, but after the first minute of watching it I never thought about the length again. Life is precious, don’t waste a moment of it!
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
. I eat these gummy bears that have all sorts of vitamins in them, and also comes in so many flavors. They are a great way to get your daily dose of Vitamin A,B,C,D,E,,Ch,Gf ( someone doesn’t know the alphabet) because they taste just like any other brand of normal gummy bears! Here lies the problem.
. The recommended daily serving is only 2 bears, but I pop them in by the 2^whatever power. I am still alive, so I guess there is no bad side effect. Might be the reason for my sudden growth in height. Go out today and buy Gummy Vites now, it is pleasurable to eat and great for children. So do pets need vitamin? It does not matter. Just go out and buy some Gummy Vites.
. The other day I went with my friend Kevin to his uncle’s house to print a t-shirt. His uncle purchased a modified HP printer that allows it to print designs on T-shirts. We went that day to print Kevin’s art onto a t-shirt for one of his projects. The machine itself is very expensive, 18 thousand US. It takes about 20 minutes to print the design on one t-shirt, and heat it so the ink stays on the shirt. Also at the prices his uncle sells it for, he only makes about a dollar profit off each shirt, so why does he do all this? He feels God has called him to make t-shirts, and with the designs he has to show, God has blessed him with great art skills. I hope someday someone will discover his skills, and use it for God’s glory. Praise God!
To make a T-shirt:
1. Create or have an art design to print: You can use any pictures for this, or draw your own with an art program!
2. Get the machine: Either buy it yourself, or for those who do not want to buy one, there are many sites online that will make your t-shirt for you! Just email them your art.
3. Buy the shirt: Buy it yourself from anywhere, buy good quality ones to make sure the design will not come off easily.
. Our landlady grows fruits in her backyard, and while looking around I saw this. You can see six of them from the picture, and there is 2 more on the backside. That means there are 8 pears growing out of one branch! It is so amazing! God brings us joy through these little things, so let us appreciate Him more!
. A few days ago, my friend Melody introduced me to this pianist named Joe Hisaishi. After I listened to his music on youtube, he became my favorite pianist :] He wrote music for many anime movies, such as Spirited Away, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and many other films.
For Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, I watched it as a little kid growing up, it was a really awesome movie, very moving. Even though the movie was in Japanese and I didn’t really understand much. Or any.
. His music is able to instill feelings when you listen to it, hope you enjoy this one piece by him, Summer!
Jay Chou is a Taiwanese musician, singer, producer, actor, and director. He is well known for the music he writes. His music covers many different genres, while also covering many topics that songs normally don’t sing about. One of his songs is called “Listen to Your Mother”, and it was a top hit in Taiwan for a quite a long time. He currently has 9 albums released, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide. Currently Jay is probably the most famous musician, if not person, in all of Asia.
![Pears from a bit further away, but still pears :]](http://oysterinmypants.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/0807091131.jpg?w=468&h=351 "Lemons from a bit farther away, but still lemons :]")
