hi everyone,

dunno anione has the same problem as me. I really want to be involved in magic, and i can learn magic and perform it as long as possible but it is really a great concerned by parents that i may neglect my school work. haiz... anione has any idea to solve the problem? Shd i just touched my magic during weekends and concentrate on my work during school day? Everytime my parents see that i play magic again or playing cards again they will like not very happy. though they didnt say out, i can sense it... anione has any comment?

magically,
magicalee

Um...get used to it? Lol. Parents will be parents...my parents are cool, but I think they're quite ready to ban me from magic and all related matters forever after. <_<
Sadly, I usually put schoolwork as my priority...it's the reason for my magic skills, or rather lack of skills...-.-

Plan your time properly and everything should be fine lol.. as long as I pass for my test and stuff my parents are cool lol... :D

i've got something to say too! but it may not be useful.. :lol:

some comfort: i dropped my third language this year (after 3 years!).. and my mum thought i was dropping it for magic and i got this gigantic scolding from her. (actually partly, but not main!)

anyway, to answer your question, i think it's important that you get your focus right. like.. do you want magic as your life? i know it's hard to decide now.. when you're still schooling. haha. but you may find that it's much, much, much easier to decide when you finally realise which are your priorities in life. if you think magic is going to be the rest of your life, you might as well make do with it and focus on magic! (this is not very healthy advice.)

i did get some looks from my mum when i was practicing at home.. oh wells.

seriously, if your parents are not very nice, even if you decide that magic is going to be your life, they won't allow you to focus totally on it anyway. so the best thing would be... do your work quickly and go on to magic!

not spoken from a experienced person i guess..

Magic is my priority. Followed by love. Then money.

For me : Metal music takes the first place. Then Magic. Then schoolwork. Then other stuff.

- Ling.

Hehe... a lot of people ask me this question, too.

You see, my school bus is in Woodlands. That's the upper north.

I live in Bedok :blink:

That means a 1 hours bus ride in the morning, and an equally as long journey back. And you wonder how I get to squeeze in two hour's practice everyday.

As for performances... there are always fresh prey just waiting to get slayed in the cafe during the breaks. Yippeeyay.

-Kev

For me the answers really simple.

Im currently doing my national service.. and it requires dedication and a lot of time. it also requires you to serve with your utmost passion and energy from you heart, body and mind and soul, even though you may feel that you did not want to serve in the first place.

so obviously the priority would be







MAGIC and FLOURISHING :P

Actually all of your parents are happy that you are learning something, magic for a good sake instead of hanging out with some gang group outside ?

Why they aren't happy cause you are dealing with something call a DECK of CARDs, YES a deck of poker size playing card used in Gambling den, casinos and etc.

Somehow if you have this problem, all i can say instead of cards only, do some coins magic too. Add in abit of Card + Coin effect and show it to them, prove it to them that cards isn't just gambling and card magic isn't just about putting in a card into the deck and to find it again.

Do it, Show them, Prove it ~ Good luck ~

Actually, to my parents, any kind of group of friends = gang. - . - More or less. So I guess that includes SMC, lol.

Wow. 3rd language. :off: What did you take? Japanese?

Hahaha so next time if they are you to visit relatives, tell them "i ain't going to visit those GANG of yours since you said my friends are a group of gangs too.

Whats the difference, any group more than 1 people would be consider a gang, so whats the difference between our relatives.

Can be their friends or relatives, it's the same concept as you are having now. Hahahaha ~ Show them no mercy, spare no one.

LoL. Me, Zi Lin, Wen Yi, Clement. We go form gang! Lets go!

Hell, I will rmb that advice.
And never follow it. LOL
Or I might just get banned from magic forever. Staying up one hour past my usual slp time everyday to log in to here, and end up with them screaming at me every night. -.-
I can't practise magic much at home either, because anything magic = obsession + addicition + sorcery + witchcraft + evilness + the reason for every mistake that I make! <_< And magic is only my second priority...
Haha, sorry I'm grumbling. But how do yall do it? Esp if magic is your top priority...sigh.

Trust between you and your family is the most important, took me a long time to build on that trust foundation but it was worth it.

Work on it guys and girls, 1 day you will make it. :)

LOL. Love or lust?

Nobody wants to form a gang with you!! You'll make a lot of enemies and don't know how to chop them up LOL. :lol: :D

:off:

-.- You next generation le meh? Lol.

There's trust in my family!! My parents definitely trust me...they just don't trust magic. :P

haha mabas, i learnt french. don't ask. lol. it's a beautiful and romantic language, just too difficult. :lol: :off:

anyway, i agree with winder.. about the trust part. it really takes a long time to build up and if you want your parents to understand you practicing magic.. it would take trust. but wait. wouldn't building up that trust mean that you have to do whatever they want to? which means = no practicing of magic until you're totally done with work! and even when the trust is built up, you would just shatter the trust immediately if you stopped your work and practice magic only.. oh wells.

but i don't agree with the deck of cards part.. most parents are not as ignorant or gullible to think that using a deck of cards to perform is like gambling.. i think it's just that they think the time spent on it may be too much and affect your studies. it's almost similar to joining a gang to them. (i would think so even though it's not true!)

relatives and friends.. no gang for relatives! they call your friends a gang because they don't know your friends.. but they know your relatives. so obviously you can't call your relatives a gang! doesn't make sense <_< hehe..

no thank you buaYa, i don't wanna join your gang too. :lol:

then name their friends as GANG, should be acceptable. Hahaha ~

... Sigh. No body loves me.

hahahaha you have someone to love you liao wat buaya lol name I no need to say out lol... :P

Aiyah, that was just a hint for the somebody to say she loves him...

