Meet Jeremy from the Taiwanese Drama Fabulous Boys: Evan Yo (蔡旻佑)

 Mei Nan's Stylist and Jeremy

 Jeremy holding a "Huang Tai Jing, wo ai ni" fansign XD

Jeremy and Xin Yu watching..."Mei Nan"?!

Evan Yo as Jeremy in Fabulous Boys

When I started watching "Fabulous Boys" 原来是美男, my first impression of "Jeremy" wasn't very good. He was childish and a little inconsistent at first. If you watched the first episodes, you'd know that Jeremy warmly congratulated "Mei Nan" after getting acknowledged by Tai Jing but when they were in the airport, he complained about having to go to a conference just to welcome Mei Nan. Also, he was smiling at such random times, as if everything was amusing.

Of all the three, I liked Xin Yu at first. The happy, cheerful and vitamin C obsessed Jeremy didn't appeal to me---except when he said phrases in another language, like  おはようございます！/ Ohayou Gozaimasu / Good Morning and 가자! Let's Go (in Korean).

But that was before I watched the last few episodes. I still saw him as an unnaturally cheerful person but... I saw him in a different light.

In their band, he was their drummer, but he also played the violin for Mei Nan.

After watching the series, I checked all their OST and found out that... he sang some of the OSTs!!!!

Evan Yo / Jeremy sang: 

Be With Me (Hao bu hao 好不好) - Ending song

Most Quiet Words (zui anjing de hua 最安靜的話) - Xin Yu's song

Evan Yo (蔡旻佑)

Singer, song-writer, violinist

Evan Yo graduated with a degree in music major in violin. He can also play the piano, guitar and drums. He used to be a violin tutor before he became a singer.

Profile

Birthday: November 11, 1986 (27 years old)

Zodiac: Scorpio

Blood type: A

Height: 178 cm

Personality: cheerful, athletic, generous

Quirks: Records barefoot

Graduated from: National Taiwan Normal University

Family Members: mother, father, older brother, younger sister

Instruments: violin, piano, guitar, drums

Interests: songwriting, fitness, soundtrack, observation
Line through/After Entry: participation in the annual radio singing contest winner
Admires: Jolin Tsai
Artists: Skrillex, Xiaoyu, Yan Jue, Won Bin, Usher, Chris Brown, BoA, Shinee Minho
Favorite sports: swimming, surfing, diving
Favorite activities: travel abroad, campus concert
Favorite season: Winter
Favorite movies: The Notebook, uncle, peach sister, Madagascar 3
Favorite food: steak, broccoli, tiramisu, cola
Favorite animal: Jack Russell Terrier
Favorite color: blue, black, white
Favorite body parts: hands
Fears: losing
Collections: music software and equipment

Websites
Evan Yo's Weibo
FB: Evan Yo Official
FB Evan Yo fanpage

More Pictures (from Evan Yo's weibo)

Learning Chinese

Chinese Pod
Learning Chinese

To be edited and reviewed later, but this is what my new acquaintance gave me. :)

Internet Speed Test

I finally got a call from Rarejobs for the language training and I passed it. Yay! Now I have to prepare for tomorrow's Tutor Assessment, whatever it's called. I had to do include my internet speed in the message to confirm my attendance and this is what I got.

speed test here: http://www.speedtest.net/

I think C+ is pretty low. No wonder my torrents *cough* aren't doing well.

Now Watching: Fabulous Boys

3 Episodes down. I'm loving Mei Nan's twin sister, Xin Yu Ge and...Jeremy.

"Fabulous Boys" is really funny :))

I'm dying from Jiro Wang's amazing expressions. 

Mid-November

Arin's TOPIK Preparation
I'm still stuck with my November vocabulary list and well, I haven't been doing anything else related to Korean. Next week, I want to finish everything. I need to buy notebooks so I could start making my notes more organized. With that I could also start studying TTMIK lessons again. Oh and I need to print their Iyagi pdfs.

