<p>I’m trying to (re)learn how to read and write Chinese (maybe take AP exam), but it’s just SOOO much memorization!! I mean, I can recognize a character when I see it, but having to recall how to write it is just too much df;l jd;lkjfkl jaj dfjk;l lol</p>
<p>@EveningSwan OMG that sounds pretty much like my mom! She would have me do a bunch of mental math in the car to help improve “brain function” lol. And she pretty much wants me to go to either Harvard or Yale, although I’m not even sure where I want to go yet. <em>sigh</em> Asian parents…</p>
<p>My parents are pretty lax about college. I just have to bring home straight A’s. They don’t know much about college so they don’t care where I go, as long as I go. My mom wants me to go to the state flagship 15 minutes away though. So I can be close to them. I can speak Vietnamese proficiently. I used to attend Vietnamese school on Sundays so I know how to read (but not comprehend) and my writing’s atrocious.</p>
<p>Peh… I’m not fluent in anything, even English. I can speak Japanese pretty well, and scrape by in Malay, Mandarin, Hokkien/Taiwanese, and some some Korean.</p>
<p>But… if I say just one word in any language, everyone assumes you’re fluent. xD Never go to a legit Asian restaurant and try to fake skills; you’ll be assumed as a native.</p>
<p>I can speak Korean, and I can pretend to speak Japanese and Chinese (thank you dramas and anime LOL)</p>
<p>But omg speaking of Kpop. Sort of.</p>
<p>Did you know that UKISS’ AJ got admitted into Columbia?</p>
<p>SMARTYPANTSRIGHTTHUR.</p>
<p>And my parents are so lax and… un-Asian LOL. </p>
<p>The Asian stereotype is that parents are like Tiger Mom, Asians get straight A’s, Asians are geniuses that learn Calculus as 9th graders, they eat rice daily (guilty of this one though LOL), and they never get rewards for doing well in classes.</p>
<p>My parents aren’t strict at all when it comes to academics. I used to get 60’s on every single test I took in 8th grade (and even got a B in English), and my dad didn’t even care LOL. The only problem is with weight. In Korea, the standards for being “skinny” are COMPLETELY different from America, and so while I’m considered normal and healthy here, I’m considered morbidly obese in Korea and my relatives never fail to tell me it. I get rewards for doing well in school, and my parents don’t care about pushing me to succeed, but whenever they see me they always tell me to lose 20 pounds and tease me for being chubby. XD</p>
<p>Okay, forget John Hopkins, I’m going to columbia! ^ ;D</p>
<p>My parents are also super chillax. Like seriously, she tells me everyday to take less APs, don’t stress yourself, etc. And I’m like: MUST TAKE 6 APs, MUST SCORE HIGH ON SAT, etc. xD</p>
<p>Okay, forget John Hopkins, I’m going to columbia! ^ ;D
^ No kidding LOL.
I didn’t want to go to Columbia because the supplement essays looked like a pain to write (Stanford has a lot of stuff to write about in the supplement as well, but they are fun questions so I don’t mind answering them)… but I think I’ll have to reconsider my possibilities… o3o /shiftyeye</p>
<p>LOLOLOL same here. I told my dad nonchalantly “I’m taking 11 APs this year” and he was like “okay.”</p>
<p>I didn’t study for AP psych until two days before the exam, and after cramming, I watched kdramas for 4 hours and they didn’t say a thing roflrofl. And the night before the first time I took the SAT II bio (retook and got an 800 to maintain my pride heh), I stayed up until 1 AM watching Lovely Complex and ended up going into the exam brain dead. I got a 690 and my mom just laughed. XD</p>
<p>^lol this is why I’ve decided to quit watching kdramas (and other Asian dramas in general). One drama took me five days to watch, and I swear, for those 5 days, even when I wasn’t watching it, I was bawling my eyes out, talking back to my parents (lol) and doing things I normally wouldn’t have done. Once the drama was finished (and everyone got a happy ending), I went back to my cheeky old self lol</p>
<p>I’ve watched over 100 dramas in my lifetime… aka from the time I discovered the existence of dramas to now (so since 7th grade). I can finish a drama in a day if I want to, and I usually don’t spend more than 2 days watching one drama (unless it’s boring or dreary like Meteor Garden). </p>
<p>LOL that’s sort of what happens to me. My mom and I finished watching Rooftop Prince together and during the time we were watching, we lost our voices from screaming with laughter, the dishes were never washed, and our eyes had dark rings from staying up until 3 AM ROFL.</p>
<p>I still watch them though. There are only two solutions to my drama problem:
- Quit watching dramas and anime before AP exams so I can successfully get 5’s.
- Watch all dramas in existence and finish them all before January so that I won’t have anything else to watch, and therefore will be obligated to study for my APs </p>
<p>lololol /brick’d</p>
<p>In response to previous posters, I love ramen!! I probably eat it too much… and I love rice but I try not to eat it too much. Asian food is awesome.</p>
<p>My rice cooker just burned me x3 DERRRRR!!! lol</p>
<p>I LOVE RAMEN.
I try not to eat too much though. I’m getting so chubby. ;____;</p>
<p>I don’t really think that starving yourself will work…I’m chubby myself, thanks to my grandpa, but I would consider myself to be pretty fit. I also have really wide cheekbones which don’t help.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, I’ve tried not eating, and it’s never worked for more than 2 days before I start eating normally again. Plus I have big shoulders (probably from playing the flute for 4 years), so that doesn’t really help my chubby body image lol</p>
<p>My mom wants me to lose weight (I’m only 112 pounds -_-) but my dad’s just like, “Screw it. Eat as much as you can so you can be tall. Then you can lose weight. Would you rather be tall and fat or short and skinny like me? Except I’m not short and skinny. I’m short and fat.” Lol exaggeration but you know what I mean.</p>
<p>^ I’m tall and skinny :), but my parents tell me to eat more, but I never really get fat.</p>
<p>@Swinter. I’m short and fat too!!! LOLOL Well, at least in my opinion (I’m 5’2"). I’ve tried losing weight, but the only time that succeeded was during tennis season last fall, when I was running around for ~3 hours/day. Actually, that was only the first two weeks of practice. When we started doing matches, I basically sat around and munched on pretzels, so the weight came right back :(</p>
<p>I’m 5’2" too! Lol. I don’t really play sports because that would require me to go out in the sun. Any other asians who have an aversion to the sun?</p>
<p>^ For me, not really. Actually, for the whole tennis season, I probably wore sunscreen for the first two days, and then just gave up my efforts to prevent future melanoma b/c it took way too long haha.</p>
<p>My mom keeps thinking that I’ll magically get taller so that I can at least be taller than her (she’s 5’3"), but that’s probably not going to happen… But yeah, I’d much rather be short and SKINNY than short and fat. lol</p>