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whatever. not joining a gang just means that you stay out of trouble :)

besides, this has nothing to do with the original question..

French? Awesome! I'd been trying to learn it too... Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir? :lol:

(iamthewalrus, quit laffing!)

uh.. non merci :P

actually it's voulez-vous.. haha! you know what that means right?? it means "you want to sleep with me tonight?".. so don't go around saying it.. haha :P

anyways, french is really a difficult language. but i think it's because i don't understand their culture. when learning a language, it's really important to understand their culture before being able to understand how and why the language works in a certain way.

but if you're interested, you should try! cause it's a really beautiful language..

*wistful*

wait till u learn german............. everything has to be classified into genders...... newspaper, computer, books, table, chair, etc, everything has its genders.......computer is a male, so 'a computer' in german would be 'einen computer', battery is a female, so 'a battery' in german it would be 'ein battery'......tat means i have to remember everything & its gender in 1 mth......phew.............

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haha.. you're wrong! french already is gender classified.. an eraser is female... "une gomme" a pen is male.. "un stylo" even WORDS can be male or female <_< furthermore furthermore they have like millions of tenses where there is different form when you use it on different subjects. it's just plain crazy :P the gender part.. is just a matter of getting used to it. i used to make such a great fuss about it when i was sec 1.. but now after 3 years, there's much harder stuff than the classification of genders!

haha.

Girl, I was just doing the Moulin Rouge "Lady Marmalade" thang... LOL :lol: Kidding only lah!

haha.. i know! that's like the famous line for non-french speakers :P

hey ning, why are you interested in learning french? french is supposedly the most difficult language in the world.. then followed by chinese. :lol: :lol: :lol:

:mellow: french is fun though. haha..

BLA BLA BLA BLA.. on and on about languages

u guys are totally :off:

hehe... jus a lil reminder of the subject we should be talking bout---->how to balance skool and magic B)

view it in the perspective of computer game addicts, it is jus like balancing btween games and school work... they are certainly tend to think that they wanna be totally into com games then play everyday.. shiok.. rite? jus like wat u have said loh..into magic..in short.. magic is actually a hobbie.. so i think its not recommendable to focus on ur hobbie and neglect school work


although i do that.. anyway.. unless, u are very sure u will become a magician when u grow up, then put in ur best effort in practising now when uare still young.. but dun always be so sure now.. cos at this teenager age, interests often come and go.. moreover if u wanna become magician.. In spore.. most likely its stage magician.. not close up as u are into now..i suppose.. so im afraid ull hav to jus see magic as jus an extra interest..
however, if u are able to cope with them both.. then good loh..

my parents are funnie...they tot tat when i get into magic....i might get into gambling and become a gambler....haha...

I WILL be a magician. Mark my words. And decks.

Aww man! Your parents are full-blown muggles.!

Wait wait! Before we get back on track, I wanna say that I love French too!! =D Took it for just 2 years, but really hated dropping it. It wasn't the gender classification that drove me crazy...it was the conjugaison. - . - Like zl says. And the accent, which is impossible to reproduce, so I could only write but couldn't speak! :P

LOL, whose parents funnier? Mine are afraid that I'll get hanged for witchcraft or something.
Nah, okay, I think they're not that extreme. Yet. :P

Muggles? Lol, I need a translation. I only know mugger. :D

well. try telling that to my bro.

he's totally nuts about French now.

anyway, :off:

:off: no french no french! sorry for even starting on that anyway. it's totally off topic! :off:

anyway, i think that we shouldn't blame our parents.. cause most of them won't know enough about magic to judge about it and what they can see in front of them is this paper chase phenomenon going on and they don't want their children to lose out.. so yeah, pursue your interest, but don't disappoint your parents.

what i'm saying is that make sure that they understand first, and do not try to rebelling method!

sometimes, in the weirdest sense, they may still be right.

so yeah, stop comparing whose parents are worse! :lol:

I said my parents are funny, not bad. And of course I know they only want the best for me! That's why my priority will always be schoolwork...I'm just pissed that they don't understand me enough to know that I won't neglect academics for magic. And I'm certainly not a witch. - . -

For me, my folks are pretty comfortable about me being involved in magic, but they do not really like the idea of throwing money like water all for magic. They even came for a look at one outing! :D
When i was a noob, they was super against magic. And i have to do everything in secret, just like Harry Potter. You got to explain to them and let your reasonable actions prove your explanations. They will approve magic sooner or later. Just depends on how you prove it to them. B)

So now my folks are purebloods. B)

- Ling.

Hope this helps.

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