My Korean schoolmate told me I had to start with the Elementary first, but I'm stubborn so I'm going to take both instead hahaha.

First Volunteer Work

Philippine Red Cross 11/12/13

A friend of mine in facebook who also volunteers at KCC posted a status about the Philippine Red Cross needing volunteers. It was just the perfect thing for me since I've been itching to help out these people from Tacloban in whatever way I can. So I went there on my own and helped out.

We finished real fast because the shift before us had repacked almost everything. After 30 to 1 hour, more volunteers came. We just waited for the noodles so we could include it in the plastic bags. The person in charge thanked us all for coming. It took less than 30 minutes to finish distributing a few boxes of noodles to the packs.

The rest of the work required a lot of muscles and since a football team came, they did the work. So did the rest of the guys and some ladies who were strong enough to carry three 4 liter bottles of Wilkins up to the second floor.

Leaving Friend

 The Ramyeon Treat. 11/12/13

Wanting to volunteer was the first reason that I went to Manila. The second was to find the reason why my friend was going to file a leave of absence for a while. She said she might go home on the 3rd week so I just had to see her before she left.

It turns out that she was going to transfer.

Back to her hometown, seas far from here.

I usually don't mind not seeing people, including friends, knowing that I would see them again or that I could see them again. This time it's different. There's no way I can swim across seas to see her. She was my roommate too. It's sad and I'm thinking of a gift to give her before she leaves Manila for good.

I only have 2 days to think about that gift. 

I also realized that although we've been together the entire semester in the same room, we never took any pictures together. I must have a picture with her too.

Yolanda Survivors (so far)

These are the list of survivors confirmed so far.
This list was also posted on Congressman Romualdez’s Facebook Account.

Click CTRL + F to search for a family surname.

1. Joy Coscos and Family
2. Alfred Cuizon and Family
3. Francis Gallaron and Family
4. Maximo del Pilar and Family
5. Leo Bergula and Family
6. Gian Jay Colasito & family
7. Harvey Codilla & family
8. Cholo Barcelona & family
9. Fortune Barcelona & family
10. Michael Davilo & familu

Click "read more" to view the entire list.

QS 2013 University Ranking: Korea and Philippines

Most Filipino high school students who aimed for the best universities in the Philippines (whether its because of its academics, facilities, reputation etc.) most probably took the UPCAT, ACET, USTET and DLSUCET.

You might be a Filipino interested in studying in Korea or vice versa, or you might be simply curious. Either way, here's the QS 2013 University Ranking for Korea and Philippines only.


QS University Ranking World:
The rankings are based on four key pillars: research, teaching, employability, and internationalization.

Six distinctive indicators make up the methodology.

Academic Reputation

Employer Reputation

Faculty/student ratio

Citations per faculty

International faculty

International students

QS 2013 Top Universities in the World 

(Korea and Philippines)

#37 Seoul National University

#107 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

#114 Yonsei University 

#145 Korea University

#162 Sungkyunkwan University

#249 Hanyang University

#255 Kyunghee University

#362 Ewha Women's University

#380 University of the Philippines

#401-410 Sogang University

#431-440 Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies

#451-460 Pusan National University

#501-550 Ateneo de Manila University

#501-550 Chung-Ang University

#501-550 The Catholic University of Korea

#551-600 Chonbuk University

#551-600 Inha University

#551-600 Kyungpook National University

#551-600 University of Seoul

#601-650 Ajou University

#601-650 De La Salle University

#601-650 Dongguk University

#601-650 University of Ulsan

#651-700 Chonnam National University

#651-700 Chungnam National University

651-700 Hallym University

701+ University of Santo Tomas

If you've watched some Korean (school) dramas, you've probably already heard of Seoul National University, Yonsei University and Korea University. However the difference between these universities in the World Ranking is huge. Only Seoul National University makes it to the top 100 schools in the world. I can only imagine how hard the entrance exam is for all those universities.

Sources:
QS World University Rankings
2013 QS Top Universities in the World